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Privacy NoticeColin the Caterpillar has been invited to many, many birthday parties over the years. The adorable insect made of chocolate sponge cake, with his smiling milk chocolate face and colourful spotted body, is one of the most favoured celebratory treats in the UK, for any occasion. However, now it seems as though the M&S delicacy may just have to wriggle away, as there is a new character-cake in town.
David Beckham celebrated his 41st birthday with a Colin the Caterpillar cake, but are they about to be dethroned?
(Image: David Beckham/Instagram)
Get exclusive celebrity stories and fabulous photoshoots straight to your inbox with OK’s daily newsletter. You can sign up at the top of the page. That’s right, Asda have released fierce competition in the form of Sid the Sausage Dog. The delicious Dachshund-shaped treat is a foot and a half long and if you can exercise self control there should be enough for 24 people to have a decent-sized slice. And how could you resist his icing sugar puppy-dog eyes and cute-as-a-button nose?
How could you resist that face?
(Image: Asda)
Alike to Colin, Sid is filled with a rolled chocolate sponge, which is laced with chocolatey buttercream, and is incased in a hard milk chocolate shell. However, instead of the Smarties-style colourful choccies that pepper Colin’s body, Sid is decorated with curling flakes of chocolate as well as a drizzling of white chocolate. If you have an event coming up, or lets face it even if you don’t, you can purchase Sid the Sausage Dog for £12 either online, or in selected Asda shops from 13 July.
Yum! That buttercream is making us drool…
(Image: Asda)
If 24 people have a slice of cake, that works out at a very reasonable £1 each. Becky Price, Asda’s product development manager for cakes, said of their new creation: “We know our customers love a novelty cake that injects plenty of fun into special celebrations at an affordable price!
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“We’ve seen a rising demand from our customers for sausage dog-themed products, so Sid is a great addition to our celebration cake range and is sure to become one popular pooch!” And if new chocolate goods are what you like to read about, you’ll be pleased to know that Cadbury have just released three new flavours of Dairy Milk chocolate bar, however only one of them will be here to stay.
The new Dairy Milk bars include ‘Out of the Blueberry’
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On 8 July the famed chocolate makers released a blueberry flavour, a crunchy honeycomb and a coconut bar and are asking those who try it to vote for their favourite as part of their Inventor 2020 competition. Each bar cost £1 on promotion in Tesco shops, so what are you waiting for? Why not try them all then head to the Cadbury Inventor website, you have until 6 September to vote! Story SavedYou can find this story in My Bookmarks.Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right.Follow OK! MagazineFacebookTwitterMore OnFood
