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March 2010Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Eat with your Eyes: Godiva Chocolate PearlsI love candy.
That is all. POSTED BY Cybele AT 8:07 am Candy • Featured News • Fun Stuff • Photography • Monday, March 15, 2010
Espresso Filled Dark Chocolate
How about a little spot of sweet espresso and some dark chocolate to get your going? I picked up these little Espresso Filled Dark Chocolate nuggets at Cost Plus World Market. I think they’re made by Mieszko, a Polish candy company. I was hoping they’d be like the Ferrero Pocket Coffee that are so hard to get here in the United States. The packaging was nicely done. The stand up pouch has a zipper lock for re-sealing. Each individual piece is wrapped in a paper-backed foil and then a thin cellophane over that to seal it up tight. Often I worry that filled chocolates will be cracked or oozy, but every one was perfect.
The little domed rectangular nuggets are about one inch long, 3/4 of an inch wide and about the same high. The dark chocolate isn’t particularly dark, the package says that it’s at least 40%. It smells rich and dark, but that’s about as good as it got on that front.
The chocolate shell was nicely tempered and thick enough to be a strong container for the liquid center. The chocolate is smooth but far too sweet and lacking in bold chocolate punch. The espresso goo inside is a smooth and syrupy texture. It smells nicely of coffee but is sticky sweet. I liked the sweet roasted barley notes to it, but it wasn’t what I’d call espresso at all, I’d call it a Postum syrup. It’s too bad, the price was decent and the fact that they’re pretty easy to find if you have a Cost Plus World Market nearby would make them a great item for coffee lovers. But these aren’t for coffee lovers, they’re for people who heap spoonfuls of sugar into their espresso and call themselves coffee lovers. In reality they’re for sugar lovers who like coffee flavor ... nothing wrong with that and here’s a candy to go with that. (I know, I said at the top of the review this might be the caffeinated pop to get you going after the time change, I was wrong.) Related Candies
POSTED BY Cybele AT 3:24 pm Eat with your Eyes: Twix Triple Chocolate ReturnsThe Twix Triple Chocolate is three layers of different chocolate textures: a chocolate cookie, chocolate caramel covered in chocolate.
POSTED BY Cybele AT 10:48 am Candy • Featured News • Fun Stuff • Photography • Sunday, March 14, 2010
Eat with your Eyes: KitKat Chunky Peanut ButterEvery once in a while I buy something to review, not realizing that I’ve covered it on the blog already. I bought this KitKat Chunky Peanut Butter last year before I was on Good Food to talk about KitKats around the world. (Package image here.)
It was really good. The peanut butter flavor is much more earthy and grassy than the peanut butter candies here in the US. POSTED BY Cybele AT 9:06 am Candy • Featured News • Fun Stuff • Photography • Saturday, March 13, 2010
Eat with your Eyes: Straight out of the PackageI love opening a candy wrapper and finding a picture perfect bar inside.
POSTED BY Cybele AT 7:59 am Candy • Featured News • Fun Stuff • Photography • 
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