Bali’s Best Espresso Candy
Posted In: Coffee|Fusion Gourmet|Hard Candy
18 Feb 2010
This is another candy from Bali’s Best, but instead of tea candy, it is coffee candy. Their line of coffee candy includes regular Coffee Candy and Latte Candy, but I will be reviewing their Espresso Candy. Bali’s Best Espresso Candy is made with real Sumatran Coffee from Java, Indonesia. Just like the tea candy, there are 42 individually wrapped candies each containing 3 milligrams of caffeine.
These brown Espresso candies are round, but wider versions of the tea candies. The wider shape allows these candies room to have a soft, espresso filling. After trying some, I have to say they are pretty good. With 100% natural ingredients, they taste like real coffee. In fact, they taste like the type of coffee I enjoy, where the coffee is really strong, but sweetened with sugar. The inner espresso filling is gooey and not so great texture-wise if you bite into the candy. While I think the candy would have been great even without that extra espresso filling, it definitely makes this candy different.
This Espresso Candy is a must try for coffee lovers out there. Minus the caffeine kick you get from drinking an actual cup of coffee, I actually feel like I just drank some coffee. So much that I even have that lingering coffee breath =D
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Loading ...Fantasy Sour Belts
17 Feb 2010
I was at the mall last week and I stopped by the Sweet Factory. For those of you who don’t know what the Sweet Factory is, it is a candy store usually found in a mall, with a large selection of goodies. You grab a bag and fill it with whichever candies you want and pay per pound. So, I was with my brother and we each grabbed a bag to fill with candy. My bag, of course, consisted of sour candy, mainly sour belts and sour cherries. Our total candy combined came out to about $14; which I found ridiculous considering how it didn’t seem like we had that much candy.
First of all, these belts are multi-colored with red, yellow, green, and blue. The red is strawberry, the yellow is banana, the green is apple, and the blue is blue raspberry. The flavors are not distinct enough to pick out when you bite into it, but together they taste delicious. To top it off, the entire belt is covered with sour crystals. When you bite off a piece, you get that initial sourness, and then it turns into a really yummy fruity, sweetness. Hands down, this is the best sour belt flavor out there.
I absolutely fell in love with the Fantasy Sour Belts. Don’t get me wrong, I have had these sour belts in the past, but I had forgotten just how good they were. I quickly finished off what little sour belts I had, and went on an Internet hunt for more. That led me to Sweet Factory’s website where I found that they sell candies in bulk. So yes, I gave in and bought a huge tub of Fantasy Sour Belts. A 4.1 pound tub of Fantasy Sour Belts to be exact!
I ordered my gigantic tub of Fantasy Sour Belts on Friday night and they came in the mail the following Tuesday. For standard shipping, I was surprised but extremely happy to have my candy so soon. One thing I did notice is that the Fantasy Sour Belts I bought from the actual store were sourer than the ones I received in the mail. Oh well, I guess it’s one of those “luck of the draw” type of things. In the end, I am still really happy with my Fantasy Sour Belts. How could I not be, when I have this huge tub of sour belts that will last me forever? =D
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29 Jan 2010
Hershey’s is having a Wrapper Reward Program to promote its new Pieces candy, which I assume is just like Reese’s Pieces but bigger. They come in four flavors – Reese’s Pieces, Almond Joy Pieces, Hershey’s Special Dark Chocolate Pieces, and York Pieces. Go to their website, download their form, and be one of the first 25,000 to mail in the form along with ONE, full wrapper from either Reese’s, Almond Joy, Hershey’s Special Dark Chocolate, or York and you will get a coupon mailed back to you for one free bag of their new Pieces candy.
For fans of Ashlee Simpson, check her out promoting the new additions to the Hershey’s Pieces line in New York:
Remember, you have to be one of the first 25,000 people and your entry must be postmarked by February 17, 2010. Great deal, so hurry and get your wrappers mailed!
