Cadbury Roses, pt. ii

the rest of the lot:

Brazilian Darkness: i was disappointed by this. i thought it was going to be super-exotic dark chocolate, but again with the great expectations thing - i know i shouldn't but i persist anyway, with my overly-romanticized notions of what chocolate should be (poor pip). there's barely any dark chocolate here. the candy is essentially like the rock solid caramel i previously reviewed, except covered with a pathetically thin sheen of dark chocolate, and there are tiny minced bits of hazelnut embedded in the caramel. wasn't feeling this at all.

Cadbury Dairy Milk: a nice, tried-andtrue classic. perhaps one of the least outright unsavoury chocolates in the box. what can i say? i love the added creaminess.

Caramel Velvet: not bad for crappy chocolate - i guess this is what i had in mind in terms of "caramel" (unlike the one i reviewed last time, this caramel was soft to the point of being almost liquid), and it was accompanied by a nice satisfactorily velvety chocolate filling. pretty sweet.

Hazel in Caramel: pretty straightforward: a hazelnut ensconced in caramel wrapped in a milk chocolate thing. too sweet, but i like hazelnuts.

Golden Barrel: the same kind of liquid-y caramel as in the caramel velvet in milk chocolate. extremely sweet, but i much prefer the consistency of the caramel.

Hazel Whirl: really, not as exciting as it sounds; there's nothing particularly whirly about it except for the little design on the chocolate. essentially, overly sweet milk chocolate with a lovely whole hazelnut in the middle. there were only, like, 3 of these in the entire box, which was incredibly disappointing (and there were 6 of the yucky fruit creme ones. thanks for trying to rip me off, cadbury. are whole nuts really that expensive to deal with?)

do i sound unsatisfied?

the speed with which i finished the 400g of chocolate my belies my answer - which is to say, cadbury, you can SHOVE IT.

Cadbury Roses, part i

Pretty pricey - seems like the equivalent of the Thorntons box, except this was slightly cheaper (3.55 pounds) and has a lot more variety (which is why i'm going to break this up into parts...):

Strawberry Dream (pink wrapper): so, pretty conventional, strawberries and chocolate. alright, hold on (i'm eating as i type)... it's really more like... strawberries in some wicked syrup-y sweet syrup form (blech) + milk chocolate. not awful because at least the filling tastes like strawberries, but jesus, you think it could be less disturbingly sweet. a resounding no you didn't. moving on.

Tangy Orange Creme (orange wrapper): again, nothing extraordinary or interesting in terms of flavours: this time, orange + chocolate. this was far less sweet than the strawberry filling and had a nice tanginess to it, but it still tasted a bit synthetic. in terms of chocolate/orange combos, i'd rank it last (so far) behind Thorntons and Hotel Chocolat's orange-chocolate crispy things.

Caramel (blue wrapper): i'm going to stop expecting extraordinary - this is cadbury after all... anyhow, thin layer of milk chocolate over a solid-as-a-rock chunk of caramel, though if you're patient and wait for it to melt in your mouth, the caramel is not too sweet and has that nice warm, buttery flavour.

Country Fudge (skinny golden wrapper): i'm not quite sure what country fudge is supposed to taste like. the fudge seems a tad dry, but i'm not particularly good at judging since my predilections in the realm of fudge run towards the hot, melted-on-top-of-ice-cream variety (oh sorry, i think i may just have drooled). i suppose the fudge at least brings an interesting texture to the mix: sort of like how i would expect dense bread to feel, except this dense bread is made entirely of sugar and a bit of cocoa. a tad too sugary for my tastebuds, but not awful.