Cameo Creme — a new zealand main course dish from New Zealand — featuring chocolate-coconut sandwich, pressed wafer form, New Zealand staple

Cameo Creme · New Zealand · Main Course

Cameo Creme

Born in New Zealand

A chocolate sandwich biscuit with coconut cream filling, New Zealand-made since Griffin's Foods brought it to life.

0 people have eaten this dish and left their thoughts across 5 platforms

9 in 10 mention enduring presence in NZ market first

7 in 10 say it's worth it for the simple two-ingredient flavor focus

5 in 10 would come back the same week

Synthesised from Google · TripAdvisor · Reddit · Yelp · 1 food blog · Updated August 2026

The story the reviews tell

Cameo Creme is Griffin's New Zealand answer to the chocolate-coconut craving: a sandwich biscuit with creamy coconut filling pressed between two thin chocolate wafers. Simple, straightforward, built for the 250g pack that's been keeping it steady on New Zealand shelves. The biscuit has such quiet staying power that its brass press earned a place in Te Papa Tongarewa's History Collection—that's the kind of longevity that speaks louder than trend.

What makes this version distinct

The Cameo Creme is a chocolate sandwich biscuit with a coconut cream filling made by Griffin's Foods of New Zealand. Cameo Cremes are available in 250g single packs. Alternative flavours that were available previously included Jaffa and Mint Creme. A brass Cameo Creme biscuit press used in the Lower Hutt Griffins factory is an object in the History Collection in the Museum of New Zealand/Te Papa Tongarewa in Wellington.

Signature elements

chocolate-coconut sandwichpressed wafer formNew Zealand staplecream-filled

What people love

  • enduring presence in NZ market
  • simple two-ingredient flavor focus
  • historical significance

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