Monday, June 15, 2015

Russell Stover Pecan Delight Minis

DSC_9277rbRussell Stover is probably best known for the inexpensive boxed chocolates sold at drug stores. I happen to like them for their holiday novelty candies, but more recently they’ve tried to get into everyday snacking with their Big Bite pieces. At first these were just larger versions of the seasonal favorites, but more recent items are completely original to the format. The opposite spectrum of this trend is morselization ... and Russell Stover has introduced some teensy versions of their more popular items. I picked up their Russell Stover Pecan Delight Minis, which are nugget-sized pecan turtles.

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These candies that have the word pecan as the first word in their name and they need more pecans. A lot more pecans. Currently they’re little pecan bits, where are nice, they’re a good textural element, but they’re not dense enough ... I need some crunch in my chewy caramel and creamy milk chocolate.

The size is good, they’re poppable. The vague sprinkling of pecans does give a woodsy maple note to the whole thing, the tough of salty is just about right. The caramel is a little too flavored and not authentically caramelized sugar and cream.

As a candy, they about as good as other morsel things at the same price. They’re certainly better than Brach’s. I can’t say that I liked these better than the Demet’s Minis, which also suffer from too few pecans, but I do think the chocolate is of better quality here. (And less expensive.)

Related Candies

  1. Trader Joe’s Milk Chocolate Jumbles
  2. DeMet’s Turtles Minis
  3. Russell Stover Big Bite Pecan Delight Egg
  4. Trader Joe’s A Very Merry Mingle
  5. DeMet’s Turtles: Pecan & Cashew
  6. Fannie May Pixie


Name: Pecan Delight Minis
    RATING:
  • SUPERB
  • YUMMY
  • TASTY
  • WORTH IT
  • TEMPTING
  • PLEASANT
  • BENIGN
  • UNAPPEALING
  • APPALLING
  • INEDIBLE
Brand: Russell Stover
Place Purchased: Walgreen's (Glendale)
Price: $3.50 (on sale)
Size: 7.5 ounces
Calories per ounce: 149
Categories: Candy, Morselization, Russell Stover, Caramel, Chocolate, Nuts, United States, Walgreen's

POSTED BY Cybele AT 4:44 pm Tracker Pixel for Entry     CandyMorselizationReviewRussell StoverCaramelChocolateNuts6-TemptingUnited StatesWalgreen's

Comments
  1. oh they looks so yummy and chocolaty.
    Thanks for the blog.

    Comment by cookiesfromhome on 6/22/15 at 11:23 pm #
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