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Kcal 525 Fat 29.0g Fat(sats) 17.5g Carbs 60.5g (per 100.0g)It's been a fair few years since we last got a new Toblerone product but just in time for Christmas 2011 we have this new Toblerone Snow Top bar. Whether or not this is a 'New' product, or a limited edition only made for the upcoming festive period I'm not so sure!? The packaging would suggest that it is 'New' and here to stick around - you will find out that's a good thing if you read on :D This Snow Top flavour was announced by Kraft back in July (See HERE), and came billed as 'Swiss milk chocolate with honey and almond nougat, capped with white chocolate'. This seemed like a straight forward proposition to me, though I did have some reservations as to why they didn't go whole hog and do a milk, white and dark chocolate mix :D
I bought this bar in a 100.0g pack that found in Sainsbury's priced on a very reasonable round pound (£1.00) introductory offer. I thought the pack was attractive and the choice of the light blue colour made in stand out from the other variants in the Toblerone range - (enough to get me to notice there was a new flavour on offer anyway!) As ever the Toblerone pieces looked lovely on the eye and of course the white chocolate topping on each block appeared well suited and gave each a cool look. Aroma wise I could detect sweet chocolate with minor nutty hints.
Toblerone isn't a chocolate I eat all that often, though I soon felt right at home with it's distinct tasting milk chocolate gracing my taste buds first. In line with expectations, the chocolate had a sweet milkiness that had just a touch of sweeter floral honey that developed during the latter stages of it's melt. When finally encountered, the white chocolate topping further accentuated the creamy dairy flavours of the taste, and brought a vanilla like note to the party as it developed. Once the chocolate was well progressed in it's melt, the remaining almond and nougat pieces added a buttery nuttiness to the after taste and provided further entertainment to the mouth feel senses with their chewy, crunchy textures. For me a four piece serving felt like plenty, any more and the sweetness would have caught up with me.
Overall I was very pleased with this new Toblerone bar and would hold it up there as one of the best options in their current range. The fusion of the milk chocolate with the white chocolate was proportionally correct with the milk chocolate still the main focus of the taste with it's unique honey sweetness, but the white chocolate portioned enough to bring it's enhancing vanilla and cream elements. When I got a few second opinions from work colleagues they similarly reacted very positively to this bar, and a few of them said they would be buying one for themselves when they next went shopping. Whether or not I offer a recommendation for this Toblerone Snow Top couldn't be more of a simple decision. Even if you don't regard yourself as a massive Toblerone fan, I would urge you to give this a try as it offers something a little bit extra from the straight up milk chocolate offering. It's one I will buy again in the run up to Christmas.
8.6 out of 10
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Review these. If you like your toblerones then ive no doubt it will get a good mark. http://www.toblerone.co.uk/toblerone1/page?siteid=toblerone1-prd&locale=uken1&PagecRef=683
Toblerone isn't a chocolate I would naturally associate with Christmas but kraft did a good job here by the looks of it. The white chocolate on the top not only looks good but it sounds like its credible because it makes it tastier to. All too often with things nowadays we get either or dont we. Nice one Kraft .... you b******s :-P
Eating healthy at Xmas is already looking like a bleak possibility this year. I think we are going to have so many wonderful chocs to choose from this year. They have come out so early already they must also have some stuff in their back pockets to also bring out closer down the line. One would hops so anyway lol we could all be sick and tired of half these things if we have been eating them for months and months before.
Nice review today Jim. Its nice we keep getting the surprises
This one reminds me of the good ol cadburys top deck. That was such a cool one. It was a tragedy when they gave it the chop.
JIm your beloved Manchester United were very lucky beating my Canary boys on Saturday. I know I hadn't ousted myself as a Norwich fan b4 but I wanted to see how we did. I don't think we did badly at all btw.
In my opinion we should of got something from the game. You will no doubt dispute that but I think I could make a good case you know. We hit the post and had that good save b4 anderson scored.
I had a cold last week and my boyfriend bought me one of these to cheer me up. It must be so good it has secret healing powers because I felt fine the next day lol. I seem to remember it tasting rather good aswell hehe.
You would buy anything with the word 'new on wouldn't you Jim =) I swear I dont know how you do it. I dont think theres been a 'new' product you have told us all about that I have beaten you to buying/reviewing.
You know how to make a brother mega jealous thats for sure.
100% agree with you yet again J. You are spot on about Toblerone having a lovely unique taste to it. I think it's the honey which gives it that natural floral type sweetness to it. Its loverrrrly :)
Dx
Gr8 review Jim. One to watch out for by the looks of it.
It's been a looooong time since I last had a toblerone chocolate. They should look at making smaller versions of their chocolate bars so they can cater for people who don't want to buy huge big bars all the time.
The last Toblerone chocolate I had must of been over five years go now. It used to be a given that we used to buy itfrom the airports when we were on holiday but we haven't gone abroad for ages now so I haven't had that option.
One thing I do remember about it is that the white chocolate is very good which isn't something you can say about a lot of mass produced brands.
