A Mouthful Of Cream... (Nestlé Double Cream Eggs)

Member Name: chrisandmark

Product:	Nestlé Double Cream Eggs
Date:	13/03/08 (200 review reads)
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Advantages: Tastes delicious, smells lovely and available everywhere at this time of year!

Disadvantages: The 'bits' inside the cream, and very messy to eat if you're not careful! Made by Nestle...

Well, now Christmas is safely out of the way for another year (well, just under 9 1/2 months but who's counting?) the shops are full of Easter eggs. I didn't fancy a Caramel egg and I don't like Cream Eggs so when I spotted the wondrousness that is Nestle Double Cream in egg form I handed over my 50p and raced home to sample it.

The first thing that will probably strike you about this egg is the wrapper. Gone is the rather fiddly and sticky skin-tight foil seal that usually adorns eggs of this nature, replaced with a smooth foil 'bag' much the same as a miniature crisp packet. It opens in the same way as a bag of crisps too but with less rustle - secret crisp eaters will know what I mean! Quickly glancing at the nutritional information I find there are 163 cals and 11.1g fat in each egg which I suppose is pretty scary if not downright terrifying... if you care about things like that. I don't so I carry on to unwrap this little piece of chocolate which is all set to add a couple of pounds of lard to my thighs.

The smell which wafts out of the wrapper is nothing short of heavenly. A delicious rich smell of sweet chocolate fills my nostrils, so strong I can almost taste the egg just on the smell alone. My mouth's already watering as I lift the egg to my lips, virtually trembling with the anticipation of the taste to come. Ohhhhh, I've not been this excited since my last visit to Ann Summers. But that's another story...

Back to lifting the egg to my lips. How to tackle this eating experience? Should I bite the tiniest piece off the top and allow my tongue to wander into it's soft filling? Or just bite the whole damned thing in half and be done with it. Ever searching for a new erotic experience I nibble the top away just enough to reveal a creamy white centre which looks similar to the middle of a Milky Way. I soon discover eating this egg is less erotic than messy. Very messy. The chocolate shell is really thin when compared to a Cadburys Cream Egg which means you get a chocolate shower with each bite and the chocolate on this egg is very sticky so not only do you get the chocolate shower but also little brown smears when you try to wipe the bits off your (typically) white trousers. White trousers with brown patches in the general groin area... not the look I was after while getting dressed this morning. But the messiness is soon forgotten as you are transported into a world where chocolate is better than sex and you find yourself wondering how many of these eggs you could swap your fella for.

The chocolate is very rich and creamy and has real melt in your mouth qualities, although there isn't too much of it there I get the feeling that the egg would probably be too sickly if the chocolate was any thicker. The reason for this is the creamy centre. OMG, it is delicious. It has a similar consistency to clotted cream and actually tastes similar too. I can really taste the cream in this egg and the sweetness of cream is totally different to the sweetness of chocolate, cream has more of an erm... creamy taste. This reacts beautifully to the chocolate but does make for a very rich eating experience. The centre has a gorgeous melt in the mouth quality and in this instance I mean it really does melt... in seconds... One minute it's there, a creamy white lump sitting on your tongue and the next minute *poof* it's gone, and it didn't even make me heave... Inside the creamy centre are loads of tiny bits of cocoa pieces which have been roasted to maximise the flavour. To be honest, instead of enhancing the flavour these bits sort of distract from it because they're too teeny to have a taste of their own and have a horrible crunchy nutty texture as you bite. You can lap some of the creamy centre out with your tongue and each mouthful will have a few of these bits in, a bit of a put off really having hard bits in your cream!

As a whole this is a marvel of modern day confectionery. Nestle may have their critics (and with good cause) but there's no denying they do make delicious chocolate goodies and aren't afraid to try new flavours in their ever expanding range, all I can say now is bring on Easter!

Summary: The very best chocolate egg (so far this year!)