Cadbury Lotus Biscoff Egg (Tesco) By @Cinabar

There was a time when snacking chocolate eggs were very basic, with Cadbury’s Creme Egg pretty much dominating the shelves. These days, there seems to be a new variation every year, each one trying to be a little bit different. I spotted this Cadbury Lotus Biscoff Egg in Tesco and decided to give it a go. I am a big fan of those spiced biscuits and I will happily eat the Biscoff spread on toast, so expectations were fairly high.

Once unwrapped, the chocolate shell looks much like a standard Creme Egg. Inside, though, the filling is where things change. I was pleased to see that the egg was well filled, as some limited editions suffer from a disappointing air gap. This one definitely does not skimp. The filling itself is very sweet, with the spiced biscuit flavour coming through clearly. There is some texture from biscuit crumbs mixed in, which I liked, although it is more of a gentle bite than a proper crunch. Combined with the milk chocolate shell, however, it becomes an extremely sweet treat overall.

While I enjoyed it, I did feel that the sweetness of the chocolate and the sweetness of the Biscoff style filling did not balance as well as they could have. The flavour ends up being a bit one note, and some of that distinctive biscuity character gets lost. A nice idea and worth trying, but for me it is just a little too sweet to really shine.

Cadbury Oreo White Eggs (Asda) – By @Cinabar

I remember when Cadbury’s multipacks of chocolate eggs always contained six, but now five is the new six, that’s shrinkflation for you. Anyway, these aren’t your standard Cadbury Creme Eggs; they’re Cadbury Oreo White Eggs. Cadbury has combined its Oreo brand with the growing popularity of white chocolate, and my sweet tooth is all for it.

 

The eggs have the same mould as Creme Eggs, and once unwrapped, you can see the signature star on the side of the white chocolate shell. I took a bite, and the first thing I noticed was how lovely and thick the white chocolate was. It’s sweet, creamy, and absolutely delicious.

The fondant inside is light, sweet, and creamy, with a nice vanilla flavour. It’s packed with Oreo crumbs, which add a fantastic texture, light and crispy. I think that’s why I ended up loving these so much. They might be a bit too sweet for some, but for me, they were the perfect afternoon pick-me-up.

Cadbury Creme Egg Cakes (Tesco) By @Cinabar

The very best thing about Easter time are Creme Eggs. I love very sweet things, and that mix of milk chocolate and sweet fondant filling is my thing. They don’t work for everyone, but gosh, they work for me. Of course, we don’t just get Cadbury Creme Eggs at this time of year; we also get all the fun new products based on those chocolates. I picked up this fab-looking box of Cadbury Creme Egg Cakes. There are four cakes in the box, all based on one of my favourite treats.

The cakes are round, and the sponge is filled with a swirl of Cadbury Creme Egg filling, coated in milk chocolate, and then, for added sweetness, coated in chocolate drops! This is my kind of dessert.

I gave it a try, and oh my, this is all about the Creme Egg filling. The fondant taste is sweet and gooey, and it melts into the chocolate cake flavour. The sponge is lovely, moist, and soft, and the chocolate shell and chocolate drops add a nice texture. What a delight! The only negative is that the chocolate drops on top are a little loose, and it was inevitable that some would end up on the floor. It seems mean to criticise such a cool product because I really enjoyed these Cadbury Creme Egg Cakes.

Cadbury Creme Egg Bar (Tesco) By @Cinabar

Oh my word, I can’t tell you how excited I am about this new chocolate. Well, I suppose I will try! I spotted this Cadbury Creme Egg Bar in Tesco and just thought it was the perfect edition to the Creme Egg range. I absolutely love Cadbury Creme Eggs. I have a sweet tooth, and these are perfect for me. I buy the Halloween edition Creme Eggs ones when I see them in October, and then I stock up just before Easter so my supplies last a bit longer for the year. I hate that they have a season. I always buy the limited editions they have, be they biscuits, desserts, cup cakes, etc. So this new chocolate bar was at the top of my list when I was checking out new products in the shop.