Toblerone is a funny chocolate. It looks for all the world like it should be very expensive but in actual fact if you look hard enough you can find some cracking deals on it. The poundlad round near me sells the 200 grams milk chocolate one.
Do we get Hotel Chocolat next week or is this hiatus from them ongoing? Its going to be a shame if we miss out on seeing their halloween chocolates this year.
Hey J
You must have been loving your result sat. Very predictable wasn't it. From what I saw it was one of those games where you were very comfortable the whole game and it was just inevitable that you would score eventually.
Lol don't even get me going about the Liverpool game. I know the decisions went in our favour so I should be complaining, but seriously Jim this was reffing to the worst standard I have everseen. It spoilt the game and the red card just gives all my evertonian mates an excuse now. It cheapens the victory big time.
In better news I can't wait to try this snow top tobelerone now. Toblerone is a chocolate we get often in our house because everyone likes it. One really cool thing we got last christmas was a selection called tobelle which had mini versions of all three dark, white and milk toblerones. Id find your a pic if I could be assed. Im sure you must of heard about it already anyways.
Hope your weekend was good mate.
Cheers
N
Im not a big lover of Toblerone but even I coudl be tempted in to trying this. One of my fave chocolates in my younger years was a cadburys bar that was exactly like this. Part of my suspects it was more how cool it looked rather than how i thought the white chocolate made it taste bettet. I find nintey percent of white chocolate disgusting.
Wow 8.6 is huge. Nice one Toblerone. I will have to do my own taste testing on this one now. Cheers Jim.
I always forget how nice toblerone choc is. I always leave it far too long inbetween the times I have it.
They have been selling this in my local JS for about a month now and I have already boiught it three times :) Two of them were for me but i made the mistake of letting my bro try some of my first bar and he ended up eating the rest the greedy bugger. I made sure I bought him his own one the next time I went in. This isn't a chocolate for sharing, its too addictive.
Whats with everyone saying that Toblerone is a cheap chocolate? Its hardly economy stuff people.
I've not had Toblerone for years now. I see it as such a 90s chocolate, i remember it having its hayday then, these days it feels quite retro because it hasn't reallyt changed at all.
Kudos to Kraft here. Theres been a lot bad said about them since they tookover cadbury but its hardly like they have brought its downfall or anything. They also never fail to give us the chocolates from their own brands like this one here. The whole Cadbury thing was an over reaction by the looks of things.
lol you think this Toblerone is good huh?
You want to be looking at this bad boy http://pwnage.ro/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/4.5kg-toblerone-fails.jpg
Epic amounts of win
Its going to be a toss up between this or an aero tree being my first Xmas choc of the year. I get the feeling I will end up buying both =)
Im going to hold my thoughts on this one until I try it. Im so unsure about white chocolate on the whole these days.
Milkybar used to be a favourite of mine but they have changed it completely now to what it used to be.
The one white chocolate i do really like is the Divine one.
Does it look good .... check
Does it taste good ..... check
Sounds alll good to me
Have you fallen out with hotel chocolate Jim? Why haven't we seen a review from them for so long? Not cool man.
Hi I found your site whilst trying to find somwhere to buy this online. I live in the west country so we are very slow getting new chocolates. Please can you show me a spot to buy this online please. You write wonderful reviews, very detailed.
Thank You - Bella
I love chocolates like this one. If the white chocolate manages to get traction and create and impression on the milk then it can make things extra creamy. I remember the old cadbury marble being notable for that.
Excuse me whilst I drool at that picture. I do love Toblerone. The best bit is when you get the small bits of nougat left to chew on at the end mmmm.
I have a big thing for Toblerone fruit and nut at the mo. Its by far and away the tastiest Toblerone that exists + blatantly the best fruit and nut out there. I would rate it better than cadburys and mars because it just seems more natural cause the nuts are normally in there anyways. It just tastes double almondy yum.
The white choc on top of the milk base does look impressive i have to say. Shock horror its almost as if someone took the time to think things through and make a sensible considered decision for a new chocolate for once. So many of the ones we see these days stench off the cuff silly ideas that dont make sense. This one suits toblerone down the ground it seems.
I think we can safely conclude that Toblerone > Hotel Chocolat now lol. Na only kidding. Toblerone is a nice chocolate to have every now and then though.
Im pleased you gave this one great marks though I just read the honeycomb crisp Toblerone review of yours. I got to disagree with you on the HC one mate.
It reminds me of the Nestle crunch just with much better chocolate and crunchier cereal. The crunch bar used to be one I had all the time but now its the honeycomb toblerone all day long.
Three xmas reviews and not a single one about haloween yet!? Dude I know you aren't big on the holiday but come on chocolates and cakes are so interchangable you will find that half the cakes they are doing for halloween could easily have been made for Xmas aswell so you should make sure you cover them aswell.
Toblerone looks so pretty the normal way but these are just uber cutie =)
They had this one in mini form in the toblerone selection last year. Its good to see it get its own big bar.
