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Friday, March 20, 2009
Elmer’s Dark Chocolate Heavenly Hash & Gold Brick Eggs
I requested that they send along some of the original, as I’d tried very hard to find them in my area and they had no webstore. Sadly, they didn’t include them so this review today is in a bit of a vacuum. The packaging is rather bold, a black background with a fluffy blue and white cloud for the logo & description. (It does look like it belongs with the Hot Tamales Licorice Jelly Beans from yesterday’s review.)
The eggs are pretty big, though each was a little different ranging from 3.5 to 3.75 inches long and about 2 inches at the widest. From the description, I assumed that the almonds would be crushed bits mixed in with the marshmallow. I don’t know why that was what I was expecting, but when I saw the candy out of the package, I thought it was really lovely. A marshmallow plank with four or five little lumps (almonds) covered in rippled and shiny dark chocolate.
The marshmallow is sweet and moist, but it’s a bit soft and forms little peaks when I bite it. (Vastly different from the Pete’s Gourmet, as you can imagine.) There’s very little flavor to the marshmallow, though every once in a while I got a bit of a honey note from it (though none is listed in the ingredients). The dark chocolate isn’t complex but is definitely less sweet than the milk chocolate from the Toasted Marshmallow Eggs, which is definitely a plus. However, since I still had a Toasted egg left, I tried one and much preferred the cotton candy flavor of that center to the rather plain Heavenly Hash. In the end, the textures and overall execution is much better with the Heavenly Hash. Rating: 7 out of 10
The Dark Chocolate Gold Brick Egg package describes it simply as dark chocolate covered pecan melt-a-way. The wrapper is similarly bold & dark, a black background with a bright yellow egg holding the logo.
This piece consists of a molded center, which is the melt-a-way which is then enrobed. Some of mine had big puddly feet, but the one I chose to photograph was more crisp looking. There’s a slight rippling on the enrobing. They smell sweet, but a little more like fudge or hot cocoa than chocolate. It didn’t seem promising. Neither did the ingredients. It went like this: sugar, dark chocolate, partially hydrogenated palm kernel oil, pecans, chocolate, skim milk ... and so on to list the less than 2 percent ingredients.
Instead of a soft and melty melt-a-way, what I had here was more of a waxy and fudgy center. The texture wasn’t quite crumbly, but it certainly didn’t have that mouthfeel of even some candies made with tropical oils (coconut oil is good for that). The flavor is rather empty, a bit like cocoa but not at all like deep, rich chocolate. There were a few pecan pieces, but they only provided some scant texture and not much on the flavor front. Rating: 4 out of 10 I’m interested to taste the original Heavenly Hash, but have no interest in the Gold Brick. But they do have something called a Gold Brick Malt Egg that seems to be tempting me against my better judgment. The Girl Tastes did a roundup last year of the classic milk chocolate Elmer’s Eggs (with similar results): Heavenly Hash & Gold Brick plus Pecan Egg & Eggceptionals Related Candies
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Hi,
I very much enjoyed your review of Elmer’s! I am a native of New Orleans, and when I was growing up, no Easter basket was complete without plenty of Elmer’s candy. They are the seasonal product I look forward to every year. While my father swears by the plain and malted gold brick, I am more of a heavenly hash fan. The eggs are divine, both plain and strawberry flavored, and they’re particularly tasty frozen, fyi. I also like their pecan eggs, which are white nougat rolled in pecans.
Thanks again! It was a delight to visit one of my favorite sites and see a review of one of my favorite candies!
Ciao,
Amy
Amy - I’m glad to hear from a local who’s kept these guys in business and to hear of the family tradition! I was just thinking that the Heavenly Hash might benefit from a little punch of strawberry as a different variety ... so cool that they’re actually available.
Hi there,
i’m not from the US and most of your products are not sold in my country, but i do enjoy reading you blog. When you discribe the taste of the candy….WOW girly i can almost taste it myself.
And those pictures are mouth watering.
Oeps i’m drooling on my keypad LOL
Greetings from the Netherlands
Oooooo! You finally got your hands on some…kinda. They sound like fun….I wish I could get them in my area.
You have to try an Original Gold Brick egg. Do not let your experiance with the dark chocolate one fool you. I am originally from New Orleans and Easter is just not the same without Elmer’s. I found your blog when I was searching to purchase Elmer’s online. I was disappointed to find that their website only sells a package of candy that retails at $135…I remember the days when I could walk in my local KB Drugs and get 3 or 4 for a buck. After reading your blog, I’m tempted to actually order that package. Hmmm, how long will it take to eat all that candy and how many pounds will I gain??
PS…try the strawberry hash.
Love these reviews! I can’t help but wonder if anyone else thinks that the second picture down looks like a hippo? To stretch it a bit farther, perhaps with sunglasses on?
another new orleans resident checking in…i don’t eat these anymore (why, when there are reese’s eggs to be had?) but growing up, our baskets would be full of heavenly hashes. why? because our parents LOVED them. i may still be a little bitter.
but i did love a gold brick egg. ooh, and my mom’s other favorite was the pecan egg. which was also good. hmm, maybe i’ll pick one up today after work… 
i live in atlanta but from new orleans. where can i find them here anyone know?????
I too have a great affection for Elmers. My grandfather was a top candy maker for Elmers in New Orleans. I have many photos and all his original recipes(hand written). I was always told that Heavenly Hash was my grand fathers recipe. He told us he put the recipe together. Ill be in New Orleans for Easter and cant wait to stock up on Heavenly Hash and Gold Bricks. Maggie
Wow !!!! Gold brick eggs !! A friend of mine asked me once how good they were. And i told him “if you had one right now and i didn’t,id punch you in the face.” At the time it had been about 25 years since i had one. I contacted Elmers candy about 5 years ago to inquire about ordering some online, but at the time they would only sell to business and retail, and yes i wrote them a very nasty email stating it had been over 25 years since i had eaten one of their coveted “gold brick eggs”,and i thought it was a very wrong that they did not sell to regular people who didn’t live in the areas Elmers supplied to.As a child gold bricks were my most favorite candy of all, and they still are to this day!!! i also thinks its very cruel that you can only get them one time out of a year. Well now thanks to Elmers they sell online to anyone from January to Easter,and thanks to my wife’s love for me and our deep freeze, I’m happy year round!! I’m like the coolest dad ever, according to my son and all his friends !!!
I just had my very first Elmer’s (original) Heavenly Hash Egg last week and loved it! (Only complaint: there were only two almonds embedded in the ‘mallow.) Found it at my local Rite Aid.
I wish I could get my hands on the dark variety, since it’s my favorite type of chocolate…
I haven’t lived in New Orleans in over 40 years, but each Easter I look for Elmer’s Heavenly Hash eggs. I’ve been moderately successful in finding them in my area. When I can’t, I ask my brother, who still lives in New Orleans, to send me some. He sends them along with some Gold Brick eggs as well. I put them in the freezer and eat them sparingly. Delicious!!! I haven’t tried the dark chocolate ones, though.
Heavenly hash is the only easter candy i carve as an adult….well that and cadbury robins eggs. The previous poster was right….try that pecan nought egg. It is rich….but pretty darn good. I’v never been crazy about the gold brick but I’m more of a dark chocolate girl so I am very pleased to see it not comes in dark chocolate. Heavenly hash eggs (which are pretty big compared to other easter egg shaped candy) only come with one or 2 almonds…liek almond joy…that’s typical…and yummy….like finding treasure….and strawberry is awesome. I wish they had an orange and dark chocolate flavor. I came across this blog looking for a heavenly hash brownie recipe ....like most other posters…I was just mising New Orleans.
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