McVities M&M Chocolate Brownie : Read reviews and compare prices at Ciao.co.uk

Author's product rating:

Value for Money	Average
Product Quality	Excellent
Product package	Good
Taste	Delicious
How loyal are you to this brand?	Quite

Advantages:	Delicious and sweet
Disadvantages:	Can get a bit sickly, 9 E Numbers, 20g fat

Recommend to potential buyers:

yes

Full review

Using the amount of alcohol I drunk yesterday as an excuse, I'm telling you I had chocolate cake for breakfast. You know some mornings after a heavy night you can wake up just craving sugar and stodge? Well, this morning I knew the usual standby of a sausage and bacon sarnie would make me sick - just walking past McDonalds on the way to taking the kids to school made me heave. So grease was out. I stopped at the shop to grab some milk (all the better to chase your hangover with, my dear...) and thought about getting some chocolate. As I nosed around the shelves I spotted these in the fridge, a chocolate brownie covered in teeny weeny M&M's.

These are made by McVities, so it's nice to see the all encompassing Masterfoods range bringing in a well known name in to make their 'biscuity' venture work. The thing I like about the pack is you can see through it and inside the brownie just looks gorgeous. The top looks covered in a thin fudgey icing and there are tonnes of brightly coloured mini M&M's pressed into the icing. Not being stingy with the M&M's, there are loads that have fallen off and are rattling about in the packet for you to enjoy after your brownie. The back of the pack is scary. Not only does it tell you you're about to add 422 cals and 20.5g fat to your system but you're also going to digest 9 E Numbers! A bit excessive thinking about it, my friends son is sensitive to E Numbers and I think he'd be certified after eating one of these. The pack advises me to leave it out of the fridge for an hour and I do this because a) I want to enjoy it at it's best and b) it's going to take me an hour to settle my stomach enough to eat the thing!

Opening the (very noisy) wrapper I find the brownie also has it's own little plastic tray to sit on and it's here that all the rogue M&M's who have escaped the icing have collected. The only way to get to the brownie is to slide the tray completely free of the wrapper and when you do this you're greeted by the delicious amora of strong chocolate.

The first thing I do is try an M&M to make sure they've used the real thing and not a cheaper decoy and yep, it's a real M&M but in miniature. Looking at the brownie now it's out of the bulky plastic container, it's actually a lot smaller than I imagined. A perfect square, the icing perfectly level, the M&M's in more or less perfect alignment - this wouldn't happen to be a mass produced goodie would it? Definitely, there's no individual touch here...

Careful as you pick the thing up, I got a shower of mini M&M's and lost most of them on the floor to the ever hungry puppy. Biting the brownie, I'm in chocolate heaven. Its got the most delicious fudgy texture and literally melts in your mouth. The icing turns out to be a very thin layer of chocolate that McVities have cleverly let drizzle down the side to make it appear to be covered in icing. The brownie itself tastes very strongly of chocolate cake rather the chocolate but the texture means it doesn't feel like you're eating cake. Recently I had a brownie that my friend brought back from New York - a 'proper' brownie - and this M&M's brownie tasted nothing like it! The proper brownie I tried had the same fudge like texture but was rougher, the M&M's one is moist and stodgy. This is really, really sweet and the chocolate flavour is so strong that it does start to get sickly towards the end and by the time I'd finished it I was practically shovelling it down my throat to be rid of the thing! All in all it's gorgeous. It's so gooey and sweet that it'll easily satisfy a chocolate craving for ages, you can taste every one of those 422 cals and you can feel the 20 grammes of fat attaching themselves to your hips... The aftertaste is of a good quality chocolate cake and is also very sweet. I can see why McVities have made the brownie so small. They've taken all the flavour and calories out of a big brownie and squashed them into a more compact shape and it's... well, chocolate and sugar overload I suppose.

And the bonus is it didn't make me sick this morning so I've got to give it the full five stars as any other chocolate would have had me scurrying to the loo! lol

For 79p, I'm not sure if it represents good value or not. It's a very small thing to buy and the price does seem excessive for it but tastewise it's worth every penny. It may contain traces of nuts so consider yourselves warned, and then there are all those E Numbers...

Thanks for reading.