Cadbury white chocolate Oreo bar

To dunk or to junk? That is a ridiculous question.

How do you make a white chocolate bar sound interesting? You could add some hippopotamus tongue or pack it full of explosives for just some sensible examples.

Cadbury, however, chose to liven up an otherwise bland chocolate bar by teaming it with Oreo. The result? Instant success, of course! Once you mix a product with a popular brand you can wallow in a soothing dip of your brilliance.

Quite what the product actually turns out like is irrelevant so long as the sales keep rolling in. But does Cadbury’s raving of its new Oreo bar stand up once the packet is torn?

Well, the creation revealed a creamy complexion on first inspection which is a good start for a white chocolate product. Seven half-rounded pieces were included in the standard Cadbury form, allowing one to be broken off every day for a week – which is naturally the way everyone will eat it.

Inside there were some tiny brown biscuit pieces that presumably represented the Oreo promise. These were scattered throughout each chunk so were unquestionably plentiful.

Quite expectedly, the white chocolate totally dominated the entire concoction. It was a nice chocolate, don’t get me wrong, that was soft and milky, but perhaps a little too sweet. The biscuit pieces did have some impact on the overall flavour, mainly leaving a faint chocolatey aftertaste; also, they did add a mild crunch that helped to make the chocolate slightly more interesting.

Although the Oreo brand carries a great deal of influence, let’s not forget that original Oreo cookies are just chocolate biscuit with vanilla cream – not exactly a tangle with Singaporean cuisine, for instance. Because of that, Cadbury’s white chocolate and Oreo bar is no different from, say, a white Kit Kat Chunky – only sicklier.

I have also tested the Dairy Milk version of this product which is much nicer, predominately because the chocolate is more refined. So, the chocolate bar I would recommend is the one that wasn’t mentioned in the previous three hundred words. Just call me Martin Lewis.

Final review rating: without neon lights there is nothing dazzling – 2* out of 5.


Review by JAMES LEWIS
Wanderer, wonderer and editor of the Chocolate Dissection blog (which will ideally melt hearts rather than brains). Reliable with sarcasm, less so with a scalpel. Twitter: @IdeasJimbound


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