M&S Colombian Coffee Ice Cream

Despite my reservations about this Colombian Coffee Ice Cream tasting like actual coffee due to the stingy 1% coffee listed on the ingredients, this ice cream has a strong, rich coffee flavour  which was rather pleasant, at first.

After  3 spoonfuls, the ice cream seemed less appealing; the coffee was now bitter and overpowering and the ice cream lacked a nice, creamy taste. It tasted watery and unpleasant; so much so that I threw the remainder in the bin.

This is another of those products with amazing potential, and I really hope M&S will improve the recipe. A more subtle coffee flavour perhaps, with a higher cream content. There needs to be a better balance between the cream and coffee flavour.

Price: £4.00

Rating: 1/5

M&S Salt & Black Pepper Combo Mix

I really love these bags of 'combo mix' snacks; they are great value and incredibly moreish!

I particularly like the different shapes which produce  a variety of crunchy textures. This salt and pepper flavour was really tasty - the black pepper added a nice kick, too. 

Price: £2.50

Rating: 5/5

M&S Extremely Chocolatey White Chocolate Rounds

Oh my. White chocolate shortcake style biscuits? This is my idea of heaven.

As it says on the box, these M&S Extremely Chocolatey White Chocolate Rounds are more chocolate than biscuit, but that's okay, because they taste amazing.

A buttery, crunchy shortcake style biscuit is covered with a delicious, creamy, chunky white chocolate, making these biscuits irresistible. The chunky white chocolate also gives these biscuits a lovely 'bite'.

These biscuits are too good for dunking in your tea/coffee, you will also have great difficulty in sharing them. 

Price: £1.85 for eight biscuits

Rating: 5/5

M&S Chocolate Coated Peanut Butter & Choc Chip Cookies

I've never tried peanut butter cookies before; they seem to be a relatively recent thing in the UK. I'm pleased to see M&S keeping up to date with these food trends and adding a touch of their own M&S magic.

These chocolate coated peanut butter and choc chip cookies are exactly what I'm talking about!

These cookies are made with peanut butter, studded with peanuts and milk chocolate chips and half- dipped in milk chocolate.

These aren't the sort of cookie I was expecting. I was expecting the traditional soft and chewy cookie, but what I got was a very hard, crunchy biscuit. 

I couldn't taste the peanut butter, but the peanut and chocolate chip pieces were lovely. The milk chocolate coating was nice, too.

A disappointing cookie/biscuit, but these are so crunchy that they are perfect for dunking with a cuppa! All is not lost.

Price: £2.00 for 8

Rating: 2/5

M&S Gastropub Empire Pie

This Empire Pie is from the Gastropub range at M&S. It consists of spiced lamb with mango chutney and is topped with crushed potato and herbs.

As it was cooking in the oven, the smell was beautiful and comforting; I couldn't wait to tuck in!

The spiced lamb ragu was full of flavour, very tasty with plenty of sauce. There was plenty of minced lamb which went really well with the various herbs and spices.

The potatoes were a lovely addition. They were very soft and sprinkled with onion seeds which added a nice depth of flavour.

Overall, I was really impressed by this product. It was really delicious and very comforting, I highly recommend this and would definitely buy it again.

Price: £4.50

Rating: 5/5