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CandyTuesday, March 9, 2010
Eat with Your Eyes: Moser Roth TrufflesAldi sells charming chocolates at ridiculously affordable prices. My mother sent me this box of Milk Chocolate Fine Truffles. I reviewed the dark version last year.
These come in a blue hexagonal box (photo here). POSTED BY Cybele AT 9:12 am Candy • Featured News • Fun Stuff • Photography • Monday, March 8, 2010
LifeSavers Gummies: Bunnies & Eggs
The bag has the old LifeSavers logo and design elements to it (the rolls are rather different these days). It also features the bug-eyed bunny that appears on the Jelly Beans. The flavors are Lemon, Apple, Orange, Tangy Cherry, Tangy Punch and Watermelon.
All the candies are sherbet colors, soft, opaque pastels. They’re bouncy and squishy, not quite greasy but they definitely cling together readily. I expected them to be big, about the same size as the hoops known as LifeSavers Gummies, which themselves are larger than the hard candy version. Instead they’re actually smaller than the little images on the package. These cute and plump little shapes are barely the size of a traditional gummi bear. (I threw an M&M in there for you to see the scale.)
Blue is Tangy Punch - it reminds me of Hawaiian Punch. It’s tangy of course and has an artificial flavor to go with the tropical fruit. Green is Apple - it’s far less tart than I expected. A little like apple juice. Orange is Orange - it looks like sherbet and tastes rather like it too, soft and mellow with a light sour note but mostly a juice flavor. Red is Watermelon - at first I thought it’d be cherry. The watermelon reminded me of Jolly Ranchers in the best possible way. Fresh, a little more intensely fruity than the real melon and of course an artificial version of the actual flavor. Lemon is Yellow - I didn’t care much for this one, it had a metallic note, like drinking lemonade in a can. Pink is Tangy Cherry - this is not the cherry I associate with LifeSavers. It’s far too mild and though it’s called Tangy Cherry, it’s not terribly sour at all. On the whole they’re adorable, rather mild but nothing extraordinary. Gummis for Easter aren’t that common, so it’s nice to see a themed product. There is no allergen statement on the package but it does contain gelatin and of course artificial colors & flavors. It doesn’t say anything about gluten or nuts. Related Candies
POSTED BY Cybele AT 12:02 pm Eat with your Eyes: Point of ViewBefore Tart n Tiny were discontinued I had a whole box of them and dumped them out so I could play with them.
POSTED BY Cybele AT 8:16 am Candy • Featured News • Fun Stuff • Photography • Sunday, March 7, 2010
Eat with your Eyes: Paint with CandyRunts and Tart n Tiny. Arranged on an aluminum painter’s palette.
Saturday, March 6, 2010
Eat with your Eyes: Orange Nougat BonBonBarsSometimes I buy nice things and eat them. These are BonBonBar nougats.
POSTED BY Cybele AT 9:20 am Candy • Featured News • Fun Stuff • Photography • Friday, March 5, 2010
Wonka Exceptionals Domed Dark Chocolate
They’re the third item in the new launch of the better quality Wonka chocolate products hitting store shelves now. The ingredients are all natural, the packaging revamped and the quality vastly improved. Now that I’ve tried all three varieties I can say that they’re right, the quality of the chocolate is much better. The chocolate is smoother, has a bolder flavor and of course the fact that the ingredients are better should make it easier for families to choose Wonka. I’ve compared them before to Dove and Hershey’s Bliss - but what these have going for them is that the packaging is all about imagination - the bright striped foils are going to appeal more to kids than the sedate and elegant positioning of Dove or Bliss.
The pieces themselves aren’t quite as stunning to look at as the other two Exceptionals. The little domed blocks don’t stack either. I was hoping for some glossy dark chocolate, and while it’s tempered properly, the piece looks like well worn coat button instead of a sumptuous piece of dark chocolate.
The dark chocolate flavors are quite sharp. It’s acidic without being tangy, not quite chalky but a little dry. It’s smooth but I wouldn’t characterize it as the same silkiness as the milk and white chocolate from the Waterfall version. There are berry and raisin notes to the cocoa but nothing overtly complex. It’s toasty but not so dark that it’s roasty and too bitter like black coffee. The sweetness is pretty overwhelming, sugar is the first ingredient on the list. As a dark chocolate, it’s very accessible, and probably won’t dissuade children from eating them. They remind me of eating chocolate chip cookies - the melt is similar to that in a fresh cookie. I think Nestle has done a great job of reinvigorating the brand. It takes more inspiration from the original books and taps into the dreamy quality that Wonka has evoked in every kid who every kid who’s read it. Related Candies
POSTED BY Cybele AT 8:08 am Eat with your Eyes: GoumasGoumas is an Ohio candymaker. They create local favorites like Buckeyes as well as classics like caramels and toffees made with fresh nuts.
The mint meltaways, even though they’d traveled all the way across the country were glossy and pristine.
POSTED BY Cybele AT 7:47 am Candy • Featured News • Fun Stuff • Photography • Thursday, March 4, 2010
Eat with your Eyes: SweeTarts Jelly BeansWonka SweeTarts Jelly Beans are perfectly lovely.
POSTED BY Cybele AT 7:27 am Candy • Featured News • Fun Stuff • Photography • Page 148 of 337 pages ‹ First < 146 147 148 149 150 > Last › 
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