I’ve seen the Bar of Plenty bars in my local supermarket for awhile now but haven’t been too tempted to pick them up, but I was happy to accept a sample from Cadbury themselves. This particular edition is limited to Morrisons stores only which is quite interesting, let’s delve in.

The bar looks quite small but weighs in a fairly hefty 140g. It sports the usual Dairy Milk purple theme, with a large picture of honey and pecans on the front. It also says ‘Charity Pack’ on the front, the reason for this is because 10p from every sale will go to Help the Hospices in conjunction with Morrisons’ Charity of the Year, which is a pretty cool idea.

I’m unsure of what Cadbury is going for with the Bar of Plenty brand, they already have sharing bars in the form of their regular Caramel, Turkish Delight, Crunchie, etc bars, so I assume that these are supposed to compete with higher end stuff such as Green & Black’s and Lindt. I’m not of the opinion that Cadbury are quite at that level and think of them as a complete middle of the road chocolate, but there’s nothing wrong with trying to branch out.

The bar is quite thick and chunky and you’d expect there to be big pieces of pecan, but this isn’t the case. Instead there are numerous slivers and little pieces, which was somewhat disappointing as I’m a big pecan fan and I’d have liked to see Cadbury give them the same treatment that they give their hazelnut bars, perhaps it’s a cost issue? Unfortunately this means that the bar is far more chocolatey than it should be, which is a weird thing to write, but it’s more plain than I was both expecting and hoping it would be.

Now don’t get me wrong, Cadbury’s chocolate is nice, I liked this bar quite a bit, but for an upmarket bar saying it has pecans, it didn’t have enough of a pecan taste for my liking. I’ve had bars with caramelised nuts in the past that have a real crunch to them and they’re delicious, but this didn’t have enough of that. When the bar melted slightly the pecan and honey came through a lot more though, so if your taste buds are similar to mine you might want to try eating this at room temperature or slightly warmer and letting it melt in your mouth.

At an RRP of £1.59 I’m not quite convinced on this one, it’s nice and it’s interested me enough to try the other bars in the near future, but I don’t think I’d buy this one again unless it was on sale. Again, keep in mind this is only available from Morrisons and I assume for a somewhat limited time, so if you do want to try this then make sure you’re shopping in the right place.