Cadbury Fingers: Fabulous (honeycomb)

Product name: Cadbury Fingers: Fabulous (honeycomb)
Purchase details: £1.00 for a 110g box (Tesco)
Calories: 35 per finger
Country of origin: UK

Despite not being new, I’ve never bought Cadbury Fingers: Fabulous (honeycomb) before, although I vaguely recall trying one a while ago – not that I could remember what they were like!

These biscuits featured the usual Fabulous branding but had an amber carpet with a honeycomb design to symbolise the flavour. The box contained an average of 16 biscuits (with a serving intended to be two) and mine ended up being particularly good value since Tesco had kindly sent me a Clubcard voucher for £0.50 off!

I’d assumed that the Fingers, made by Burton’s Biscuit Co., would have featured a honeycomb cream layer like with the Fox's Velvety: Caramel & honeycomb cream but it turned out that the pale layer beneath the ‘velvety smooth’ milk chocolate (41%) was still white chocolate (31%). Instead, the flavour came from ‘honeycomb flavour biscuit’ which looked a bit more amber in colour to normal. However, I did also think the white chocolate looked a bit less white and a bit more yellow, but that was probably wishful thinking!

 

The very crispy Fingers had a sweetened scent which, whilst very nice, wasn’t strong. To melt, the outer experience was unchanged from the other varieties, but I was surprised to find that the inside tasted like a Crunchie that had been mixed with a bit of biscuit! I didn’t find this honeycomb aspect to be quite as noticeable when chewing but the overall feel was more sugary and the biscuits definitely did taste different to the standard Fingers: Fabulous.

I may not have purchased these before but I most certainly will again!

Appearance: 7.5/10
Aroma: 7.5/10
Taste: 7/10
Texture: 7/10
Overall score: 7.25/10

Cadbury Wispa: Biscuits

Product name: Cadbury Wispa: Biscuits
Purchase details: £1.00 for a 124g packet of biscuits (Asda)
Calories: 78 per 15.5g biscuit
Country of origin: UK

I bought these new Cadbury Wispa: Biscuits a little while ago when they were first released since I’d really enjoyed the Creme Egg version, and I’m obviously a fan of the Wispa bar too.

The ‘delicious biscuits filled and coated with velvety Wispa chocolate’ were branded in the usual way and there was a nice image of the deep, bubbly filling on the packet’s wrapper. Unfortunately, there were only eight in the pack, although this was still more than the Creme Egg ones!

Mondelez’s ‘scrummy biscuits’ had been made by Burton’s Biscuit Co. and had a wrinkly surface, rather than a smooth one, with slightly jagged bases too. On the inside, they looked very much like the packaging had promised, with a deep chocolate filling sitting atop a pale biscuit. There was a strong chocolatey scent, too, that was just like that of an actual Wispa.

On trying the biscuits, I couldn’t believe that they ‘only’ contained 58% milk chocolate – they were fantastically chocolatey! The flavour was recognisably Cadbury, as well, but I did find the Wispa’s texture was disguised by the crunchy biscuit (this was an observation rather than a bad thing!). However, I did particularly like the added density at the centre of each biscuit.

As tasty as this product was, there’s no avoiding the fact that they were essentially very chocolatey biscuits. To make things a little more interesting, I wonder what a Wispa: Gold version would be like (apart from messy!)?

Appearance: 7.5/10
Aroma: 7.5/10
Taste: 7.5/10
Texture: 8/10
Overall score: 7.63/10

Cadbury Fingers (milk chocolate)

Product name: Cadbury Fingers (milk chocolate)
Purchase details: £1.00 for a 150g box (Poundland)
Calories: 110 per four finger serving (28 per finger)
Country of origin: UK

It’s time to review another of my low-calorie snack staples: Cadbury Fingers (milk chocolate).

This box was identical in appearance to the white chocolate version – it was just a slightly larger size and featured brown fingers, as well as having a white base instead of a pale blue one.

Made by Burton’s Biscuit Co., these ‘crunchy biscuit fingers smothered in Cadbury milk chocolate’ had the same outer appearance as the Fingers: Fabulous but only had plain biscuit inside. The chocolate was quite dull in appearance but, pleasingly, it made up 48% of the product.

These Fingers also had the same good, sweet and creamy smell of the Fabulous version, and they tasted nice and sweet too. I did wish Cadbury had used their famous Dairy Milk but these were still tasty and I enjoyed the very crispy biscuit, despite the chocolate feeling a bit grainy.

