Showing posts with label raspberry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label raspberry. Show all posts

Thursday, June 11, 2026

Is Creme a Tatiner Gout Framboise better than Nutella?

The thing I’ve learned about spreads lately is that more chances need to be taken. I’m talking about not just me, but also the companies out there making spreads. While we all know that chocolate and hazelnut will make a fine spread, we should start looking at some creative options as well. That brings me to this jar of Baristella raspberry spread (or creme a tatiner gout framboise in French). A fruit flavoured, yet still chocolate based spread makes so much sense that I’m surprised no one has thought of it before. Keep in mind I’m assuming my cultural bias since I’ve never seen it before. It could be that there are parts of the world where this kind of thing happens all the time.

All I’m saying is that not only should the idea of fruit and chocolate blended into a nice spread work on paper, but the folks at Baristella have made it work in reality as well. The white chocolate makes this spread super creamy. The raspberries add a wonderful contrast to the deep chocolate flavour and texture. Best of all is that they’ve even added a slight sour flavour to make the raspberry flavour work so well. I would not only suggest you try this spread, as long as I’m in a country where this stuff is made, I plan on putting it into my rotation.

It could be that in a few months or years I’ll get tired of this spread, but at this very moment I would say that this is easily comparable to Nutella. A better way to describe it is that it compliments Nutella, in that if offers you a very different flavour (and even slightly different texture) while still being a creamy spread. In other words, if you like to have a few different spreads open in your cupboard, I would suggest finding a jar of this stuff to add to the mix. It will give you all the satisfaction you might get from Nutella, but it’ll also offer you a slight change of pace.

Monday, November 27, 2023

Just Great Chocolate

People often ask me what makes for a great candy, and more often they ask me what makes for a great chocolate treat. The answer is actually surprisingly simple, just use good quality chocolate (and good quality ingredients that aren't chocolate too). The complicated part of that is how does one make a good quality chocolate. I'll be honest, I'm not really sure all of the tricks to making good quality chocolate, but I do know when I taste it, and this treat I just reviewed is a fine example.

Check out this very tasty, and fruity chocolate treat.

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Monday, March 21, 2022

Tony's All Week

I feel like it's fair to dedicate an entire week to Tony's chocolate bars. For me in North America, they seem to have shot out of nowhere to become a really strong independent brand of candy bars. Since this appears to be a European thing, it was difficult for me to get my hands on one of these bars, but now that I've tried one (actually 3) I can see why the world is going bonkers over this bar. They're so great that I'm dedicating this week to reviewing all three of the bars that I have.


Make sure to follow me on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter to keep up with all the Tony's reviews I have planned this week.

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Monday, May 10, 2021

This Week I'm Eating All The Jolly Ranchers

Maybe not every single Jolly Rancher that's ever existed, probably not even ever flavour that's available right now. I find that here in Canada it's tough to get your hands on any flavours other than the classics. Since I noticed that the lack of Jolly Rancher reviews was a big hole in my candy review collection, I figured the least I could do was fill it with as many of the classic flavours as I could find. I will warn you *spoilers*, one Jolly Rancher flavour is one of my favourite hard candies, another is one of my least favourite.

Click here to check out the first Jolly Rancher in this week's candy review-a-thon.

To keep up with all the review, be sure to follow me on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter.

Also be sure to check out my latest mini comic called Snack Facts and pick up an issue or two.

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Monday, November 13, 2017

I Was Inspired About Today's New Candy Review - Raspberry Licorice Fudge

I wasn't inspired by the candy itself, in fact if you read the review it's pretty much a failure. What inspired me was a friend with whom we had dinner this weekend. Our friend is from Sweden and she asked me about what kind of Swedish candies I liked. We were talking, and I remembered some of the Swedish candies I've reviewed, in particular a red licorice fudge that I had sitting in my archive to be published. I decided that today would be the perfect day to pull out this review, even though it wasn't that great.

Click here to find out why this raspberry licorice fudge didn't really work.

And make sure to let us know about any treats you find on our Facebook and Twitter pages.

You can also follow us on Pinterest and keep up with all our new candy reviews.

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Tuesday, October 03, 2017

It's Our Second Kit Kat In Our Kit Kat Review-A-Thon!!!

This might have been one of the hardest judged Kit Kat bars that I've ever reviewed.  That's only because it's the Kit Kat bar that I wanted to love the most, so I was prepared for a bit of a disappointment.  Fortunately things seemed to work out, and I'm very happy that I still have a few left over to munch on later.

Click here to find out why the Kit Kat Raspberry worked.

What's your favourite Kit Kat? Let us know on  Facebook or Twitter.

We also just posted a pretty cool Kit Kat fact on our Instagram feed called Snack Facts.

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Sunday, November 04, 2012

Spreads - Raspberry Jam

I just finished an art piece for bewarethecheese.com's fine art gallery "Senses". For this piece I had to photograph, and eventually eat more than 40 different spreads.  I've decided to post a little something about each spread that I sampled.
I have two favorite jams, and this is one of them.  Chances are if you look in my cupboard I will have a jar of this stuff.  If it's not in my cupboard than chances are it's in my refrigerator.  If you happen to check my cupboard, and my refrigerator, and you still don't see any raspberry jam, than you might want to check my grocery list.

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Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Goodbye Blackberry Chewy Lifesaver. Hello...

If your favorite Chewy Lifesaver flavour is blackberry, I have some bad news for you.  It appears that they've decided to discontinue them and replace them with a flavour to be determined by folks on Facebook.  The choices of new flavours include orange, blue raspberry and lemonade.  Having not sampled any of these new flavours and going on name alone, my choice is for blue raspberry.

Click here to read more about the flavour changing event.

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Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Toffee Creations

The folks at Toffee Creations sent me some toffee to check out. In my opinion fall is the perfect time to eat toffee. On a chilly night you can sit by the fire and munch a little toffee that isn’t stuck together because it’s really hot and humid.

If timing has anything to do with how well I rate candy these guys have a leg up. If you’re planning on sending me something to review keep in mind as to when you send it. Also keep in mind that I have strange tastes and strange habits so guessing when I’ll want a certain candy is pretty much just a guess.

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Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Summer update days are crazy now.

It’s another random summer update day. This weeks review was a gift in an attempt to find out what kind of treat the candy critic likes. The good news for the gift giver is it only took two tries. The bad news for me is that with discovering what I like I may not receive any more treats.

Click here to read the review.

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