Bali’s Best Tea Candy – Classic Iced Tea, Citrus Green Tea, and Green Tea Latte
Posted In: Exotic|Fusion Gourmet|Hard Candy|Tea
26 Jan 2010
I have seen a lot of coffee candy in the past, but rarely have I seen tea candy. At my local Asian grocery store, I found Bali’s Best Tea Candy and was immediately intrigued. There are three flavors – Classic Iced Tea, Citrus Green Tea and Green Tea Latte. They are all infused with real green tea extract grown in Java, Indonesia. Now, as an avid tea drinker, green tea just happens to be my favorite =D
This tea candy unfortunately doesn’t come in one bag with all three flavors, so I ended up buying three separate bags. Each bag is about $2 and has 42 individually wrapped hard candies. There is caffeine in each candy, but it only amounts to a mere 3 milligrams. It would take you 20-25 pieces to equal one cup of coffee. So those who need a quick caffeine fix, these tea candies are not the way to go. Now on to how it actually tastes.
I started with what sounded like the most basic flavor – the Classic Iced Tea. Looking at the round, brown hard candy, I wasn’t really sure what to expect. When I popped one into my mouth, I was happy to find that it tasted exactly like any typical iced tea you would order at a restaurant. I usually like my iced tea without sugar, but Bali’s Best Classic Iced Tea Candy comes already sweetened with sugar. However, the sweetness of it does not take away from the delicious flavor of the tea. Just like the flavor name, it merely tastes like classic iced tea.
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Now for the next flavor, the Citrus Green Tea. This candy looks exactly like the last one, but green. My first taste reminded me of lemon tea with honey. I was disappointed to find that I could not distinguish the green tea flavor. To me, it tastes like Bali’s Best Classic Iced Tea with a lemon flavor that I am not too fond of. I would have much preferred a more pronounced green tea flavor without so much of the lemon taste.
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The last Bali’s Best Tea Candy is a greenish-brown, Green Tea Latte flavor. Similar to real lattes, this Green Tea Latte candy contains milk. Yet again, I could barely taste the green tea flavor after eating one. Trying really hard to pick the green flavor out, the “so close, but yet so far” phrase comes to mind. Regardless, I have to say the flavor is actually quite good. Although it is a tea candy, it is a step away from tasting like coffee.
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Bali’s Best Tea Candies are all pretty good. If it were up to me, I’d leave the Classic Iced Tea flavor the way it is, but change the other two flavor names to Lemon Tea and Milk Tea.
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Loading ...The Tea Room – Organic Milk Chocolate Bar Infused with Black Masala Chai Tea
Posted In: Chocolate|Exotic|Rimann & Associates|Tea
19 Jan 2010
I love tea and I love chocolate, so what better way to enjoy both than to eat this chocolate bar called Organic Masala Chai. Made from the company Rimann & Associates, the brand The Tea Room encompasses a wide range of tea infused organic chocolates. In this case, an organic milk chocolate bar infused with black masala chai tea. When I first read “masala,” I thought of this Indian dish called chicken masala. A quick search and I found that Masala Chai is translated in Hindi to “Spiced Tea.” The spices are a combination of ginger, cinnamon, cardamom, star anise, peppercorn and cloves.
The chocolate bar is in a gold wrapper and tucked into a purple box. There is nothing really fancy about the chocolate bar itself. No fancy decorations on the chocolate, just 15 segmented bars. With my first bite, I mainly tasted really sweet milk chocolate and a hint of spices. Somewhere within the hint of spices, I could taste cinnamon and chai tea. One thing I disliked is the milk chocolate itself as it was really sweet and practically went to mush in my mouth.
Overall, this is an okay bar of chocolate with a major plus for it being organic. I would have opted for more of a pronounced Masala Chai flavor and maybe better quality chocolate. I did, however, put the chocolate in the fridge and that seemed to help with the chocolate texture. For the price of about $4, I would not buy this particular chocolate bar again, but I am interested in trying The Tea Room’s other organic tea-infused chocolate bars.
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