Thanks, Lily! (Lily O'Briens Sticky Toffee Chocolate Bar)

Member Name: i_am_joy

Product:	Lily O'Briens Sticky Toffee Chocolate Bar
Date:	23/07/09 (73 review reads)
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Advantages: Rich toffee centre, not too sweet despite being very luxurious tasting, relatively cheap

Disadvantages: Is bound to be high in calories and fat!

Today my daughter popped in with a bar of chocolate for us to share, I've seen the Lily O'Briens range in Sainsbury's but have never felt compelled to buy a bar.

This Sticky Toffee chocolate bar is like a posh version of a Cadbury's Caramel, it's a flatter bar and comes as a slab rather than a bar of chocolate which is a decent size although a little smaller than the slabs you buy from the Green & Blacks or Lindt brands.

The bar was priced at just 96p so I honestly wasn't expecting it to be as luxurious or delicious as it actually turned out to be. The milk chocolate is smooth and creamy, the flavour of the soft toffee is not just relegated to the centre of the bar but seems to infuse the chocolate itself with a delicious caramel taste that gives the entire bar a rich toffee flavour.

Despite the fact that the Sticky Toffee bar is very sweet indeed, I didn't find it overpoweringly so and the toffee has a full and rich flavour which is far more rounded than that you'd find in a Caramel and it's this that took much of the sweetness away in my opinion.

The nicest way of eating this chocolate I found was to bite a segment in half and allow the chocolate to melt into the soft and almost runny toffee centre. This made the chocolate feel so luxurious and delicious, I honestly cannot believe I have not tried this before!

I was pleased to find that the layer of toffee was rather thin inside the chocolate as I believe any more would have overwhelmed the bar and made it too sickly, as it was I ate my half of the bar in one go because it was so moreish and not at all sickly. The chocolate is much thicker than the toffee, and this is good in my opinion as frankly if I wanted a toffee overload then I'd have gone to Thorntons - there was just enough toffee to give a rich and tempting flavour but not so much that I got sick and tired of the taste.

This was an 80g bar and unfortunately I cannot give you any nutritional information as the wrapper is now in the bin! Let's be honest though, with a mixture of chocolate and toffee it's not going to be great is it so I'd definitely recommend just having this as an occasional treat rather than everytime you fancy something sweet.

Summary: A delicious chocolate bar that I shall certainly buy again.