Müller corner Mochaccino

Today I've tried the new Müller corner Mochaccino, one of many new flavours Müller are throwing at us lately. This one however, isn't necessarily here to stay. It's the first of two in a vote to stay/win promotion that I think are exclusive to Tesco. 

The Mochaccino corner is coffee flavoured yoghurt with dark chocolate coffee biscuits. 

For strong coffee lovers the flavour may be too mild, it certainly tastes like coffee but compared to The Collective coffee yoghurt it's not very strong at all. That said, if you're not a fan of coffee you won't like this - while not too strong there's no mistaking it. The yoghurt itself is thick and creamy, it's not a Müller Light so the consistency isn't watery. Müller doesn't do bad yoghurt considering its one of the 'cheaper' flavoured brands. 

The biscuits are what confused me, the packaging says coffee biscuits - what does this mean? Coffee flavoured biscuits? Biscuits that go well with coffee? I don't know but after trying one alone I couldn't taste any coffee. The dark chocolate was a good idea I think, not only does the slightly darker taste compliment the coffee yoghurt well but it means they look like little coffee beans too. The texture is good too, they're slightly crisper and crunchier than the other corners I've had recently and while the yoghurt masked the chocolate taste at times the crunchiness shone through the smooth yogurt. 

My local Tesco only had this version in stock but I'll be looking for the other to compare. 

So far so good! 

Rating 7/10 

Müller Light Dessert Inspired Apple Pie

I finally got around to trying the Apple Pie variety of the Dessert Inspired range from Müller light today, I reviewed Banoffee Pie here but I've been putting off trying this one. I'm not a fan of apple pie to be honest, I love apples, not so much pie but you can't buy these separately at the moment. 

This time round the yogurt had developed that horrible watery layer, nothing a good stir didn't fix. It does look similar to the Banoffee Pie albeit slightly less yellow but it's not apple green thank God! 

Again the cake pieces are plentiful, they aren't as big as they were before but it doesn't really make any difference. 

This yogurt really confused me. I had a mouthful and couldn't really taste apple, then I got the aftertaste which was pure apple. It kind of carried on this way again throughout the tub, some mouthfuls being a lot stronger than others but the overall flavour - when I took proper spoonfuls and wasn't rooting around for cake - is quite an artificial apple. It's weird but it's an addictive artificial taste, it wouldn't stand up against the real deal but I liked it here! 

Towards the end I started finding pieces with a different texture to the cake and noticed that this was where the flavour was more concentrated. On the ingredients list there are two separate apples, one being a vague "Apple (3.5% )" and so I'm going to guess that there are little pieces of this in here. You can't tell to look though, as they're roughly the same size and shape as the cake and once it's all covered in the yogurt the same colour too. 

I didn't really like the idea of an apple pie yogurt, but it wasn't actually bad. I wouldn't buy it as a stand alone, but as I won't give these away the next time I want to buy the multipack with the banoffee. 

Hopefully now I don't have to continuously keep writing apple it will start to sound like a real word again! 

Rating 6/10 

Müller light Dessert Inspired Banoffee Pie

Müller have release a new line of multipack light yogurts called Dessert Inspired, today I picked up Banoffee Pie and Apple Pie. 

They're yogurts with added crushed cake pieces and first up I tried Banoffee Pie. 

The yogurt suprised me actually, while light yogurts can be quite watery this one was slightly creamier and it didn't need a good stir to get rid of the layer you sometimes find on the top of these types. 

The flavour itself is nice, it's a bit of a mixed bag with some mouthfuls predominantly banana and others more toffee. Looking at the ingredients there are flavourings used aswell as 1.5% actual banana purée which probably explains why every now and then like eating a liquidised banana! 

It's driving me mad but the taste really reminds me of something banana/Banoffee flavoured I've eaten quite recently but I can't remember for the life of me what it was. If anyone try's this and knows what it tastes just like please let me know! 

Although according to the ingredients, cake pieces only make up 2%, I seemed to have a lot in mine. The pieces were larger than I expected aswell and I did enjoy them, they make a nice change from fruit, cereal and chocolate. 

