Dove Chocolate, a Mars brand, often skirts a line in their marketing and products between being a healthy indulgence and pure decadence. The new line of chocolate covered fruit goes for the former but still accomplishes the latter.
Mars sent me some of their new products, including this amazingly large bag of Dove Whole Dried Cranberries in Dark Chocolate. It’s 26 ounces of chocolate covered sugared dried cranberries.
The package makes it look like these are plump cranberries, but they’re the ordinary dried variety. There’s a little bit of sugar added, which is fine, because I’ve had unsweetened cranberries before and they were too puckery,even with a chocolate coating.
The pieces are quite large, and cutting them in half reveals why. They aren’t strangely large cranberries. Instead they’re covered with a lot of chocolate. Often chocolate covered cranberries are flat, but these are very appealing looking. These a plump and a little chew reveals that they’re pretty moist, not leathery. They’re tangy and have a sort of bitterness to them that cranberries are known for, but it’s offset well by the chocolate.
I often find Dove’s chocolate a little bland, but dark chocolate here has a lot of flavor. It’s a rich chocolate pudding vibe, a little woodsy. It’s creamy without being too slick, though Dove does use dairy fats in their dark chocolate, so this is not vegan. (There’s 5 mg of cholesterol in here, which serves as an indication of the level of dairy fats.)
They’re expensive. But there aren’t that many higher quality choices at grocery stores for chocolate covered cranberries. I did find Ghirardelli’s new Dark Chocolate Cranberries are just as good as these but are likely to be harder to find. Steer clear of the Nestle version in their Raisinets line as they’re just terrible.
Related Candies
- Ghirardelli Dark Chocolate Cranberry
- Simply Balanced Dark Chocolate Mixed Berry (Target)
- See’s Holiday Pie Truffles
- Trader Joe’s A Very Merry Mingle
- Nestle Cherry Raisinets
- Trader Joe’s Dark Chocolate Powerberries
- Nestle Cranberry Raisinets
- Dove Silky Smooth Milk Chocolate Bars
Name: |
Whole Dried Cranberries in Dark Chocolate |
RATING:
- SUPERB
- YUMMY
- TASTY
- WORTH IT
- TEMPTING
- PLEASANT
- BENIGN
- UNAPPEALING
- APPALLING
- INEDIBLE
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Brand: |
Mars |
Place Purchased: |
samples from Mars |
Price: |
$14.99 retail |
Size: |
26 ounces |
Calories per ounce: |
133 |
Categories: |
Candy, Mars, Chocolate, Kosher, 8-Tasty, United States |
I just saw these at Kroger a couple of days ago. In the same display were blueberries in dark chocolate. Have you tried those yet?
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