The most simple of all chocolate reviews – Cadbury Chocolate Buttons!
You all love them, but maybe you feel embarrassed about buying them for yourself? Simple; have a child.
A bit drastic you may think. Well, anyone who has had chocolate buttons will disagree but if you have yet to try them (what kind of life have you had?!) and can’t wait the nine months simply announce in a loud voice that you are buying the 2 bags of chocolate buttons for your niece/nephew.
Why 2 bags I hear you ask. Well, there can be a problem with these delectable reasons for living. When chubby little fingers try to open the little bag, the bag can tear and the buttons can fall to the pavement. I’m not wishing to give you nightmares but it does happen and it’s only fair to warn you.
There is nothing more heartbreaking than seeing 32 chocolate buttons in a puddle on the pavement. Producing a second bag can, in my experience, help stop the tears.
Chocolate Buttons are made from the same chocolate as any bar of Cadbury Dairy Milk, but they taste so much better. I have no clue why. Maybe there is some scientific reason involving surface mass and tongue temperature? Maybe it’s magic? I don’t care what the reason is. Do you?
Upon seeing the new Tchibo Chocolate display at the local Somerfield I couldn’t resist trying out a new chocolate bar. Yes, you read that right, just one bar.
I wasn’t feeling especially sophisticated, I was more in the need for a bit of selfish indulgence. I think I chose the perfect bar!
I chose Tchibo San Vicente, full cream milk, 42% cocoa solids chocolate.
Before attacking the chocolate I noticed the wrapper states – Sheer chocolate indulgence. So far so good.
Made from the finest cocoa from the best regions of Venezuela and formed into a slender bar this chocolate does appear to be rather grown up. Too grown up to put the kids off? Well, I’m not taking any chances. I shall be hiding these beauties at the back of the cupboard. We all do that don’t we? ….Don’t we?
Sheer chocolate indulgence? Yes, it certainly does what it says on the wrapper. Comfort eating for grown ups.
I think I must have had a bad experience with Aero as a child. I have never particularly liked them, but I’m not entirely sure why. I assume I was once given one and expected the bubbles to be fizzy and I never quite got over the disappointment. So, it was with some trepidation that I decided to try Mint Aero.
And I have to say, I’m still disappointed.
The mint bubbles taste a bit artificial and have a slightly strange aftertaste, and – more importantly – there’s just not enough chocolate! 1mm of chocolate does not make a satisfying chocsperience in my book…
Another minor annoyance is that despite being divided into handy chunks, the Mint Aero refuses to break along them, no matter how much I try. I find myself being showered with minty crumbles no matter how I try to eat it.
Having said all that, I did eat it all. But it wasn’t a totally satisfying experience. If you want minty chocolate, I suggest After Eights, and if you want bubbles, join my one man campaign to bring back Cadbury’s Wispa!
A 57.5g bag of Cadbury Creme Egg Minis gives you five small eggs.
There are two plus points to the size, one: they are still big enough to bite, if you are daintily inclined and two: they are small enough to eat in one go, allowing the egg the melt wholeheartedly.
Satisfaction is totally missing after one egg and to be perfectly honest the satisfied feeling one gets from the real Creme Egg Experience just doesn’t occur, even after all five.
Perhaps it’s the chocolate: fondant ratio that is wrong..? Maybe the intentions were good with the making of these eggs, and in theory the ratio should work, but all of the five eggs from this packet had a large air pocket where fondant filling should have been.
The only time I can see these minis being a preference over the real, full size Creme Egg is if you want to sneak-eat chocolate when the boss isn’t looking, but then again, when you have individual chocolates you really need to share don’t you? … Don’t you?
