The last time I tried a Reese product stuffed with something, it was the underwhelming Reese Outrageous, so I’ll admit that I didn’t have particularly high hopes for this one. I love Reese Peanut Butter Cups; would this be ruining a good thing? If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it?
Well, it ain’t broke, but apparently it did need to be fixed, because this was delicious. Maybe even better than the original?
It’s a pretty basic concept: it’s the standard Reese Peanut Butter Cup, but filled with crunchy cookie bits (think Oreo, but without the creme).
It’s fantastic. It’s very, very sweet, but it totally works — the slight salty hit from the peanut butter does a decent job of balancing out the sweetness, and the chocolate and peanut butter combo is predictably delicious.
The cookies are great. I figured they might be a bit sogged up from the peanut butter, but they’re aggressively crunchy and add a great amount of texture. They also have a pronounced cocoa flavour which works perfectly with the peanut butter cup.
The chocolate seems a bit firmer than the fudgier chocolate that you usually find in a Reese Peanut Butter Cup, and it’s extremely sweet, but it’s tasty. The whole thing is really tasty. If you like peanut butter cups, this needs to be in your life.
Manufactured by: Hershey
Nutritional info (1 package, two cups): 200 calories, 11 g of fat (4.5 g of saturated fat, 0 g of trans fat), 5 mg of cholesterol, 125 mg of sodium, 24 g of carbohydrates, 1 g of fibre, 21 g of sugar, 4 g of protein.
Ingredients: milk chocolate (sugar, cocoa butter, chocolate, nofat milk, milk fat, lactose, lecithin (soy), PGPR), peanuts, sugar, dextrose, cornstarch, contains 2% or less of: salt, cocoa processed with alkali, vegetable oil (canola oil, palm oil and/or palm kernel oil), modified cornstarch, high fructose corn syrup, lecithin (soy), artificial flavor, TBHQ and citric acid to maintain freshness.
