Fry’s Chocolate Cream

June 14th, 2007 by Terry

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Fry’s, perhaps more famous for making the Turkish Delight bars, are a subsidary of Cadbury. Evidentally the Fry’s brand means something if Cadbury have decided to keep it on some of the bars.

One such bar is the Chocolate Creme bar, billed as ‘Dark chocolate with fondant centre’. Sound familiar? It sounds to me like a dark chocolate version of the Cadbury’s Creme Egg bar I reviewed a few days ago, but will it be as good?

One of the biggest disappointments with this is that they don’t tell you how dark the chocolate is, this in fact the first dark chocolate bar I’ve ever seen that hasn’t listed it, and from the taste of things it’s not very dark at all.

What it is though, is sweet. Sickeningly sweet. Sweeter than a Creme Egg. The fondant centre hurt my teeth it was so sweet, and it wasn’t as nice as a Creme Egg either. I know I’m being unfair comparing it to a Creme Egg, but they’re made by the same company (sort of) and have similar taglines, hence the comparison. It isn’t a plain fondant, it instead has a slight flavour to it that I can’t quite put my finger on.

The main downside is that it’s just too darn sweet, it makes the whole thing a little sickly, also on the backside of the bar were a ton of scuff marks, as if the chocolate had been poorly made, granted I only had the one and I may have been unlucky, but it just looked like no real care had gone into the presentation of the bar. Also, though there seem to be segments to the bar, they’re not indented at all, so good luck actually trying to break the segments, because it took a fair bit of effort from me.

Anyway, there’s no real competition for this anyway, in terms of there being no other dark chocolate bar with a Creme Egg-esque fondant centre, so if you really want to try one then go for it. It has 210 calories, 1.4g of Protein, a monstrous 35g of Carbs and 7g of Fat. Eat these in moderation, because no doubt the 35g will be mainly sugar.

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6 Responses

  1. danster12

    LOVE FRY’S CREME!

    Although sweet the dark chocolate contrasts really well with the fondant centre. Definitely worth trying at least!

  2. Poppy

    We all LOVE Frys Chocolate Creme bars, they are wonderful !!! Do they still make the ones with the different flavour centres – I can’t find them anywhere ?

  3. Terry

    Poppy – As far as I’m aware that bar has been discontinued for a good year or two now. Shame really as I never tried it.

  4. Rachel

    Its not dicontinued, they still make it. I love all three: Orange, mint and the original. I wouldnt say they are much like a creme egg, in my honest opinion creme eggs are the much sweeter of the two but I love both. Plus the fondant of these bars is a lot firmer than runny creme eggs.

    Anyone who love mint choc (like after eight) should try the mint ones, they are delicious

  5. Coo

    They haven’t made Fry’s Five Centres for many years

  6. Richard Hall

    Nobody seems to remember or even mention the Fry’s Creme Egg. It used to be ten times better then the relatively new sickly sweet horrible Cadbury’s cream eggs. The Fry’s egg used to be in two distinct halves, with a wonderful white & yellow for the yolk creme filling with a slight coconut texture. Can nobody remember this product of the 50′s when I was a child. Worse thing ever that Cadbury’s took over Fry’s – ruined their products & stole they’re name !

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