Reese Peanut Butter Cups Archives

The three major types of chocolate, ranked: dark chocolate > milk chocolate > white chocolate. I’m sorry, but that’s just a fact. White chocolate is okay, but if you prefer it to milk or dark then you need to come to terms with the fact that your opinions are bad.

But of course, like so many would-be white chocolate confections from the major candy-makers, this isn’t actually white chocolate — it’s “white creme.” There’s no cocoa butter in the ingredients, so the word chocolate does not apply.

It’s fine? I guess? Even if it were great quality white chocolate, I don’t think this would have been anything too special; the chocolate/PB combo is magical for a reason, and removing the cocoa flavour from that equation diminishes it quite substantially.

Still, it’s tasty enough. The salty peanut butter does a great job of balancing out the sweetness from the white creme, and with the quantity of PB here, the waxy texture from the fake chocolate isn’t all that noticeable. The whole thing is a clear downgrade from a standard Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup, but it’s not bad.

Manufactured by: Hershey
Nutritional info (2 cups, 39 grams): 200 calories, 12 grams of fat (4.5 grams of saturated fat, 0 grams of trans fat), 0 mg of cholesterol, 150 mg of sodium, 21 grams of carbohydrates, 1 gram of fibre, 18 grams of sugar, 5 grams of protein.
Ingredients: Peanuts, sugar, vegetable oil (palm oil, shea oil, sunflower oil, palm kernel oil, and/or safflower oil), skim milk, dextrose, corn syrup solids, lactose (milk), contains 2% or less of: salt, lecithin (soy), TBHQ and citric acid to maintain freshness, vanillin, artificial flavor, PGPR.

Marshmallow and peanut butter is an odd combination. I can’t think of another candy in which those two flavours are combined, and the very idea of it is vaguely funky. Mostly, however, I think the combo is off-putting on a textural level rather than a flavour level.

The people at Hershey seem to agree with me, because the “mallow-top” here is entirely about flavour rather than texture. The packaging uses the term “marshmallow flavored creme,” which makes me think of stuff like Mallo Cups and Valomilk. But it’s basically marshmallow-flavoured white chocolate (it’s technically mockolate, hence “creme” instead of “white chocolate”).

It’s a lot better than I thought it would be. The “creme” has a decent amount of sweet marshmallow flavour, which works surprisingly well with the creamy peanut butter. There’s also the milk chocolate, which obviously complements the marshmallow and the PB quite nicely. And the mild saltiness of the peanut butter does a great job of rounding out the sweetness of the chocolate and the creme.

It’s everything you want an offshoot of a candy to be; it’s tasty in all the same ways that the original is tasty, but with something new to mix it up. It’s great.

Manufactured by: Hershey
Nutritional info (2 cups, 34 grams): 180 calories, 10 grams of fat (4 grams of saturated fat, 0 grams of trans fat), 0 mg of cholesterol, 115 mg of sodium, 19 grams of carbohydrates, 1 gram of fibre, 16 grams of sugar, 4 grams of protein.
Ingredients: Peanuts, milk chocolate (sugar, cocoa butter, chocolate, skim milk, milk fat, lactose, lecithin (soy), PGPR), sugar, vegetable oil (palm oil, shea oil, sunflower oil, palm kernel oil, and/or safflower oil), dextrose, skim milk, corn syrup solids, contains 2% or less of: lactose (milk), salt, natural flavor and artificial flavor, lecithin (soy), PGPR, TBHQ and citric acid to maintain freshness.

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