The budget supermarket's new range of Easter chocolate look almost IDENTICAL to some more expensive branded ones. But will we be tempted by price over flavour?
ALDI has launched a new range of chocolate for Easter and it looks suspiciously like posher ones from Cadbury and Lindt.
The budget supermarket will be selling Easter eggs, chocolate bunnies and sharing bag snacks for more than half of the price of the branded ones - but do they taste any good?
Aldi say they their line of chocolate is "inspired by" the branded ones but some of them are almost identical.
Every one of the supermarket's chocolate is cheaper than their branded other halves - some more than half the price - but we reckon some of them compromise on the taste.
We only managed to try samples of two of the Choceur chocolate bunnies but we can safely say that they don't taste as good as the Lindt ones.
But if it's bang for your buck you're after then there's no denying that the Aldi chocs are better for your purse. We take a look at just how similar the chocolates really are.
Aldi's line of chocolate will be available in stores from February 18 and includes luxury, and kids eggs and chocolate Easter bunnies.
The new Choceur chocolate bunnies look almost exactly the same to the signature golden bunnies from Lindt - they even face the same direction.
Both packs have five mini bunnies and weigh 50g, but the Aldi ones are 51p cheaper.
Our verdict: We tried these ones and you can definitely tell the difference. They don't taste bad but the Lindt chocolate is much sweeter and smoother.
Aldi's version is available in milk, white and dark chocolate, just like the Lindt ones.
You get the same amount of chocolate as the one from Lindt - they both weigh 100g - but at 79p per bunny, they cost £1.71 less.
The Lidt bunnies are selling for £2.50 at Morrisons and Asda.
Our verdict: The Aldi bunnies don't look as special as the ones from Lindt and they really don't taste as good. We tried the dark chocolate versions and Aldi's didn't really taste of much.
ALDI's copycat chocolates may look very similar but do they taste the same? The Sun Online's Hollie Borland put them to the test.
"You may mistake the pack of five Aldi's Choceur milk chocolate bunnies for Lindt ones when it comes to how they look but you definitely won't when it comes to the taste.
I tried the Aldi one first and although they didn't taste too bad, they tastes nothing like Lindt.
It didn't taste that sweet but it still left a gooey film on my teeth.
The Lindt one was smoother and sweeter and was definitely my favourite."
Aldi: 6/10 Lindt: 9/10
"You can tell which ones is the posher chocolate just by looking at them.
The Aldi design is all printed on the foil wrapping, where as the Lindt one looks a bit more special with the signature bell around it's neck.
We compared the dark chocolate bunnies and to be honest, the Aldi ones didn't really taste of anything.
You could taste the cocoa and the bitterness in the Lindt ones.
There's no way you could get these confused when it comes to the taste."
Aldi: 4/10 Lindt: 8/10
Aldi's Dairyfine chocolate eggs vs Cadbury mini eggs
You'd be forgiven for thinking that you'd picked up the real deal in Aldi. At a glance the packaging is identical and the names are pretty similar too.
Both packets contain 90g of mini eggs coated in a crispy shell, but the Aldi ones are 31p cheaper.
The same goes for the Dairyfine milk chocolate Easter Egg which comes with buttons or mini eggs.
It looks and sounds almost too similar to Cadbury Dairy Milk chocolate button Easter egg, although the cheaper one costs 65p compared to £1 for the branded version.
SUN SAVERS has always given you a real FIVER in cash - just for reading The Sun. But now it's got so much better...
In the next few months, you can...
It's that simple!
The Aldi knock offs come in two flavours - milk cream or chocolate mousse, whereas the Cadbury originals come in milk chocolate mouse or Oreo mousse.
They both come in boxes of four with two plastic spoons but the Egg Joyables weigh 144g - 8g more than the Cadbury ones.
But can you be tempted by the price? They are 41p cheaper at Aldi.
The budget supermarket is stocking the choccies in two different wrapper designs, one a boy and one a girl.
But we can't get over the fact they they're a dead ringer for these Cadbury ones.
They both weigh the 100g but the Dairy Milk version costs more than double Aldi's version.
Brands can get in real trouble for copying each other's marketing.
Poundland were forced to pull their Toblerone copycat Twin Peaks bars after chocolatiers Mondelez launched a legal battle against them.
It's not the first time the German supermarket has taken "inspiration" from big brands for their cheaper products.
At Christmas they sold a range of Jo Malone inspired Christmas candles for 90 percent less, even though they look strikingly similar.
And recently they unveiled a knockoff John Lewis lamp for £49.99, while the branded one is worth £130.
Nestle was given two fingers by Court of Appeal judges after it tried to trademark the shape of its famous four-fingered KitKat bar, so that rivals couldn't make similar choccies.
The ruling is the latest in a decade-long tussle between Nestle and Cadbury.
We pay for your stories! Do you have a story for The Sun Online Money team? Email us at [email protected] or call 0207 78 24516. Don't forget to join the for the latest bargains and money-saving advice.