The crushed cake didn't have a noticable taste to itself, but I think that's a good thing, the yogurt gives the flavour and the cake adds a nice, spongey texture. 

I preferred this Müller to the one I tried last week. If you like banana or Banoffee Pie it's worth trying. 

Rating 7/10 

Muller Light Goodies smooth toffee flavour

I'm terrible, if I see a new label I have to buy it even if I don't particularly want or need it. 

I don't mind muller yogurts really, though I haven't bought any for a while now and it's good to have things in the house that aren't chocolate or ice cream. Well that's what I tell myself to justify buying all this stuff! 

I've not seen a corner style muller light before, considering I remember eating the strawberry muller lights for as long as I can remember it's about time but I may have just missed them before. 

The yogurt had a watery layer at the start but nothing a stir didn't fix. It's a diet yogurt so it's never going to compare to thick, creamy full fat yogurt but the consistency isn't bad. The toffee flavour was very strong initially but I found the taste comes and goes. That's probably more as a result of the diet aspect again rather than bad flavours, the deeper I got into this and the further away from the watery top layer the stronger the toffee taste became. 

The little chocolate coated balls are good, toffee and chocolate is always a good combination and the addition of crunchy pieces to smooth yogurt livens up what could have been a pretty ordinary flavour. 

I don't normally buy yogurt - especially low fat ones but this was very moreish and I'm trying to talk myself out of getting another one out of the fridge right now. 

Rating 7/10 

The Collective Limited edition Coffee

At last! A limited edition that isn't chocolate or biscuit related, and one that you can convince yourself is good for you...

I've previously blogged about The Collective live gourmet yoghurt here, that was Russian Fudge and this is Coffee. If you've tried these yogurts before you'll know they really are a luxurious, full fat treat with some added health benefits (the live cultures are good for you!) 

I looked forward to seeing what the inside lid was as there's normally a little message in there and I thought this was a nice touch. 

 

The yoghurt didn't look too appetising when I first opened it though it has a very strong coffee aroma! The darker sauce/syrup is the coffee flavour and a spoonful of that is strong stuff! It's certainly very coffee! (100% arabica beans from Columbia). It was far too strong on its own, and that's coming from a black coffee addict, once I'd stirred it in though it was perfect. This is how yogurt is supposed to be thick, creamy and sweet none of the low fat stuff, this is beautiful on its own but the rich coffee taste really compliments the natural flavours.

There's no mucking about with The Collective, much like a higher end ice cream (Ben and Jerrys, Haagen Dazs) compared to value (Tesco own or Aldi) they haven't stuffed all the good stuff at the top to impress you when you open it, the coffee syrup/sauce is all the way throughout the yogurt in fact I had more at the bottom than there was at the top. 

If you are a coffee fan I can't recommend this enough, it's one of if not the most  coffee flavoured product I've tried and it's good coffee too. If you don't really like coffee though I wouldn't bother, there's no avoiding the coffee in this, buy one though just send it to me ;-) 

Rating 9/10  

Odds And Sods

I've tried a couple of bits over the last few months that didn't really warrant a whole post of their own so I've decided to lump them all together in one random post here.

E. Wedel Leśny Duet.

When I purchased this bar in Tesco I assumed it was the strawberry bar I had seen online - I really should learn to look properly before I buy things! It turns out this is a milk chocolate with blueberry and wild strawberry filling. According to the ingredients on the back the filling contains 0.6% blueberry juice and 0.3% wild strawberry pulp.

 The bar itself looks like the E. Wedel bars I've had before and I enjoyed the filling in those bars so I was looking forward to trying this one.

I was very surprised to find a sort of jelly inside, I was expecting more of a cream but I am glad it wasn't. The jelly is a great textural difference to most other filled bars and there is a generous amount inside each square. I wouldn't say one flavour overpowered the other but considering there is more blueberry than strawberry I could taste the strawberry a little more - maybe that's because it is pulp rather than juice.

I enjoyed this and from what I can see on the packet there are two more in this range - one looks like pear and grape (?!) and I can't work out what the other picture is for the life of me but I'll be keeping my eyes peeled!