I opened up the wrapper, and I could already smell the fondant filling and chocolate. The bar has quite chunky pieces to account for a good dollop of creme egg fondant. I broke a line of chocolate off and gave a piece a try. The chocolate shell cracked, and the gorgeous sweet filling oozed out. What a delight! Creme Eggs work really well as a bar; there is a good chocolate to filling ratio, and it really works. This new Cadbury Creme Egg Bar is just the best thing since Creme Eggs, and I will be back for more.

White Cadbury Creme Egg (already?!) - by @NLi10

 It's Easter!! Well - the shops think it is anyway. They have all the lovely things in stock ready so Mini Eggs are cheaper and the Cadbury Creme Eggs are fresh & runny again.

At games at a friends house I was offered first pick from a new style multi-pack.  I decided I'd already had a Cadbury's Caramel egg so I'd go for White.

Here's the science bit!

Looks like they used the same molds - so far so good.  And it has the smell of the new White Cadbury choc that Kraft have pushed out - and it's all good.

The double fondant is eggy and familiar too - and like I said - the early season ones are runny and lovely (by the summer you only get hard centred eggs left).

A hit (a smash?) and I'll be looking for that Caramel version next time to compare.

Cadbury Salted Caramel Creme Eggs and friends By @SpectreUK

Well, I must say this is very 'egg-citing'. Sorry, but I could help it. I'll try to stop 'yoking' around. It's Cadbury Creme Egg season already, or Easter as some people like to call it. Where chocolate eggs are in abundance for a few months of every year and many people try to decide how many different ways to eat there's, and certainly try to eat as many as possible before Cadbury stop making them until the next year.

Last year Cadbury had a prize of a few White Creme Eggs mysteriously dotted around the stores. I was very fortunate enough to be sent one. I know, unbelievable, but being a snack and booze blogger for nearly fifteen years has the odd perk here and there. This year is even better, White Creme Eggs are available in abundance, with the ubiquitous Dairy Milk Creme Eggs in a box accompanied by Cadbury Caramel Eggs, which have been a staple for many years.

Also available, I know, it's just getting even more 'egg-citing' (sorry, I can't help it) is that this year Cadbury Salted Caramel Eggs are available, and in their own box of five. I don't know why boxes of five either, but I'll try not to focus on that, just on the flavour. First I decided to do a taste comparison between the Salted Caramel Egg and the original Caramel Egg.

So to the Original first, I could smell the oozy caramel on first unwrapping the Original's foil. Of course, after biting off the top, I licked out as much of the oozy sweet caramel as possible, before dumping the rest of the egg in my gob. I haven't had one of these for about a year, and it was simply delicious.

So 'cracking' open the box to find the five eggs of the Salted Caramel variety, I immediately peeled back the foil wrapper of the first egg to fall into my paws. On unwrapping the Cadbury Salted Caramel Egg there was not such a sweet aroma of caramel from the identical looking milk chocolate egg, as the Original. On first taste I noticed the caramel wasn't so oozy, or sweet, but there wasn't much saltiness either. It's a more refined caramel flavour rather than just wall to wall sweetness. I did like it though, and I'd happily eat either egg as often as possible. It depends how you like your's, sweet or not so sweet caramel.

Information on the box; Each 40g egg 194 calories, 10g of fat, 19g of sugar, 1.4g of protein, and 0.27g of salt. Please see photograph for the ingredients.

Cadbury Creme Egg Cakes - by @NLi10

Easter is over, but that doesn’t mean that we have to stop buying chocolate!  

Here we have cakes, but in the style of a Cadbury Creme Egg.

Portion control has never beeen so easy!

So what do you get? Well - a lot of tiny Choc buttons for a start which was lovely.

It’s actually a giant Swiss roll, sliced up, and coated in dairy milk style chocolate! Fantastic. And unlike the eggs themselves it’s not too sweet.

A lovely little light cake for with a Cup of tea.

 

Cadbury Creme Egg Cupcakes (Tesco) By @Cinabar

And the prize for the stickiest cake goes to the Cadbury Creme Egg Cupcake. These are gooey but gorgeous. I love Cadbury Creme Eggs, I love it when you first see them at the beginning of the year and I hate it when they disappear again after Easter. I also can’t resist any spin-off products, which is how I ended up buying these cupcakes, despite having only popped to our Tesco Express to buy bread and bananas. I simply added another essential.

