Kit Kat Rubies review

I am not sure if Kit Kat Rubies are special or limited edition around the holidays but I got a box and was excited to give it a try.... Take a look at the video below and see what you think.

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Pot of Gold Excellence review

And here we are once again with yet ANOTHER holiday review. This time its even another box of chocolates... and a very popular one at that, here is my review of Pot of Gold Excellence.


Walking the Candy Aisle rates Pot of Gold Excellence - 4 / 5

For more on Hershey's Pot of Gold please visit- https://www.hersheycanada.com/en/brands/pot-of-gold/

Quality Street review

Merry Christmas all. So here we have the big'un for the season. This is my massive two part review of the entire box of Quality Street chocolates. enjoy.

part 1


part 2


Walking the Candy Aisle rates Quality Street -5 / 5

The take aways from me specifically are try the - Strawberry Delight, Fudge, Orange Cream, and The Purple One for the best of the best. I hope you enjoyed this massive review. I don't know that I'll normally do such an extensive look at a box of chocolates but I felt like this one was a special case.Feel free to let me know what you think.

For more on Nestle's Quality Street please visit - http://products.nestle.ca/en/brands/chocolates/quality-street.aspx

Merci chocolate review

Here we've got a whole product line up for review! Let's say thanks for Merci!


Walking the Candy Aisle rates Merci (product line) - 4 / 5

Merci Milk Chocolate - 4 / 5
Merci Almond - 4 / 5
Merci Praline - 4 / 5
Merci Marzipan - 2 / 5
Merci Coffee - 4 / 5

For more on Merci you can check them out online at - http://www.storck.us/en/brand/merci/

Godiva Gold Ballotin review

Here we go again with another interesting review for you. Today we've got a look at Godiva's most popular offering the Gold Ballotin box.


Walking the Candy Aisle rates the Gold Ballotin - 4 / 5

For more on all things Godiva please visit them on the web at http://www.godiva.com/

Valentine's Bites

Well tomorrow is the big day, and since I'm going to be giving you a review tomorrow I'll just say it now. Happy Valentines Day to all of you who love that sort of thing.

For me, I find Valentines a bit meh. I mean I have lots of great people I love in my life, but the artificial stuff involved in the holiday is so tough. Its not like Christmas where you can have general goodwill and love towards everyone. This is such a specific holiday with such specific and strange cultural rules. Its hard to pick something out, I mean the right thing out. Its tough if you're alone, its tough if you're in a new relationship, its tough if you're in a long term relationship. In fact the only people I think Valentines is great for are the people in that honeymoon phase of a relationship where being cheesily romantic is totally acceptable. For everyone else Valentines can be a tough time.

I do like the candy though, even if oher than box chocolate the shelves are a bit bare. I'm giving you only one Valentine themed review this year. Maybe I'll have time for more next year, but for now you'll get something from me tomorrow, and then we'll move onto Easter.

Today though I've got a few last minute Valentine bites I wanted to share from the candy aisle.

 

I don't know why but I'm always surprised to see Mrs Fields outside of the mall food court. And doubly so when its not in a cookie context. These are straight up Mrs Fields chocolates. Now I know they sell these chocolates in the actual stores... but really who is going to a Mrs Fields for the chocolates?!

Honestly it sounds like a pretty great selection of flavors. I'd probably pick the Strawberry Truffle as my go to chocolate here.

This has to be my pick for the school kid who is being forced to give something to all his classmates. Smarties are awesome and I appreciate packaging that lets me conveniently address it to and from.

Finally, these Kinder eggs are actually pretty awesome. They break apart into solo eggs, so this pack is good for 4 friends, and a Kinder is one of those things that everyone really enjoys but hardly anyone actually buys for themselves. I totally dig it as a gift and despite the fact that these Valentines are packaged with 2012 toys I'd still get it for the people I love.

Anyhow, I hope you all have a great Valentines Day tomorrow. I definitely encourage you all to tell someone you love them. And check in tomorrow for a fun Valentines review.

