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July 13, 2021 Michael

Dairy Milk Toffee – Tasty Chocolate and Toffee

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If you’ve ever had something like Heath or Skor, Dairy Milk Toffee is basically that, but with the ratio of chocolate to toffee tilted very much in favour of the chocolate.

It’s clearly about the chocolate first, but there are enough toffee bits to make it decently crispy, and to give it that distinctively buttery/caramely flavour.

The combo of the above average Cadbury milk chocolate and the small chunks of crunchy toffee is clearly a winner. I mean, there’s not much more to say than that; Dairy Milk Toffee is exactly what you want it to be, and it’s delicious.

Manufactured by: Cadbury
Nutritional info (10 squares, 42 grams): 230 calories, 13 grams of fat (8 grams of saturated fat, 0.1 grams of trans fat), 15 mg of cholesterol, 65 mg of sodium, 25 grams of carbohydrates, 1 gram of fibre, 23 grams of sugar, 3 grams of protein.
Ingredients: Milk chocolate (milk, sugar, cocoa butter, skim milk, whole milk powder, unsweetened chocolate, butter oil, soy lecithin, artificial flavour), toffee pieces (sugar, butter, glucose syrup, salt, soy lecithin).

July 1, 2021 Michael

Dairy Milk Mint – Just the Right Amount of Minty Flavour

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Do you like Dairy Milk? Do you like minty chocolate? If your answer to both of those questions is “yes,” you will enjoy Dairy Milk Mint. It’s exactly what you want it to be.

(And if your answer to the first question is “no,” then get out of here, you monster.)

Some minty chocolates are more about the mint than the chocolate, but this one strikes a really satisfying balance; the refreshing minty flavour is there, but the creamy, tasty Cadbury milk chocolate is clearly the star of the show.

That’s about it. It’s got everything you love about plain Dairy Milk, but with a nice dose of mint.

Manufactured by: Cadbury
Nutritional info (9 squares, 38 grams): 200 calories, 12 grams of fat (7 grams of saturated fat, 0.1 grams of trans fat), 10 mg of cholesterol, 35 mg of sodium, 22 grams of carbohydrates, 1 gram of fibre, 22 grams of sugar, 3 grams of protein.
Ingredients: Milk chocolate (sugar, milk ingredients, cocoa butter, unsweetened chocolate, soy lecithin, natural and artificial flavours).

June 20, 2021 Michael

Aero Truffle: Black Forest Cake – A Delicious Combo of Cherry and Chocolate

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The last Aero Truffle bar I tried was the chocolate mousse variety, which I enjoyed, but probably wouldn’t ever buy again. I sort of figured that this would be more of the same. I also wondered about the black forest cake element; is that just a fancier way of saying that the truffle part is cherry-flavoured?

I was surprised at how much I enjoyed this. It’s delightful.

I should note that I quite like black forest cake; your enjoyment of this bar very much depends on your fondness for the cherry/chocolate combo. The cherry flavour is not subtle.

If you do like that combo, however, you need to try this bar ASAP — it’s great. There’s no actual cherry in the ingredients, which seems like a red flag, but there’s absolutely none of the cloying, medicine-like flavour that you sometimes get from cherry candies. The cherry flavour is quite nice.

The bar features a dark chocolate coating and a milk chocolate interior, which does a great job of tempering the intense sweetness that you normally get from an Aero bar, and adds a nice punch of rich dark chocolate flavour.

Maybe I wouldn’t have come up with the connection if I had eaten this blind, but the whole thing is actually pretty reminiscent of a black forest cake. It’s a lot better than I was expecting it to be.

Manufactured by: Nestle
Nutritional info (8 segments, 40 grams): 230 calories, 15 grams of fat (9 grams of saturated fat, 0.1 grams of trans fat), 5 mg of cholesterol, 15 mg of sodium, 21 grams of carbohydrates, 2 grams of fibre, 16 grams of sugar, 2 grams of protein.
Ingredients: Sugar, unsweetened chocolate*, modified milk ingredients, cocoa butter*, cocoa powder*, modified palm oil, beet red, natural flavour, soy lecithin, polyglycerol polyricinoleate. *Rainforest Alliance Certified

June 6, 2021 Michael

Dairy Milk – Classic Milk Chocolate

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How do you even review Dairy Milk? Just plain old regular Dairy Milk? The flavour of Cadbury milk chocolate is so fundamental that trying to describe it is like trying to describe the colour blue. I don’t know, it’s… Dairy Milk. It tastes like Dairy Milk. What do you want from me?

I will say that I think I accidentally bought a Greek version of the chocolate bar — like a lot of European confections, there are about a dozen languages on the packaging, but Greek is first. If it tasted any different from the usual Dairy Milk, however, I couldn’t tell.

The texture is a bit grainier than you’d like; a quick perusal of the ingredients reveals the presence of palm and shea oils, which is never a good thing. It’s still creamy enough, but it’s slightly off (this might be a Greek and/or European thing, because Canadian Dairy Milk doesn’t contain either of those oils).

Otherwise, it tastes how it tastes: it’s milky, chocolatey, and very sweet. It’s Dairy Milk. It tastes like Dairy Milk.

Manufactured by: Cadbury
Nutritional info (27.5 grams): 147 calories, 8.4 grams of fat (5.1 grams of saturated fat, unknown grams of trans fat), unknown mg cholesterol, 70 mg of sodium, 16 grams of carbohydrates, 0.5 grams of fibre, 15 grams of sugar, 2 grams of protein.
Ingredients: Milk, sugar, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, vegetable fats (palm, shea), emulsifiers (E442, E476), flavourings.

May 26, 2021 Michael

Dairy Milk: Peanut Butter Cookie – As Delicious As You’d Hope

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There are some chocolate bars that you can tell are going to be good just by looking it. Peanut Butter Cookie Dairy Milk is one of those bars. Dairy Milk: delicious. Peanut butter cookies: delicious. Chocolate + peanut butter: delicious. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that this is probably going to be delicious.

And hey, what do you know: it’s delicious. Who could have predicted that??

The wrapper describes this as “milk chocolate with cookie pieces and peanut butter chips.” The biggest surprise here is that the cookie pieces aren’t actually peanut butter cookies — all of the PB flavour comes from the peanut butter chips. This works out fine, however, with a nice combo of crunch and peanutty flavour. It’s not as peanut buttery as something like a peanut butter cup, but the flavour is there and is unmistakable.

The sweetness is surprisingly restrained, mostly thanks to the crispy cookie bits, which aren’t as sweet as you’d expect, with a fairly distinct wheaty flavour.

And of course, the milk chocolate is classic Dairy Milk, and is as tasty as always.

Manufactured by: Cadbury
Nutritional info (10 squares, 42 grams): 200 calories, 12 grams of fat (7 grams of saturated fat, 0.1 grams of trans fat), 5 mg of cholesterol, 55 mg of sodium, 25 grams of carbohydrates, 1 gram of fibre, 22 grams of sugar, 3 grams of protein.
Ingredients: Milk chocolate (milk, sugar, cocoa butter, skim milk, whole milk powder, unsweetened chocolate, butter oil, soy lecithin, artificial flavour), Cookie pieces (wheat flour, sugar, palm oil, natural and artificial flavours, glucose syrup, corn flour, salt, soy lecithin, baking soda, com starch), peanut butter chips (sugar, modified oil (palm and palm kernel), peanut flour, modified milk ingredients, peanuts, dextrose, salt, soy lecithin, lactose).