Shorties!

Hi there, these have been out for quite a while, but I saw them in the shop today and remembered how good they are.

Biscuit shorties from Cadbury, these are part of a product line that are mostly minaturized versions of regular products like Flakes (soo good), except for these ones lol.

These are quite addictive, great texture too, the chocolate is the distinctive flavour of Cabury. The secret lies within the shortbread style centre. The centre is light for shortbread but still quite rich with a vanilla flavour, delicious!

On the more expensive side in that the bags are around 150g (165g in this case) for the same price as a regular block, but they're worth it for a nice change. A bag of these won't last long lol.

Sweet Wishes from Tim Tam

Unless your'e Australian you may not realize how much of an institution Tim Tams are. Original Tim Tams I may discuss in the future, but today it's Double Choc Caramel, oh yeah.

I'm a big fan of caramel, and these biscuits don't disappoint when it comes to a hit of caramel flavour, delicious!

Where to start, firstly you have the chocolate on the outside very nice, good quality chocolate and the fact that its 'doubled' means that it adds a really nice cool smooth texture the the Tim Tam. I heard a guy who works in the factory say that it takes less power to make the double Tim Tams because they don't need to blast them with a fan to get the texture of the original lol.

Now, the caramel in the centre is tasty and a nice caramel hit, but it's with the biscuit itself where this becomes a great Flavour.

The biscuit is a well balanced caramel flavour giving the overall Tim Tam a more restrained richness then you would imagine making them easier to eat without the sickly sweet feeling.

Good good.

Mini Drops

Hello, when I saw these advertised the first thing I thought was mini eggs for ever! Not quite in this instance but still an exciting new product in Cadbury Mini Drops.

I didn't know what to expect really when I opened these, but I was still surprised at how small these are, about the size of an M&M except in a raindrop shape. They have a glazed surface like Smarties and contain Cadbury chocolate. Really fun to eat, colourful and delicious!

Having said that, eating them one by one, unless you concentrate, you don't get the distinctive Cadbury taste, not sure why but it still tastes good, maybe the chocolate has less cocoa solids in it I don't know.

The shell is sweet but not very thick so it doesn't add any flavour or texture, just colour lol.

Very addictive, I had no problem finishing these off. I'll probably get these again though they are a more middle priced, good good.

Cadbury steps up

Well, it looks like Cadbury has been busy thinking up new ways of presenting chocolate, this is great! I mean block chocolate is good and there are a ridiculous amount of varieties but more innovation is just what the block world needs, and with the new Marvellous Creations range Cadbury has made an exciting offering.

The first variety I have tried is this Jelly popping candy beanies. A mouthful to say and a mouthful to eat! The first thing that strikes you about these new blocks is the irregular pattern. I forsee many disagreements over who got how much lol, most pieces are roughly the same size but some are larger. Also the pieces are quite deep and have different textures on top so it's nothing like eating a normal piece of block chocolate.

Now, the flavour, the chocolate is always nice with it's distinct Cadbury taste, the jelly pieces are like small soft strawberry flavoured gummi beans and they stand out in the flavour profile, they do get into your teeth a bit though which can detract from the chocolate. The beanies are like Smarties and add a crunchy texture, but the real fun is in the popping candy which are similar to Pop Rox. The candy doesn't add any flavour really but turns the eating of chocolate into a new experience that's more fun and frivolous, probably not for the die hard chocolate traditionalists but I like it. Delicious!

A strong opening, there are two or three other flavours which I will take a look at in the future.

Pods - new varieties

Hi, I'm getting a bit ahead of myself talking about new varieties of Pods before talking about the classics, but we'll do it this way anyway lol.

Pods cherry bites, these aren't totally new, but they are a newer edition to the Pods family. As I have said before, I'm a real fan of the cherry flavour, this interpretation of cherry flavour is a more natural version to what you usually get, it's quite nice, mellow.

As with all the pods, the crispy shell thing adds great crunch and even some flavour. These are the darker variety shells to complement the more complex cherry flavour. The chocolate on top plays an equal role with the flavoured centre completing the overall taste.

In conclusion these are very nice, quite a change from the regular flavours and good for a point of difference.

Now these are the go, they haven't been out long. Honeycomb pods are delicious! This is a case of the filling winning and fortunately it's a good enough flavour to carry this variety, it is a super sweet honey flavour that is quite strong.

Being a pod it has that crunchy shell which seems a bit lighter in flavour than the cherry ones, the chocolate is good becuase it brings down the sweetness to mellow the honey out.

I would probably prefer these ones over the cherry but they're both good.