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Review & Ranking of 8 Caramel Chocolates you can buy at a NZ Supermarket

Today we reviewed and ranked 8 caramel chocolates you can buy from a New Zealand supermarket.  We made sure it was the runny caramel type, not caramel chunks or the dulce de leche thicker caramel filling.  There is a mixture of milk and dark chocolates. From left to right in the photo, we reviewed: Cadbury Old Gold Caramel Hersheys Kisses Caramel Lindt Caramel Squares Dark with Sea Salt Caramel Whittakers Dark Salted Caramel Lindt Caramel Squares Milk Chocolate Whittakers Creamy Caramel Nestle Rolo Cadbury Dairy Milk Caramello How did we rank them? Find out at the end of the reviews. Cadbury Dairy Milk and Old Gold Caramels 190 g blocks

Cadbury Old Gold Caramel   Bought at Pak n Save for $2.99 Caramel 30% Cocoa Solids 47% Sugars per 25g serving size is 12.7g Fairly easy to break off a row with a good snap.  It has a faint chocolate aroma. Tasting the caramel by itself, we found the caramel had a nice flavor.  Eating it with the chocolate, we found we were mainly tasting the chocolate and had to hunt for the caramel taste. There was not much melt in the mouth. The aftertaste had a hint of dark chocolate bitterness. We do like the flavor of Cadbury caramello, they use the same caramel it seems for both the milk and dark chocolate.  We weren't really fans of the dark chocolate and it drowned out the caramel.

Cadbury Dairy Milk Caramello Bought at  New World for $3.49 Caramel 30% Cocoa Solids 27% Milk Solids 24% Sugars per 25g serving size is 13.4g A little hard to break off a row.  The caramel by itself is a nice flavor and is the same as what is in the Old Gold.  Eating it all together, it melts nicely.  It is very sweet, and the sweetness does overtake the caramel flavor a bit.   We do find Cadbury milk chocolate a bit overly sweet, but their caramel is yum.   Whittakers Creamy Caramel and Dark Salted Caramel 250g

Both bought at New World for $5.09 each Whittakers Dark Salted Caramel Caramel 36% Cocoa Solids 62% Sugars per 25g single serve is 9.2g The caramel by itself is salty sweetness with a slight caramel taste.  There is a slight melt in the mouth when tasting it with the dark chocolate, and the taste is a slight bitter dark chocolate with a salty overlay.  We don't taste the caramel flavor.   The aftertaste is dark chocolate with a hint of salt. This is not as nice as its milk chocolate counterpart.  The caramel flavor is overpowered by the dark chocolate and you are just getting the saltiness.  The caramel flavor itself is not as nice as the milk chocolate version either.

Whittakers Creamy Caramel Caramel 36% Cocoa Solids 33% Milk Powder 30% Sugars per 25g serving size 8.9g This has an aroma of cocoa and milk.  The caramel by itself has a nice butterscotchy flavor.  It is easy to break off a row.  When you eat it all together, it melts in the mouth and you can take creamy chocolate with a touch of butterscotch.  The aftertaste is sweetness. This is a nice caramel block.  The chocolate is nice and the caramel is yummy, and there is a nice balance of yummy flavors when you eat it all together.  

Lindt Milk Chocolate Caramel Squares and Lindt Dark Chocolate Sea Salt Caramel Squares 

​124g pouch with 8 individually wrapped squares

Bought at New World for $5.99 each Lindt Milk Chocolate Caramel Squares Caramel 30% Cocoa Solids 30% Milk Solids 20% Sugars per 16g serving size is 8.3g The aroma is milky and slightly cocoa. The caramel by itself is quite thick and sweet. It does have a caramel flavor. Eating it all together, it slightly melts in the mouth and there is a sweetness taste with hints of chocolate and caramel.   The aftertaste is sweetness. These are nice.  The flavors for us were diluted by the sweetness overall. We liked eating  the squares, taking bites like little biscuits.

Lindt Dark Chocolate Squares with Sea Salt Caramel Caramel 30% Cocoa Solids 47% Sugars per 16g serving size 7.6g The aroma is dark chocolate. The caramel itself is runny, a nice caramel flavor with a slight saltiness. Eating it all together, it slightly melts in the mouth. It gives a good chocolate hit mixed in with the salted caramel flavor.  The balance of chocolate, caramel flavors and sweetness are really good.   These are super yummy.  We would usually lean towards milk chocolate over dark, but these are so good, so flavorsome.

Hershey's Caramel Kisses

Bought from New World at $4.49 Caramel 37% Cocoa Solids 28% Milk Solids 26% Sugars per 28g serving size is 15.6g The aroma is sweetness.  The caramel by itself is sweetness with a hint of caramel flavor.  Together there is a slight melt in the mouth.  It is sweet with some chocolate flavor and a slight caramel taste.  The aftertaste is sweetness. These are a nice gift.  We like the idea of chocolate kisses and the packaging is great.  They are a bit overly sweet for our tastes.

Nestle Rolo 200g Block

Bought at New World for $3.09 Caramel 25% Cocoa Solids 22% Milk Solids 25% Sugars per 28.5g serving size is 16.2g It is easy to break off a double row.  It has a milky, slight caramel fragrance.   The caramel itself tastes of sweetness with a hint of caramel.  There is a slight melt in the mouth eating it all together.  It is sweet and has a nice chocolate flavour, but the caramel taste didn't punch through.   This is very sweet, but the chocolate does have a nice flavor.  It was okay.

FINAL RANKINGS OF 8 CARAMEL CHOCOLATES

Lindt Dark Chocolate Sea Salt Squares

Whittakers Creamy Caramel Block

Lindt Milk Chocolate Caramel Squares

Cadbury Dairy Milk Caramello

Hershey's Caramel Kisses

Nestle Rolo Block

Whittakers Dark Salted Caramel Block

Cadbury Old Gold Caramel

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