Fancy a (mini) roll? (Cadbury's Mini Rolls)

Member Name: keeperofthematri

Product:	Cadbury's Mini Rolls
Date:	06/07/09 (30 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Nice chocolatey taste

Disadvantages: The vanilla filling gets rather "lost"

I couldn't remember the last time I'd eaten one of these so when I saw a 10 for the price of 6 pack for 99p in my local corner shop I decided the opportunity to write a dooyoo review was too good to miss.


Packaging:

The mini rolls are invidually wrapped in a predominantly purple wrapper which keeps them isolated from the air once the wrapper covering the main carton has been opened. The mini rolls are laid in the carton which has part of the top missing & is wrapped with a plastic covering. Again this is predominantly purple, with parts of white & yellow. Towards the right hand side it reads "10 for the price of 6 mini rolls". The back of the pack lists the Customer Care details, the ingredients & the nutritional information.


Nutritional Information per mini roll {per 100g in brackets}

Energy kJ: 510kJ {1870kJ}
kcal: 120kcal {450kcal}
Protein: 1.3g {4.9g}
Carbohydrate: 15.2g {55.7g}
of which sugars: 12.4g {45.3g}
Fat: 6.2g {22.7g}
(of which saturates): 3.1g {11.3g}
Fibre: 0.3g {1.2g}
Sodium: 0.07g {0.27g}
Equivalent as salt: 0.18g {0.68g}

Allergy information: May contain traces of nuts.
These cakes do not contain dairy cream


The mini roll:
The bar is completely covered in Cadbury's chocolate. On biting into it you'll notice that the majority of the roll is chocolate sponge & that there's a white filling, rather like a smaller version of a swiss roll. The wrapper that the roll is in states that this is vanilla flavour filling.


Taste:
The overriding taste is of chocolate. The vanilla filling is quite smoothy & creamy but doesn't really taste of anything much. The majority of the cake bar is made up of chocolate sponge so between this & the outer chocolate shell the taste of the vanilla filling gets rather overwhelmed & lost.


Price:
I paid the princely sum of 99p for these in my local corner shop. Cazkins's review suggested that they were £1.20 - £1.30 in Tesco's for a box of 6 so if you do find any of these family pack size anywhere I'd expect them to be around the £2.00 mark or perhaps higher.


Opinion:
A very handy size to pop into a lunchbox or if you need a chocolate hit. They're pleasant enough, but, as I said, the taste is predominantly of chocolate so there isn't really the same sort of contrast between flavours that you might get with the Cadbury's Caramel Cake Bar for example.
Once again, the sugar & fat content is quite high. One cake bar will provide an adult with 13.8% of their Recommended Daily Amount of sugar and 8.9% of their RDA for fat so these are perhaps best avoided by dieters or those watching their weight.

In comparison with Mars mini rolls (also reviewed on dooyoo) these fall down rather badly on the taste front.

Summary: Chocolatey taste, bland filling