Sunday, February 04, 2007

Ferrero Mon Cheri

The companion product to the Ferrero Rocher is the Mon Cheri. For a long time I though these had something to do with cherries, so I avoided them. But it turns out that only the European versions are cherry ... the American ones are simply a milk chocolate shell over a whole hazelnut surrounded by hazelnut paste and crushed hazelnuts.

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These little morsels are the same size and shape as Ferrero’s devious little Pocket Coffee (well, the little lines on the top of the chocolate are diagonal on the Pocket Coffee).

imageDuring Valentine’s Mon Cheri are sold in all sorts of different heart shaped boxes but still not as prevalent as the Ferrero Rocher. But come on, the name alone means it doesn’t need special packaging! I did see a few assortments at the drug store that included Mon Cheri, Raphaello (an almond paste with crushed almonds in a cookie sphere covered with coconut and white chocolate) and, of course, Rochers.

I’m not quite as keen on these as I am on the Rochers, probably because it’s milk chocolate. If anything, they’re a milk chocolate version of Perugina’s Baci.

However, create a heart shaped box with a mix of these, Pocket Coffee and Rochers ... now we’re talking!

Note: though these are very high in calories and fat (44% of your RDA of saturated fat in every serving!) they also have 9% of your RDA of calcium and 5% of your RDA of iron.

Name: Mon Cheri
    RATING:
  • 10 SUPERB
  • 9 YUMMY
  • 8 TASTY
  • 7 WORTH IT
  • 6 TEMPTING
  • 5 PLEASANT
  • 4 BENIGN
  • 3 UNAPPEALING
  • 2 APPALLING
  • 1 INEDIBLE
Brand: Ferrero
Place Purchased: Walgreen's (Echo Park)
Price: $1.39
Size: 1.5 ounces
Calories per ounce: 173
Categories: Chocolate, Italy, Ferrero, nuts

POSTED BY Cybele AT 9:28 pm    

Comments
  1. huh, i always thought they had something to do with cherries as well…

    Comment by Tabatha on 2/05/07 at 1:11 pm #

     

  2. Interesting… when I lived in Germany, the Mon Cheri candies I had were filled with a liqueur.  And if memory serves me correctly, some with cherries.  It’s amazing how things change once the cross the pond.

    Comment by Maggi on 2/06/07 at 4:41 am #

     

  3. I’m only familiar with the cherry version of these candies, which are absolutely vile and inedible—they are probably one of the nastiest candies I’ve ever tried, and I’ll eat anything.  I would never have dreamed of purchasing them because I presumed they were all the same.  I’ve only ever gotten them in the US so there are theoretically stores selling the European versions here.

    Comment by Tea on 2/07/07 at 5:54 am #

     

  4. Somebody help me find some cherry liquer Mon Cheri…. I can’t seem to be able to buy it anywhere. Why is it out of stock?

    Comment by Nour on 4/02/07 at 1:50 am #

     

  5. I haven’t read much of the blog yet, but I don’t think anyone has mentioned or knows about Germandeli.com They have the German version of mon cheri filled with cherries and brandy.

    They were one of my favorite candies growing up in Germany and attending Kindergarden for 3 yrs.

    http://www.germandeli.com/moncheri1.html

    But the reason you’ll most likely find them out of stock is either they’re sold out or it is the summer, and they don’t ship them because the hot weather will evaporate the brandy filling. I have gotten them at a local German store here in MI for around $25 for the 25 pack. A little more tart than I remember, being 5 yrs old at the time.

    Comment by Lamont "you big dummy" Sanford; Commodities on 8/21/07 at 7:51 pm #

     

  6. i can not find any of these candies anywhere ,can you help

    Comment by joseph wagner on 12/12/07 at 5:29 am #

     

  7. if you live here in the USA you can’t find them anymore…they quit making them…i’m thinking about staging a protest…they are my FAVORITE candy!!!

    Comment by Libby on 12/12/07 at 3:12 pm #

     

  8. I have bought my daughter this candy for 20+ years for Christmas and this is the first year I can’t find them..I’m really bumbed it’s kind of a tradition with us.

    Comment by Pam on 12/13/07 at 6:51 am #

     

  9. my father absolutely LOVES these!!!  we have given him them since we were babies….i am now 27 years old.  i have not been able to find these anywhere.  please help!!!!!

