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Nestlé Japan also released a toy truck containing these bars. However, they have since been discontinued after the sale to Ferrero. The wrappers of the 1971 version are brown with an orange and pink border with a top hat over the “W” in Wonka, similar to the film’s logo, and the chocolate bars resemble Cadbury Dairy Milk Chocolate Candy Bars bars.

Like Toblerone, the crunchy bits can still get stuck in your teeth, but this was better distributed than the Swiss giant’s sugar bomb. Sure, you’re getting a lot of chocolate in one bar, but that just made it more affordable in my book. Though I’d avoided Tony’s in the past, I’ll be giving more of the brand’s bars a try.

Akesson’s Organic Chocolate bars have won a multitude of awards and is regarded as one of the best craft chocolate bars on the market. Raaka is devoted to making uncommonly delicious chocolate that captures the brighter, bolder, and fruitier side of cacao. They make every bar from scratch with unroasted cacao beans, sourced from growers they trust and admire. The unique flavour of their unroasted chocolate is part place, part process. They craft their bars in celebration of each cacao origin’s unique character.

What’s more, we can now get cool Wonka Candy to eat the treats mentioned in the book. The first step to making the bars was to find an inexpensive and widely available chocolate bar that was long and narrow, just as Wonka’s is in the movie. This also lent itself to fitting the long name of the chocolate bar on the wrappers I was making.

It took several years for the company to nail down a recipe for the Wonka Bar and they finally released one in 1975, per The Huffington Post. The company struggled to solidify their chocolate recipe (literally, as the bars kept melting), and didn’t actually release the flagship Wonka Bar until 1975. For years, Wonka Bars were reintroduced and pulled from markets intermittently. In 1988, the Willy Wonka candy brand was sold to Nestlé, the company credited with inventing chocolate chips ( who still sells some of the best grocery store Premium Chocolate Bars chips). They went on to have greater success under the Willy Wonka name, but even they could not withstand the strain of declining sales.

This year I have been able to organise my materials and spend time on the design, and to enjoy the process lot more. Ten Golden Tickets were hidden in the bars and bags of Wonka Exceptionals. Later, more Exceptionals flavors were added, like Wonka Triple Dazzle Caramel and Wonka Fantabulous Fudge. A Nestlé factory in Europe started making Wonka Bars with the flavors and wrappers from the 2005 movie. These included Whipple-Scrumptious Fudgemallow Delight, Nutty Crunch Surprise (which didn’t actually have nuts), and Triple Dazzle Caramel. The company that made them was called the Willy Wonka Candy Company, which was part of Nestlé.

Almost a decade after the last “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” movie hit theaters, Nestlé brought the Wonka Bar back in 2013 with two flavors. Originally, demand for the chocolate bars was high, with the brand raking in over £3 million a month in the U.K., but those sales quickly declined to just a third of that. It was not long before stores were selling the Wonka Bars at a discounted price, and Nestlé eventually discontinued the candy bars altogether. “Novelty is by its nature often short-term and Nestlé has reintroduced the Wonka brand a number of times,” the company said in a statement, per The Grocer.

Luckily, the brand does offer a chocolate-covered option, so if you’re a big fan of those salty peanuts, it may be worth checking out. As the only candy bar on this list that doesn’t contain any chocolate, it shouldn’t be too surprising that Payday is near the bottom of the ranking. A candy bar sans chocolate is just sad, to be frank, and it’s not like you’re getting amazing quality ingredients with the stuff that is included. The caramel-y center is tough and sticky, making it slightly hard to chew and leaving an unpleasant residue on your molars.

Most of the chocolate bars I reviewed have less than 10 grams of sugar per serving, with a standout exception being the Ritter Sport Alpine Milk Chocolate, with 17 grams. Although it’s not a requirement that chocolatiers name their cacao’s country of origin and sourcing details, many choose to. The Raaka Pink Sea Salt, for example, is entirely sourced from a cacao farm in a bird sanctuary in the Dominican Republic.

Wonka chocolate will be available in three flavours – Millionaire’s Shortbread, Crème brûlée and Chocolate Nice Cream. “Willy Wonka as a brand is synonymous with deliciously imaginative confectionery all over the world.” The company said Wonka chocolate will be one of its biggest launches since Randoms in 2009 and KitKat Chunky 10 years earlier. If I had access to a colour printer the design and making process would likely be very simple. However, I do not, so all of the elements of decoration on the wrapper had to be individually cut and then carefully applied. Though this made for a much longer making process, the results feel really substantial and tactile.