Where to Buy Tunnock's Caramel Wafers in the USA

Quick answer: Tunnock's Caramel Wafers are layered wafer and caramel in milk chocolate, made in Uddingston in Scotland by the same family firm since 1890. Buy the 240g multipack from The British Vault, shipped from Britain with duties included.

Key facts at a glance

• Product: Tunnock's Milk Chocolate Caramel Wafer Biscuits Multipack, 240g.
• Made by Thomas Tunnock Ltd in Uddingston, Scotland. Family-run since 1890.
• Shipped from Britain, Delivered Duty Paid. First order: use NEW10 for 10% off.

Buy Tunnock's Caramel Wafers. There is also a dark chocolate version and the Tea Cakes, all in Biscuits & Cereal Bars.

One family, one town, since 1890

Thomas Tunnock founded the business in Uddingston, a town just outside Glasgow, in 1890. It is still there, still family-run, and still making the same small number of products. In a grocery aisle where almost every familiar name now belongs to a multinational, that is genuinely unusual.

The wrapper is part of the appeal. The red and gold stripes have barely changed in decades, and the design is recognisable to any Scot at fifty paces. Tunnock's has never modernised it, which turns out to have been the right decision.

What is inside

Layers of wafer with caramel between them, the whole thing coated in milk chocolate. It is simple and it is very sweet, and the texture is the point: the wafer gives a light crispness that keeps the caramel from being cloying.

Americans reaching for a comparison usually land on a wafer bar, and that gets the structure right but not the character. The caramel here is soft and generous rather than a thin layer, and the chocolate coating is British milk chocolate, which runs less sweet than most American equivalents.

The Scottish angle

These are a Scottish product before they are a British one, and Scots are proprietorial about them. They turn up in lunchboxes, at church halls, in hill-walking rucksacks and beside every cup of tea in the country.

They also had a moment on the world stage: giant dancing Tunnock's Tea Cakes appeared in the opening ceremony of the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, which tells you roughly how central the brand is to Scottish self-image.

Where to buy Tunnock's Caramel Wafers in the USA

Order from The British Vault. We source Tunnock's in the UK and ship straight to the United States, Delivered Duty Paid, so every import duty and tax is already in the price and nothing is charged on delivery. Orders dispatch within 1–2 business days and usually arrive 1–3 business days after that.

Shipping is a flat $39.99 below $99 and free above it, so build the basket from Biscuits & Cereal Bars or Tea. First order: NEW10 for 10% off.

Frequently asked questions

Where are they made?

Uddingston, Scotland, by Thomas Tunnock Ltd. The company has been family-run since 1890.

What is the difference from the dark chocolate version?

Only the coating. The dark version cuts the sweetness of the caramel considerably.

Do they travel well?

Reasonably. Each wafer is individually wrapped inside the multipack, which protects it, though the chocolate coating is still vulnerable to heat.

Are these good for dunking?

Dunking is a genuine British skill and the biscuit matters. A plain, dry biscuit holds its structure in hot tea for a few seconds; a chocolate-coated one softens fast and the coating melts. Judge it by the second, not the minute.

Add Tunnock's to a UK haul

Shop Tunnock's Caramel Wafers from The British Vault and build the order past $99 for free shipping.

Related reading: British biscuits in the USA and British chocolate in the USA.