Outrageously Chocolatey White Chocolate Coated Cookies & Cream (M&S) By @SpectreUK

I love white chocolate and I love biscuits. So, any idea combining the two seems like a great idea to me. These Outrageously Chocolatey White Chocolate Coated Cookies & Cream, does sound like a great idea too.

Apparently there is more than 50% of white chocolate in these Outrageously Chocolatey White Chocolate Coated Cookies & Cream. I didn’t know how much more than 50% of each cookie is white chocolate. Part of my childlike brain was thinking 99% white chocolate, 1% cookie, until Cinabar read the packet and pointed out there was 52% white chocolate.

On opening the packet these Outrageously Chocolatey White Chocolate Coated Cookies & Cream looked like white chocolate snow covered buildings. On first bite, “Holy, sh…” I was having a Hannah Waddington moment when she eats Ted Lasso’s biscuits.

These Outrageously Chocolatey White Chocolate Coated Cookies & Cream really are outrageously chocolatey. They taste like white chocolate cookie creamy heaven.

Once I bite through the thick layer of white chocolate, the cookie inside melted in my mouth and the whole thing ended up tasting like you’d expect a thick white chocolate building cookie cloud would taste like. Yummy. Pass me another.

Information on the packet; Each of the 6 cookies is 171 calories, with 9.5g of fat, 15.3G of sugar, and 0.11g of salt. Please see photograph for the ingredients.

Nescafe Creamy Tiramisu Latte (Ocado) By @Cinabar

Oh my, it happened. We’ve reached autumnal drinks season! I did my online grocery order, and there were FIVE new flavoured coffees, with this Nescafe Creamy Tiramisu Latte being one of them! Obviously, given the season, one of them was also a pumpkin spice, but all five got ordered. I know I have a coffee problem, but let’s be honest, there are worse things. The other reviews will follow, but let’s get started with the Tiramisu Latte.

I opened the sachet and it smelled rich and sweet, with a touch of alcohol in the aroma. Think Irish Coffee. It mixed up really well, with no lumps, and had a nice-looking froth on top.

I took a sip and the flavour was very much the Marsala wine that gives Tiramisu its kick, along with some creamy vanilla. This went very well with the coffee, and it was full of flavour while being lovely and creamy too. It was a proper delight on a wet afternoon. Soothing, sweet and great for fans of Irish Coffee flavours.

Belmont Biscuits Mini Waffle Cones with Milk Chocolate - Aldi UK [@NLi10]

The last bite of the Cornetto ice-cream is said to be the best.  It's the remainder of the cone, filled with soft chocolate and any sauce that may have run down the inside or outside.  It's the headline act to the festival of summer.

And now you can have a whole bag of them to yourself!

I've seen these in a few places - best implemented by the Norwegian waffle crisps we had in 2013 on our visit that I still think about.

These however are much more faithful to the ice-cream cone experience - and they sell it as nostalgia and reminiscence, purely because Cornetto are no longer the premium ice-cream they once were.

As usual the bag is half full to protect them during transport and they all look pretty in-tact so it's worked here.  The bag reseals too which is a premium feature and very much appreciated.

And they are fairly unassuming - very full of the chocolate and a little harder than their Wall's counterparts.  And frankly - not quite as good.  I think that I'd put this down to nostalgia but we had Cornettos in Wells recently as part of a Hot Fuzz visit, and while smaller it all still worked.

Here I think that to make it work as a snack they added too much choc, and it's not soft enough.  It also doesn't have the ice-cream chill to it that the real thing does.  Besides, they put it in to stop the juices soaking through the cone (which was choc coated all the way down) so it had a function unlike these which are pure indulgence.

In the end then this is like buying the medal for a marathon you didn't complete off eBay, the real prize was always the Cornetto and that last bite just the last step.  So - worth a try?  Absolutely, but don't be surprised if you get tempted to pop to the freezer and have a bowl of ice-cream with these on top as an indulgent treat.  I'd ahve probably done the same if it wasn't absolutely pouring with rain today!

Salt & Black Pepper Mix (Waitrose) By @SpectreUK

Salt & Black Pepper flavoured crisps are one of my all time favourites. I can eat them with just about anything; on their own with a beer, or dipped in sauce, with a sandwich or any meal I’d usually have bread with.

We couldn’t get out to buy a French Stick today to have with our lasagne, as Cinabar has a cold. So, I suggested having these Salt & Black Pepper Mix from Waitrose. I was hoping for a bit of pepper spice with my lasagne, mushrooms and broccoli.

There was a mild saltiness on opening the packet of various potato crisp shapes. Some had more black pepper flavour than others, such as the waves and wagon wheels.

Although altogether this sharing party bag was pretty mild in salt and almost nonexistent in spicy black pepper flavour. Whereas I prefer my Salt & Black Pepper flavoured crisps with a bit more umph.

Information on the packet; The 150g bag contained 121 calories per 25g, with 5.7g of fat, less than 0.5g of sugar, and 0.51g of salt.

St Michael Coconut Grove (M&S) By @Cinabar

A week or so ago, I wrote about Sparks, one of the other M&S re-releases of old bars from the 1980s, in near-identical packaging to when they originally came out. Here we have Coconut Grove, and this one too looks wonderfully retro.

I did a little bit of searching on the internet to try and find what the original packaging looked like for this one, but I couldn’t find a photo, which is weird. There are loads of photos of retro Cadbury and Mars chocolates dating back multiple decades, so for this one we will have to take their word for it that the packaging is similar to the original.

Talking of similarities, this bar consists of a milk chocolate coating around a soft coconut filling. It is similar in concept to another well-known high street bar, and if you were to list the similarities, I’m sure they would be quite bountiful!

Anyway, the milk chocolate is lovely and thick and has a good bite, while the coconut filling is full of flavour. It is firm but not too much, with a sweet and creamy coconut taste. I really enjoyed it.

It has a lovely tropical taste, and I always feel coconut is a bit underused in British confectionery, so it is nice to have more choices on the shelves.