Fancy a Snowbite fight? (Cadbury Snowbites)

Member Name: stephbond89

Product:	Cadbury Snowbites
Date:	10/10/09 (39 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Tasty, surprising!

Disadvantages: A little expensive, but not too bad!

About:
Cadbury Snowbites are a new product by the well known company which we all know, and most of us love. They're a new "Christmas" or winter product, made in support of the Make a Wish foundation, meaning that some of the price you are paying for the Snowbites goes to the charity.
The Make a Wish foundation is a registered charity which grants magical wishes to children and young people who are fighting life-threatening and terminal illnesses. During 2009, around 1000 children have turned to the charity to have their wishes granted. These vary from playing football on a real Premiership football pitch (Timothy Erskine), spending the day as a zoo-keeper at Chester Zoo (a little girl called Freya), meeting famous people (a young boy called Reese) and many many more.

The foundation makes the final wishes of young children come true before it is too late. Making those final few months of a person's life everything they ever dreamed of.

Nutrition:

Of course Cadbury Snowbites can't exactly be called "healthy" been made of chocolate and all! But for all you nutrition conscious out there, each 50g, or half bag, contains:
240 calories (12% GDA)
33.1g Sugars (36.8% GDA)
11% fat (15.7% GDA)
6.9% Saturates (34.5% GDA)
0.1g salt (1.7% GDA)
Which I don't think is all too bad if you are only eating a couple of the chocolates and not devouring the whole bag!
The ingredients of the Snowbites are:
Milk Chocolate (milk, sugar, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, vegetable fat, emulsifier (E442), flavouring), sugar, Tapioca starch.

Packaging & Price

The chocolate comes in 100g bags, which are a little too big for one person really, but are great for sharing. Maybe Cadbury should think about making small individual bags of around 25-30g so that you don't have to worry about scoffing the lot!
The packaging is appealing to look at and immediately makes you think of Christmas and winter, with a typical winter scene on the front, with a cartoon-ised picture of the product , along with a brief description and "Snowbites" written in large writing.

Each 100g bad costs between 75p and £1.20, depending on where you buy them from. Making them a little expensive really for just 100g of small balls of chocolate, but the price is bound to come down when they have been established in stores. But as they are very nice, and they do support the Make A Wish foundation, I am willing to pay the 99p I paid for my bag!

The Chocolate Itself

Upon opening the foil bag, you see it's quite full of small white "fluffy" balls, they look like white toffee bon-bons. You get a good amount in the bags, which lasted me a good few days to get through with my husband.

To touch the little balls feel floury, as they're coated in icing sugar, when you pop one into your mouth, the icing sugar dissolves on your tongue, and leaves you with a white crispy sugar layer around the chocolate, this is like what you get in Cadbury Mini Eggs at Easter time, biting into this crispy layer you get a ball of Cadbury milk chocolate which melts in your mouth as always with the famous chocolate.

Opinion

When I first opened the bag I was shocked to see the small fluffy balls, as I was expecting a white variety of Mini Eggs, and so was surprised to see these which actually do look like mini snow balls! They're very pleasant to eat, and the way the icing sugar dissolves on your tongue is lovely and then the crispy contrast of the sugar coating before the milkiness of the chocolate works magically well together.
If you enjoy Cadbury Mini Eggs then you will love these, as they are all that and more!

They really are an excellent little treat for heading up to Christmas! I can well imagine that Cadbury will make gift box type things for this product as it comes closer and closer to Christmas. Perhaps a big snow ball made of plastic which is full with these, and then can be used afterwards as a money box or the likes. Although Snowbites aren't the cheapest chocolate around, they are very yummy, and a nice treat every now and again, a little different than the usual bar of chocolate!

They taste great and look amazing. Plus as they're supporting the Make a Wish foundation, we know we're supporting that charity this Christmas.

I don't think there are any downsides to this product, apart from maybe the affect they may have on your waistline!!!!!!!

Summary: A great treat this winter!