Lovely jubbly!

Appearance: 7/10
Aroma: 7/10
Taste: 7/10
Texture: 7/10
Overall score: 7/10

Cathedral City Baked Bites

Product name: Cathedral City Baked Bites
Purchase details: £0.25 for a 35g bag (Home Bargains)
Calories: 173 per bag
Country of origin: UK

I was really pleased to find these Cathedral City Baked Bites in Home Bargains so cheaply recently. I usually only eat reduced fat cheddar but, as a treat, Cathedral City’s ‘real’ cheese is one of my favourites. I only recently became aware of this spin-off product and was interested to see how they compared to McVitie’s Mini Cheddars.

The ‘mini biscuits baked with real cheddar’ from ‘the nation’s favourite cheese brand’ were made by Burton’s Biscuit Co under licence from Dairy Crest Limited. The burgundy and pale yellow bag reflected the colour scheme of the block cheese, and I was pleasantly surprised that the crackers contained 20% cheese as well as 2.9% cheese powder.

The golden biscuits were oval in shape and featured the Cathedral City logo. This wasn’t always that clear in person but it did show up well on my photograph! The aroma they gave off was divine – a simply delicious cheese-infused cracker scent.

I couldn’t believe just how good these tasted. They had a mature cheddar flavour throughout and, whilst this wasn’t as strong as if I’d been munching on a hunk of cheese, it was still very, very good. I also liked how they weren’t really salty – there was just a slight lick of it in the aftertaste.

As for the crispy biscuits themselves, I really appreciated how these didn’t feel dry. Instead, the crumbs gathered together in the mouth, allowing them to moisten before swallowing.

It was only as I was eating these that I realised it’s actually been a few years since I last ate some Mini Cheddars and, as a result, it’s difficult to accurately compare the two brands. However, these Baked Bites definitely reminded me of the McVitie’s competitor, but my memory resulted in the conclusion that the Cathedral City version had a more genuine cheese flavour.

The other good thing about this bag was that it contained a generous portion, making the product a nice alternative to crisps. I’ll definitely be buying these again.

Appearance: 8/10
Aroma: 9/10
Taste: 8.5/10
Texture: 9/10
Overall score: 8.63/10

Cadbury Fingers (white chocolate)

Product name: Cadbury Fingers (white chocolate)
Purchase details: £0.99 for a 125g box (Tesco)
Calories: 100 per four finger serving (25 per finger)
Country of origin: UK

One of the things I love about loyalty cards is the way they send you discount coupons based on previous purchases. In this case, Tesco kindly sent me a Clubcard voucher for £0.50 off Cadbury Fingers, and I was delighted to get this generous serving of ‘crisp biscuits covered with Cadbury white chocolate’ for £0.49, as a result.

I remember the day I fell in love with these biscuits. There were loads of them on a buffet table and I just couldn’t stop myself going back for more and more – they were so delicious! At the time, they were sold under the Dream brand. I’m not sure when this changed but I did notice that the inner cellophane still had the word ‘Dream’ printed on it. Despite the emergence of, technically, more ‘interesting’ Fingers varieties in recent years (such as Fabulous (praline)), this simpler version has remained my firm favourite.

I loved the dominoes effect used for the personified illustration of the biscuits, on the purple box, and the real things looked good too. Beneath the white chocolate coating (42%), the biscuits themselves were two-tone, with a slightly golden edge standing out against their paler centres.

Made by Burton’s Biscuit Co., Cadbury described how, ‘with every bite, you’ll experience a delightful combination of creamy Cadbury white chocolate and crunchy biscuit centre’. To be honest, there’s not much I can add to that! The chocolate had a lovely, deep vanilla scent, tasted really creamy (as promised), and had hints of vanilla too. I found it particularly impressive that its flavour remained just as strong when chewing as it did when allowing the slightly grainy melt to unfold. 

In comparison, the biscuit was quite plain and tasted like a cross between rich tea and shortbread. However, it absorbed the chocolate’s sweetness nicely, and it certainly did add the intended crunch.

I may have grown up but these Cadbury Fingers (white chocolate) were as enjoyable as I remembered. If calories didn’t exist, I’d quite happily sit and eat box after box!

Appearance: 7.5/10
Aroma: 8/10
Taste: 7.5/10
Texture: 7/10
Overall score: 7.5/10