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Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Things I’m Not Going to Get Around to ReviewingI’d say that I don’t review about half of the candy that I acquire. Some is for personal consumption or gifts, but a good proportion I just never get around to. Most of that you’ll never even see. These shown below are ones I at least took photos of, yet I still couldn’t muster a review. Do if you’ve had any of these, please feel free to chime in with your thoughts so that at least other folks can get some feedback on them.
Brix Chocolate - Special milk & dark chocolate blends made just for eating with wine. It comes in huge blocks that seem like they’d be difficult and messy. I picked up these tasting squares at the Fancy Food Show. I photographed them, I ate them. I read some other reviews.
These are Valerie Confections liquid caramel eggs in a dark chocolate shell with a dusting of gold flakes. They were divine and I ate a half a dozen of them in a matter of three days. (Along with a fabulous box of my favorite Lemon & Hazelnut Nougat.)
I bought it because of the name and the package design, not because I thought it’d be good. Even though the package clearly says it’s good until October 2009, it was bloomed. Could have been my fault, could have been something that happened in my luggage. Could have been the store. But it wouldn’t be fair to review it and I’m not really into eating chalky chocolate.
Brandini Toffee has been suggested for review several times by readers. I thought that the Fancy Food Show was a perfect opportunity to do that. They gave me these itty-bitty samples (mostly because I visited them on the last day, not because they were stingy or anything ... not that any candy company is obliged to give me free samples just to get reviewed, because that’s also not true). Not really the way to review toffee. One of these days I’ll find it in stores and buy a real-sized portion, not these sugar-cube-sized stuff made for Barbie dolls.
I diligently picked out these samples of the missing flavors in my set of Lake Champlain truffle eggs when at the Fancy Food Show. These are the Java Truffle Eggs. Then I ate them. They were good. I did actually intend on getting more of them, since they were already photographed at the Whole Foods by my office, but sometimes I get lazy.
I picked them up because I thought it’d be interesting to taste the chocolate base for the bars that seem to be so popular at Target and come in a bajillion flavor combinations except just plain chocolate. I never got around to it and then I lost these eensy little pieces. (Seriously, you think they’re small, but they’re actually smaller than that.)
Goat’s milk is a little gamier, a little tangy and sometimes a little musty tasting compared to cow’s milk. These Beurre et Lait de chevre were no exception. It was like eating a bit of cream cheese with my caramel. At the point where I ate them after the Fancy Food Show, I’d completely forgotten where I got them from. Then I found the second one a few weeks ago and I have to say that I think they’re product best eaten fresh. So there you have it, if not full reviews, at least lots of eye candy. Related Candies
POSTED BY Cybele AT 6:34 pm
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the Valerie Confections liquid caramel eggs are making my mouth water
I suffer the same dilemma! ^^
Those last caramels—is there a brand name? I googled “Beurre et Lait de chevre” but came up with nothing. Caramel with a hint of cream cheese? I must have them! Please, if you have more info, post it or email me. And thanks for your wonderful blog!
The Valerie eggs are really outstanding. Divine. Delicious. I don’t know which adjectives to pick, because so many of the positive ones describe said eggs.
But the best part is how I came to enjoy them: A couple of weeks ago I was driving home on Beverly and thought, hey, Valerie is close by. I’ll go in and buy myself one chocolate. I went in, and really it’s not a store so much as a kitchen with one tiny retail counter. And on that counter, a giant platter of all their full-sized chocolates and toffees. The sales lady was VERY nice and encouraged me to try every single one. For free. Even though I was just buying one chocolate. I just tried three, because it seemed to all be too much. Go there today. But don’t over do it! We don’t want them to take the giant platter away!
The “Eurocrem Blok” is a chocolate that comes from Croatia (small country in Europe…next to Italy). It’s made of hazelnut, milk and cocoa cream. It tastes sweet and feels very crumbly, so it tastes pretty awful.
The slogan “35 godina rastemo zajedno” means more or less “35 years of growing together”
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