It's a Sundae, On a Saturday......but is it worth the confusion? (Tesco Finest Chocolate Brownie Sundae)

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Product:	Tesco Finest Chocolate Brownie Sundae
Date:	19/04/06 (216 review reads)
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Advantages: It's chocolate! Reduced in Price!

Disadvantages: Sickening, Still expensive, Hugely fattening and calorific!

Having read a review already on this wonderful looking dessert, which praised it no end I decided to pick one up this afternoon from Tesco whilst picking up some bread and milk...........

I usually love Tesco's finest range and when I noticed that there was a 20% reduction on all of the range I picked up a couple of items from it, amongst it I had to treat myself to this rather delicious looking dessert.

Tesco's Finest Chocolate Brownie Sundae.....even the name conjures up the image of erotic fantasies! Or is that just me?
I quickly put the dessert into my trolley before I get second thoughts........I resist the temptation to look at the nutritional values.....after all it is Easter weekend......and I've no easter eggs to look forward to, so this is my treat to myself instead!

Off I go to checkout where the cashier knocks up £1.59 on her till for the dessert........expensive I think, even with the 20% discount (normally £1.99) But what the hell, I am also buying myself a couple of bottles of wine so in for the goose in for the gander!

I get home and unpack my top up lot of shopping and resist the urge to rip the cardboard packaging off this right away and decide to keep it for after dinner!

So dinner eaten, I wait half an hour to make sure I have enough room for dessert.............I slowly slip the clear plastic cup from it's cardboard sleeve, and pop the little cuplike lid from the top.......

Five senses?
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Sight - This looks amazing! It has multiple layers of all things yummy looking, at the bottom is a dark chocolatey brown colour thick looking mousse? some chocolate pieces can be seen just above these, followed by a white mousse or cream on top? Above this looks like chocolate cake with a layer of milk chocolate mousse over it, then theres a topping of what looks like fresh whipped cream with a drizzle of chocolate sauce over it, and to finish it off a small piece of flake popped in the top!

Smell - Quite disappointing, I can only really smell a very faint chocolatey aroma, nothing stands out very much, looking at the dessert you expect it to smell rich and inviting!

Touch - I resist the urge to stick my finger in and instead dip my spoon into the thick pale cream and it doesn't disintregate and instead stands stiff on the spoon so isn't a cheap type of cream. (you know the type that just melts on the spoon?) Digging deeper the spoon gets stuck in the layers which seems quite a stodgy pudding now.

Sound - the only sound I can hear is my heart beating in anticipation and my taste buds are yelling out for some attention too! So get on with it!!!!

Now what we've all been waiting for...............

Taste - I am quite surprised at my first taste, which is just a mouthful of the cream.....It is a nice cream but not overly so, nothing really special except that it is thick.
I eat the piece of flake from the top, which is very soggy probably because of the cream, I was a bit disappointed in this as I like my flake to be more flaky.

Next I dig deeper and come up with a spoonful of the milk chocolate flavoured mousse, quite nice it is too, creamy tasting and not unlike a cadbury's chocolate mousse dessert...... I take a couple more spoonfuls and by the time I get to the white chocolate flavoured mousse I am starting to feel a bit sick...... but persevere I must for the sake of research! The white mousse is very sickly sweet, I can't think of anything to compare it with, It doesn't taste like the Nestle white chocolate or the cadbury's, but has a unique taste of it's own...... I let my daughter finish this layer as I find it too sweet, and don't want to make myself sick!

I give myself half an hour to recover and a glass of water to wash down the last lot I am now ready to finish the rest off!

The next spoonful is a stodgy thick chocolate brownie piece, this is like a piece of rich chocolate cake, and something I found too rich, It takes a while to actually swallow this piece and again I let my daughter have a mouthful to help me out........she turns her nose up at it though and it ends up in the bin......I spoon the rest of that layer in the bin myself, not wishing to spoil myself.

Next layer is nice with some small milk chocolate pieces, like miniature chocolate buttons. daughter manages to wrestle a couple of these from me too! these are sitting on top of the thick milk chocolate sauce which is the remainder of the tub........ This is far too thick and rich for my constitution, daughter takes one look and walks away!

So that's my interpretation of how this dessert affected my senses................My mind is made up now. I think I will avoid these desserts in future. In my opinion It was indeed a very luxurious treat, but far too sickly sweet and rich.

it started off ok but as you slowly work your way through it, the tastes get more rich and can leave you feeling stuffed and sick....

I personally don't recommend this dessert, It's expensive and too rich for I imagine most people and definately one to be had over a couple of days perhaps instead of one sitting!

As an afterthought I decide to look at the nutrional values, not that I expect this to be in any way good for you, and now that I've eaten most of it (with some of it haven gone in the bin) I really should make myself feel guilty now by telling you that it is a 215g pot and those 215g are purely bad for your health!!!!

per 215g pot....

779 calories (gulp)
389g of sugars (ouch)
31.5g of saturated fats (OMG)
0.4g of sodium!!!!

Ok now I really wish I hadn't read that...I won't eat for a week now and think I shall put on a couple of my exercise videos and work it off........Or I would if I wasn't feeling so stuffed and silly for being such a glutton!!!

So unless you really need to gain some LBS I definately would not advise buying this, get a Cadbury's low fat chocolate mousse instead and bung it in the freezer for an hour......mmmm tastes delicious, I only wish I'd done that now instead!

Thanks for reading

Michelle (the slob) xx
(In my defence I've resisted the temptation to help the kids polish off any Easter eggs this week LOL)

Summary: A luxurious pot of.....................sickeningly sweet chocolate pudding!