Review- The Grown Up Chocolate Company Cups: Hazelnut, Caramel, Spiced Praline and Peanut

Hi, it's me! Did anyone assume I had died a grizzly death?* I wouldn't blame you if you had - One can only be MIA for so long before others evidently conclude another's demise.. Have no fear though, I am back! I don't know how long for and shall make no promises as life has gotten pretty hectic but I am hoping to at least squeeze out a couple of reviews before my next vanishing act!

So, getting back into the swing of things, today we have some goodies from The Grown Up Chocolate Company who ever so kindly, sent me some of their "Handmade in the UK", NEW chocolatey treats to try. 

Cups, cups and nothing but! ..Except a bar.. But more of that later! Priced at £1.99 a pop and sold in sixes, not to mention extremely cute packaging, each variety offers up 75-80g of chocolate, with all being veggie friendly from what I can tell. 

Heavenly Whole Hazelnut Praline Cups

Smooth milk chocolate praline cups with whole hazelnut and crispy rice crunch. 

Well the description was true to its word.. Check out that mahoosive hazelnut! Taking a munch, the flavour of the aforementioned was very much apparent and as one would expect, paired pretty well with the milky cocoa hit of chocolate from the smooth shell. Unfortunately however, I found that with the addition of puff riced, it was all a bit too much of a mouthful and did start to detract from what could have been a superb "plain" nutty/praline chocolate combo. It's a 3.5 out of 5 from me. 

Gorgeously Gooey Caramel Truffle Cups

Milk chocolate toffee cups filled with a runny caramel truffle. 

Apologies for the dark picture - I am putting it down to lack of practice! ..Or perhaps the slightly odd description of these Cups - What on earth of a runny caramel truffle? I was under the impression that a chocolate truffle is anything but runny? Someone explain it to me. Melting in the mouth wonderfully, this little gleaming beauty certainly packed a buttery, toffee punch from the oozing centre with just the right amount of sweetness to compliment the once again, faultless milk chocolate. Deliciously indulgent - A 4.5 out of 5!

Spectacular Speculicious Praline Cups

Milk chocolate cups filled with sumptuous warm spice praline. 

Cutting the Cup in half, the inside dense truffle texture was clear to see and produced an ever so slight whiff of spice. Taste wise, it was far more warming than I expected with a real "Christmassy" inviting flavour that reminded me a lot of a strong Speculoos based Spread. I am not entirely sure what the sprinkling was on top of each of the rich chocolates but I liked it and its crunch! Wintery and warming - A 4 out of 5 from me. 

Perfectly Buttery Peanutty Cups/Superb Salted Caramel Peanut Bar

As some of you may be aware, peanut** and I don't exactly fair well together so I passed both these Cups and the Superb Salted Caramel Peanut Bar, pictured below, onto my darling Brother to review on my behalf with the strict instructions of "not consuming before I have a chance to take internal shots". Did he listen? No. Of course he didn't. Lovely chap is BSW (Winning personality, fabulous beard, etc) but he chooses to have the memory of a dead goldfish. So.. There's that. No pictures, a rating or even description as he also disposed of the boxes but he did say as follows.. 

"The Bar was better than the Cups. 

Strong peanut taste. 

Chocolate, creamy and nice.

Do you have any Reese's?"

Take from that what you will. 

Overall, minus the peanut fiasco which I can't personally judge for certain, these NEW Cups from The Grown Up Chocolate Company aren't too shabby at all.. There is definitely room for improvement with the Heavenly Whole Hazelnut - Maybe doing away with the puffed rice and making it into its own Cup would be nice, but aside from that, the Gooey Caramel Truffle is practically spot on despite still not being overly sure what a liquid truffle is and Speculicious Praline is to be a sure winner for anyone who loves a bit of spice in their life. Be sure to check out everything mentioned on the website and see if anything takes your fancy! 

Aaaaand lastly, a huge thank you to the folk at The Grown Up Chocolate Company for sending me all the deliciousness - Your chocolates are always much appreciated and rarely disappoint! 

*Or care? You lot are so heartless. 

*The nut/legume not the ACTUAL Peanut, NibsnScribs - Go read her review, she's a hoot and far more conscientious than my stupid sibling. 

Review- Krispy Kreme NEW Reese's Peanut Butter Crunch

As many of you are probably already aware, Monday saw Reeses Peanut Butter Krispy Kremes back in Stores and Tesco Cabinets, alike. Along with the return of this much loved doughnut came a new addition and Cabinet exclusive, the Reeses Peanut Butter Crunch. I was given marching orders by my big Brother, to get him one whilst doing the weekly shop. Somehow, I ended up hand delivering the blooming thing to him at work and have managed to rope him into doing a guest review as I can't eat peanuts. Without further ado.. Its over to BSW!

Hello Snack Warriors!

For people that know me, this is definitely not something I would ever do but seeing as the usual blogger would literally explode if she ate this product, I am here.. so brace yourselves for one of the hardest to read and grammatically incorrect reviews ever!

I don’t even know what its official name is, it was literally plonked on my desk and I was told to eat it.. Again people knowing me will know I'll eat things and ask questions later. It looked like a doughnut and smelt somewhat like a doughnut so assumed it was what I had asked for and my sister was not trying to poison me. 

Anyway, its pretty much a ringed doughnut with some things placed onto it. As I was eating it, the chips on top were clearly peanut butter flavoured and reminded me somewhat of Reese’s which I have to admit I do like quite a lot and could easily eat the peanut cups by the bagful. The doughnut itself tasted like a usual doughnut, nothing really stood out and the texture matched. Apparently  it had a peanut butter icing/glazing but I couldn’t really taste it, I’m the kinda guy that likes things to taste strong to get a real feel for it. Along with the chips and this supposed glazing, there were what I would describe as cookie bits on the top, but again didn’t really add to the flavour and was probably only there for aesthetics, but what do I know..

As someone that loves peanut butter (probably due to being denied it for the first 20 years of my life or so) this could have easily been flavoured with something else and been equally as enjoyable, not the best Krispy Kreme but also not the worse I’ve had. I would have to give it a 3 out of 5 for that very reason. 

Well there you have it, the opinion of a true PB addict! A big thank you to BSW for that fab review which I have to say was actually, really quite well written.. Trust me when I say, no one is more surprised at this revelation than me! I'll be back tomorrow with a review of something that doesn't make me to explode when eaten - See you all then!