Product Review: Chocolate

Hey! Shish here...

By way of introduction, let me share something with you that is very close to my heart. Something that makes me happy, that makes me Shish and without it I can become a nasty cow.

I'm talking about chocolate...

...the happy pill of my choice

So my first post is a product review (count food as entertainment for me!) of Cabury's Dairy Milk Desserts range.

My hubby brought home family blocks of the Boysenberry Shortcake and Lemon Cheesecake varieties for us to try last night. He's a sucker for anything new, whereas I usually stick to the old favourites.

I always have my reservations about *new* flavours being introduced into tried and true brands and I think they are well founded after trying these new additions.

The names sounded good... Boysenberry Shortcake... Lemon Cheesecake...

makes you think..... mmmmm pie (I know that's probably what my husband was thinking)

but they've done the old *mix the flavours into the same creamy centre* trick, much like the mixed flavours in jelly belly beans so what you've got is boysenberry creme tainted with a shortcakey flavour instead of the creme on top of a bed of shortcake encased in yummy Cadbury's chocolate. The same goes with the Lemon Cheesecake, the lemon mixed with the biscuit base flavour, again not 2 yummy layers and to make it even more disappointing the lemon has a bitter aftertaste.

I've never been a huge fan of boysenberry but I was really looking forward to the lemon cheesecake and I wasn't overly fussed by it.

So trying the new range didn't leave me all that excited and definitely not wanting to rave about it. There is a Chocolate Brownie flavour available which sounds more promising but not so much so that I'll be hitting the shops tomorrow to get it.

No, I'll be sticking to my favourites; plain Dairy Milk, Peppermint, Caramello. The only *different* creme filled block that really caught my interest in recent times was the Cadbury Dream filled with Strawberry creme. That was tasty (sickly but tasty) sadly I think they've discontinued it though.

Has anyone else tried the new range? I'd be interested to know what you thought