Cadbury Chocolate Eclairs

Supposedly these come in roll packs, though I don’t think I’ve ever seen them, or at least not in many years, so I had to go with the large bag which contains over 900 calories…ouch.
But what are the chocolate eclairs? Well basically they’re these globs of hardened caramel that are filled with a small bit of chocolate. When I say hardened caramel, I mean HARDENED. These things are like rocks, despite them being at room temperature for the few months I’ve had this pack for. And when I say a little bit of chocolate, I mean a little bit, and the quality of it is pretty poor too.
Each eclair comes individually wrapped which can only be a good thing, I can only imagine the absolute mess these could potentially be if they came in just the packet, no doubt they’d be stuck together as one huge chunk of hardened caramel, almost like a giant chocolate eclair similar to stuff done on Pimp That Snack.
So even despite the fact that they are individually wrapped, when unwrapped they still become extremely sticky, when it comes to putting them in your mouth and chewing, what I found was that they seemed to love clinging to my teeth and considering mine are quite sensitive, this started to hurt them considerably. It’s not really worth going through the pain either, as these are incredibly plain tasting.
The caramel is pretty sub-standard, especially when compared with the relatively recent salted caramels I had. The chocolate is also pretty poor as I mentioned earlier, it’s not up to the usual Cadbury standard (which isn’t that great in its own right) and overall these make for a bad product.
All these bad things aside, I couldn’t stop eating the damn things. I found myself sub-consciously munching about half the pack whilst writing this, so they’re obviously very moreish despite their poor taste. And in all honesty, that’s just another reason for me not to recommend them.
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November 23rd, 2007 at 10:19 am
The chocolate was probably poor because you’d left them at room temperature for months!
But I pretty much agree… they obviously put something in Eclairs that makes it impossible to stop eating until the whole bag is gone..
November 23rd, 2007 at 12:17 pm
Aww I love these! I really like the chocolate on the inside *blushes* lol
I HAVE seen them in rolls - can’t for the life of me remember where though.
November 23rd, 2007 at 5:02 pm
Dom - That’s…a good point actually. They were well in date though and I honestly doubt there’s a big difference between these and ones that were fresh from the Cadbury factory, so to speak. I had to end up throwing them away after awhile because of the moreishness, they did my pallate no good.
Fay - You should be ashamed of yourself! If you can/want to, try some really good caramel, you won’t look back. I’m sure I saw them in rolls myself actually in my University campus shop, but evidently Cadbury push the big bags much more.
November 23rd, 2007 at 6:36 pm
Well if you end up eating the whole bag, there’s no motivation for them to push the smaller ones I guess..
Haha caramel is on my list of things to have, along with salted liquorice
November 24th, 2007 at 9:20 am
Exactly right. And damn…you’ve got me in the mood for some good quality licorice now…I’m gonna have to take a look around.