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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 6, 2021 Michael

Crunchie – Delicious Honeycomb Toffee with Chocolate

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I don’t think I’ll ever be able to eat a Crunchie bar without thinking about my great grandmother, who used to dispense treats from a big bag next to her favourite chair. Her candy of choice: honeycomb toffee, the crunchy candy that you’ll find inside of a Crunchie bar.

That stuff is delicious on its own, and it’s even better when it’s coated in chocolate.

It is, as the name implies, exceptionally crunchy, though it basically melts in your mouth, so it’s not the type of thing that you have to chew on forever. It’s extremely sweet (it’s essentially just pure sugar), but is has enough of a deep caramelized flavour to balance that out. The taste almost reminds me of the crispy top of a creme brulee.

The thick layer of milk chocolate complements it very well, with a nice creaminess and chocolatey flavour that goes perfectly with the crunchy honeycomb toffee. It’s a top notch candy bar.

Manufactured by: Cadbury
Nutritional info (1 bar, 44 grams): 210 calories, 8 grams of fat (5 grams of saturated fat, 0.1 grams of trans fat), 0 mg cholesterol, 170 mg of sodium, 34 grams of carbohydrates, 0 grams of fibre, 29 grams of sugar, 0.5 grams of protein.
Ingredients: Sugar glucose syrup, modified palm oil, modified milk ingredients, modified vegetable oil, cocoa, unsweetened chocolate, salt, baking soda, soy lecithin, calcium chloride, natural and artificial flavour.

July 1, 2021 Michael

Dairy Milk Mint – Just the Right Amount of Minty Flavour

Chocolate

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 24, 2021 Michael

Reese’s White – A Downgrade from the Original

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The three major types of chocolate, ranked: dark chocolate > milk chocolate > white chocolate. I’m sorry, but that’s just a fact. White chocolate is okay, but if you prefer it to milk or dark then you need to come to terms with the fact that your opinions are bad.

But of course, like so many would-be white chocolate confections from the major candy-makers, this isn’t actually white chocolate — it’s “white creme.” There’s no cocoa butter in the ingredients, so the word chocolate does not apply.

It’s fine? I guess? Even if it were great quality white chocolate, I don’t think this would have been anything too special; the chocolate/PB combo is magical for a reason, and removing the cocoa flavour from that equation diminishes it quite substantially.

Still, it’s tasty enough. The salty peanut butter does a great job of balancing out the sweetness from the white creme, and with the quantity of PB here, the waxy texture from the fake chocolate isn’t all that noticeable. The whole thing is a clear downgrade from a standard Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup, but it’s not bad.

Manufactured by: Hershey
Nutritional info (2 cups, 39 grams): 200 calories, 12 grams of fat (4.5 grams of saturated fat, 0 grams of trans fat), 0 mg of cholesterol, 150 mg of sodium, 21 grams of carbohydrates, 1 gram of fibre, 18 grams of sugar, 5 grams of protein.
Ingredients: Peanuts, sugar, vegetable oil (palm oil, shea oil, sunflower oil, palm kernel oil, and/or safflower oil), skim milk, dextrose, corn syrup solids, lactose (milk), contains 2% or less of: salt, lecithin (soy), TBHQ and citric acid to maintain freshness, vanillin, artificial flavor, PGPR.

June 20, 2021 Michael

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

Candy Bars, Chocolate

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