    Comment by Tammy on 12/15/07 at 2:49 pm #

     

  10. u guys are nuts. ive never heard of the cherry; dont let the cherry ones taint your perception of the regular hazelnut ones!—they r so damn good, i could open up a wrapper and smell that chocolate allllllll day

    Comment by Shasta on 8/12/08 at 4:16 pm #

     

  11. I recently received a birthday package from my best friend in Germany.  These Ferrero’s Mon Cheri are limited edition and do have the cherry with cherry liquor in them.  She was a foreign exchange student in high school.  These have long since been my favorite treat, but are only available after September until Valentines.

    Comment by jessica waugh on 10/29/08 at 12:21 pm #

     

  12. What is the deal?!! I cannot find Mon Cheri with whole hazlenuts anymore.  I always receive this candy from my secret pal, and this year I haven’t gotten any. I even went to several stores, and can’t find them anywhere. If you live in my state… please tell me who sells this very delicious, mouth watering treat!

    Comment by Kim Nelson on 11/19/08 at 1:03 pm #

     

  13. Where can I purchase Mon Cheri candy?  I love this candy, I pray that you bring Mon Cheri candy back on store shelves.  Mon Cheri candy is in great demand and great for gifts.

    Comment by Brenda Gray on 12/01/08 at 6:08 am #

     

  14. i live in the city of oklahoma city, ok i would like to know where can i purchase this candy from i orginally from new orleans and they sold it at walgreens but since i’ve moved here i can’t find it anywhere.

    Comment by cherrel on 12/03/08 at 3:06 pm #

     

  15. Ferrero no longer makes the Hazelnut Mon Cheri Candy.. that you used to be able to buy at Walgreens.  I can’t find them in any other country either, although, I know they quit making them completely.

    Comment by CB on 12/05/08 at 11:26 am #

     

  16. please can someone help me find a box of mon cherri’s by ferrero.( only mon cherri’s ) i can find a mixed box but, there is only a few mon cherri’s

    Comment by kathy clickner on 12/07/08 at 11:30 am #

     

  17. I’ve been looking for the Mon Cheri hazelnut chocolate’s for a long time.  I was afraid they had stopped making them.  I don’t know how I’ll survive without them.  They were my guilty pleasure.  I’ve always looked forward to Valentine and Christmas so I could buy large boxes.  I’ve replaced them with the Ferrero Rocher hazelnut chocolates but, they just don’t compare.  Any chance they’ll be available again?????

    Comment by kimberly d on 12/08/08 at 5:24 am #

     

  18. I can’t seem to Mon Cheri candy in the stores at all.  My kids and I were talking about where my name came from and I want them to tast this great candy.  I did find it on line at the candy wearhouse.  It is very expensive and comes in a box with Ferrero Rocher.  If anyone knowes where I can buy the Mon Cheri, I would appricate it you would let me know.

    Comment by Cheri on 12/10/08 at 6:45 pm #

     

  19. Oh my goodness! I see someone else out there is disturbed as I am about not finding these chocolates. My husband LOVES them and I have been trying my hardest to find them. We used to purchase them at the Navy Commissary in Norfolk, Virginia…even CVS used to carry them. Help! Are they not made any more? or only available at certain times?
    I tried searching online but can only find the cherry ones.

    Comment by kboyll on 12/16/08 at 6:35 am #

     

  20. I have bought my sister this candy every year for Christmas. Where can you find it? It is her favorite and a tradition that goes back at least 10 years or more. :(

    Comment by penny jemola on 12/18/08 at 12:04 pm #

     

  21. Sorry Dawnie,
    Looks like you will have to settle for a picture this year!
    Love,
    Sissy

    Comment by citymse on 12/23/08 at 9:53 am #

     

  22. I NEED this candy!!!! It was my absolute favorite!! Way better than the “Rocher” candies. I guess you don’t know what you got ‘til it’s gone…........ We ALL need to write them @ Ferrero USA and let them know that we NEED this candy back!!!
    contact them at:

    FERRERO USA INC.
    600 Cottontail Lane
    Somerset, NJ 08873


    Maybe if we all protest, beg, cry, and write them; they’ll listen!!!!
    PLEASE HELP!