XOXOXO

Valrhona gift box - video review

Today we've got something a bit different for you, its a review for a whole gift box full of Valrhona chocolates!



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Valrhona gift box review

Today I've got something really different for you. A review for a whole box of chocolates! This is the Valrhona gift box.

Ok, technically this is the Valrhona Ballotin Box 36 Bonbons Gift. It's an assorted box of chocolates from a French boutique chocolatier. As far as I can tell Valrhona specializes in ganache, which is a chocolate and cream mixture that you sometimes see as filling on these kind of bonbons and is, of course, absolutely delicious.

Let's have a look at these chocolates. The packaging is very nice, sheik, black and stylish on the outside. Looking inside we get bright and shiny gold. This gold wonderfully reflects the chocolates, and collects light giving a warmth and sense of size to the inside of the chocolate box. I really love how nice the packaging is here. Unfortunately there aren't any dividers for the chocolates themselves, Since the bunching up that you can see in the picture below takes a little away from the initial splendor, but that's a rather small trifle overall.

The box has 3 layers, with 36 chocolates total. According to the website, these chocolates are ganache-filled, they are also noted as different though, with a few specific flavors including jasmine, orange, praline,and almonds. Oddly the site only has 7 different chocolates listed on it and the box obviously has more than that in it.

Now's probably the time to explain how I'm intending to do this review. Of course I'm not planning on sampling every kind of chocolate in this box, so instead I think I'll just treat this as I would any regular box of chocolates. Especially since there's no guidemap to the various flavors here, my plan is to sample at random 3 different chocolates from the box. Maybe I won't pick the best 3 chocolates, but I probably wont pick the worst... and lets be sensible here, these chocolates are going to be pretty good overall.

Ok so looking at our first sampling, this is one I know a little bit about. It's the "Palet Or", dark and milk chocolate decorated with gold leaf and filled with ganache. The chocolate smells good, but not very strong. Biting into the bonbon is good, I mean really good. The ganache is smooth and rich, and the chocolate exterior blends extremely well. I can't really taste the golf leaf, but its a nice decorative touch

the next chocolate is the nut one. I don't know what its called really but every chocolate box has at least one or two bonbons with the crumbled nut in chocolate deal going on. I believe in this case we're dealing with almond. biting into the chocolate again reveals the same ganache mixture, and confirms the almond. This one is about texture and so far these Valrhona's are firing on all cylinders. The nuts add a nice body to the experience.

Finally we get the stick looking chocolate. This ins;t one I usually go for in a box of chocolates. The stick shaped chocolates often hide hard toffee or general weirdness. Since my preferences usually lean towards cream fillings I aim for ovals, but I'd like to find something different if I can... and it looks like I've hit paydirt. The chocolate is filled with... well it tastes like marzipan, but I don't think that's actually it. I suspect this is an almond flavored ganache, that only resembles marzipan. If it actually is marzipan its got a bit more viscosity than I'm used to tasting. But in terms of flavor the almond is unmistakable. I am not a personal fan of marzipan. BUT I don't hate it, I just don't ever seek it out, and any more than a little does turn me off. This is only a little though, and it manages to mesh very well with the chocolate exterior of the bonbon. I also know of course how many people out there love that subdued almond paste flavor. So for me the fact that this isn't something I'd line up for is beside the point. The chocolate is wholly successful.

Overall these are some pretty fantastic chocolates. The quality is top notch and I can't remember the last time I has a chocolate ganache filling that was so smooth. You really can't go wrong with these. And while they are boutique French chocolates, thanks to the internets they seem to be available all over the world.

Walking the Candy Aisle rates this Valrhona gift box - 5 / 5

Special thanks go out to my friends Jan and Cecile for bringing these back from France for me as a gift. It was delicious. Valrhona isa  privately held French chocolate company headquartered near the town of Lyon. You can find out more about them on their website http://www.valrhona.com/