Thursday, April 23, 2015

Selma's Treatsickles Coated Crisped Rice Treats


Rice crispy treat on a stick, partially dipped in white chocolate. The coating adds some sweetness, but in the cloying way of cheap white chocolate. The ingredients list agrees: there's both "white confectionery wafers" (no cocoa butter) and "cocoa confectionery wafers" (has cocoa). But the cocoa variety comes after the coloring ingredients, so I think it's just used for the "seeds". There's no flavor to it beyond the vanilla flavor already in marshmallows and the coating. The low quality of the is a bit of a detriment. For such a great looking treat, the result is a disappointment.
Also, "Treatsickles" in the product name is spelled as it is on the package. I'm not sure if I'd put the word "sick" in my product name (and popsicle does not have a 'k'). I do see they've dropped the 'k' on their website description.
44/100

Friday, April 3, 2015

Russel Stover Lemon Cake Egg


A 1oz egg shaped chocolate truffle. The "lemon cake" flavor is present, but mostly just in giving a muted lemon flavor. Not like fresh lemon at all, kind of how bottled shelf stable lemon juice can't compare to fresh. Like the "Wedding Cake" variety, the interior is a paste, not spongy cake at all. This wouldn't necessarily be bad, but it was unexpected. The filling is wrapped in dark chocolate.
48/100

Thursday, April 2, 2015

Russel Stover Wedding Cake Egg



A 1oz egg shaped white chocolate truffle. The filling is "wedding cake" flavored. I have a bit of a problem with this since whatever kind of cake is served at a wedding is wedding cake (e.g. red velvet). But the graphic shows a slice of white cake with white icing. Pretty boring. Which is about how the truffle tastes. The interior does taste a bit like white cake. There's sort of a vague artificial vanilla flavor about the whole thing.
The texture of the interior is unexpected given the "cake" naming. It's about the texture of the filling of peanut butter cups. Not like spongy cake at all.
58/100

Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Russel Stover Cookie Dough Egg



A 1oz egg shaped chocolate truffle. Ostensibly it would just be chocolate chip cookie dough enrobed in chocolate. The ingredients mostly agree with this, with chocolate, sugar, and chocolate chip cookie dough being the first three ingredients. It somehow loses most of the cookie dough flavor though, possibly due to the additional sugar as the second ingredient; it mostly just tastes sweet. You can detect the cookie dough flavor if you look for it, but you'd be hard pressed to name it if you hadn't been told what to look for. 51/100