Dairy Milk chocolate, produced by Cadburys has been a favourite in the UK for decades. For many years, the choice seemed to be the simple bar of Dairy Milk, Fruit and Nut, or Whole Nut.......then a few years ago, Dairy Milk added Caramel, Mint Crisp and Turkish Delight to their range.......yum! And recently, they added a couple of new varieties - one of them being the Apricot Crumble Crunch bar.

I love chocolate, I love dried apricots and I love love love crumbles.....so this one seemed to be a sure fire winner for me!

The bar is a typical size Dairy Milk bar - 7 chunks of milk chocolate, in a wrapper that displays the famous Cadbury Dairy Milk logo and the purple and white colouring. When you bite into it you get good sized pieces of dried apricot - deliciously sweet and slightly chewy. It is not a fruit I would have generally associated with chocolate, but it works well. You also get bits of biscuit - they are supposed to be bits of crumble, but if I hadn't known that the bar was entitled "crumble crunch", I would have described it as "biscuity" instead. These pieces of biscuit/crumble certainly provide the crunch you expect from the title, but I can't say that they have the same appeal as a crumble pudding would have!

I can't deny that I enjoy this particular bar of chocolate - but then I enjoy most chocolate in general, so maybe that is not the best way to judge this bar - you are best to get out there and sample it yourself! I certainly enjoy it more than the original Fruit and Nut and Whole Nut, but perhaps not as much as the Mint Crisp bar.

As with most milk chocolate, this is best served chilled, ideally straight out of the fridge.

As far as I can tell, they don't seem to have taken off in the same way as the old favourites, and are not always available in the usual places that you would find Dairy Milk bars - newsagents, supermarkets, filling stations etc. However, our local branches of Boots have been stocking these for a while, but even there they have obviously not been over popular, because this week there were dozens and dozens of bars of this chocolate reduced in price. Of course, for me, that provided an ideal opportunity to buy a couple (or 4!!) without feeling too guilty about the unnecessary spending!

As with most bars of this size, prices vary hugely, depending on where you buy, but you can expect to pay at least 50p which is in line with its competitors.

Nutrition wise - it's chocolate for goodness sake, so it is not likely to be healthy - but if you are in need of the numbers......it has 225 calories and a whopping 6.9grammes of saturated fat......hmm.......!

As for allergy information - it contains milk and wheat and may contain nuts and soya.

For more information, go to www.cadbury.co.uk