Chips Ahoy Crispy
Choco Caramel
These have been out
for a while, at first in Asda I think but they're everywhere now and I finally
picked some up. I do enjoy biscuits but cookies aren't at the top of my list,
I'm quite partial to chocolate digestives (preferably dark chocolate), cookies
I can take or leave. After trying the Cadbury Chips Ahoy bar and reading all
the hype about the original cookie in America I wanted to try them and while we
for some reason don't have the original cookie we do have this Crispy Choco
Caramel version as well as a popcorn one.
The packs quite big
and there are 12 cookies in each pack, while they're not that wide these are
thick chunky cookies.
Chocolate is
definitely the main flavour in this cookie but the caramel shines through too.
This is a rich, sweet, moist cookie, sometimes I find cookies a bit dry which
is why I tend to avoid them but this isn't at all and the crispy pieces add a
bit of extra texture. These are incredibly moreish, I really hope Chips Ahoy
bring out the original version!
Rating 8/10
Thorntons Fabulous
Fudge
This is one of two
new(ish) bar from Thorntons, the other being milk chocolate with toffee pieces.
As far as I'm aware they're only sold in W H Smiths at the moment and have been
for a while, it's taken me this long to find a W H Smiths where they don't keep
the chocolate bars only at the tills -
why do they do that? Sometimes I just want to buy chocolate and I'm not
queuing up incase there's none I like!
This is a standard
100g bar, separated into even blocks of 3 apart from 1 larger block at the end
which could be a little annoying if you're portioning this out but I ate it all
in one go so…
This isn't
advertised on the Thorntons website and my lovely fiancée managed to throw the
wrapper away before I'd even finished this so I don't have the specifics on
this but I'm pretty sure it's a fudge flavoured milk chocolate with extra fudge
pieces inside. The chocolate is nice and sweet and the fudge pieces are a
lovely add in. Once the chocolate has melted in your mouth you're left with
chewy fudge, a nice change from the usual crunch that's added to bars. I really
like the flavours and textures of this, and the fact it only cost me £1 made it
even better.
Rating 7/10
Thorntons Special
Toffee Milk Choclolate.
I do like toffee but
if it came head to head with fudge it would lose every time. Normally.
This is the other
Thorntons sharing block, the basics are the same as the as the fudge bar - once again my OCD fiancée had thrown the
packet away before I'd even finished the bar so I can't give you the finer
details.
There are toffee
pieces dotted throughout, I had a generous and evenly spaced amount -
sometimes, like ice cream, I find some parts have more and others none but that
wasn't the case here. The toffee flavour is good, I enjoy Thorntons fudge and toffee anyway and I think this is the same recipe used in the bar. As with the
fudge bar the chocolate melts away to leave crunchy chewy toffee pieces and for
the first time this beats fudge for me!
Rating 8/10
Angel Delight
Bubblegum Flavour
I absolutely loved
Angel Delight as a kid, my mum used to make it for me and my sister and we had
special fancy glass bowls she used to dish it up in, looking back now they were
just ordinary glass bowls but I remember feeling very grown up! I still eat Angel
Delight from time to time now, I'll write online it's nostalgic but really I
think it's still quite nice ;-).
I picked this up in
Tesco about a week and a half ago and I put it off for a while because after
I'd thought about it I didn't really fancy the idea of a bubblegum flavour,
it's strange to me.
Anyway I opened this
up and they've got the smell spot on, it's very strong, very overpowering and
very bubblegum. Infact it's so bubblegum-y that it actually put me off a bit.
It smells just like Hubba Buuba, artificial and I swear you can just smell the
sugar and I couldn't really see how that would be nice in a
mousse/dessert/whatever Angel Delight is classed as nowadays.
Fortunately
(unfortunately?) after I made this and
was leaving it for the five minutes to set someone came round so I popped it in
the fridge and didn't get back to it for 2 hours. When I opened the fridge
everything smelt of bubblegum, the smell had just overtaken everything and
despite really not wanting this I got stuck in.
I'm not sure if it's
because I left it a lot longer to set than you're supposed to or if it's
because I put it in the fridge or maybe it's just like this, but the taste was
extremely muted compared to the smell. This was a good thing for me! I could
taste the bubblegum but it was very dull, I wonder if this is the same base as
the strawberry version just with added flavour because every now and then it
tasted very similar.
This was Ok but it's
not something I'd buy again, if anyone has tried it and has a different
experience to me please let me know as I really think the two hour gap affected
it.
Rating 6/10
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