As many of you have probably heard ad nauseum, I am a firm believer in establishing distinct seasons for each holiday. For example, you can't celebrate Christmas before Thanksgiving is over, but you also can't start on Thanksgiving until Halloween is out of the way. This same principle applied to seasonal/holiday-themed food - it would be too much of a good thing if you started in on the mince pies before December 1st, or indulged in hot cross buns before the start of Lent. Basically, it just tastes better when you know you only have a short while to completely enjoy it.
So, needless to say, I've been holding off on eating reams and reams of Easter candy so far this year, despite the fact that it's been in stores since about, oh, January. But this weekend I've embarked on an Easter candy feast, to glorious results.
The first two things I sampled were a bit of a cheat, as I've eaten (and thoroughly enjoyed them) before (and they're not technically candy bars) - Cadbury Mini-Eggs and Caramel Bunnies. It's important to note here that you should never accept any substitutes for these - the original is the best! Caramel Bunnies are pretty self-explanatory - basically an abnormally tall and skinny chocolate bunny filled with buttery caramel. It's nice - nice and thick chocolate that's soft enough to kind of meld with the not-too-runny caramel inside - but the filling pales in comparison with last week's Irish Cadbury's caramel filling. A solid 3 bars.
For the unititated, Mini-Eggs are small egg-shaped chocolate covered in multi-colored speckled shells, and they besically taste like the best M&M's EVER. Luckily I had Morgan to help me finish the bag, otherwise I would have eaten them all up in about 5 minutes. :P 4.5 bars! (And...this post has now motivated me to go out and buy a fresh bag - whoops.)
The third component of my Easter chocolate extravaganza was the riskiest - a Twisted Bar. I wasn't sure about this one, as it's a candy bar based on the ever-popular Creme Egg. I hate Creme Eggs (maybe it's the goo-iness or the fact that eating something resembling a raw egg is never really that appetizing), but I actually liked the Twisted bar! The bar is thick chocolate surrounding a creme filling that is slightly more dense than the Creme Egg (it mostly stays within the bar when you take a bite) but with the same garish white and yellow coloring. The filling is still overly sweet, but this is tempered by the fact that you don't have to swallow a whole mouthful at once or risk it dripping down your chin (ew). And the chocolate to filling ratio is a lot better - the chocolate is nice and thick so there's not too much creme versus the shell - an example the Turkish Delight could learn from! It was still too sweet for me to have the whole thing (my willing assistant - and Creme Egg fanatic - Morgan graciously finished the bar for me) and I'm not sure I'd eat it again, but it was a lot nicer than expected. 2.5 bars.
Altogether, a delicious combo - really, all that was missing were the Peeps! (http://www.justborn.com/product-finder/peeps/easter) It's ok, I'll compensate by whipping up a batch of these instead (http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Chocolate-Nests).
A combined 3.5 bars!
Happy Easter, everyone, will be on hiatus next week as my lovely cousin Christie is coming to visit but will return with a thrilling new installment featuring whatever we can pick up in Copenhagen/Malmo.
Bar-o-Meter
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