Cadbury Milk Tray
Cadbury’s Milk Tray is a “luxurious selection of milk tray chocolates”, basically a selection box of fairly ordinary chocolates aimed at certain holidays such as Mother’s Day and the like. The box I had was a 454g box, and so I didn’t just have one tray, I had two.
There are twelve chocolates here, none of which are particularly exciting, and are all fairly traditional. We have Mocha Mystery, an extremely unimpressive coffee milk chocolate with absolutely no coffee taste whatsoever. Honey Love, milk chocolate with extremely strong honey flavoured caramel which took me back a bit. Orange Truffle, an absolute yawnfest of a chocolate with terribly artificial taste. Hazelnut Caress which has the Milk Tray logo on, suggesting this is the signature chocolate, and it’s certainly the best so far, with the hazelnut and the soft caramel mixing well.
Fudge Dream is a very tough, tasteless fudge in milk chocolate, completely devoid of flavour. Hazelnut Heaven is our second and sadly not our last nut offering, just a simple hazelnut in milk chocolate here, very meh. Soft Whisper is hazelnut praline in milk chocolate, the praline never really kicked in at all, again the milk chocolate is far too overpowering. The Strawberry Kiss is a strawberry filling with vanilla flavour fondant cream, it’s not bad, a fruity and creamy offering, I kinda liked it. Nut Secret is, thank god, our last hazelnut chocolate, another hazelnut in milk chocolate but with some sort of truffle as well which added nothing, rubbish.
Eastern Delight was Turkish delight in milk chocolate, the flavour was pleasant enough, I like Turkish Delight and this one was done fairly well. Caramel Heart was soft caramel in milk chocolate, shaped like a heart, it was ok, the caramel didn’t taste great and there was no need for two caramel milk chocolates here. Sorry, did I say two? I forgot the Caramel Charm, which was chewy caramel instead of runny caramel, again it was ok, for once there was some actual flavour.
Overall, this box is devoid of flavour and thought. With four hazelnut chocolates and three caramel chocolates, it seems poorly planned and when called into question and critiqued professionally (cough) it’s just so, so poor. Seriously, stay away from this, if you’re going to buy some chocolates for someone you care about, this is a slap in the face to them, spend a little bit extra and get them something really good. If you’re reading this Cadbury, I have a message for you: Wake up.
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July 29th, 2008 at 10:12 pm
I hear you! the chocolate assortment box should be reserved for those such as Godiva, See’s, and Fannie May!
July 30th, 2008 at 10:09 am
Carly – I don’t know who any of those guys are but…right on!
December 4th, 2010 at 4:51 am
This is the original example of the
“New Improved” meaning that the best chocolate has been removed and a far inferior, boring, cheaper chocolate replacing it.
This has been done so many times that the remains are repetitive and boring.
January 10th, 2011 at 12:07 am
Did you or do you have a milk tray logo of a male figure wearing chain woth doller sigh
April 16th, 2011 at 8:00 pm
I have received a box of Milk Tray as a present. What a disapointment! It has been several years since i tried Milk Tray and it will several more before I want to eat them again. Three out of the ten different chocs are nuts, two are toffee, and the rest are bland. They do not taste like Cadburys chocolate at all. I can describe them in two words.
BORING BLAND.
December 2nd, 2011 at 6:10 pm
I FEEL UPSET NOW. A FRIEND HAS BOUGHT ME A BIG BOX FOR CHRISTMAS AS I USED TO LOVE THEM.AFTER READING THE COMMENTS I’M NOT SO SURE I WANT THEM.MAYBE THE DECLINE IN QUALITY IS DUE TO KRAFT BUYING OUT CADBURYS AND POSSIBLY USING INFERIOR INGREDIENTS. WHAT DO YOU THINK?
December 2nd, 2011 at 6:12 pm
FEEL DISAPPOINTED AFTER READING THIS. THE SAME THING HAS APPARENTLY HAPPENED TO CADBURY’S ROSES AFTER THE TAKEOVER BY KRAFT. ARE THEY THE SAME COMPANY THAT MAKES THE CHEESE? IF SO, IT’S NOT SURPRISING THE PRODUCT HAS DECLINED.
April 8th, 2012 at 10:50 pm
All my life Milk Tray has been my favourite box of chocolates. Due to an expanding waistline I have not sampled them for some while. This Easter my wife bought me a box.
I was really looking forward to the lovely creamy taste of the chocolate and the creamy flavours of the various creme centres.
WHAT A DISAPOINTMET. They were absolute rubbish. The chocolate was not at all smooth and left a nasty aftertase in my mouth. The old creme fillings have either been completely eliminated as with the orange flavours or have been completly changed in taste. The coffee flavoured chocs have disapeared completely.
In short the “new and improved” taste is, in my opion a complete failure.
I shall not be buying ANY more of these chocolates ever again.
April 14th, 2012 at 11:02 pm
I thought this was nonsense when I read it – I remember Milk Tray as (mostly) very, very nice.
But someone gave me a box of these new abominations for Easter. By unanimous agreement of the whole family, most of them went in the bin! Thanks for nothing, Kraft!
May 11th, 2012 at 11:04 am
Got a box of the new Milk Tray as a gift……they used to be my favourite but no longer. My least favourite used to be the caramel hearts and now half the selection are caramel……yuk! I’ll be telling my family and friends not to buy these for me again!
February 13th, 2013 at 8:10 pm
I received a box of these for Christmas and by chance looked on here to see what flavour the chocolates were to decide if I should open them or give them to someone as a quick present!
After reading these reviews I think it’ll be the latter haha!
I was never a fan but used to always buy these or dairy box for my gran years ago! Just as well I don’t need to do that now as she wouldn’t have been happy!
I don’t know why they need to change things that people like. Minstrels and wispas were changed and I don’t like them now!
February 14th, 2013 at 9:17 pm
my husband bought me a box of milk tray for valintines day 14/2/13 on opening the lid i was shocked they were all discoulered and a lot of them ere broken. i was very disopointted.
March 7th, 2013 at 11:33 pm
ah man, i just bought a box of these for mother’s day!