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Thursday, March 22, 2007
Melster Marshmallow EggsEek! The end of the week is coming and I still have oodles of Easter candy left to review. Time to double up!
The eggs themselves are about half the size of an actual chicken egg (sliced longways), so they don’t sit quite right in the egg carton. In fact, if you don’t carry the carton horizontally, they’ll all roll out of their little pockets. But not with the messy effect of real eggs. At 45 calories per egg and only 1.5 grams of fat they’re not a bad little treat for someone looking for a little chocolate and a bit more interaction satisfaction than 45 calories of straight chocolate can give.
The marshmallow inside is bouncy and light, not terribly moist. The chocolate outside wasn’t eggciting, just a rather unremarkable coating of plain dark sweet chocolate. The first one I ate (the one pictured) tasted rather like the carton they were in ... a little chemical-y. So for my next tasting I took them out of the carton and left them on a little plate for a half an hour. You know, “to breathe.” That little airing out helped. Now they taste sweet and flavorless. Not bad ... not eggstraodinary by any means, but I only paid 99 cents for the carton of twelve ... what could I have been eggspecting? Rating: 4 out of 10
Where the plain eggs were only 45 calories each, the addition of caramel here makes them 60 calories though still only a gram of fat. I’m guessing the difference is that the caramel eggs are just a little denser (though the same size).
While I wanted to like these, they had a latexy quality ... and I don’t mean the texture. They tasted like someone had just painted my mouth. That fresh paint smell was coupled with the taste of cereal, maybe corn flakes. So, maybe these needed the same “airing out” ... and that’s what I did. A half an hour out of the package. Ugh, it still tasted like a can of latex wall paint (maybe ceiling paint, my palette isn’t that sophisticated when it comes to interior coatings). Now, I recognize that I’ve not reviewed candies for fans of paint fumes, so consider this your first whole hearted recommendation. For those of you who are not fans of sitting around smelling the paint dry, well, I’d advise sticking to the plain eggs or splurge for Russell Stover or even better See’s. Rating: 2 out of 10 More about the history of the Melster Company which is now owned by Impact Confections (makers of Warheads).
POSTED BY Cybele AT 2:12 pm 
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I love this blog! It’s my favorite subject and inspires me to include more writing in my own space about all the candies I enjoy taste testing.
OMG! My favorite easter candy EVAR is a combination of these - the Melster plain marshmallow bunnies in individual wrappers like the second image on here. They also have marshmallow santas for Christmas and I get them from Wal-mart. They don’t have very much marshmallow filling (I hate globbing mouthfuls of sticky-sweet marshmallow) and are sort of thin and smooth. They are trashy and awesome - I ate them packages at a time in college. I’m sorry you didn’t like the rest of the line!
It makes me nervous that one might have to “air out” their candy. :x Good heavens.
I wanted to know if Melster’s chocolate covered Marshmallow eggs contains any pork ... or enzymes of pork. See it says Gelatin but not what kind. Respond to me as soom of possible.
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