Kcal 174 Fat 8.9g Fat(sats) 4.9g Carbs 21.6gPreviously producded by Duncans these have been manafactured since 1910 - thats one hell of a history; surely this must mean this product is something special!?
Walnut Whips have come in many different flavours over the years, it was to my great suprise I learnt that this vanilla flavour is currently the only variant in production.
The build of the Walnut Whip is unique yet simple: a very light fluffy whipped centre is encased in a cone shaped milk chocolate shell - topped off with a single walnut. Despite its rich heritage this actually came in a rather modern snazzy blue foil wrapper - personally I think they are missing a trick here and more a more traditional wrapper would suite the product more.
Moving onto more important aspects....the Walnut Whip lacked any distinct sort of smell: a faint sweet chocolate smell could be detected but there was little more than this. Upon tasting the product I was immediately disappointed; I decided to first eat the walnut so delicately placed ontop of the cone shape. To my disapointment (and more disgust!) the walnut tasted really rather stale and lacked any sort of taste worthwhile mentioning...not a good start.
The chocolate shell wasnt too bad - the chocolate was far from glorious yet hardly insulting; one thing that was rather pleasent about it was its relative thickness. The flavour of the 'Whip' is described a vanilla yet im still struggling to see where this flavour is adopted. The centre of the whip is nothing short of woeful! In texture I would say it can be likened to whipped cream, in regards to taste I would liken it to candy floss...pretty much 100% sugar. It really adds nothing more than a sickly taste - nothing even close to being vanilla flavoured at all.
Overall I cannot understand how this product has survived so long with other quality products readily avalible on the market. The Nestle website claims that a Walnut Whip in the UK is eaten every two minutes which is really quite remarkable considering I have had one and would probably never consider buying one again. This dosent come with a recommendation from the Chocolate Mission though I guess on balance I have had worse.
5.9 out of 10
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ive always quite like walnut whips but remember there used to be a coffee flavour which was very nice and a favourite of my mums- they should bring this back as coffee is very much an 'in' flavour these days isn't it :)
Alan
Alan man i like the sound of a coffee verison! cant remember it myself but I know M&S have a version of it out themselves! I will have to get round to reviewing one soon!
Cheers for all the comments my friend! its been grand getting your views!
Jim
i remeber buying a walnut whip after a big gap and found to my horror theyd changed the cone from being much more textural and ridged to the rather 'moulded' look now.. also the filling has changed abit too, it used to be much more dense and had more flavour if i remember rightly!
im sure they had a strawberry flavour at one point... i kinda wonder why these brands end up going the wrong way and start off with several varieties and end up one lonely one!
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alan
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alan
Alan from previous conversations with people it seems like the the Walnut Whip has changed a lot over the year ... and not for best if I am led to believe right.
It seems like you are of a similar school of thought! What a shame eh!? Sounds like a product with a really traditional rich history as well!
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Jim
I know, its a big shame really, like i was saying, many of the well established brands often don't promote their heritage (apart from one or two like CDM) which i think is a big detriment - i was on the nestle website and i never knew that fruit pastilles and fruit gums had been around since the 1860's! But you'd never guess would you lol i bet many think theyve been around 50 yrs maybe max!? I just wish i could go back and try some of these sweets and chocs from the time and see how they compare lol
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alan
I know, its a big shame really, like i was saying, many of the well established brands often don't promote their heritage (apart from one or two like CDM) which i think is a big detriment - i was on the nestle website and i never knew that fruit pastilles and fruit gums had been around since the 1860's! But you'd never guess would you lol i bet many think theyve been around 50 yrs maybe max!? I just wish i could go back and try some of these sweets and chocs from the time and see how they compare lol
cheers
alan
I'm not sure if the product has survived that well to be honest. I hardly ever see it. I only just came across it recently at my newsagents.
It is undeniably very sweet - it is only made of 14% cocoa solids, and I can't detect any hint of Vanilla at all, but despite that, I found it quite enjoyable. I would definitely have it again.
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