Battle of the Easter Eggs :) Easter Eggs - yum We got 2 kinds of Easter Eggs for our family this year: Burnt Sugar and Dubble. But how can we compare them, and do we really have to? | | Burnt Sugar | Dubble | | Picture |  Burnt Sugar Easter Egg |  Dubble Easter Egg - it did look so much better, honest! Never mind, here's a Dubble Bar:  Dubble Bar | | Packaging | Brown and dark blue, cardboardy looking, with pretty golden drawings of sugar crystals (presumably!), lots of ethical and recycling info, prominent Fairtrade logo and quotes from a good review in the Observer. | Shiny red egg on a magician's stage with purple curtains, blue stage and white rabbit's ears sticking out of a top hat. Comic Relief and Fairtrade logos.
| What's in it?
| Chocolate Easter Egg
| Chocolate Easter Egg and an extra Dubble chocolate bar
| Percentage cocoa in the chocolate | 30% | 27% | What's the chocolate like?
| Slightly crispy milk chocolate, with little honeycomb pieces in it, and a lovely rich chocolatey taste with an interesting slightly treacly taste of cinder toffee, especially afterwards.
| The Easter Egg has lovely smooth milk chocolate with a properly chocolatey taste. The Dubble Bar is the same chocolate but with rice krispie type things in it, in a good way. | | Fairtrade? | yes | yes | Other features
| A CarbonZero (R) company, Burnt Sugar offsets its carbon emissions by supporting energy efficient projects in Kenya, and also has a book club in association with Book Aid International
| Dubble was set up in association with Comic Relief and Divine chocolate | Website Links on the box
| www.burntsugar.co.uk www.bookaid.org www.unrefinedbookclub.org www.co2balance.uk.com | www.dubble.co.uk | | Price | £3.99 from Oxfam - now available in the Oxfam Easter Sale for £1.99
| £2.99 from Oxfam | | Summary | Interesting and unusual, should be popular with anyone, but it's more sophisticated texture and taste, 'crunchy granola' type packaging, higher price and lack of little extras make it more of a grown up choice, perhaps a perfect gift for someone with ethical, political or charitable 'green' interests. | Great choice, especially for kids, who will love the taste, the look of it, and the extra chocolate bar.
| And the winner is...
| erm, both of them...?
| ...please? | | Stockists | Oxfam Many, including supermarkets: see Burnt sugar website for stockists: www.burntsugar.co.uk | Oxfam ethicalsuperstore.com Traidcraft A lot of chocolate Goodness Direct | |
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 05 April 2008 )
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