I tried it back when we lived in London and I remember not being that smitten but then I got the idea of trying to make it at home with REAL cherries instead of glace cherries, which is what it is commercially made with I believe. Ripe juicy cherries and coconut covered in rich Old Gold dark chocolate, nothing is better than treating yourself to an indulgent moment alone with Cherry Ripe. I cannot even sample the actual Cherry Ripes anymore (as a Coeliac) but I have willing taste testers who can help me with that problem. DAIRY MILK, THE GLASS AND A HALF DEVICE, CARAMILK, BOOST, CRUNCHIE, CADBURY FAVOURITES, BLACK FOREST, MARVELLOUS CREATIONS AND ASSOCIATED MARKS, THE COLOUR PURPLE AND THERE’S A GLASS AND A HALF IN EVERYONE ARE TRADE MARKS USED UNDER LICENCE. Thanks for taking the time to review - so appreciated and Merry Christmas on the beach (no jealous at all, nope.

If sweetened is the only version you can get, simply use less (or none at all) sugar and you may also need to use a little less coconut as not adding sugar will make the mixture drier. Cadbury also package them in packs of 12 ‘fun sized’ bars that are only about four centimeters long but I’ve always failed to see what’s so ‘fun’ about a tiny bar when I can always inhale a king-sized one at 80g. They mention that it has a great size, the coconut is moist and blended with succulent cherries enrobed in dark chocolate. There are quite a lot of homemade Cherry Ripe recipes out there but most or all rely on freezing the coconut mixture which means the result is not at all authentic. Kim Kardashian regrets allowing daughter North West wear red lipstick at age five: 'Would I do that now?You could also use maple syrup (a little less as it’s sweeter than sugar) and softened dates but they will change the colour of the filling making the bars look less appetising. Plus, the Cherry Ripe chocolate covering is thin, so if you were going in because you expected to be cocoa’d to bits, you’d be disappointed. The whole thing is about a million times nicer than I thought it would be when faced with the description, and I can understand now why it's been such a popular bar in Australia.

My Mum makes a “Chocolate Cherry Ripe Ice-cream Cake” every year for Christmas and it is my favourite thing about Christmas! Brian said: "Born and bred in the great county and a true Yorkshire man I have admit these Cherry Ripes are just the best chocolate ever! That’s right ladies and gents; I ate a chocolate bar with milk in it so that I got the perfect match for flavour.Dizzy with success at having my review published (or possibly through needing a Cherry Ripe sugar-high)let me be geeky and add that Mac.