Cadbury Flake Dark
When Chocstress reviewed Cadbury Flake back in September, she noted that the ones she had were smaller than usual. Well I can’t say for sure, but I think this Flake Dark is bigger than usual. I think maybe someone at Cadbury is hung up on size…
The one thing this does have in common with every other Flake I’ve tried is that it’s crumbly. Very crumbly.
Interestingly, the Flake tag line “The crumbliest flakiest milk chocolate in the world” has been changed to “The crumbliest flakiest dark chocolate”. Which leads me to believe that somewhere “in the world” there may be a chocolate even crumblier. I intend to make it my life’s work to track this mystery chocolate down.
Er… where was I? Oh yes…
Cadbury don’t often do dark chocolate, so taste-wise I didn’t really know what to expect. As it happens, it’s pretty good. It’s only 44% (which some people would say isn’t really enough to classify it as ‘dark’ chocolate), but it’s not bad – and I suspect there are limits on how much cocoa you can have while keeping that trademark Flake texture. It’s very chocolatey and has that trademark bittersweet aftertaste. Yum.
However, I now have crumbs everywhere. And that’s always been my issue with Flake. The taste and texture are delicious, but I really think Cadbury should supply a ‘free dry cleaning’ token in every packet. Then it would be perfect.
I definitely prefer this to the Praline and Snowflake varieties, but for me, it’s not quite dark enough to be a real luxury chocolate. And that whole crumbs thing is really becoming an issue. I simply don’t want to spend 10 minutes relaxing with a bar of chocolate only to have to spend half an hour cleaning up after myself. Pah.
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I have tried this and love it. To help with the crumbling I tend to keep the wrapper under the flake whilst eating it. This does not solve the whole problem but it helps a little. I agree that this dark chocolate isn’t exactly luxurious but more of a smooth taste on the tongue and I prefer this to the praline also.
come on Cadbury I just want a quality dark chocolate flake, do they exist, if anywhere, I’m sure it would be a huge success, if it were readily available not too much to ask, is it
I was searching the internet to see if Cadbury’s ever made a dark/plain chocolate flake after having seen an old metal plate advert in a sweet shop of various Cadbury chocolate bars. Amongst other familiar chocolate bars my attention was drawn to an image of a plain chocolate flake bar in a red wrapper (as opposed to the familiar yellow one). Can anyone verify if this existed and, if so, when it went out of production? However, as it is unlikely that they’ll ever re-introduce it (if it existed) I would like to know if there is a national retailer that sells the ‘Dark Flake’ so I’d grateful for any info on that. The reason for this is that, apart from enjoying them on their own, I like to make Tiramisu and trying to grate chocolate is a messy business and I’ve found using Cadbury’s Flakes a brilliant substitute (just beat them with a rolling pin whilst in their wrappers and that crumbliest flakiest chocolate bar does just that – makes it so, so easy. However, they are not dark chocolate and so I have to add a good dose of cocoa powder to make it really chocolatey. So, any assistance on this would be welcome. PS, has anyone tried the Fry’s coffee cream?