    Comment by Teresa on 12/25/08 at 8:57 am #

     

  23. I have always bought my dad this candy every year since I can remember.  I have searched every where to find this.  If you did stop making this product please reconsider.  I miss this family tradition.  My dad doesn’t eat a lot of candy and he is not a big chocolate fan.  However he loves this candy and looks forward to it every year.  He was very disappointed this year. Please bring it back to the US.

    Comment by Sarah on 12/30/08 at 4:28 pm #

     

  24. FYI: For those of you who are trying to locate where to get..I buy a 60 pack of Mon Cheri every 6mos from the onlinecandyshop.com. I think around $20.00

    Comment by Vickie on 1/13/09 at 5:52 am #

     

  25. So that is why I can’t find the red packages of Mon Cheri hazelnut chocolates any more!  I ate them, gave them as gifts, etc.  I wondered where they went.  I looked up Ferrero on-line, and to contact them, you have to write them.

    Please, please, everybody do it now!  I want them, also!  My favorites.  As an alternative, go to Italy (where they use hazelnuts in lots of chocolate) or buy the bags of Perugina Baci chocolates in the blue package - like you always see at Christmas. 

    Connie

    Comment by Connie Brickner on 2/03/09 at 7:09 am #

     

  26. My grandfather bought these for my grandmother and me for every occasion, birthday, Valentines Day, Christmas, 4th of July, getting good grades….  When he died in 1988, my grandmother continued the tradition until she became housebound.  It made me feel close to him again.  Now she is gone and the clerks in the stores that used to carry them have never heard of them before (except for the one lady that had been there for many years).
    I want some again. /sniff

    Comment by cathy on 2/07/09 at 10:26 am #

     

  27. I’ve been looking for Mon Cheri for awhile and can’t find them anywhere. I haven’t had any in years and have been wanting some. I hate that they quit making them.

    I also can’t find Russell Stover’s chocolate covered cherries anymore either, except for online. I love their cherries. hmmm

    Comment by Niki on 2/15/09 at 9:37 pm #

     

  28. HOW DARE U STOP MAKING MY FAVORITE CANDY NOW I HAVE TO BY SEE’S FOR VALENTINES DAY FOR MY MOTHER OUTRAGED!!!!!!!!

    Comment by scoutt on 3/07/09 at 11:48 am #

     

  29. if you reeeeaaaaally want Mon Cheri then find someone that has family in Puerto Rico and have them send you some!!!  Ferrero Puerto Rico still makes them and sells them all the time!!  Whenever I go to visit my family I bring back two or three 18-packs.  My husband looooooooooves them!!!

    Comment by rani on 4/01/09 at 4:34 pm #

     

  30. Hi!
    I’m a big fan of Ferrerro Roche chocolates. I received a wonderful selection of them for the winter holidays of 2008. A generous friend delivered them in-person. I’m also a big fan of amaretto and hazelnut truffles as well as sea-creature-shaped pralines. Would you be interested in participating in a candy consortium?
    Regards,
    SharonLynne Reynolds

    Comment by Sharon Lynne Reynolds on 4/24/09 at 6:43 am #

     

  31. I just love the Mon Cheri ones wrapped in pink!! we only get them round Easter time… wonder what the American nut version would taste like…
    Ferro has 3 great chocs available here to us in Namibia… Rocher, Raphaello and ofcourse Mon Cheri wrapped in pink….
    BUT the prices have soared like eagles on a gush of wind… wonder how long before we no longer can afford these devine choccies…...

    Comment by Julie on 6/30/09 at 11:40 am #

     

  32. I love, miss and want my Mon Cheri’ with the hazelnut!

    Comment by Martha on 9/05/09 at 5:25 am #

     

  33. Mon Cheri’ with Hazelnut!
    Saw this while searching for this hard to find favorite candy of mine online.
    Have not try ordering yet so, I can’t make any claim bad or good about the store. http://www.oryans.com/monchhach.html

    Comment by Martha on 9/05/09 at 5:49 am #

     

  34. It’s so funny to see so many people have been looking for this candy like me grin.  I use to buy them and give them out as a little piece of me.  Friends and family were impressed when I gave them a piece of Mon Cheri as a thank you or a lift them up gift.  I’ve been looking for the candy for over 5 years since I lost my brother. I use to call him the candy man, because he always carried candy in his pocket and gave it out to children—he was an educator and loved handing out candy to kids.  I’m looking for the candy so that I can leave a piece at his grave
    site on special occassions.  I use to find it a CVS, but have been looking for a while and they no longer sell it.  I’m going to try the link that someone else posted on this blog.

