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July 8, 2020January 10, 2021 Michael

Kit Kat White & Milk – A Delicious Blend of White and Milk Chocolate

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White chocolate can be a bit of a crapshoot. It’s a lot harder to get right than milk or dark chocolate; it has a tendency to be overly sweet, and in the absence of cocoa, it can be a bit one-note in its flavour.

The white chocolate here, however, is quite tasty, and blending it with milk chocolate thoroughly resolves the one-note issue.

This particular bar is basically a standard Kit Kat, but with some of the milk chocolate replaced with white. It’s way better than I was expecting it to be.

The presence of milder white chocolate actually emphasizes the wheaty flavour you get from the wafers, which does a great job of balancing out the overall sweetness of the bar. It’s delightful.

And the white chocolate is great — it has a nice creamy flavour, and is complimented quite nicely by the milk chocolate. It’s kinda like eating a standard Kit Kat, but then dipping the bars in whipped cream. The chocolate flavour is mellower, but not necessarily in a bad way.

Manufactured by: Nestle
Nutritional info (2 fingers, 21 grams): 110 calories, 5 grams of fat (3 grams of saturated fat, 0 grams of trans fat), 5 mg cholesterol, 25 mg sodium, 13 grams of carbohydrates, 11 grams of sugar, 0 grams of fibre, 1 gram of protein.
Ingredients: Sugar, modified milk ingredients, wheat flour, cocoa butter, palm, palm kernel, coconut and vegetable oils, cocoa mass, sunflower and soy lecithin, yeast, sodium bicarbonate, salt, natural flavours.

July 5, 2020January 10, 2021 Michael

Dairy Milk Oreo – A Winning Combo

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Dairy Milk Oreo is exactly what you want it to be. If you like Dairy Milk and you like Oreo cookies, you’re going to like this. It tastes how you think it’s going to taste in all the best ways.

I feel like I could just leave it at that, but I guess I’ll write a few more words.

The milk chocolate is standard Cadbury, and there’s enough of it to give the bar that distinctive Cadbury flavour. It’s creamy, sweet, and tasty.

The filling tastes a bit smoother than the standard Oreo creme — it’s kind of like a cross between Oreo’s white stuff and and the filling of a Kinder Chocolate bar. It blends nicely with the chocolate.

And there are enough Oreo cookie chunks to give it a decent amount of crunchiness and a pronounced hit of Oreo flavour. It doesn’t quite taste like a chocolate-dipped Oreo, but there are enough cookie bits for the Oreo flavour to be unmistakable.

Manufactured by: Cadbury
Nutritional info (6 pieces, 38 grams): 210 calories, 13 grams of fat (7 grams of saturated fat, 0.1 grams of trans fat), 0 mg of cholesterol, 50 mg of sodium, 21 grams of carbohydrates, 0 grams of fibre, 19 grams of sugar, 2 grams of protein.
Ingredients: Sugar, modified milk ingredients, modified palm oil, wheat flour, unsweetened chocolate, cocoa butter, modified vegetable oil, cocoa, glucose syrup, salt ammonium phosphatides, polyglycerol polyricinoleate, soy lecithin, ammonium bicarbonate, baking soda, artificial flavours.

July 1, 2020January 10, 2021 Michael

Hershey’s Cookies ‘n’ Mint – An Assault of Minty Flavour

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You know that thing that happens when you have a really strong mint and a cooling sensation blasts through your sinuses? I got that while eating Hershey’s Cookies ‘n’ Mint. The mint flavour is not kidding around.

This is actually the third variety in Hershey’s new line of three ice cream-inspired white chocolate bars; the first is Birthday Cake (which I enjoyed), the second is Strawberries ‘n’ Cream (which I absolutely did not enjoy), and the third is this one, Cookies ‘n’ Mint.

It’s fine. I generally like minty desserts, so this was mostly in my wheelhouse, but even for me the mint flavour is a bit overbearing. After my first bite I had decided that I pretty much hated it, though it did (mostly) grow on me.

The cookie bits help. They add a decent amount of crispiness and a mild chocolatey flavour that works nicely with the intense mint.

The bar is also very, very sweet, which works well in this particular case — the intense sweetness keeps it firmly in the dessert category and prevents it from tasting like eating a bar of chocolatey toothpaste (because again, the mint flavour is explosive).

