Life Muses by Ro

Chocolate Review: Hawaiian Host MacNut Crunch

Oh boy! The first of the month is OVER! It is always such a busy day for me… paying bills… sending out royalty reports… putting things in and out…I can not believe it is 4:43 and I am finished! (It helps that I got up at 6:20 this morning, I suppose…)

I decided to reward myself and try out some chocolates I bought on my recent vacation to Hawaii. As I am sitting here munching on them, I am feeling such regret. I should have bought an entire box of them.

hey are so yummy! Light and crunchy. Not too sweet, but just sweet enough. They hit the spot perfectly.

I wonder if they are available on the mainland…Hmm….I will keep my eyes peeled, for sure!

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Chocolate Review: 3 Musketeers Mint with Dark Chocolate

The 3 Musketeers Bar has never been my favorite - too fluffy for me or something. But while I was standing in the check-out line at Walmart, I spotted the Dark Chocolate Mint bar for the first time.  I thought, "If nothing else, it will work for a chocolate review blog topic."

I was happily surprised to learn that I like it. In this case, the fluffiness of the mint filling is a bonus because sometimes, the mint portion of a bar tastes kind of sicky-sweet. The bar tastes light and refreshing. It's just enough to fulfill a sweet-tooth moment and best of all, it is only 150 calories.

Nice little tasty snack.

I'll buy this one again.

Have any of you tasted this before? Am I late to this party?

Chocolate Review: Skinny Cow Truffle Bars and Skinny Dippers

If you are an ice cream lover (like I am), but are concerned that you are packing on weight when you sit on the couch eating a big bowl of chocolate ice cream while watching The Biggest Loser, you are not not alone.

This was my story. At least, it was my story until I tried the Skinny Dippers Mint and Vanilla ice cream bars and the Skinny Cow Chocolate Truffle Bars.

Oh my words! They are great.

I used to eat Skinny Cow ice cream sandwiches, but to tell the truth, I got tired of them because they seemed a little grainy to me. The mint variety of the Skinny Dippers snagged me because I love mint and chocolate together. They are wonderful (and the vanilla ones aren't bad.)

Next, I moved onto the Chocolate Truffle Bars. They are great - very creamy and just enough real chocolate on them to make them feel special.

WARNING: You need to know that the chocolate is so thin that it snaps off easily as you are eating it and can fall on your shirt. (Happened to me). But the danger to your shirt is worth it.

I will be buying these again. They are perfect for the times when you just have to have ice cream!

Chocolate Review: Astor Milk Chocolate Gianduja Hazelnut Bar

 

Gianduja chocolate is made with a hazelnut paste and Astor's version is delightful. It is smooth, creamy and the hazelnut flavor is subtle. When you take a bite of the chocolate and hold it on your tongue so that it can melt, you wonder what that wonderful edge to the chocolate is. It's the hazelnut paste.

This chocolate is just rich enough that it feels decadent while not being overwhelmingly rich. The bar will last me quite awhile because a few small pieces of it are enough to satisfy. Since the serving size is half a bar (10 little pieces) and 2 did it for me, the calorie intake will be reasonble. Half of a bar is 230 calories with 15 g of fat, so I don't think I'll be eating half a bar - unless I have some crisis that overwhelms me with a desire to eat a lot of chocolate. HA!

I highly recommend this chocolate!

What a relief it was to taste something nice after last week's disaster...

I picked this one up when I was on my chocolate search in San Francisco, but it can be purchased on line here.

Chocolate Review: Red licorice dipped in milk chocolate

I stumbled on these abnormalities of the chocolate world during my recent trip to San Francisco. Since I am always scouting for new chocolate variants now that I am the "official" chocolate reviewer of this blog, I forced myself to get a bag of these chocolate-dipped red licorice sticks so that I might be thorough.

It was a sacrifice I was prepared to make for the ultimate good of society.

To any red-licorice loving individual (such as myself) that also loves chocolate (such as myself), it would appear that dipping red licorice in chocolate would result in a tasting experience so sublime as to render the individual who has the candy swirling around in her mouth into such a high state of Nirvana as to cause the neighbors to riot with demands for chocolate-dipped licorice sticks of their own.

Perhaps, this high-level of sugar-happy alteration would be possible, should the correct variety of red licorice and chocolate be wed, but the variety I have just sampled is not it.

The verdict: The red licorice is gaggingly sweet. The chocolate is waxy and unflavorful.The two items together make me want to wash out my mouth.

Phewie.

The criminal that combined these two items needs to be punished. Perhaps, two stripes with a licorice whip is in order. Or perhaps, they could be forced to taste these atrocities themselves.

I started to write that if the licorice was Twizzlers... and the chocolate was a high-quality dark chocolate from Bloomsbery... but then my mouth started to remember what an unfortunate experience it had just had and the desire to experiment with some of my most beloved forms of candy so that I might repair this unhappy situation was instantly dissolved.

Maybe there are those readers out there that would love this combination.I wish you were here right now - the remainder of the bag would be yours!

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That was probably one of my most strongly worded posts ever. Feels strange to not like candy. What's up with that?