Chocolate or cake? or both? (McVities Galaxy Cake Bar)

Member Name: whiteroseuk

Product:	McVities Galaxy Cake Bar
Date:	04/02/09 (205 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Tastes chocolatey

Disadvantages: dry cake texture confuses the taste buds.

I like chocolate. I admit it. There isn't much (or any I can think of) chocolate that I don't like, so when a colleague from work offered me a Galaxy cake bar, I wasn't going to turn it down.

The Galaxy cake bars come in a pack of 5, or a great value 10 pack, and the wrapper is the familiar golden brown colour similar to the Galaxy chocolate bar. Across the front is says Galaxy Cake bars , and in smaller writing it informs you they have a smooth cream centre, covered in real Galaxy chocolate. It says that this is a 10 pack and that they are individually wrapped. Above the Galaxy banner is a small McVities logo, and the information that it is baked by them.

On the reverse of the packet it again describes the bars, adding the information that they are delicious sponge cake. There is also the encouragement to try Galaxy muffins and Galaxy Caramel cake bars, all made with real Galaxy chocolate and baked by Mcvities.

There are the ingredients, and a Mcvities quality statement, letting you know you can return them if you are not completely satisfied to their Customer Services Department. There is also a chart with nutritional information. Inside are 10 (in the pack I saw) individually wrapped bars which have the same information repeated, as on the main wrapper.

When you open the pack, there is a rich chocolatey aroma, sweet and smooth of galaxy chocolate. The bar is quite small, completely covered in chocolate with an iced swirl of the chocolate on the top. When you bite into it the chocolate coating is reasonably thick, but not excessive, just enough to cat it thoroughly. There is a layer about half an inch deep of cake, and a thick creamy layer on top of that, a bit like a mouse, but a but thicker than that. All of this is surrounded in the chocolate.

I took a bite and chewed. It was pleasant and tasted of galaxy chocolate. I tried each layer seperately. The cake was soft, but a bit dry, and the creamy mousse layer tasted of nothing at all really, so the next bite tried the whole lot together again. It was pleasant, and with the chocolate coating, just tasted of Galaxy. I don't know what I was expecting other than that, but I found myself a little disappointed. What I found was that although it tasted of Galaxy chocolate, the texture was wrong, because of the dry cake, and it didn't have the smooth creamy texture, that Galaxy should have. My taste buds were very confused, and so all in all the experience was not that wonderful. It was ok, but if I'm going to eat cake, I'd like it to taste like cake, and it didn't it tasted like chocolate. If I'm going to eat chocolate, and especially if I'm going to eat Galaxy, I expect it to have that smooth rich mouth feel, that I so much enjoy when eating Galaxy.

The 5 packs are on offer at Tesco at the moment, at 2 packs for £2.20.

Nutritional info per cake
Energy 154 kcal
Protein 1.5g
Carbohydrate 17.2g
Fat 8.8g
Salt equivalent 0.1g

For such a small bar I think these are quite high in calories, and I think you could find something more substantial, and more satisfying, both in amount and in flavour for that amount of calories.

They contain milk soya egg and gluten and are produced in a factory handling peanuts and nuts. They do not contain dairy cream, and have no hydrogenated vegetable oil.

Summary: I would rather just have the chocolate!