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Allegedly a crossover between a Jaffa Cake and a donut… there’s almost no chocolate (a problem Jaffa Cakes now also suffer from), and minimal orange filling (and that’s another problem Jaffa Cakes now suffer from).
Not quite flavourless, not quite tasteless, not quite not there, completely avoidable.
[star rating=”1″]
A special edition bar, but there’s nothing special about it. Has a strange taste that’s not obviously orange, strange mouth-feel as well, a bit greasy. Orange after-taste (eventually).
[star rating=”1.5/5″]
This wasn’t the worst thing I’ve ever eaten, but it’s probably in the top ten. Awful flavour combination, terrible texture combination. Avoid.
[star rating=”0.5/5″]
I love speculoos. And there are some great chocolate bars with speculoos. This is not one of them.
Imagine a milk chocolate bar full of flavoured grit, and you’ve got this bar.
Imagine a giant chocolate turtle and you’ve got Hammond’s Pecan & Caramel Piggy Back. They are huge – half an inch thick, solid, and a real handful. Great taste, great balance of caramel and nuts, great to chew on.
Incredibly hard to find, but worth looking for.
[star rating=”4/5″]
Cheap and crumbly. Not particularly smooth, not particularly flavourful – best avoided.
Waitrose describe it as ‘Perfect for baking or enjoying on its own’ – so it’s repackaged baking chocolate.
[star rating=”1/5″]
Perfectly competent and fairly reasonably priced. Hazelnuts aren’t broken up which is a big bonus. Very little after-taste.
How’s that for a somewhat underwhelming review?
[star rating=”3/5″]
This looks like a posh version of a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup. It’s a huge cup with a massive amount of solid but relatively flavourless chocolate wrapped completely tasteless peanut butter. It’s so solid it’s hard to bite into. And it’s not cheap. So I don’t think I liked it.
[star rating=”2/5″]
I really thought this would be better than Lindt’s Milk Chocolate with Hazelnuts, which I really wasn’t wild about.
Unfortunately, it’s not. It’s the softest dark chocolate ever (and I thought dark chocolate was usually firm, if not brittle?) and the taste is unpleasant with a not particularly nice aftertaste that I’m struggling to describe. Give it a miss.
[star rating=”1/5″]
Far too sweet and far too soft – melts almost instantly in your mouth which I find unpleasant. Short sweet after-taste. You can buy better, but unfortunately this is really the most common “premium” white chocolate bar in the UK.
[star rating=”2/5″]
I thought this combination of white-ish chocolate, peanuts and pretzels really wouldn’t work but I was pleasantly surprised.
Nice balance of flavours and textures.
[star rating=”3/5″]
Nice reasonably thick white chocolate bar, nice mouth feel and taste.
An extremely long lasting and strange combination of after-tastes ruins it though – part too sweet, part something else sour/bitter/unpleasant.
[star rating = “1.5/5”]
I should like this – I think – but I don’t.
I don’t think Ritter’s white chocolate is particularly nice – it’s far too crumbly and falls apart when you chew – and the crunchy roasted whole hazelnuts feel more like rice crispies in the mouth than solid nuts.
[star rating=”2/5″]
The combination of milk chocolate and hazelnuts should always work but this time it really doesn’t – and it’s the fault of both parties.
The milk chocolate is too smooth and too soft and insubstantial, and the hazelnuts are chopped into fragments, rather than whole and the have no texture and little flavour. Avoid.
[star rating=”1.5/5″]
Valor’s dark chocolate bar with whole almonds – I actually quite liked it.
I wasn’t sure the combination of dark chocolate and almonds would work but it does here – it needs the dark chocolate to not be too intense.
[star rating = “3.5/5”]