    Thanks,

    Cheri

    Comment by Cheri on 9/11/09 at 4:28 am #

     

  35. I LOVE mon cherie, these are my FAVORITE chocolates.  It was a ‘tradition’ of mine to get them each Valentine’s day and try my best to preserve them (not the greatest job though, lol).  I have been searching and searching to find them now-a-days and can’t :(.  I’m glad to hear that they are still out there and I might be able to find them again.  If I do, I’m buying them in bulk, lmao!!!

    Comment by sherry on 10/06/09 at 6:50 am #

     

  36. They haven’t completely stopped making them. I am in Taiwan right now working at my aunt’s company for a year, and the hazelnut ones are sold at 7-11s (one on every street corner) in packs of four packaged in a row to look like a skinny candy bar. It’s approximately $1 a pack.

    Comment by Trish on 10/08/09 at 2:25 am #

     

  37. Trish… you need to put them on Ebay.. you’d be making millions from just the people on this blog!!  Seriously, let me know when you do! HAHA

    Comment by Moni Cheri Addict on 11/01/09 at 7:03 pm #

     

  38. I LOVE,LOVE,LOVE MON-CHERI!!! IM IN SOUTH FLORIDA,FROM LONG ISLAND,NY AND I LOVE,LOVE,LOVE MON-CHERI!!I LOVE GOOD CHOCOLATE BUT IM MORE FUSSY THAN MORRIS THE CAT. I LOVE,LOVE,LOVE MON-CHERI!!!!CANT FIND THE LITTLE BASTARDS ANYWHERE!!!

    Comment by Patrick on 11/11/09 at 3:55 pm #

     

  39. I absolutely love the mon cheri’s with the hazelnut in the middle. You must bring them back immediately. They’re way too delicious of a chocolate to discontinue. Please please bring them back I really wanna get them for myself, for xmas gifts for my family.

    Comment by Chrissy Janssen on 11/14/09 at 7:59 am #

     

  40. The Hazelnut Mon Cheri are the unfortunate result of either American import laws or American palates. Ugh. Totally bo-ring.

    The original cherry liqueur Mon Cheri, however, are the best damn chocolates on the planet.

    Comment by Emlyn on 11/30/09 at 3:50 pm #

     

  41. So is there anywhere to find these still?  I really need to find some as a Christmas gift!!

    Comment by Robin on 12/17/09 at 6:41 pm #

     

  42. I am also outraged that we can no long get the whole hazelnut mon cheri candy…They were also my FAVORITE candy..I dont like the companies other candies…why arent they distributed in the USA any more?

    Comment by Melody on 12/31/09 at 7:51 am #

     

  43. Last week I was visiting San Juan, PR and the supermarkets and drugstores had Mon Cheri.  They are as tasty as always,  advertised as 25th anniversary, and listed expiration dates of June, 2010, so they are still being made there.  They were listed as a product of Germany, but distributed by Ferrero, INC; Guaynabo, PR, 00968.

    Comment by Mmm Mon Cheri on 1/02/10 at 7:15 am #

     

  44. HOW DARE U STOP MAKING MY MOM’S FAVORITE CANDY NOW, I HAVE TO BUY THEM FOR VALENTINE’S DAY FOR MY MOTHER AND i DO NOT FIND THEM ANYWHERE.

    Comment by Margie S Torres on 2/13/10 at 2:31 pm #

     

  45. Hi! I have a german food store on ebay and I sell these. These are my number 1 seller. If anyone is interested I would be very happy to help you. http://stores.ebay.com/German-Food-Online?_rdc=1

    Thanks April

    Comment by april on 2/18/10 at 8:42 am #

     

  46. these MON CHERI chocolates are only made during the cold month in GERMANY, sincechocolate gets grey in warmth.then each State has a different Liquer Law and it has to figure out first how to TAX them.then during shipping,distribution,delivery they can dry out. Since they are very expensive,have somebody fromGermany send them to you.
    renate

    Comment by renate howell on 2/28/10 at 11:58 am #

     

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