Does this remind you of anything? Of course, the comparisons are obvious to my recent Chocri reviews. I was contacted by Nick from Chocomize who offered me a bar, and I’m not one to turn down free chocolate.

The website looks very similar to Chocri’s, same layout and in terms of ingredients, almost identical. You choose your base (dark, milk or white) and then chuck as many ingredients (maximum of 5) onto it as you can, and hope for the best. I went with peanut butter drops, toffee, butterscotch, coconut flakes and gummi bears.

There are a few key differences between Chocomize and Chocri which I will get into now. The first is that Chocomize give you the nutritional information of your bar on the back of it. I thought this was pretty ingenious, my bar has 124 calories per serving, which is 1/5 of the bar. They also tell you the best before date, which is 30/03/2010, so it only lasts a few months before it starts to lose its touch. Another difference is that Chocomize donate some of the proceeds to charity, I had to look on the website to find information about this but here it states that 1% of all profits go to Doctors Without Borders, the Michael J Fox Foundation and Action Against Hunger.

So the bar itself. Well, in terms of box design, it’s identical to Chocri’s, simply a different colour and with a different logo. The bar is housed within a plastic wrapper within the box, and it looks the part. Loads of peanut butter drops, loads of coconut, and gummi bears and toffee thrown in for good measure. The bar is, as expected, sweet as hell. It basically tastes of a mix of peanut butter, toffee and chocolate, which is a downright tasty combo. Putting both gummi bears and coconut on the bar was, on reflection, not a great idea. The gummi bears are chewy and have to be almost pulled off the bar, causing coconut to fly off, and to be honest neither of them added much flavour what with all the peanut butter and toffee. As for the butterscotch, I forgot it was there until I looked at the back of the box and remembered I put it on there. Perhaps it’s too similar to toffee and I couldn’t tell the difference between them, but again it didn’t seem to add a lot.

I’ll put it simply, this was delicious. It’s very chunky, there’s a lot of chocolate here and someone with a real sweet tooth would get some joy out of this. Like Chocri there’s a whole host of ingredients and combos to play around with, but what I chose here was excellent.

Edit: It has since been brought to my attention that Chocri have also donated to charity, notably DIV Kinder, an organization that supports kids on the Ivory Coast (the biggest exporter of chocolate bars), since they were founded, and also give customers the opportunity to donate at checkout themselves, collecting over $30,000 since they started up, so apologies for that mistake!