Okay, so the problem starts when you try to lift them out of the plastic tray. They are super sticky. The Creme Egg ‘yolk’ on top is pretty liquid and I don’t think it is possible to get them out of the packet and keep your fingers clean. The taste is worth the mess though. These Cadbury Creme Egg Cupcakes are well themed, there is a chocolate sponge, fondant icing and a yolk sauce on top. There are some shards of chocolate on top too. There is also some more fondant inside the cupcake. They are rich, sweet and full of chocolatey goodness, a proper treat. Certainly something I’ll pick up again when I next need the basics like bread and essentials.

Cadbury Creme Egg Chocolate Cakes (Tesco) By @cinabar

I am a big fan of Cadbury Creme Eggs, I think this comes down to my sweet tooth, I just love the filling. I am also the one that picks out the Cadbury Creme Egg Twisted from the Heroes box, which is my year round fix of Creme Eggs. As Easter is coming the real things are available again and we have these Cadbury Creme Egg Chocolate Cakes as a bonus product this year, and I couldn’t wait to have one as an afternoon treat with a cup of coffee.

Inside the pack are six cake bars, they consist of a layer of chocolate sponge, a topping of Creme Egg filling and a coating of milk chocolate. I have to admit I had hoped that they would be individually wrapped, just because this makes them much easier for portion control and for popping into a lunch box to take to work. I’m aware the extra packaging isn’t good for the environment though.

These Cadbury Creme Egg Chocolate Cakes have what looks like only a slight amount of Creme Egg fondant but is actually plenty when it comes to the taste. The sponge is soft and fluffy and with the coating these do have a good chocolate flavour. I think these are a nice edition to the range, and something that would be nice to share with visitors over Easter. Controversially if they had been individually wrapped I would be buying them more regularly, as it would have been nice to just have one occasionally without worrying about the others drying out when exposed to the air.

Cadbury’s White Chocolate Creme Egg (Tesco) By @SpectreUK

We could all do with a treat now and then. After some recent tough times at the gym I need to put behind me, my muscles around my newly operated on knee are slowly but surely growing. Cinabar has somehow managed to wangle me a Cadbury's White Chocolate Creme Egg. I don't know how… mainly because I'm just an unpaid lackey, however it does pay off on the odd occasion. This White Chocolate Creme Egg is my pay off. She's probably thinking it'll keep me happy for a while. She's probably right!

This is one of those prize eggs that people have been attacking regular Cadbury's Milk Chocolate Creme Eggs in stores to win big bucks from. People are even selling them unwrapped on Ebay. Yuck, probably with sticky finger marks all over them for free! It's funny that you don't have to unwrap them to find they are white chocolate, as they have it written in the ingredients on the wrapper.

On unwrapping the White Chocolate Creme Egg Cinabar was all over me with a camera! "The Readers will want to see it," she exclaimed.

"How do you eat your's? With a ruddy great lens stuck up your nose!" I replied grumpily.

As you can see from the photograph, the White Chocolate Creme Egg is indeed white chocolate on the outside. It has the traditional Cadbury's Creme Egg filling. It bizarrely tastes completely different to the milk chocolate variety. So bizarre it's not even like a distant cousin twice removed! Sure it looks like a White Chocolate Creme Egg, but the sheer creaminess from the white chocolate coupled with the super sweetness from the egg's innards tastes like nothing I've ever tasted before. It's actually sublime. Honestly it's one of the best things I've ever tasted. Unless they start making batches of these Cadbury's White Chocolate Creme Eggs then I strongly suspect this is the only one I'll ever eat. It was certainly timely and one heck of a treat for some of the stuff I've been through lately!

