Being a Canadian, it is hard-coded into me to enjoy anything with maple syrup in it. So when I saw this maple and roasted peanut “Bun”, it was pretty clear that I’d have to buy it (this was during a recent trip to the States – the Bun is, oddly enough, not available in Canada).
The Maple & Roasted Peanut Milk Chocolate Bun consists of a really soft, maple-flavoured fondant, topped with salted peanuts and covered in milk chocolate. It’s sweet – shockingly so, though once you eat a couple of bites you do get used to the unusually high sweetness level. The saltiness of the peanuts helps to offset the sweetness a bit, and their crunchiness compliments the soft filling quite well.
It doesn’t taste like maple syrup, though. Not even a little bit. If I hadn’t known that this was supposed to be maple flavoured, I never would have guessed. It’s probably a good thing that this isn’t sold in Canada; we take our maple seriously up here in the Great White North.
Other than the distinct lack of maple-ness, this isn’t bad. I wasn’t sure about it for the first bite or two, but it grew on me.
Manufactured by: Pearson Candy Company
Calories (50 g bun): 240
