Today I’m continuing with my “back to basics” chocolate bar reviews, with the next on the shopping list being the Bounty Bar.
Now, I must be particularly susceptible to advertising as just the glimpse of the split coconut, azure waters and leafy palm trees on the wrapper sends me off into my own little daydream where I’m lying in a hammock in the tropics, slowly eating a chocolate bar, sipping a cocktail and having my own rather hunky Adonis fanning me with palm leaves.
Ahem, where was I. Oh yes, the Bounty Bar.
The first thing you need to know about this chocolate bar is of vital importance. The Bounty Bar demands to be eaten straight out of the fridge. Some chocolate bars are quite flexible, and while not optimum, it doesn’t really matter if you buy it off a warm shelf in your local newsagent and eat it at your desk a few hours later, but a tepid Bounty Bar is an unloved Bounty Bar – and pretty flavourless.
So, you’re in your tropical daydream, you’ve got your suitably chilled Bounty Bar in front of you, you rip off the wrapper enthusiastically – what do you find?
Inside you get two “mini” bars of Bounty. Each about 6cm long, 2.5cm wide and 1.5cm deep. The chocolate on the top is pleasantly rippled, presumably echoing the waves on our tropical fantasy beach, and the base has the word BOUNTY and palm trees repeatedly printed on the bottom – just in case you were in danger of forgetting what you were eating.
Biting into it, if you fridged it properly as instructed, you get a nice crunch of milk chocolate – a satisfyingly thick coating – the chocolate is not a mere afterthought in a Bounty Bar. The interior coconut filling is soft, moist and beautifully coconutty. However, it should be said that the milk chocolate coating is slightly sweeter than, say Cadbury Dairy Milk chocolate, which is a little disappointing as it doesn’t offer as much contrast to the subtle flavours of the coconut filling as it might. Despite being a die-hard milk chocolate fan, I suspect I might get on better with the dark chocolate version in this instance.
The bad news is, that the mini bar is snaffled within a couple of bites. The good news – there’s a second bar to follow! When they’re both gone, I am left feeling nice and full and chocolate cravings are satisfied, so I’m not immediately raiding the fridge for another one.
So, on the whole, the Bounty Bar is a worthy classic of the confectionery aisle, but only if eaten properly chilled.
Sometimes it’s nice to have a change from the usual. You spend ten minutes browsing the vast array of chocolate in the local sweet shop, but nothing really grabs you.
And then you see it. Something new.
Doesn’t look British. Or American. It must be good!
You grab it from the shelf and run home like a little chiild. Half way home, you think it might be a good idea to go back and pay the shopkeeper, which kind of spoils the moment.
Where was I? Oh yes, Ritter Sport Cappuccino.
When you do finally get this home, the first thing you notice when you open it is the overwhelming coffee smell. For coffee addicts, this is going to be heaven. Then you have to decide how to eat it… something that’s always fun when you don’t know what’s inside the milk chocolate chunks.
So you close your eyes and take a big bite. Mmmmmmm.
For some reason I was expecting some kind of biscuit, but this is soft and creamy all the way through. And it’s rather delicious. The chocolate is smooth and delicious and the filling is creamy and very, very cappuccinoy (that’s a real word, honest).
If youre the type that goes for the coffee cremes whenever someone opens a box of Milk Tray, you’ll love this. If not, then there’s a wide range of other flavours – just check out their web site.
“A Cadbury’s Fudge is just enough to give your kids a treat.
A finger of Fudge is just enough until it’s time to eat.
It’s full of Cadbury goodness
But there is more I need.
A finger of Fudge is just enough to give your kids a treat.
It’s full of Cadbury goodness
But there is more I need.
A finger of Fudge is just enough to give your kids a treat.”
I am 32 years old, and I still can’t stop myself humming that little ditty every time I unwrap a Cadbury’s Fudge. That either says something about how effective the advertising campaign was, or something about my childishness, either way I can’t help but feel a small amount of excitement at unwrapping the bar.
How best to describe the humble Cadbury’s Fudge – the perennial kid favourite? The fudge bar itself is a D-shaped finger (11cm long and about 1.5cm at its widest point) coated in a thin layer of Cadbury’s chocolate – smooth on the top, and a sort of rough regular texture on the bottom which looks like it sat on mesh while the chocolate set.
On biting into the bar, the overwhelming flavour is that of the buttery sweetness of the fudge – not as sophisticated or creamy as true fresh fudge, of course, but still has a satisfying and moreish quality. The chocolate to fudge ratio is a little on the mean side, but enough to complement the fudge nicely.
At the end of the finger (which sadly, you reach all too soon) you’re left feeling “mmm, I could eat another one of those”. Maybe a Cadbury’s Fudge is enough of a treat for a child, but for the adult chocaholics among us, I’d thoroughly recommend buying them in a multipack of 6…
Cadbury has just announced that it’s recalling over a million chocolate bars in the UK due to a salmonella scare.