Rating 7/10

Toffee Crisp Sharing Block

I'm very very late with the review for this bar, I actually ate it in September but I didn't bother with my review as I'm pretty sure everyone on my blog roll (>>> have a look!) has reviewed this as soon as it was out.

I liked this as a stand alone bar, it definitely tastes like Toffee Crisp but I do prefer the original, it's crunchier and I think these flavours work better in a nice thick block rather than a thin bar. That said if I'd tried this before I'd ever had an original Toffee Crisp the rating would easily be an 8 based on flavour.

Rating another 7/10

Heinz Tuscan Beanz

I didn't get a photo of these once they were plated up I got stuck right in! I had them for a while but I wasn't too sure what to serve them with, the Heinz website suggests poured over chicken or with pork chops but I didn't fancy that. Instead I had them with a cheap bit of frying steak (I would never ruin my good steak with beans!!).

I actually really enjoyed these, the sauce was still a tomato sauce but there were peppers mixed in too aswell as roasted garlic and basil. These felt like a more grown up tin of beans to me - they wouldn't go well on toast or even a jacket potato in my opinion. They're more of a side to a Mediterranean style dish, and go nicely with a "proper" dinner.

Rating 8/10

Double Chocolate Fudge Brownie Cookie Dough Bites

I hunted these down after trying the dark chocolate cookie dough bites and finally got them in a MR Simms Emporium shop, although Tesco have started restocking them now - typical!

Once open they really smell of fudge brownie. That part is spot on - they smell like Ben and Jerrys Chocolate Fudge Brownie without the ice cream if that makes sense. Sadly they don't really taste like they smell.

These are just as moreish as the Dark Chocolate version, and they are pretty tasty but they taste of chocolate bites. I can't even compare them to anything, imagine a ball of maybe chocolate button but with a bit of crunch inside? They're basically the same as the first version I tried but milk chocolate instead of dark and kind of missing the cookie dough - replaced instead with a nice smelling but non existent tasting fudge brownie filling. I've confused myself so I'm probably confusing anyone reading this but after the lovely smell the lack of taste in the filling was dissapointing. I would rename these solid chocolate crunchie bites.

Rating 6/10

The Collective Dairy Russian Fudge

I've tried this yogurt before, it's not new or a limited edition but it's too good not to make a post on it. This flavour is Russian fudge and according to The Collective Dairy this is a New Zealand sweet (otherwise known to us as Scottish Tablet? I just always assumed that was fudge).  It’s a live gourmet plan yogurt with fudge swirled throughout, though it's not really a swirl more like a giant splattering.

The keep fresh seal made me smile.

In this photo it looks quite watery, I probably should have given it a stir but I wanted to show how much fudge is dumped in this! The flavour is just pure fudge, just like real fudge not the cheap stuff you get in a pick and mix or the sweet shop. Good buttery creamy fudge. Mixed with the plain yogurt this is delicious.

And it's not just a layer at the top or bottom like other yogurts, this fudge is all the way through. I absolutely love it.

Rating 9/10

A special mention to the Banoffi flavour too, it's only available in 150g tubs and I'm afraid I ate that before I even thought of reviewing it.

Onken #my onken Strawberry & Chocolate Flakes

I picked this limited edition onken big pot up in Tesco for a pound. I’m a big fan of Onken, especially the vanilla and low fat strawberry flavours , I like to dip strawberries in them as I don’t like 

cream and I have used them in my ice cream maker when I don’t have the ingredients at hand for ice cream (word of warning don’t use the natural yogurt for this – yuck! It turns into a hump of sour ice that even I couldn’t finish!!)

Anyway, I was a bit dissapointed when I opened it as it didn’t look very chocolatey although once I got into it there were more chocolate pieces. It is a nice product as chocolate and strawberry go so well together but to be perfectly honest it was a bit of a let down. I would buy it again if it stayed at a pound, but if that doesn’t happen you would be better off buying the original strawberry flavour and a flake and crumbling it in yourself – you’ll get more chocolate. One thing I have taken from this though is I’m not eating low fat strawberry yogurt again, the full fat has so much more flavour and is creamier and richer. A nice base, needs more chocolate!

6/10