A chocolate fusion. With the sweet tartness of the strawberries and the gentleness of the cream, this is a classic British dessert. This is a pure white chocolate bar shot through with ripples of strawberry smoothie. Yum.

It uses freeze-dried strawberries, and these are frappéd together with white chocolate. Now this is the same format as Friday’s Rocky Road bar, and so the fear is that we’ll have a big ol’ 100g slab of white chocolate with little to no strawberry taste. Granted though this is much less busy than the other bar so fingers crossed.

The box is relatively plain. It’s pink, no surprise there, looks exactly the same shape and whatnot as Friday’s, okey dokey. Hotel Chocolat are extremely proud of being a British company, and seem to be pushing that a little bit. With a British flag, a message about them being British and…wait, actually that’s about it. Where was I going with that?

Whoa, baby, whoa. Look at that. What a stunning bar. Even if the taste is disappointing the look of this bar is impressive enough to make me love it. So we have a half white, half pink slab of chocolate, with freeze dried strawberries thrown onto it. I’m sure the white and pink colours are just for show, but there’s only one way to find out.

Ok, so freeze-dried strawberries when sliced are…weird. They felt mushy and soft, and despite their tangy taste I hate the texture, so my opinion on them is divided. The white chocolate is nice enough, it’s quite ordinary really but it didn’t kill my teeth so that’s a good thing. The balance was actually fairly decent, a bit more chocolatey than strawberry…ey with the taste but each time my tongue touched a strawberry I had an instant tangy, fruity hit that overrode everything.

Overall, I really liked this. It’s a big chunky bar, not a massive amount of flavour but it beats Divine’s bar (sorry guys), though at £4 or so I just cannot recommend this.