We might’ve missed the announcement a few weeks ago, but that didn’t stop us heading to Waitrose to try Tony’s new filled chocolate bars. At Simple & Homely, we never turn down an opportunity to do a taste test (especially where chocolate, desserts, or alcohol are concerned).
Since learning that palm oil is 50% saturated fat, I’ve been doing my best to choose palm-oil free chocolate and Tony’s Chocoloney fills that requirement. We like their solid chocolate bars, but what did our taste testing panel think of the three new filled bars?
Each bar is £3.85.
Testing the new Tony’s Chocoloney Filled bars
Tony’s Chocolonely Filled Creamy Ganache
Let’s start with the one that was universally enjoyed: Creamy Milk Chocolate Ganache. Milk chocolate filled with a creamy chocolate truffle. It’s a confusing name considering the filling isn’t ganache, but overlooking that discrepancy, it was a tasty bar. It received nods all round and a few thumbs up. The £3.85 isn’t extortionate considering the solid bars are £4, but you are, however, getting 53g less weight.
Tony’s Chocolonely Filled Creamy Milk Praline Hazelnut
Next up is the Creamy Milk Praline Hazelnut bar. There’s a theme in the naming so far…“creamy”. And, to be fair, it was.
Not everyone was a fan of this; some found the hazelnut pieces too small saying that wholenut or even halves would’ve made a better texture. Another found the fragments of nut overly caramelised, taking too much of the hazelnuts natural flavour away. Outside of those few comments, the rest of the taste test group enjoyed it. Some mixed reviews for this one. This bar is also 127g.
Tony’s Chololonely Filled Gooey Caramel Sea Salt Crunch
This is the heaviest of the filled bars at 135g. The Sea Salt Caramel Crunch received a near clean sweep of positive feedback, I wasn’t keen, but at the same time, I’m not much of a salted caramel fan.
The group determined that this would be best stored in the refrigerator and left to sit at room temperature for 15-20 minutes before eating – I stored it at room temperature and it ended up as a leaky mess.
So what did we think?
If you’re a Tony’s fan with a nearby Waitrose, go for it. They were really nice, smooth and provided a different flavour experience compared to the solid bars. One of the testers did say he’d rather stick to the solid bars as he prefers their flavour range, but the rest would buy a filled bar again, especially the ganache one. It is important to point out, we did this test the same night we tried out Aldi’s rose wine collection – it may have impacted the results, it may not.
