Cadbury Dairy Milk Desserts Crème Brulee
I have not enjoyed the past three Cadbury Desserts flavours I’ve tried – Lemon Cheesecake, Fudge Brownie or Boysenberry Shortcake but somehow the idea of Crème Brulee inside a thick coating of Dairy Milk was shouting out my name from the chocolate shelves as a possible source of comfort during a particularly powerful PMS-y week.
The first thing I noticed that whilst it was the same price as Cadbury’s standard 250g blocks it was only 235g – the classic ‘savings by stealth’ method used by a lot of food companies these days to hide cost increases. Turning over the wrapped showed me that if I was my usual piggy self and ate 100g of the stuff, then I’d be having at least 12% of my daily protein intake and 28% of my energy requirements. That might be handy to know….
The view of the filling did not look alluring – we couldn’t see any of the caramelised pieces depicted on the wrapper illustration and the cream filling looked kind of flat and depressed. Still, I’ve never been one to be put off by appearance and waded in bravely.
Maybe this is fourth time lucky for Cadbury Desserts range because they’ve got the crème brulee flavour spot on. This is a lovely, creamy mixture with tiny crunchy chips of caramel that crack as you chew through the soft stuff and are the last things to dissolve on your tongue. Being a crème brulee filling it is very sweet but thankfully doesn’t resemble a cheap condensed milky muck mix. Even Dark-devotees Sapphire (aged 8) and Love Chunks (40) loved it and we did actually eat it after our main meal, as a pseudo dessert with a cup of tea (me), wine (LC) and cold milk (S) in front of a DVD. The block disappeared within minutes, to the great disappointment of all three of us.
Chillingly, the ingredients list does a sterling job of putting me off trying to buy and inhale another block straight away. It consists of 52.6% sugar and 34.9% fat, so there’s only a measly 12.5% left for other hopefully more healthy ingredients. The filling mix wasn’t a turn on – vegetable oil, milk solids, wheat glucose syrup, emulsifiers, flavours and colours and yet grudgingly, I must admit that it tasted pretty damn good.
The fact is we all wanted more and will certainly be seeking out this block again. Perhaps to be eaten whilst simultaneously running on a treadmill.
Posted by Kath on 15 May 2008 at 09:05 AM
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May 15, 2008 : 11:24am
Greetings from Porto, Portugal, the city of Port Wine! Just wanted to congratulate you on an excellent blog, I only just discovered it yestarday and have already been through all your archives. You have reviewed some excellent products, many available here in Portugal, some, unfortunetly not!
It was great to see you review some South African goodies, I knoe you haven’t thoroughly enjoyed them, but they certainly bring back great childhood memories. The Nestlé Chocolate Log and the Tex are in fact great chocolates. Admittedly sweet, but they have to be eaten ‘fresh’ off the shelves. Here in Portugal, I have access to some and must admit that by the time they get here, even if they are within their validity, they have been disappointing.
I’m a fan of Cadbury’s and have to say, South African Cadbury’s is, in my opinion, the best I’ve tasted…. :)
I’ll definetly be back!
May 15, 2008 : 11:40am
Welcome, Marcia. Dom and Simon are the lucky blokes who have been eating the South African stuff. As the sole Australian contributor, I’m sad to say that I’ve never had the good fortune of finding any South African chocolate for sale down here. Can you recommend some good brands to keep an eye out for?
May 15, 2008 : 6:31pm
Actually, it’s just me with the South African stuff at the moment - courtesy of a local shop - but I also have a secret agent planning a trip to SA to bring back some more unusual stuff. :)
Simon gets to travel the world for his job, but I don’t think he’s made it that far yet!
Márcia - if you find any interesting local chocs we haven’t reviewed yet, maybe you’d like to do a review for us?
May 15, 2008 : 10:40pm
Wow! I’d love to do some reviews, in fact, it would be an honour!
I will definetly go out chocolate hunting this weekend and review them for you… with pleasure. I must just reinforce that I’m not a chocolate expert, in fact, I’m pretty much a Cadbury’s Fruit & Nut girl! :)
In relation to S.A. chocs, well, it’s been six years since I’ve been to South Africa. However, when referring to the more common brands, like Nestlé and Cadbury’s, I think most chocolates are pretty much the same as what you get in the UK. As I referred earlier, in my opinion, S.A. Cadbury’s is very creamy, the best I’ve had. I used to LOVE Cadbury’s Whispers. They look the same as Maltesers, but taste 100 times better. Also, a popular sweet in S.A., is ‘Sally Williams Fine Honey Nougat’, check out http://www.sallywilliamsfinefoods.com. This nougat is simply heavenly, wrapped in edible rice paper, it’s Kosher, Halaal and gelatine free.
Great! Let me go do some tasting!
May 16, 2008 : 8:56am
I saw this just the other day in Tesco’s and didn’t pick it up because I thought it would be incredibly sickly.
Looks like I’m going to Tesco today :)
May 16, 2008 : 7:10pm
Yeah, I miss 250 bars of dairy milk.
230 gram bars are easy for them to jack the price up!