Cadbury Creme Egg 2018 Unwrapped - By @Cinabar

The 2018 edition of the Cadbury Creme Egg wouldn’t ordinarily warrant its own review. It isn’t particularly new, these eggs are launched every year from New Year’s day until Easter. They have the same thick Cadbury chocolate shell, and gooey sweet fondant filling complete with an egg yolk and white design inside. The reason I’m writing about them is because of my frustration in trying to purchase them this year. Cadbury have launched a competition with their 2018 Cadbury Eggs, and if you are lucky enough to find a white chocolate egg inside your wrapper, you also win a cash prize. The prizes vary from £100 upwards to one lucky one worth £2000. This would be great if the eggs were sealed, but they are not, they are simply wrapped in foil, and it seems the temptation from the Great British public is too much to take a peak before you buy.
I have looked in several shops for neatly sealed eggs, from newsagents to big supermarkets, and each time I find a box of picked through Cadbury Creme eggs. Wrappers are loose, and chocolate is exposed. Yuck. I had a chat with the lady in WH Smiths who had found many slightly unwrapped eggs and moved the box to behind the till. Her manager had said to keep a count, but to chuck any eggs that were open, what a waste.

I don’t think the competition is a bad idea, but it does only work if you have a sealed packet. I decided in the end on buying a sealed box of five, as that seemed the most sensible solution this year. Good luck though to all who buy them, and if anyone does find a white egg, do let me know how it tastes!

Cadbury Screme Egg Pots of Joy (Waitrose) By @Cinabar

It is actually really fun to have a new dessert that is Halloween themed, and these Cadbury Screme Egg Pots of Joy just looked fab. They are based on the Screme Egg, which is the seasonal version of the Cadbury Creme Egg, but has a green goo coloured centre instead of the usual yolk. This dessert is actually the same, there is already a regular Cadbury Creme Egg Pots of Joy dessert, and this is the same except the yellow yolk layer has been replaced by a green goo coloured layer. The flavour isn’t changed either, the dessert still has the nice mix of chocolate and fondant taste. I guess this is an easy win for Cadbury, just changing a bit of the colour, and giving it a nice seasonal twist. I liked that the dessert did have a good sweet fondant taste, and did go some way to properly replicating the Screme Egg flavour.

I thought the packaging was very bright, and perfect for Halloween. Green is very much the in colour here. I am always weirdly wary of green colourings in food, but this was an okay tone as it wasn’t too bright for me. I’m okay if the food is green flavoured, i.e. lime sweet being green is fine, but just green always feels a bit weird. Guess everyone has their quirks!
Pretty much all the desserts had a best before of 2nd November, so get them while you can!

Pots of Joy Creme Egg (Waitrose) [By @Cinabar]

The latest Easter themed addition to the Pots of Joy dessert range comes in the form of a Cadburys Creme Egg limited edition. I have tried and written about quite a few of the Pots of Joy varieties in the past. I guess this Creme Egg version makes sense as they are probably one of Cadburys best sellers at this time of year. Of course the thing that makes them special is the neat filling. That lovely looking yellow yoke on the white fondant makes them.

I unpacked the dessert twin pot, and peeled back the foil lid. The chocolate topping covered the top but underneath was the full Creme Egg experience, there was a white base with the bright yellow yolk. It's an eye catching pudding as the three colours does look really nice. I was impressed with the flavour too, it was sweet and creamy and had the distinct taste of Creme Egg fondant, although it was much lighter and fluffier in texture. I thought they may have made it a simple vanilla, but it had the proper fondant taste.
Yes okay these Cadbury Creme Egg Pots of Joy desserts are a bit of an Easter novelty, but I still really enjoyed them. I often pick up Pot of Joys as a quick pudding, so it is a variation i'll be buying again. I thought they did an eggcellent (sorry) job of converting the chocolate into a dessert pot.

By Cinabar

New Cadbury Screme Egg Biscuits (Sainsburys) [By @Cinabar]

A few years back Cadbury decided to extend Cadbury Creme Egg season to start in the autumn with the introduction of the Halloween themed Screme Egg. No complaints there from me, I enjoy a Creme Egg whatever time of year and they tasted exactly the same only with a green coloured yolk.
Following on from that tradition Creme Egg biscuits have now been transformed for Halloween into Screme Egg biscuits. They follow the same formula, exactly the same as Creme Egg biscuits only with a green yolk instead of a yellow one.
The flavour is still spot on, plenty of biscuit and gooey fondant. There is enough taste of the fondant to shine through, but the biscuit flavour is there too. These are a nice seasonal treat and I'm looking forward to tucking into some more while watching a scary movie on Halloween night.
If they'd wrapped them in green foil they would have been perfect to give out to Trick Or Treaters too. The fact that they aren't individually packaged just makes it a bit more difficult to share out in that way. Of course if we have to eat them all ourselves, so be it. ;-)
Happy Halloween!

