The piece has a faint aroma of nuts and coffee, and the
couverture offers flavors of vanilla and coffee with just a hint of sugar. The
density is just perfect for the cashew, and there isn’t any messy breakage to
deal with.
The cashew inside is a tiny bit under-roasted, but is by no means raw, and is quite flavorful. It is also nicely salted, and blend well with the mild chocolate.
If somebody gave me 30 of these, they’d last about 30
minutes.
Maybe. 15 is probably more like it.
But instead of a pound of chocolate covered cashews, my
box had variety, so I moved along to another nutty piece, a peanut butter
cream.
This piece has a distinct peanut aroma, and the chocolate
has a smooth melt with a distinct vanilla flavor – nothing notable, but nothing
offensive either.
The interior is very dense and smooth with an intense
roasted nut flavor and a hint of salt. The texture is creamy and well-matched
to the chocolate to minimize breakage with each bite. As a whole, the piece is
completely delightful, and almost as good as the Recchiuti peanut butter pucks.
Perhaps I need some more of each piece for comparison
purposes. Perhaps.
I need Ray to read your blog more... he needs to buy me gifts like this :)
ReplyDeleteMy vote is for the Peanut Butter one!
mmmmmm.
ReplyDeleteThough, I think you should have titled this "Nutty Bits" -- ha!
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