I’d already passed the chocolate aisle in the Co-op when I came across a small display of chocolate, standing pitifully alone. Being a big softie and feeling it’s my duty to care for any stranded chocolate bar I adopted two.
Looking irresistible with doleful eyes was Cocoa Deli & Lily O’Briens 
Mixed Berry Crunch White Chocolate Lolly Truffle, and begging for a cosy evening in front of the fire was Cocoa Deli & Lily O’Briens Cookies & Cream Belgian Milk Chocolate Lolly Truffle.
Today, I shall be reporting on the Cookies and Cream Lolly Truffle.
The first appeal was the promises; cookies and cream? Yum! Belgian Chocolate? Yes please! Lolly? Ok…?
Wrapper description – Delicious layers of vanilla flavour and milk chocolate truffle with crunchy cocoa biscuits and cocoa nibs in smooth Belgian milk chocolate.
The first bite is good; A well balanced mix of textures and tastes. You can taste each and every ingredient and all work well together. By the second bite I found myself doubting the milk chocolate covering. There is a lot of milk chocolate and so you can’t escape it, so, by the third bite I was wishing I could escape it. By the end of the lolly I was still cheering the filling, especially the crunchy biscuits (it just wouldn’t work without these) but as for the Belgian chocolate..I couldn’t help but think of that cheap and nasty chocolate kiddies get in advent calendars.
This product would probably work best as a bite size chocolate in a box. I’d be happy having eaten one but would certainly select a different chocolate afterwards to counterbalance the sickliness.
It was a novel experience eating a chocolate bar on a stick. I was pleased to note that the stick was plastic and not wood. I really hate that wood taste you can get on your tongue after enjoying an ice lolly.
Waiting patiently is the Mixed Berry Crunch White Chocolate Lolly Truffle. I’ll let you know how we get on later.
Following the Chocstress’s (repeatedly) disappointing experience with Munchies, I thought I’d spare her the Mint Munchies review and do it myself.
However, being somewhat more restrained, I managed to limit myself to a single packet rather than her… er… 7 packs.
Prior to 1995, Mint Munchies were known as Mintola (apparently – I’ve never had them). They look just like regular Munchies, but consist of dark chocolate with a mint fondant centre – and no crunchie bit.
Judging by Chocstress’s review, I suspect these are a little better than regular Munchies but I’m still not overly fond of them.
There are two main problems with Mint Munchies. Firstly, the fondant is so overpoweringly minty that I couldn’t taste the chocolate at all. Really. I didn’t even notice it was dark chocolate until I read the packet half way through eating them. It may be fantastic chocolate, but I simply couldn’t taste it.
The second problem is the fondant is just too thin. It’s almost (but not quite) liquid. Because of this, it’s gone almost as soon as you put it into your mouth. There’s no real satisfaction to eating them.
While Mint Munchies aren’t completely offensive, there’s nothing really to recommend them either.
And I won’t be buying another six packs just to check. 🙂
Nestlé have asked us to tell you about Nestlé Treasurequest, an online/on-pack game that gives you the chance to win up to $1million dollars. More importantly, you can also win Nestlé candy bars!
The idea is to match icons on special packs with icons on the online game board and unlock the location of the Obelisk Treasure.
The competition is open to US residents only, which counts me out of this one. But do give it a go and let us know if you win!
I decided to do a little experiment when I bought myself a Cadbury Double Decker. I bought three of them and having a little wager with myself that I knew what the response would be, I gave a bar to each of two friends of mine. Both duly responding by announcing; “Ohh! I haven’t had one of these in ages.”
I won the bet.
Double Deckers are one of those bars. We kind of ignore them when we choose our chocolate. But, when it actually occurs to us to buy one, we can’t understand why we left it so long. We binge on them for a couple of weeks and then leave them once again, to be ignored on the Sweet Shop shelf.
I guess the name is so apt in more ways than one. Just like the proverbial (double decker) bus; you wait for ages and none appear, then numerous ones arrive all at once.
The lower deck of this bar is crispy crunchy cereal and the upper deck is a chewy nougatine; all wrapped in milk chocolate.
It’s a mighty filling bar and not one you could eat if you are trying to have a conversation at the same time. If the phone rings while you have a mouthful of Double Decker there is little chance that the caller will still be there by the time you have finished chewing. A return call usually prompts a friend informing you that they just called a wrong number and heard nothing but muffled yumming noises.
The two things that make this bar so scrummy are 1. the cereal is indeed very crispy and 2. the nougatine has the perfect level of chewyness. Added with the smoothness of the chocolate, this bar has it all.
I wouldn’t recommend chilling a Double Decker, it would just become TOO chewy.
