McVities Digestive Nibbles - Milk Chocolate

The humble Digestive, in a list of great British inventions it has to be in the top 5 surely. Especially chocolate Digestives! McVities have released something I never realised I wanted but as soon as I saw it I knew I had to buy.

And buy I did, three versions - Milk Chocolate, Caramel Chocolate and Dark Chocolate. There's a Double Chocolate flavour available as well and I assure you, I'd have bought that too if Asda had had it in stock! 

I figured I'd review the most basic flavour, basic it might be but there are times when the boring Milk Chocolate Digestive reigns supreme - I know lots of people swear by the

 Caramel Digestives but the last time I bought them they all melted on to each other and the caramel stuck solid rendering them inedible so I tend to stick to the milk or dark nowadays. 

The Nibbles are basically just balls of Digestive Biscuit coated in chocolate, exactly the same as the standard Digestives just in small circular form and sold in a sharing bag so you don't feel quite as guilty eating the lot as you would an entire packet.. 

In terms of ingredients the milk chocolate makes up 54% of the finished product so in theory should be the most noticeable. There was a strong chocolate scent but not in the same way as say, a packet of chocolate buttons smell. They smelt slightly more chocolatey than standard Chocolate Digestives but only just - they still smelt like Digestives to me anyway. 

Considering there's supposedly 54% of the stuff, the chocolate layer is quite thin and nowhere near as thick as it is on the bottom (yes, the bottom! We've all been eating them upside down!) of a chocolate Digestive. 

In taste, the chocolate flavour is nice. I've just had a quick look over the ingredients for both these and the biscuits and the chocolate is actually different: The Nibbles chocolate uses more cocoa mass and a little less milk and the biscuits use skimmed milk instead of whole and have butter oil, vegetable fats and palm oil. It seems like the Nibbles bag are marketed as more of a chocolate than a biscuit and so use a better quality chocolate, but honestly, I didn't really notice a difference. 

The biscuit is identical in taste and ingredients with the exception of skimmed milk and glazing agents used in the Nibbles but they are the very least used ingredients and I certainly didn't notice them in flavour.

Rating:

To sum it all up, I could have written this review in one sentence:

Imagine Chocolate Digestives in tiny ball shapes - this is what they taste like. 

They are even more addictive and moreish than in biscuit form though and I had no issues munching my way through the bag though there was something that kept niggling me. 

They look like, and begin to taste like, Maltesers except you're waiting for the familiar hard, malt flavoured crunch of a Malteser that never comes. It wasn't a problem for me but some people might find it off-putting. 

7/10

Müller Pud Corners

The two new Müller pud corners came out a while ago but I've waited until I saw single tubs for sale before buying which is why my review is a little late. 

They're quite small for Müller corners at only 85g but they do for a quick snack and for the health conscious are made with over 75% skimmed milk - something I wish I'd noticed before buying these. 

First up I tried Toffee with milk chocolate coated digestives. 

I tried the chocolate digestive balls first and they were pretty tasty. They did actually taste like tiny little balls of chocolate digestives so that's that. 

Next I tried the dairy dessert (not yoghurt), and it threw me straight away. Firstly, the dessert was so watery. Some Müller yoghurts, especially the light ones, do develop a bit of a watery film on the top so I saved my judgement on the texture for once I'd stirred it all up. But the flavour was what really confused me with that first mouthful. I double checked I'd picked the right one, as my first impression on the flavour was coffee!? Toffee and coffee might sound alike but they aren't really two flavours that taste alike, strange. 

Once I'd mixed it all in the coffee flavour disappeared,maybe I just picked the one weirdly flavoured part out of the whole part but more likely the whole concentration of flavour was on that one spoon. To put it nicely (honestly) the dairy dessert was kind of crap. It was far too watery and that has to be because skimmed milk is used. Does anyone even drink skimmed milk? It's just barely milk flavoured water and if it's used here to keep the calories down its pointless, maybe next time they should just put a few less biscuits in. The rest of the tub the dessert had no flavour - coffee/toffee or anything it was plain and the only redeeming feature was the small crunchy chocolate digestives. Thankfully I had a lot of them. Next time though I'll just buy a packet of chocolate digestives though. 

Rating 5/10 

I put off the chocolate with milk & white coated cereal balls for as long as I could but it's only got a couple of days left in date and I was hungry so I gave in and ate it. 

Once again I tried the milk and white chocolate coated cereal balls first, to pay extreme attention to detail I noticed the white were slightly sweeter and the milk chocolate a little milkier but to be perfectly honest I couldn't tell the difference mixed in the dessert. 

I didn't bother trying the dessert separately beforehand, judging by previous experience I wasn't missing out on much. 

As I said at the start, these corners are slightly smaller and normally I wouldn't moan but while they've reduced the amount of dessert you get, you still get the same amount of pieces to mix in. While that's good because the mix ins are the tasty part it makes it ridiculously hard to actually mix them in. 

This is actually after I'd stirred them in and so I was left with two options the first I tried - carry on mixing - and ended up with small cereal balls all over the table and floor. The second I was reluctantly left with, the top layer an extremely sweet 90% cereal pieces mixed with a little dessert and the bottom layer a watery, flavourless cereal-less dessert. As I expected, the dessert was just as disappointing as the toffee corner. 

Another 5/10. And only because of the amount of mix ins