Ritter Sport Haribo Balla Bites (Ocado) By @cinabar

Gosh, I was super excited when I heard about this bar and crossover: a Ritter Sport chocolate filled with Haribo Balla Bites. And just look at the packaging, and how wonderfully colourful and fun the chocolate looks. May I never grow up, but more than ten years into doing this blog and I still get super excited about something like this.

Ritter Sport often has fun and quirky flavours, so this is right up my street. I opened up the wrapper and, apart from a few Haribo Balla Bites poking through, it looked much like a regular Ritter Sport. I broke a line off, waiting for the colour explosion, but there was none. So I bit into the top-right piece and discovered that particular cube was pure milk chocolate.

I broke the bar up some more and could see some Haribo sweets, so I deliberately tried a piece with a sweet in it, and that was awesome. It was lime, and the fruity gummy flavour was fab with the chocolate, as was the chewy, fun gummy texture. Another piece shared a Haribo with a neighbouring cube of chocolate, and that was a bright berry taste that worked really well too.

The pieces of chocolate with the sweets in them were fun and brilliant, and everything I hoped for. There just weren’t enough sweets mixed in. I know it would probably be a manufacturing nightmare, but each cube should have had one Haribo Balla Bite in it, just like the packaging suggests, to make every piece that colourful and fun.”