By Cinabar

New 2015 Recipe - Cadbury Creme Eggs (Aldi) [By @cinabar]

The humble Creme Egg is quite a big thing in Britain. When I purchased this box of eggs in Aldi the lady serving me said that she was excited to see them back on the shelves and that she looked forward to them every year. Me too.
This year they have been surrounded by controversy, hence my decision to give them a review. They have had a recipe change, the chocolate is no longer Dairy Milk and it is pretty shocking that they would mess with such a classic recipe in this way. I noticed too that although the eggs look the same size as last year they have 177 calories and last year they had 185 calories so there are changes afoot.
I unwrapped one of the eggs and it looked and smelt pretty much like every Cadbury Creme Egg I’ve seen previously. I bit in and the chocolate felt slightly harder than usual, I don't think the egg shell was any thicker it just seemed a little firmer. Now I'm going to be honest the chocolate wasn't that dissimilar. It was, if you were looking for it, sweeter and less creamy, and not Diary Milk. It wasn't horrible, it just wasn't the nostalgic taste you recognise as being distinctly Cadbury. The fondant seemed samey to me, overly sweet, but as a whole the creamy soothing edge of the egg wasn't quite there. Cadbury have been quoted on saying they have improved the recipe for the public. I suspect a lot of the public wouldn't notice the difference, but I can't see how it is an improvement. Coincidentally the cocoa content has been reduced in the eggs and the price of cocoa has risen.
More upsetting than all of that though is this box of eggs. You would be hard pushed to find real eggs in any numeration that isn't divisable by six in the shops. Last year a box of six Cadbury Creme eggs was £2 this year a box of five eggs is also £2, that's the part I find the worst. I'd rather have had a price increase and had six proper Dairy Milk eggs in a box.

By Cinabar

Cadbury Creme Egg Biscuits (Poundland) [By @Cinabar]

There are quite a few Cadbury biscuits out, with the range expanding well since I first tried them in 2010. It has been a little while since a new product was added though and what better way to start the new year than to combine the traditional Creme Egg with this biscuit format.
As I’d heard these biscuits would be getting an early release in 2014 I did have my eye out for them. Regular Creme Eggs invariably appear on the 1st January, so I thought these might too and put myself on full alert. We’ve searched everywhere for them, my mum even checked Waitrose for me, but it was all to no avail.
Over the weekend I had a browse in Poundland, for bargains more than Foodstuff Finds, but sitting on the shelf were the mythical Cadbury Creme Egg Biscuits. Fab! The last place I expected to see them first was Poundland. Yes the shop is famed for its value, but isn’t usually the best place for new products, even if it does get its fair share of import goodies.
Inside the box were six chocolate coated biscuits spaced into stacks of two in their plastic tray. I broke one in half and could immediately see the layer of Creme Egg fondant, with both its white and yolk looking pretty on top of the biscuit base. I thought that was quite clever, as I wasn’t sure how it was going to work.
I gave these biccies a munch and was impressed to find that the Creme Egg fondant did make its presence known in flavour too, not just visually. There was a nice chocolate taste from the thick coating, the biscuit was chocolatey too and had a nice baked flavour, but the sweetness from the fondant kicked in and gave these an extra burst of indulgence. It is sort of like a thick sugary syrup I guess, but it was specifically the Cadbury taste that worked so well. I like the oozing layer of fondant egg, and felt that it gave the biscuits a nice texture. Crunchy but gooey. My only disappointment with them was that they were fairly small and there was only six in the packet. It's such a shame - I’m going to have to go back to Poundland next weekend and stock up! ;-)

By Cinabar

Cadbury Screme Egg Minis (Waitrose) [By @Cinabar]

