Well our Lindt Competition is finally over!
We had loads of entries, but nobody quite guessed the exact number of balls in the photo – 1,191.
The lucky winner who was closest was Tina Carr of Morcambe. Congratulations, Tina. Your chocolate is on the way!
And to those of you who didn’t win, well stay tuned. We’ll be having another competition very soon!
Easter is approaching and that can only mean one thing. Egg and rabbit shaped chocolate confections! And of course, it’s our duty to eat as many as we can and tell you all about them.
Mars Eggs are available individually, but in order to er write a thorough review I bought a pack of three. *cough*
They are the bastard love child of a Creme Egg and a Mars Bar. I can’t be sure, but I imagine it was a particularly messy conception. However, this is a family site, so let’s not think about that too much – I certainly won’t be posting the photos of the event that I mocked up.
Instead, here’s a nice photo of the offspring, which I cut in two with a knife:
As you can see, each egg is really just an egg shaped mini Mars Bar. Inside the milk chocolate shell we have a layer of caramel and a layer of soft, malty nougat. Except the packaging here calls it “truffle” for some reason. I’m not sure if it’s actually different from the fluffy nougat layer in a proper Mars Bar, or if calling it “truffle” is just some kind of marketing experiment. But it tastes the same to me.
Overall, the egg is very sweet and quite sticky – but given this is a direct competitor to the Creme Egg, we can hardly complain about that. The odd thing for me was that the first bite tasted exactly like a Creme Egg to me. I think that’s just a case of my senses being confused by an egg that’s almost exactly the same size and texture as Cadbury’s offering. But I suspect it’s partly due to both offerings being mostly sugar.
As someone who will by the occasional Creme Egg, I liked this, but I’m not entirely convinced. Given the choice of the two on the sweet shop shelf, I’d almost certainly go for the Creme Egg. But if I were buying a selection of chocolate eggs, I’d definitely pick up one of these.
It’s not a Creme Egg killer, but it’s still pretty good.
Chocablog is two years old today! Yay!
It doesn’t seem like two years. If it wasn’t for the fact that my body weight has doubled, I wouldn’t have believed it myself. But it’s true.
Over the last two years we’ve posted 355 posts, received 1,556 comments (not including the 54,898 spam comments we deleted), done 1 redesign and gained a rather stonking 639 subscribers. We love you all. But unfortunately, we only have enough celebratory chocolate cake for ourselves. Sorry.
So thank you for joining us on our chocolatey journey. With Easter just around the corner (and that nice Mr Tesco delivering me 5 Easter eggs later today!), we suspect things are only going to get chocolatey-er…
Just a quick reminder, you’ve only got until Monday if you want to enter our Easter Lindt competition.
To enter, head on over to the competition page, count how many balls in the picture and follow the instructions carefully.
The competition will close at 11:59pm GMT on Monday night. Good luck!