Holly Lane Toffee Bakewells

Advantages: Tastes deliciously of toffee and fudge, cheap
Disadvantages: OMG, have you seen how many calories in these???

Wandering round Aldi the other day I spotted a brown box in the cake section that I'd not noticed before. Looking at the box I remembered I'd read favourable reviews of these Toffee Bakewells on here and decided to take a box home for after tea. Cutting a long story short, they didn't make it until teatime. The kids came home from school starving so we dug into the cakes. The first thing I noticed was the delicious smell of toffee. These small ...
...sweet underlying smell of fudge. Good enough to eat, in fact! It's not an 'in your face' overwhelming smell, but this cake has been sitting in front of me for about 5 minutes and I keep getting the scrummy smell wafting towards me. I'm now hoping against hope that this cake is going to taste even half as good as it smells. The cakes themselves look just like a traditional Cherry Bakewell, apart from the colour. You've got the familiar pastry case ... Read review

Advantages: Nice if you like toffee
Disadvantages: Not if you don't

...warned! -=Cost and Availability=- Holly Lane is brand that is only stocked by Aldi, so this is where you have to go to buy these. A box of 6 costs a mere 65p, which means they work out at little over 10p per tart – not bad eh? **UPDATE** I have just seen an almost identical product in Iceland, so if you don't have an Aldi near you, then you could always try these - they were of a similar price, and the picture on the box was virtually the same ...
...anyone tries them, I'd be interested in knowing what they were like! -=Opinion=- Overall these Toffee Bakewells were okay – I would eat them again, but you would not want to eat more than one in a sitting, not only because they would not do your waistline any good, but also because I think that a second one would be a bit sickly. Considering I did not buy these for me, I can’t really grumble. They certainly make a nice change from some of the other ... Read review

Advantages: Creamy caramel taste
Disadvantages: More like biscuits

I have recently found a wonderful alternative to Mr. Kipling cakes, at a fraction of the price. We found these delights in Aldi’s a few weeks ago, priced at 69p. They are a variation on Mr. Kiplings Cherry Bakewells, which I don't like as I can't bear the white icing. The tarts are made up of small pastry cases, filled with a toffee flavoured sponge cake and toffee filling, topped with toffee flavoured fondant icing and caramel flavoured fudge ...
...rectangular in shape, similar in size to the Mr. Kipling variety. The left hand side of the front has three toffee bakewells staring temptingly out from the box. The one to the front of the picture has had a bite taken out of it. The box holds six bakewells. On opening the packet, there is a plastic tray with individual compartments, to hold the tarts. Each tart is then in a foil case. There is a warning that the product may contain nut traces. ... Read review