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1. What, you mean you don’t suck out the malted center after biting them in half? I thought that was the point!

   Comment by Tricia on 4/02/07 at 10:21 am

    

2. At the moment (literally), these speckled eggs are my favorite, but they must be everyone else’s, too, since I can never find them when I go out shopping.

   Melted malted milk balls always catch me by surprise and always squick me out, too.

   Comment by Russ on 4/02/07 at 11:13 am

    

3. What a cool blog! It’ so much fun to see so much candy info collected in one place. In case you and your readers are interested, here’s a post we wrote about candy being bad for your skin
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   Comment by The Beauty Brains on 4/02/07 at 9:40 pm

    

4. Is there anywhere in LA where you like to get a malt—that is if you like ice cream?

   Comment by Tiffany on 4/02/07 at 11:12 pm

    

5. Okay. I love malted milk balls. They are probably my favorite candy. But GOOD malted milk balls are SO hard to find (as you clearly know) because there are so many factors going into one ball. The only ones I eat (and love) are from the Confectionery in Seattle. I have no idea what type they are - for all I know, they are regular nothing-special brand. But - the chocolate (dark OR milk) is always glossy and delicious and chocolaty, and even better - the malted center is crisp, sweet, a little grainy and malty, and crumbles in your mouth - what every malted milk ball should do. I have yet to find anything better, and feel (quite strongly) that there will never be a quality malt ball to be found in a grocery store. Rather, you have to get them fresh, and pay a little extra for quality chocolate.

   Comment by kristin on 4/03/07 at 3:42 pm

    

6. Brach’s Fiesta Malted Milk Eggs are the absolute best! No other malted milk egg will ever take their place. I sometimes bite them in half to look at the inside before I eat them, and sometimes I suck on them for a while, then paint my lips with them, then I pop them back into my mouth and I continue to suck on them until they melt in my mouth. It would not seem like Easter if I wasn’t able to taste the special flavor of those delectably delicious Brach’s Fiesta Malted Milk Eggs!!!

   Comment by Linda on 2/12/08 at 7:01 pm

    

7. I am going to point to this link on my own blog, since these are my favorite Easter candies. Not many places carry them (the jelly bean market has a strangle hold on shelf space these days).

   I will say, though, that unless you put the candy in your mouth and suck on it until the outer shell is soft, they don’t test that good. Here’s my process:

   1. Mouth the candy, and suck on it like a gobstopper until the shell is soft.

   2. Crack the shell with my tongue or cheek or both, and the chocolate is super melted and delicious.

   3. Suck away the chocolate and then work the malted until it dissolves away into a delicious finish.

   There really is no other good way to eat these and get all of that flavor.

   Comment by Ryan on 4/23/08 at 12:15 pm

    

8. I would like to know where you can buy the brach’s malted milk balls that are covered with chocolate only - no pastel candy coated ones just chocolate?  Plus would love to know why you can only found them around Easter.

   Comment by Tammy Palmer on 2/24/09 at 6:25 pm

    

9. Yes. I love malted balls in my mouth.

   Comment by CadburyLvr on 2/24/09 at 9:16 pm

    

10. i’ve actually never seen the pastel ones.  i’ve only seen the fiesta malted milk eggs which are white with speckles. also i was never able to find them in the LA area.  i always had to have my mom ship me bags because they are so hard to find.

    Comment by ness on 3/13/09 at 11:55 am

     

11. The Fiesta Milk Eggs are to die for.  I buy them for the year and it has become more difficult finding them until tonight.  Even the big stores aren’t stocking them like they used to.

    Comment by Michelle C Brecht on 3/18/09 at 9:42 pm

     

12. please let me know where i can find these in San Antonio Texas.  Thanks, SD

    Comment by Sharon Davault on 3/19/09 at 8:59 am

     

13. I would love to tell you but I am having trouble with OKC and I no nothing about San Antonio.  Sorry!

    Comment by Michelle C Brecht on 3/19/09 at 9:02 pm

     

14. Live in Houston, where can i find these yummy candies, MY FAVORITE!!! HELP, MUST FIND!

    Comment by CC on 3/23/09 at 12:52 pm

     

15. where can I buy the Fiesta Malted Milk eggs—I can’t find these anywhere in our area

    Comment by Lynne Krizek on 3/30/09 at 1:12 pm

     

16. Fiesta is used to describe the colored ones.  There are also white ones with the same flecks of color.  They taste the same, but I still like the colored ones best.  There also the ones that are just chocolate covered like the balls.  Some years they are impossible to find and some years they cannot be found at all.  We have better luck at Walmart or Kroger’sSupermarket—however not always in the same year.  This year it is the colored ones at Kroger.  About the white on the lips—was very popular in the ‘60’s in junior high when white lipstick was also popular.

    Comment by LinRae BecMar on 4/02/09 at 9:58 pm

     

17. These were my very favorite this year! And I love all you people who write about candy. This is like snuff for me.

    Your post took me down memory lane. My best friend and I had a job together at a bank working the Friday night drive-thru window (before ATM’s were all the rage). It was our Friday night tradition to buy candy and indulge our sweet teeth inbetween the rare customers. Right before Easter we bought a bag of malted milk eggs, but the really garishly colored ones. We proceeded to use them as hilarious lipsticks just like the author…you can imagine the vivid blue lips. Then, out of the blue we had a walk-up customer at the window who was very amused. I wonder if he still remembers us and tells our story?

    Anyway, this Fiesta bag of malted goodies are just terrific! I loved them and at a whole bag in one night because I just could not stop. Just the right combo of crunchy, flaky and malty. Mmmmm. I felt I had found a treasure. Around these parts there were plenty of little bags of tiny malted milk eggs but I knew those wouldn’t have the correct ratio.

    I am a fan of regular malted milk balls, but I like the candy coated eggs much better because the balls usually have a waxy finish on them. YUCK.

    Comment by Denise on 4/19/09 at 6:37 pm

     

18. Has anyone noticed a difference in the chocolate covered Malted Milk Balls? It doesn’t seem to have the creamy chocolate that I have loved and recommended to people for over 30 yrs. Even the malt tastes different.  I have heard that they changed the recipe just on Malted Milk Balls. Can this be true?  The last two bags I bought tasted like Whoppers. I can’t even eat the last bag I bought. Please bring back my Malted Milk Balls!

    Comment by Lorraine on 4/25/09 at 7:33 pm

     

19. I just sent an email to the Brach’s company regarding how hard it is to find Brach’s Malts, their name for malted milk balls.

    They are simply the best!!  Why does most every store carry Whoppers (fake chocolate - yuck!) but not Brach’s malts?

    I suggested they hold a taste test—Brach’s vs. Whoppers.  Brach’s would surely win!

    Maybe if more people contact them, more stores will carry Brach’s Malts.  They are amazing!

    Comment by Michele on 4/30/09 at 11:26 am

     

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