Bourbon Roanne Gaufrette Wafer Cookies Anno-Imo Sweet Potato Family Pack

Roanne’s autumn edition swaps the vanilla cream for sweet potato, and the reference point is not the raw vegetable but a specific Japanese confection: sweet potato, written in English on Japanese menus and pronounced suiito poteto, a small baked dessert of mashed sweet potato enriched with butter, cream and egg yolk, brushed with yolk and browned in the oven.

It appears in every patisserie case here from September. Bourbon has built the cream around that — butter is in the ingredient list, which is what pushes the flavour from vegetable toward pastry.

The sweet potato itself is anno-imo, the variety Japanese shoppers pay a premium for: dense, deep orange, so sweet when roasted that it is called the honey potato.

Bourbon sources its powder from the Goto Islands off Nagasaki rather than from Tanegashima where the variety is best known, and states the inclusion rate on the front of the pack — three percent by raw weight, which is an unusually specific claim for a supermarket biscuit and the sort of thing Japanese buyers read as a sign of confidence.

What arrives is mellow rather than intense: milky, faintly caramelised, more baked dessert than candy, with the gaufrette’s toasted flavour running underneath.

Everything else is Roanne as usual.

Two thin honeycomb-pressed wafers around the cream, crisp on contact and then dissolving, packed as eight sealed packets of two inside the 16-piece family bag.

That packaging matters for a wafer — gaufrette absorbs humidity faster than almost any other biscuit, and opening one packet at a time keeps the rest intact.

At 73 kcal a packet, conveniently portioned for a desk drawer. Coffee, black tea, or roasted green tea.

About this item
Item Name : Roanne Anno-Imo Family Pack
Brand : Bourbon
Item Form : Wheat Cracker
Number of Items : 16 Counts (Pack of 1)