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Friday, March 17, 2006
Russell Stover Cream EggsOne of the candies of Easter that has always scared me has been the Russell Stover Cream Egg. Of course this all goes back to traumatic childhood experiences where I would get excited when my mother or grandmother would allow me a piece of candy from their fancy box of chocolates. I was allowed to pick only one, of course, and I always picked the foulest things (to my young palate). The Cream Eggs looked like a huge tease - all flash and style and no substance. I didn’t realize until I took this assignment that I was very wrong.
The unlikely first candidate was the Strawberry Cream Egg. It’s a milk chocolate egg with a frothy strawberry cream with real strawberry seeds! Kind of latexy looking filling, but it smells nice. Sweet, but with a nice smooth and fluffy consistency. The chocolate is good quality and not too sweet for the filling. The center is rather bland, I wasn’t detecting a lot of “strawberry” flavor to it. For my first try, this wasn’t bad. I think I’d prefer it with dark chocolate.
Next was the Coconut Cream Egg, which I expected this to be much too sweet. Just looking at it, it seemed to be more froth than coconut substance. I’m a huge fan of Mounds bars, and this is no Mounds bar. But putting aside the comparisons, it’s not too sweet, it’s fluffy and has really good coconut flavor without being oily. The dark chocolate provides the proper bittersweet balance to the whole thing. There were ample coconut bits in there, but not dense enough to make it chewy. These were pretty cheap when I picked them up, so if they’re even MORE on sale after the holiday, I might lay in a stock of them. (Note: my camera ceased to function during this photoshoot, so you’ll just have to imagine a picture of a dark chocolate cream egg with a beige cream filling in this position.) Finally there was the Maple Cream Egg, which is a dark chocolate egg with a whipped maple cream center. No maple trees were harmed in the creation of this treat as no maple ingredients were mentioned on the label. The maple flavor actually had a good woodsy quality to it, not just the high sweet notes. It reminded me more of pecan, but that’s a good flavor, too! Sweet, mellow and creamy, this is much better than I expected it to be. The understated bitterness of the dark chocolate really held this one together. I have to thank the readers for suggesting these, I had no idea they were so fresh tasting. I was expecting a solid and bland fondant but instead it was quite a treat. Given a choice, I think I’ll always go for the dark chocolate ones. There are a few I didn’t try ... and now I’m looking forward to finding the coconut nests. There’s a huge assortment of flavors too, I didn’t see them all at the Rite Aid where I picked these up, but they also have a large number of “sugar free” varieties as well ... I’m not willing to try them myself, but if someone else can chime in on whether or not their good, they might make a nice treat for diabetic or dieting friends. They’re also pretty satisfying as a single treat goes and because they’re mostly fluffed sugar, they’re much lower in calories than an all-chocolate candy, ranging from 130 to 150 calories for a single egg. If they don’t sell them near you, the web price for these nuggets by the case is pretty good, only $.49 cents per egg. I wish they sold a sampler case that had two of each in it. I’d really like to try the Pecan/Caramel one.
POSTED BY Cybele AT 12:26 pm 
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I forget about these because they’re made here in town. Glad you enjoyed them. Around Halloween, they make a similar treat that’s an orange marshmallow filled pumpkin. Excellent.
Russell Stover’s sugar-free chocolate covered marshmallows are really good. Espcially frozen. Right now I have one sitting in the fridge to be eaten after dinner!
I’ve always liked the strawberry ones. At Halloween they have orange filled pumpkins, too, which I love.
I just had a pecan caramel egg the other day—although I’m a big Russell Stover fan, the pecan-carmel was a disappointment. It’s a giant gob of caramel with a small sprinkling of pecans, enrobed in chocolate. I was hoping for many, many more nuts. If you’re a caramel fan, this may be for you, but I was underwhelmed.
I always assumed that these would be sickeningly sweet, but afer reading your review, I might buy one in the future.
Oh now, now I’ll have to share the maple cream eggs with a potentially wider audience - I better go buy out the store quick! :^) I never noticed, though, that “no maple trees were harmed” in the making...guess I was too busy eating to read the wrapper!
The best, IMO, is the chocolate brownie one. Tastes like a chocolate truffle (and I think used to be called that in previous years).
They were the prize candy of my basket every year. Not a huge fan of the coconut ones, but love the strawberry, maple, vanilla and raspberry ones.
Does anyone remember big chocolate easter eggs? I thought they were made by Russell Stovers however am not sure. They were about 3-4 inches long and a couple of inches wide as well as height. I remember the peanutbutter one, though I think there were raspberry cream and others. I was trying to find some for this year, and am having no luck! If you have any ideas please email me. Thanks - John
The maple cream eggs are my favorite!
Yes, I remember those big chocolate cream easter eggs. I have been looking absolutely everywhere for them here in Florida during this easter season, and cannot find any. I don’t want to make them, I want a nicely decorated one that I can slice whenever I walk past, just like years ago mmmmm delicious!
I’m looking for an Easter Egg that my mom purchased when I was little. I did’nt like
coconut cream eggs so she purchased one from
a department store in Phila called Lit Brothers.
It was a carmel and pecan covered coconut egg.
I can’t seem to find it anywhere. I’ve seen
carmel and pecan covered fudge or nuguat eggs
but not the carnel and pecan covered coconut egg.
Can someone help me find one. Thank You.
The big eggs were made by Whitman’s chocolate. But they are not even on their website! My favorite was the coconut. There was a “fruit and nut” and a chocolate also. Cannot find them here, but I grew up in San Diego and that’s where I remember them.
OMG - I adore the Russell Stover Truffle Eggs, and yet they seem so hard to find. I am very particular about truffles but these have a nice rich consistency, smooth and not too syrup-like. You must try one of these as well.
Ohhhhhhhhhhh the Dove truffle eggs are just delicious too.
I ate 4 of them yesterday :D “oink oink!”
Yes, Russell Stovers did make the big Easter eggs. I remember well every Easter when I was a little girl my mother loved and so did I, the Fruit & Nut eggs made by Russell Stovers. They came in a box that was bright pink and green, I believe...they were so yummy and I miss them alot!
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