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 Fingers: Fabulous (praline)

Product name: Cadbury Fingers: Fabulous (praline)
Purchase details: £1.99 per box or two for £2.50 (Tesco)
Calories: 30 per finger
Country of origin: UK 

Having recently reviewed Cadbury Fingers: Fabulous, and due to my fascination with the chocolate and hazelnut combination, it seems only right that I now review Cadbury Fingers: Fabulous (praline). That said, I was a bit dubious about how this flavour would be delivered.

These biscuits were exactly the same concept as the original Fingers: Fabulous but with a ‘praline flavour biscuit’ beneath the white and milk chocolate layers. I was pleased to see a continuation in the presentation of the packaging, with the simple change of a rusty-coloured carpet on the box rather than a pink one.

The Fingers themselves were identical in appearance but they did have a slightly different smell which was particularly strong when the packaging was first opened. However, I wouldn’t describe this as ‘nutty’.

The back of the box promised ‘a rich praline flavour biscuit’ experience ‘with every scrumptious bite’ and, whilst there was definitely a difference in the taste, it seemed really sweet rather than nutty. I thought that the chocolate seemed less creamy but this may have been a result of the more overpowering biscuit flavour. Slightly bizarrely, the chocolate layers seemed thinner than the original Fingers: Fabulous, and the biscuit seemed crispier too, but the percentages of these ingredients remained the same.

On the whole, I was a bit confused by this product. I couldn’t associate it with praline at all and, on checking the ingredients list, I discovered that no nuts were listed, and even the allergy warning just said that it ‘may contain’ them – how disappointing for a praline flavoured biscuit! Of course, that doesn’t mean that these Fingers were unpleasant in any way. They were simply a bit unusual and not my favourite from the Fingers range. 

Appearance: 7.5/10
Aroma: 7/10
Taste: 6/10
Texture: 6.5/10
Overall score: 6.75/10

Cadbury Fingers: Fabulous

Product name: Cadbury Fingers: Fabulous
Purchase details: £1.99 per box or two for £2.50 (Tesco)
Calories: 35 per finger
Country of origin: UK 

I’ve wanted to try Cadbury Fingers: Fabulous since they were first released in 2011 but, for some reason, I’ve never got around to it. I’m usually quite a regular consumer of the original Cadbury Fingers, along with Cadbury Fingers: Dream, but it took me until a few months ago to finally purchase this box of Fingers: Fabulous that combined the two by coating each chocolate biscuit with a layer of white chocolate topped with a layer of milk chocolate. How these have remained unopened for so long, I don’t know.

This product was made by Burton’s Biscuit Co and each box contains, on average, 16 finger biscuits. Whilst a recommended serving is two Fingers, what I love about the Fingers range is that each one is a point on my diet plan which means I can have odd ones here and here to use up remaining calories. That said, it’s been a while since I last had a Cadbury Finger and so I was looking forward to a reunion.

Like the rest of the brand, these biscuits came in a purple box that stood out on the shop’s shelf, and I really liked the imagery used (in line with the advertising campaign) which suggested that the biscuits were glamorous by showing them on a red (well, pink!) carpet. What I didn’t expect was the usual inner black tray and clear cellophane to have been jazzed up. I think it’s fair to say that I was a bit too excited that the plastic was gold and that the wrapper contained depictions of a Finger in human-form. Sometimes it’s the little things that make a big difference...

From the outside, the actual biscuits didn’t look any different to the original Fingers, and they had the usual lovely, creamy smell. According to the ingredients list, the milk chocolate made up 41% of each Finger whilst the white chocolate contributed to 31%. However, the white chocolate layer still looked thicker than I expected, albeit slightly grey. Of course, the great thing about Cadbury Fingers is the long, thin shape which allows for plenty of chocolate coverage, and these certainly didn’t disappoint. I genuinely expected the thickness of the chocolate to be as normal, just with half quantities of each type, so I was delighted when I realised the coating was twice as thick as standard Fingers. This meant there was a lovely bit of resistance before reaching the crumbly biscuit. The box had described the biscuits as ‘crisp’ but I would disagree with this. If anything, the biscuit seemed softer than the original version since there was more chocolate which changed the ratio and, I guess, added more padding to the texture.

Slightly disappointingly, I couldn’t really detect a specific white chocolate flavour, but the overall experience was a satisfying chocolatey one. Whilst the product description said the chocolate was ‘velvety smooth’, I’d again, have to disagree since, when I let the chocolate melt, I found that the second layer felt grainy in comparison to the first. It was definitely nicer to chew the Fingers from the start.

I did enjoy these Fingers: Fabulous but I’m not convinced that mixing the two chocolate types together actually achieved anything. Only the milk chocolate was really noticeable and so I’d prefer to continue buying the original and Dream versions of Cadbury Fingers, depending on what type of chocolate I fancy at the time. However, what I did learn from this product was how much nicer it was to have a doubly thick layer of chocolate. Please could we have more of this, Cadbury?! 

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