These two bars are the latest additions to the ever expanding Cadbury Dairy Milk range.
Both bars consist of standard Dairy Milk chocolate embedded with crunchy flakes of flavoured candy.
The first thing you notice about these bars is that the shape of the chunks is slightly different to other bars.
They’re squarer and less pronounced than the Dairy Milk with Creme Egg variety. I doubt this affects the taste, but it does make it more difficult to break the chunks off, making them more of a “bite it” than a “break it” eating experience.
Both bars taste pretty much how you’d expect. The orange variety tastes of Chocolate Orange and the mint variety tastes just like any other mint flavoured chocolate.
After several minutes of experimentation, I found the best way to eat these is to bite off a chunk and let it slowly melt in your mouth. If you chew, they have a slightly gritty texture, but allowing it to melt away releases the flavour slowly. Mmmm.
For Dairy Milk addicts, these are a great little addition to the range, giving you the full Cadbury experience with a twist.
Personally, I still prefer the Caramel and Creme Egg varieties, but I can certainly see myself buying these again.
Chocstress has already given her opinion of Time Out, but as I happen to have one myself, I thought I might as well give my opinion too!
Time Out has been around since 1992, but I don’t think I’ve ever been tempted by it before, so I didn’t really know what to expect.
But it only took one bite to figure out what this bar was: Twirl with wafers.
More precisely, it’s two thin bars consisting of a very thin layer of “folded” chocolate reminiscent of Twirl or Flake, sandwiched between two equally thin wafers and covered in an even thinner layer of milk chocolate.
So it’s thin then.
I’m guessing this is aimed at the busy working woman who doesn’t want to get fat by eating a heavy chocolate bar, but just wants a quick snack between typing up reports for her evil slave driving, misogynistic boss. But that’s just a guess, and I’m often wrong about these things.
Needless to say I wasn’t entirely satisfied by Time Out, but I didn’t really want more either. Although it was nice enough, I just found myself wanting something a little more substantial.
I’m also slightly peeved at the profusion of similar bars on the market at the moment. I’m getting a little bored of the old “two fingers of milk chocolate with some wafer” formula.
As a little follow up to the 1980s Cadbury’s Caramel ad on the previous post, here’s a similar ad from the 1990s:
I think I prefer the 80s one myself… but this still makes me hungry!
I was slightly at a loss when trying to come up with an angle for this Cadbury Caramel review, so I decided to ask Pewari for her opinion and sent an instant message. A few seconds later, a flurry of messages arrived back:
> um
> it’s caramelly
> and gooey
> decent thick chocolate
> nice bite size chunks
So there you have it. Cadbury Dairy Milk With Caramel reviewed in full. Thank you for reading.
…what’s that? You want MORE? Oh, alright then…
“Cadbury’s Caramel” as it used to be known, is another of my childhood favourites. But I always saw this as a little more of a treat than the standard Mars Bar or Milky Way. I think that was partly down to the advertising…
I can’t quite put my finger on why I was so tempted by a sexy bunny with gooey chocolate as a young teenage boy. Oh.. wait a minute….
Ahem.
Sadly, these ads disappeared in the 1990s, and Caramel became part of the Dairy Milk ‘superbrand’ in 2003. This policy of branding just about all their chocolate bars as ‘Dairy Milk With Something’ just doesn’t have the same appeal, and means there’s little room for advertising the individual Dairy Milk varieties. So I doubt cute gooey bunny girl will be returning any time soon.
That said, this is still a good solid chocolate bar. It’s definitely not up to the standard of Galaxy Caramel, but it beats the pants off Aero Caramel any day. Especially when you have 250g of it to play with. Yum!
