Cadbury Wunderbar

Ach nein! This is the Wunderbar by Cadbury, and no it’s not from Germany, this is from Toronto, Canada. Why it’s called a Wunderbar, I really don’t know, because they don’t give you any information about it on the packagaing.

What you do get a is a purple package with some orange and yellow mixed in, and a picture of part of the Wunderbar on the front, it looks like it has peanut butter inside or something, so I’m pretty excited about this. Looking at the ingredients I see that it’s got sugar first, then peanuts, so I’m hoping to get a decent bar here.

Opening it up, it smells decent, nice peanutty smell, Biting into the bar was a surprise, there was caramel there as well. What you get is a chocolate coating, below that is a caramel coating, and the entire centre of the bar is peanut butter, with bits of peanut in it as well. It’s actually really nice, you can’t taste any of the chocolate at all, or the caramel either to be honest, so if you’re getting this then I hope you like peanuts, otherwise you’re gonna be disappointed.

The bar has 310 calories which is pretty high by my standards, that’s probably because of the peanuts which on their own would be high in calories. It has 33g of Carbs, 18g of Fat and 4g of Protein. As I said, if you like peanuts and are in Canada, then try this out, but if you don’t like peanuts then quite frankly buying this would be a foolish thing to do. Wundervoll!

Cadbury Dairy Milk

I’m surprised how long I’ve avoided this bar for. And it’s not as if I’m avoiding it on purpose, I just never notice it. This is proper British chocolate, and when I finally saw it, I decided I had to review it posthaste in order to show my nationalistic pride as a proper Englishman. This is the chocolate we’re born and bred with, and so I moved this to the front of my chocolate queue in order to get this review up.

Despite being a plain looking, and frankly, plain tasting solid milk chocolate bar, the Dairy Milk is still our best selling chocolate. Now that’s British pride for you. I was actually hoping when I saw this that it was going to be really great, that when I bit into it I was going to be flooded with nostalgia and wonderful tasting milk chocolate, but I wasn’t.

No, what I did taste was medicore milk chocolate, and nothing else. No hazelnut cream, no peanut butter, no caramel, just chocolate. Maybe that’s why it’s popular, you know where you are with this stuff. You’re getting milk chocolate and you’ll be grateful for it. Personally, in the modern world where we can mix flavours and create wonderful new things, I don’t think this chocolate cuts the mustard anymore, but looking at the sales figures, I must be in the minority with such an opinion.

Maybe I’m spoiled, I’ve tried chocolate from many countries and tasted many things, granted I’ve only blogged for a little over a month, but I’ve eaten chocolate for years, and with my taste buds expanded, this chocolate tastes suddenly very mediocre. I’m in a definite minority when it comes to my chocolate eating habits, I’m sure that the Jones’ next door don’t get packages full of Kit Kats from Japan once a month like I seem to end up doing, and so they’ll be happy with the Dairy Milk.

I’m not though, I really want to give this a great review, I want the English flag to be flying behind me as I stand and proclaim this as a great national treasure of ours, with a tear in my eye. But I can’t when I know I’ve tasted so much better. Sorry Dairy Milk, but you’re just plain boring.

But hey, the nutritional information! Each bar only has 205 calories, 22.1g of Carbs, 11.6g of Fat and 3g of Protein, so it’s not all bad! Oh I should mention those are for the standard bars of course, don’t think that you can get away with eating one of those huge bars for 200 calories, you pig.

Cadbury Snack Shortbread

Yes, I am alive, and I am still updating. Haven’t had much internet access as I predicted, but I have been eating chocolate, and I do have a bunch of reviews ready for hot, copy on paste action, beginning with this little chocolate-biscuit combo.

This has got to be the least marketed Cadbury product around. I’ve never seen an advert for these, I’ve never seen anyone talk about them, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen them on offer.

My mum bought them anyway, and I’m quite pleased that she did. We have hardly any chocolate in the house so I was glad that all the chocolate we did have in the house was chocolate that was stuff that I hadn’t reviewed yet.

I can see why Cadbury don’t advertise these though. They’re incredibly plain, but they do make a good snack. 2 shortbread biscuits covered in milk chocolate in each pack. Each biscuit is only 50 calories each. Wonderful!

6g of Carbs, 3g of Fat in each biscuit as well. So awesome diet chocolate. If you have a sweet tooth, and don’t mind something a little plain tasting, then you can’t go far wrong with these. Decent flavour and low in the bad stuff.

Cadbury Twirl

The Cadbury’s Twirl has already been reviewed on both Chocablog and Candy Blog already, which is something I only discovered after I had eaten this and was about to type up the review. After reading both of those I’m actually struggling to think of anything to say that they haven’t.

I’ll give it a go anyway.

