Just Born continues with their Peeps limited edition flavors. This season they’ve released three new Delight versions which are fruity flavors dipped in a white confection tinted and flavored to match.
I found two varieties and picked them up: Raspberry Delight and Lemon Delight Peeps.
The Raspberry Delight Peeps package shows both red and blackberries, though the description isn’t any more specific than simply raspberry.
The face that the inside and the outside of the Peeps are color-coordinated is oddly unsettling. The sugar crust is sparkly and a rather vibrant purple, but the innards are oddly dead looking.
The texture is exactly what you expect with a Peep, a crusty sugar shell, a light flavor and bouncy marshmallow texture. I actually enjoy slightly stale Peeps, so I let these packages sit open for a week after taking the photos of them. (So I ate one in its fresh state and the others in their stale state.) The raspberry is very mild, floral and a little jammy. There are little sour crystals in the crust and maybe in the fudge. The fudge is sweet, but also lots more flavorful than the marshmallow. I can’t say that I liked it, but it did add a textural difference and a little creamy note to the whole thing.
In this instance I liked this better than the Candy Corn and Pumpkin Spice Peeps, but not by much.
Lemon Delight Peeps are lemon flavored lightly yellow Peeps dipped in lemon fudge.
The lemon flavor is mostly sweet and has a “cleaning product” sort of vibe, with the light citrus scent but very little nuance. The flavor also has a few hints of salt and sour, which does give a little respite from the sugary notes. Overall, they’re perfectly edible, but the fudge element is grainy and sweet and waxy.
The Lemon didn’t work as well as the Raspberry, but still came off as a decent piece of candy. I find these little dipped Peeps to be ridiculously expensive for the type of candy they are. I buy them because they’re novelties and there weren’t many other new Easter candies this year. In the future, I’d prefer to just find a good small confectioner that makes their marshmallow in house and uses high quality, high cacao chocolate.
Related Candies
- Peeps for Halloween: Caramel Apple, Pumpkin Spice and Candy Corn
- Russell Stover Lemon Cake Egg
- Peeps Minis Vanilla Creme
- Peeps Sweet Lemonade Chicks
- Bubble Gum Flavored Peeps
- Tootsie Roll Raspberry Cremes
- Peeps inside a Milk Chocolate Egg
- 3 Musketeers Cherry & Raspberry
Why is the dipped part fudge? I would think it is confectionary coating or whatever imitation white chocolate type product is called? Thank you for the edification
Are you sure those aren’t supposed to be black raspberries and not blackberries on the raspberry peeps package?
I tried the vanilla, blueberry, and raspberry ones
Vanilla - Just a regular Peep with a too sweet fudge on the bottom. 7/10
Blueberry - Actually good. The best flavor of the ones I tried so far. 8/10
Raspberry: Tasted too artifical and not like raspberry. 2/10
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