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Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Russell Stover Eggs: Carrot Cake, Birthday Cake and Wedding Cake
The thing that’s so odd about them is that they’re eggs. None of these flavors are particularly Easter themed. In fact, I find the idea of a Birthday Cake flavored egg for Easter downright odd. Carrot Cake is the only one that makes a modicum of sense, since carrots are associated with rabbits, which are associated with Easter. Russell Stover Carrot Cake Egg covered in White Chocolate is only one ounce. It looks the same as the other Russell Stover egg packaging, green foil and a white emblem on the front with a little bow and the Russell Stover logo. There are elements of an amber orange and a slice of cake featured on the lower right.
As with the other cake and dough eggs that Russell Stover started making, it’s an odd sort of bon bon. The filling actually contains cake mix. So inside is an unbaked cake mix that’s creamed together with some milk and butter to create a filling that’s then molded into an egg shape inside a white chocolate shell. Kind of weird. It smells very sweet with a little note of cinnamon and nutmeg along with some sort of dairy milk. It’s a little flat, so it’s easy to bite. It’s extremely sweet, but the filling has a sort of cookie dough consistency. It’s a little grainy, as I can feel the sugar and the raw flour in the center. It’s not pasty, as there’s enough fat in there to let it dissolve and melt like a bon bon should. The carrot notes are a bit lost, it’s the spice cake flavors that really create the reality. Overall, aside from its sweetness, it’s pretty good. I can’t say that I’ve ever really wanted a carrot cake bonbon, so this doesn’t fill a hole in my heart. I’d say that some pecans would enhance it, but they’re an unlikely addition at this price point.
This egg feels bigger than the others, though the wrapper says it’s also one ounce. The cake featured in the picture is a yellow cake with a chocolate frosting. Just as the carrot cake version lists cake mix, this one lists Yellow Cake Mix in the ingredients (also white chocolate, even though it’s covered in milk chocolate).
The egg is not molded like the others, instead its enrobed, like the Cookie Dough Egg I reviewed last year. There are little sprinkles stuck to it, though I think there were just as many rattling around in the package when I unwrapped it. I don’t care for sprinkles, they look pretty and all, but they’re a mess. They don’t taste good and they just leave evidence everywhere that you’ve not only been indulging, but indulging in something with sprinkles on it. The egg itself smells a bit like dough, it has that uncooked batter note to it. The center is soft and easy to bite, the chocolate stays together, but the sprinkles rarely make it into my mouth. The milk chocolate is merely passable, it’s not strong but does have a sort of malty element that stands up to the otherwise bland battercream. Though I don’t have a cookie dough version right here, I recall this being much different except that the center is a little softer and less crumbly. If you’re a cake person, sprinkle person or your birthday happens to fall around the time we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus, this may be the perfect candy for you.
Russell Stover Wedding Cake covered in White Chocolate is an extremely sweet confection. (I didn’t get a photo of the package, or even a particularly good photo of the candy.) It’s a white cake center with a white chocolate coating, so the notes are pretty much vanilla and sugar. The center is a bit softer than the Birthday Cake, though still has the sugary grain to it. It’s just slightly fluffed but has an overall milky sweet flavor and a hint of the raw flour. It was far too sweet with no actual purpose to it. The idea of wedding cake that’s all white with white frosting and no note of raspberry or marzipan is actually kind of foreign to me. This taste more like grocery store sheet cake ... which is not something I think anyone strives to emulate. I’m sure there are some super-sweet-toothers who will enjoy this, but I think it as was just too sweet and one-note. The cake thing is lost on me. I don’t mind when things go back to the source of why we made it a cake flavor in the first place, like taking the flavor elements of coconut and chocolate and caramel from a German Chocolate Cake ... but yellow cake can stay in the realm of baked goods from no on. Related Candies
POSTED BY Cybele AT 1:14 pm
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Commenting is not available in this channel entry.I agree with you about the other cake flavors:
Russell Stover should go with a German chocolate cake route. Since they already have caramel, coconut, and chocolate egg why they couldn’t blend together to make the new variety. It could be a caramel coated coconut then drenched into chocolate.
If Russell Stover would put a lemon filling in either white chocolate or dark chocolate eggs, I’d probably be at Walgreen’s right now, stocking up.
Otherwise, I agree with @Alek on the merits and feasibility of German chocolate eggs. I would also stock up on those.
The “birthday cake” flavor craze puzzles me—other than obvious appeal of PUT SPRINKLES ON ALL THE THINGS—because modern yellow cake really doesn’t taste like anything but sweet. Cake that tastes like something is flavored to taste other than “cake” (spice, orange, strawberry, chocolate, etc.).
I totally get the “fuzzy concept” thing and the “too sweet” thing. The “cake” thing is lost on me, too. But I’d like to mention that none of these Russell Stover eggs taste like chemicals—they actually taste like real food, to me, anyway—which, to me, gives them a leg up over 99% of the other candy for sale at the same Walgreen’s.
I never tried the carrot cake or birthday cake ones yet, but I tried the wedding cake one.
Rating for the wedding cake one: 9/10
Wedding Cake and Carrot Cake eggs….spend $9 on them for easter and threw them in the garbage.
Worst tasting things I have ever had.!
Picked up some of the Russel Stover eggs on clearance after Easter. The Wedding Cake and Chocolate Wedding Cake eggs actually tasted salty to me and were very unpleasant. The Carrot Cake one I found to be pretty good. A little bit of an unnatural aftertaste, but initially not bad. The Birthday Cake one was just so-so. Not as salty tasting as the Wedding Cake but had a similar taste to it.
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