Twirl is made by Cadbury, who also make the Flake bar. The resemblance between these two bars is uncanny. The Flake is basically a longer, thinner version of the Twirl, with only one stick in the pack. It also doesn’t have the coating of milk chocolate that the Twirl has, hence making it crumbly. The Twirl holds together better because of said coating. Unfortunately it seems prone to melting and getting a bit messy. Mine was in my cupboard which is room temperature, and it was a little sticky, though not unpleasant at all.

It’s a good chocolate, nice flavour, just not much to it. When it comes to chocolate, I like things that push the boat out a little, that combine flavours, the Twirl doesn’t seem to do that, instead appealing to the more traditional chocolate eater. If that’s you, you’ll love this.

The Twirl has 180 calories per pack, which means 90 calories per stick. It also has 19.3g of Carbs, 19.2g of which are sugars. The fat level is 10.6g, 6.5g of which are saturates, and there is 2.6g of Protein in each pack. This makes it lighter than most chocolate bars, so if you’re watching your weight but have a sweet tooth, it’s certainly something to consider.

Cadbury Dairy Milk with Orange Chips

Dairy Milk is one of the longest running chocolate bars in Britain today. It was first introduced in 1905, and has since became a worldwide revolation. Like all big chocolate companies, Cadbury have introduced many different editions to their chocolates, and the Dairy Milk is no exception. This variety, Dairy Milk with Orange Chips, is but one in a long line of Dairy Milk varieties, and I have no doubt that they’d all taste excellent.

My slight gripe with Dairy Milk is that it’s very middle of the road. There are some chocolate bars which I particularly enjoy, and some I particularly don’t. But with the Dairy Milk, I quite like it but it never shouts out to me, and so I never buy it. Even with all their new varieties I’m still not overly attracted to their bars. But still, for some reason I decided to buy this one, and unsurprisingly I wasn’t disappointed.

The orange chips are quite bitty, they’re a sort of sharp, granule, which actually goes together well with the milk chocolate. They completely overpower the chocolate though, which isn’t something I’m too happy about. The orange flavour is nice, but I’d like to taste some of the chocolate too. There were a lot of orange chips in this though, so perhaps I either got a dud bar or maybe Cadbury need to lay off the orange a bit.

Looking at the ingredients, Cadbury have listed both Flavourings and Flavouring, which perplexes me a little. The Orange Granules are quite low down the list, behind the (mmm tasty!) Vegetable fat. This bar also has a few E Numbers, which disappoints me, because looking at all the other chocolate I’ve tasted and also bought today for the week ahead, none of the others have E Numbers.

The bar has 245 calories, with 30.4g of Carbs, 12.4g of Fat and 3.2g of Protein. So it’s certainly not too heavy, but it’s not that filling either. I’m mixed about this bar, it tastes quite good, but there’s no chocolate, and I don’t like the ingredients list. I don’t think I’ll buy this again, but I do recommend you to try it if you’re a fan of orange flavoured chocolate, I doubt you’d be disappointed.

Cadbury Boost Bar

After a hard weekend of endless University essays, when it came round to Monday morning I was quite tired, and so when I decided to buy a chocolate today for my review, the Boost bar jumped out at me.

Just look at it, with its shiny blue wrapper, and big font, it claims it’s ‘CHARGED WITH GLUCOSE‘, which I suppose makes it a sort of energy bar, or at least that’s what they want to make you think.

The Boost bar is also, according to Cadbury, their manufacturers, a milk chocolate with caramel and biscuit filling. I think they forgot to mention the huge amount of soft, almost truffle-like filling in the middle of the caramel and biscuit. This is what really makes the Boost bar, it’s soft and yet crunchy at the same time, which is particularly pleasant. The taste is oddly enough, quite hard to describe. It’s a little malty, and the biscuit doesn’t add a taste, instead just a crunch. The caramel and milk chocolate can both be tasted, though it is the soft filling that is the main taste.

Looking at the ingredients, I’m a little perplexed. Sugar is mentioned three times, though its first mention is halfway down the list, so I’d like to think there’s not a massive amount of it in here. Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil is near the top, which doesn’t please me too much, but the first ingredient on the list is simply known as ‘Centre (68%)’. What on earth is Centre? They go a little further in depth to tell me that it’s made up of glucose solids, glucose syrup and dried glucose syrup (it really is charged with glucose!), but I’m still a little confused by this blanket term ‘Centre’. Also, the macronutrients are a little shocking. In terms of caloric value, the Boost bar is incredibly heavy. Each bar weighs in with 310 calories, 34.3 grams of Carbohydrates and 17.8 grams of Fat.

They don’t go into any further depth of the fat, so it can be safely assumed it’s all trans fat, or whatever the name for bad fat is nowadays.

Regardless, the Boost bar is very nice, I don’t know if I felt any particular pick me up, I certainly felt full, but that was more likely due to it being 300 calories than the glucose charge. There did also use to be a Guarana edition as well, I haven’t seen this bar in a very long time though, if anyone does happen to know if it’s still around then drop me a line and I’ll see if I can find it and pump out a review of that as well.