The Snickers Almond is an American chocolate bar which I assumed would be identical to a regular Snickers but just with almonds instead of peanuts. The combination of nougat, caramel, almonds and chocolate is basically the same except for the nuts. Even though I've mentioned before that Snickers is not really my thing, (there is definitely a gender divide in my house when it comes to chocolate and Snickers falls firmly into the male camp), I do love almonds so I was interested to see how this Snickers Almond would taste.
The chocolate looked quite good, with the same thick layer of chocolate as a regular Snickers. Inside it has large pieces of almond and a very smooth looking nougat. However the overall taste was very disappointing. In fact, even though I cut this bar up into smaller chunks and shared it out with my family, we still didn't manage to finish it. No one was impressed with the flavour.
The chocolate is fine, very sweet and basic. It's the insides where the bar goes downhill. The nougat is very bland and tasteless, it's just an overly sugary mass. Nougat often has a malty or nutty flavour to it, but here it is devoid of any flavour. The almonds, although quite large, were just tasteless blobs too. There was no nice crunch from the nuts, they were too soft in texture. The caramel layer is slightly better as it has a nice salty edge to it, but it can't rescue the overall tasteless flavour of the rest of this bar.
On the plus side the whole bar is 230 calories which is not too bad for a chocolate this size (49.9g). It does have a much "lighter" taste than the regular peanut based Snickers but unfortunately it's far inferior in terms of taste.
If you have tried a Snickers Almond before? Let me know what you thought of it by leaving a comment :)
Oh dear this sounds disappointing.
ReplyDeleteThe last time I had an almond Snickers was around 5 years ago, they were being sold in packs of 5 in Poundzone. I don't know if they were the American ones or not but they were quite tasty as I recall. But then the quality of chocolate has declined so much in the past several years, maybe everything tastes worse now.
That said, some American versions of products are generally just worse anyway. I tried the imported M&M's coconut recently and thought they were awful.
Hmmm.. as soon as I saw the pic at the top of the review I thought NO! Please don't mess with the Snickers (Marathon as it used to be called when i was young - why they changed the name is beyond me!)
ReplyDeleteI've always bought snickers over most choccy bars, the only other one fave is Dairy Milk whole nut or fruit n nut but the almond one in no way appeals to me. Im sure they've tried this bar before several years ago?? I could be mistakening it for another but I'm fairly sure i'm not. Anyway, its a thumbs down from me! lol
IYes, I tried. And it's my fav :) I reaally love the taste of the almonds in this presentation-
ReplyDeleteHonestly I agree with the review it’s just like they said lacking that crunch that taste, great review!
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