Manufactured by: Hershey
Nutritional info (1 bar, 39 grams): 200 calories, 11 grams of fat (7 grams of saturated fat, 0.1 grams of trans fat), 5 mg of cholesterol, 40 mg of sodium, 24 grams of carbohydrates, 0 grams of fibre, 19 grams of sugar, 2 grams of protein.
Ingredients: Sugars (sugar, corn syrup solids, lactose), cocoa butter, milk ingredients, modified palm oil, wheat flour, sunflower oil, cocoa powder, natural and artificial flavours, lecithin (soy), sea salt, polyglycerol polyricinoleate, spirulina extract, turmeric.

June 28, 2020January 10, 2021 Michael

Hershey’s Strawberries ‘n’ Creme – Is it Supposed to Taste Like Medicine?

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Hershey recently released three white chocolate bars with ice-cream-inspired flavours: Birthday Cake (which I just reviewed), Strawberries ‘n’ Creme, and Cookies ‘n’ Mint (which is up next). I was surprised at how much I enjoyed the Birthday Cake variety, which had an appealingly junky flavour that reminded me of store-bought frosting.

This one, on the other hand? Swing and a miss.

It’s not the worst thing I’ve ever eaten, but nothing here particularly works. The slightly sour strawberry flavour is neither here nor there; it’s muddled, with a medicinal quality that I found to be vaguely unpleasant. I guess it’s supposed to taste like strawberry ice cream, and it kinda does if you use your imagination, but mostly it tastes like lousy white chocolate with a watered-down strawberry-like flavour.

It doesn’t help that the chocolate isn’t particularly creamy, with a slightly grainy consistency (which, to be fair, seems to be an issue with all Hershey chocolate).

There are little crispy bits interspersed throughout, but unlike the sprinkles in the Birthday Cake variety, I’m not sure what they’re supposed to be or why they’re there. They lack the pronounced crunch of the sprinkles, and only serve to emphasize the white chocolate’s lack of creaminess.

Manufactured by: Hershey
Nutritional info (1 bar, 39 grams): 200 calories, 11 grams of fat (7 grams of saturated fat, 0.1 grams of trans fat), 5 mg of cholesterol, 35 mg of sodium, 24 grams of carbohydrates, 0 grams of fibre, 20 grams of sugar, 2 grams of protein.
Ingredients: Sugars (sugar, corn syrup solids, lactose, strawberry juice, maltodextrin), cocoa butter, milk ingredients, sunflower oil, modified palm oil, corn starch, lecithin (soy), natural and artificial flavors, polyglycerol polyricinoleate, beetroot concentrate, citric acid.

June 21, 2020January 10, 2021 Michael

Hershey’s Birthday Cake – Like Betty Crocker Frosting in Bar Form

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Birthday cake flavour can be extremely hit and miss; it’s often just vanilla-flavoured sweet overload. That’s basically what I was expecting here, so this was actually a pretty delightful surprise.

The aroma hits you as soon as you unwrap the bar: Betty Crocker frosting. And it hits hard.

That’s what it tastes like, too; it’s like someone took a tub of Betty Crocker vanilla frosting, mixed in some sprinkles, and then magically transformed it into a candy bar.

I actually like that flavour (a childhood spent eating Dunkaroos probably has something to do with this), so I liked this, but your enjoyment entirely depends on your tolerance for overly sweet, artificial-tasting frosting.

The sweetness level here is intense, but in the context of the birthday cake flavour, it feels right. It would be weird if it weren’t a throat-burning assault of sugary sweetness. That’s the deal. That’s what it is, and it works.

The sprinkles work too — they add a nice crunchy counterpoint to the creamy white chocolate.

Manufactured by: Hershey
Nutritional info (1 bar, 39 grams): 200 calories, 11 grams of fat (7 grams of saturated fat, 0.1 grams of trans fat), 5 mg of cholesterol, 35 mg of sodium, 25 grams of carbohydrates, 0 grams of fibre, 22 grams of sugar, 2 grams of protein.
Ingredients: Sugars (sugar, com syrup solids, lactose, glucose), cocoa butter, milk ingredients, modifed palm oil, sunflower oil, lecithin (soy), corn starch, natural and artificial flavours, carnauba wax, beeswax, turmeric, spirulina extract, beetroot red, palm and shea oil, polyglycerol polyricinoleate.