I have no hesitation in admitting I love Creme Eggs. I always used to get excited at the beginning of the New Year trying to find them on sale. The last few years we have seen Screme Eggs appear and increase in availability at Halloween. This is a good thing, any excuse for effectively bringing out Creme Eggs early is a positive move. This year has seen another (spin off) a new product, Mini Screme Eggs!
Now I’m not got to pretend that there is anything very different here to the usual Mini Creme Eggs you can buy at Easter, except for the packaging and the yolk. As with the regular sized Screme Eggs the yolk is a ghoulish green in colour, but there is no messing with the flavour. I actually like the proportion of the mini eggs as there is a fair amount of chocolate in relation to the filling. They are easy to munch on, but picking the tightly wrapped foil off each one ensures that you can’t scoff lots, unless you prepared! The other thing is as they are small the answer to the inevitable question “How Do You Eat Yours?” is simple – whole! I also think these would be ideal to add to the cauldron for the Trick or Treaters, but keep your fingers crossed that they don’t all disappear!

By cinabar

Cadbury Creme Egg Splats (Tesco) [By @Cinabar]

Having popped into Tesco post Christmas, but before New Years, I noticed that they were setting up a shelf with Easter stock! :-o It is a bit early, but I guess that’s just how the seasons work in shops and it is the next ‘event’. Obviously I had a nosey round the shelf and saw the usual suspects like regular Cadbury Creme Eggs and Chocolate Lambs, but there in the middle of the shelf sat this new product on offer as well. It is part of the Creme Egg branding, and consists of fried egg shaped chocolate splats all filled with a little bit of the white fondant, like you would find inside a regular Creme Egg. As I bit them in half I spotted that they had no yolk, (I’m not even yolking) just the white fondant. I realise it would have taken some impressive engineering to get that yellow yolk in the miniature Splat, but it still would have been really very cool!
The chocolate around each Splat is the usual Cadbury’s flavour, and is milky and sweet. It is fairly thick, and does take up a good proportion of each chocolate. The flavour worked well with the gooey fondant, but I would have preferred a little more filling in each one. The combination of tastes works though, and I can imagine that these will make a great sharing bag throughout the Easter season. I like the novelty of the shape, and any tie-in with Creme Eggs is a bonus, but it is still a tad early for Easter goodies! Having said that, I bought two bags, and I’d be lying if I tried to claim the other one would even make it to the New Year!

By Cinabar

Cadbury’s Dead Heads (Various Supermarkets)

If you take this product in context with the Cadbury’s Screme Egg, which featured earlier in the week, you might notice that the Cadbury’s Halloween goodies actually have a distinctively Easter theme. Essentially this bag of ‘Dead Heads’ consist of milk chocolate eggs with caramel inside, and are not dissimilar to the Cadbury’s Caramel Mini Eggs available at Easter time.
As with the Screme Eggs, these Dead Heads have had a Halloween make-over and are now themed for the scary season. Each chocolate has a spooky face moulded into the chocolate, to give the impression of decapitated (dead) heads. The caramel is red in colour to give a gruesome looking filling, but thankfully in taste is the regular Cadbury’s caramel. I do really like Cadbury’s caramel, and love its flavour in conjunction with their chocolate, so these are an easy flavour pleaser for me.
We had a lot of fun with these Dead Heads here at Foodstuff Finds but we would like to make it perfectly clear the serving suggestion in the photograph above is totally optional. ;-)

Cadbury’s Screme Egg (Asda)

I love Cadbury’s Creme eggs, but usually have to wait until New Years Day before getting my hands on one after Easter. Thankfully this year I have managed to get hold of this Asda exclusive Cadbury’s Halloween themed Screme Egg.
In terms of taste it is identical to the normal lovely cream eggs. The chocolate is the expected thick creamy Cadbury’s, and the filling is the usual sweet fondant. What’s new for this limited edition egg is that the yolk is a ghoulish green for the season. This is not the most novel of product, but I won’t complain too much if it means I get a Cadbury’s Creme egg in October!
I do have to say it is a shame that it is an Asda exclusive though, not because I have anything against Asda, it is just that not everyone has access to all the major supermarkets, so there are obviously going to be people who miss out.
If you do manage to get your mitts on one of these fine eggs, I guess the only thing you have to think about is: How are you going to eat yours..?