@Gamer thats one big toblerone there :) How much do you think one of those would cost?
Bless you Jim. I wanted the JCM verification that this was going to be as good as it sounds. 8.6 would suggest a ringing endorsement
Im surprised by the score but also rather pleased :-) Any chocolate that is this affordable and this good is great to hear about.It can get depressing seeing all those amazingly tasty HC chocs that im not ever going to be able to afford all the time. Thank you hun.
Rxxx
Just to clarify my comment earlier. I didn't mean it in a bad way that Toblerone was a 90s brand. I think its cool its own way, not old fashioned or bad. Just very much more reknowned for its popularity then. Much like Frys is more 70/80s etc. Its old, yet still cool lol.
Good review. It looks like a perfect sort of chocoate for stocking fillers this year. Festive yet nothing too over the top. Just perfect.
I wasn't expecting such a high score for this. Its good to hear that it nearly managed one of your magic nines. ;) not bad for a cheapo choc.
I really shouldn't be buying Toblerone. Its one of those dangerous 'just one more block' chocolates for me lol. Once I open a pack there is no chance it seeing out the remainder of the day :)
White chocolate :/ Hmmm no thanks. What a way to ruin perfectly good toblerone.
I would take your word for this being excellent but I feel like im going to have to try it myself just to check. I wouldn't want you recommending chocolates willy now would I ;) For the sake the chocolate reading community I will bite the bullet and make sure I give this a try.
These christmas reviews are even being prioritised over Hotel Chocolat now then!? You've gone mad man! Sort it out Jimbob!
Jim Manchester were very luck agaisnt Norwich. Have you seen that clip of Steven Fry falling asleep in the first half?
New ideas 0 out of 10 but by the sounds of it taste 8 out of 10. Lol that I can live with. Its when they get low in both it gets embarassing. for everyone.
Thank you for bringing this to my attention, I can't wait to give it a try.
Hi All,
Apologies to those of you expecting a Hotel Chocolat review today. Please dont get too concerned about that I have some plans in place to make it up to you :D For the time being it seems like this Toblerone review has gone down quite nicely anyway so I think we will all survive about week without an HC appearance.
Moving on to your comments about the Snow Top it appears most you are willing to give it a try which I think is great. Its one of those chocolates that doesn't sound particularly exciting but it really works out rather nicely for the Toblerone in this instance.
ALICIA - Can anyone really get sick of Christmas? I don't think I can I love it :D
JOHN - Norwich did do very well I was very impressed with the way they came and attacked us.
MATT - They do small 50.0g Toblerones. They used to anyway.
NIGEL - The ref was poor in the Merseyside game yes. It was just a case of him making that sending off decision too early in the game. Like you said it did ruin it.
KIRSTY - You are a nice sister :D I think if I had done the same thing to my big sister she would have beaten me up haha :D
DAVID - There isn't anything wrong with the 90s :D Those were fine years I tell you. Super Nintendo, Saved by the Bell, Oasis .... those were the days :D
GOLDEN - I agree. Kraft haven't done anything at all to unsettle the apple cart yet. If anything they have invested more in their brands than Cadbury might have done.
GAMER - Woah. That is one very serious looking Tobleron.
ANON - I haven't seen it online yet. You are probably best off waiting a few weeks until it is actually meant to be in the shops.
NATHAN - Don't worry the Halloween stuff is on the way. It's just delayed :D Chocolate deliveries in this weather are way too dodge to be rushing them through.
Thanks for all the comments/tweets and feedback everyone. I hope some more of you can try this one for yourself. It strikes me as one of the more neutral nee flavoured chocolates as of late. Again thanks to everyone who entered and provided feedback etc.
JIM
Jim quit cheating us out our Hotel Choc m8. BRING BACK HC MONDAYS!!!!
They've made this a few times before you know. I don't remember it being as remarkable as you've made out but each to their own.
I would of tried this any way but now Im desperate to get some. It sounds mega yum. Totally my sort of thing.
Is Toblerone a fave chocolate of yours then Jim? It's unlike you to hand out a score like this on the fly. Lol we are well versed seeing these scores on mondays but they are normally reserved for Hotel Chocolat.
I wish they had used their dark chocolate instead of their milk but that is me being awkward lol.
Whenever im buying cheapo chocolate i always plump for Toblerone. Not only is it cheap but its very yummy, I just love it.
This is going straight on the Christmas supplies shopping list. It has to be a limited edition, it would look a bit funny selling it all year round.
You will be happy to know that i put an order in with american soda yesterday Jim. I used a nifty discount voucher for money of shipping! BIG WIN.
Its been my intent to buy this as soon as I read about it, so seeing your high score here has done very little to change that. Its just made me more determined to get one asap now. I will have to check my Sainsburys to see if they have any. Thanks Jim.
I do like the odd toblerone you know :) I think I might be getting one of these very soon :)
Looks and sounds delicious! Now if they would just sell these in the US...
I just got round to trying this. It's nice, but not as good as the other bars in their range.
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