Good in Ice Cream, Good on its Own. (Cadbury's Flake)

Member Name: CokaCola

Product:	Cadbury's Flake
Date:	11/04/09 (67 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Less Dense so Less sickening, tastes great, easily available.

Disadvantages: 17.7g of sugar and 9.9g of fat per bar!

Although I am not really a massive chocolate fan, I today recieved a Flake Easter Egg as a gift, and whilst I have not yet consumed the actual egg, I have eaten the three flake bars that were boxed with it. Flake is a nice light chocolate that doesn't leave you feeling sick after eating it, I suppose because a large amount of it is air (it is less dense than other chocolate bars).

I think first I will cover some nutrition information. It doesn't take a genius to estimate that flake is not especially good for you. 9.9g of fat are contained per bar, 17.7g of sugar and 170 calories too, so yep - not all that great for you; though could be a lot lot worse!

Flake is basically solid milk chocolate (i.e. without nuts, fruits, crunchie bits or carmael etc), however the chocolate is not dense one piece chocolate, but rather loads of strands of chocolate that have been compacted together to form a kind of tight labyrinth of chocolate swirls and lines. It is probably most famous as something that you stick in your ice cream, and I'll admit, it does go very good in ice cream.

Flake also now comes in other varieties aside from the standard flake bar, such as "dipped" which is essentially flake that has been dipped in milk chocolate and so has a chocolate outter layer, and "praline" which is hard to describe, because whilst still very nice, I didn't really see wherethe praline was? They have just added an extra bit of chocolate on the side.

Overall a very nice chocolate bar, not really an aquired taste, and loved by all - especially because of it's lack of density.

Summary: Not a chocolate fan, but I do like these on a rare occasion.