Austria, marzipan-licious (or not)

purchased in vienna: mozartkugeln.

chocolate + marzipan.




something i quickly discovered while in austria: i cannot has marzipan. i don't know what it is about the texture - its weird congealed quality that isn't really smooth and has a bizarre, sugary/almondy taste. yes, wrapped in chocolate. but i dunno. this isn't apparently even the "original mozartkugel", so maybe that's why i wasn't so impressed. although, to be fair, it was the best that i tried that had marzipan - but i think that's mostly due to the fact that it was so small, comparatively.

poor mozart.

they've commercialized the bejeezus out of his balls.


this was a gigantic truffle thing with a really fluffy chocolate inside. not so much tasty as it was ridiculously sweet.


chocolate with this weird cherry in the center. it was alright - i think they must have pickled the poor cherry to bits, because it definitely had a ridiculous amount of alcohol in it (waaay too much - i remember actually choking because it was so unexpectedly strong). and this, the day of my daughter's wedding!

needless to say, though a lot of things about vienna were disappointing, none more so than my self discovery project.

oh, wait, here's more marzipan that i have nothing substantial or useful or really even interesting to say, other than that i consumed it (admittedly, all these sans mozartkugel on the same day...):


again with the marzipan. DAMNIT!

well, i guess there's one important lesson that i learned from Austria: i do not like marzipan at all. i think my distaste for that particular variety of sweet is strong enough so that i have no right to share my opinion about any of the chocolate i consumed that contained marzipan.

Cadbury Roses, pt. ii

the rest of the lot:

Brazilian Darkness: i was disappointed by this. i thought it was going to be super-exotic dark chocolate, but again with the great expectations thing - i know i shouldn't but i persist anyway, with my overly-romanticized notions of what chocolate should be (poor pip). there's barely any dark chocolate here. the candy is essentially like the rock solid caramel i previously reviewed, except covered with a pathetically thin sheen of dark chocolate, and there are tiny minced bits of hazelnut embedded in the caramel. wasn't feeling this at all.

Cadbury Dairy Milk: a nice, tried-andtrue classic. perhaps one of the least outright unsavoury chocolates in the box. what can i say? i love the added creaminess.

Caramel Velvet: not bad for crappy chocolate - i guess this is what i had in mind in terms of "caramel" (unlike the one i reviewed last time, this caramel was soft to the point of being almost liquid), and it was accompanied by a nice satisfactorily velvety chocolate filling. pretty sweet.

Hazel in Caramel: pretty straightforward: a hazelnut ensconced in caramel wrapped in a milk chocolate thing. too sweet, but i like hazelnuts.

Golden Barrel: the same kind of liquid-y caramel as in the caramel velvet in milk chocolate. extremely sweet, but i much prefer the consistency of the caramel.

Hazel Whirl: really, not as exciting as it sounds; there's nothing particularly whirly about it except for the little design on the chocolate. essentially, overly sweet milk chocolate with a lovely whole hazelnut in the middle. there were only, like, 3 of these in the entire box, which was incredibly disappointing (and there were 6 of the yucky fruit creme ones. thanks for trying to rip me off, cadbury. are whole nuts really that expensive to deal with?)

do i sound unsatisfied?

the speed with which i finished the 400g of chocolate my belies my answer - which is to say, cadbury, you can SHOVE IT.