Ritter Sport – Choco Cubes
You know how some chocolates are meant to be shared and are a repack or put into a format designed for gift giving? Well I’m the type of person to buy that for myself for no other reason than I am easily seduced by novelty snacks. While this is not strictly a new novelty to me by any means, I can’t say that I’ve tried this specific assortment. As someone who moonlights as a snack scientist, I felt it was the perfect excuse er…..reason to buy these.
This assortment has four flavours, double caramel, whole hazelnut in praline cream, praline, and choco crisp. There’s a total of 22 pieces, and there’s about 5 for each, with double caramel and hazelnut each getting an extra one.
The blue wrapper is praline, and this is the straight forward one, with a smooth, milk chocolate and what I assume is hazelnut and chocolate filling. It’s nothing too fancy, but does the flavours well and is smooth to boot. Like most of Ritter’s milk chocolate varieties, this does err on the sweeter side for me but that might just be general preference speaking.
The orange wrapper is the double caramel – this one has a layer of chewy caramel with a layer of liquidy caramel on top. As you might imagine, this one is sweet, and very chewy. And sticky. Make sure you don’t get this on any cloth cause you’ll be in for a bad time. They seemed to add a little salt to the caramel, as I get a distinct salty quality to it, which is nice. The salt helps to break up the otherwise straightforward, cloying sweetness.
In the yellow corner we have choco crisp. This flavour has little bits of popped corn. Imagine corn flakes if they were small, round and puffy. This one is mostly a texture play, and it does it well. I mean, cornflakes is one of their signature flavours so it shouldn’t be a huge stretch to think they can do little crisped pieces well too.
The green wrapper is the hazelnut in praline creme. This bad boy has a full hazelnut in the center as advertised, and encapsulated in the praline creme. Truthfully, unless you don’t enjoy the texture of hazelnuts, this is to me, a strict upgrade to the praline flavour for all intents and purposes.
So where does all of this leave us? Well I for one enjoyed myself quite a bit. That being said I do feel a bit of a sugar high coming on, so I’ll probably have to find a way to deal with that for the next hour or so. It’s important to note that this variety is a bit on the sweeter side, so milk chocolate lovers will rejoice. My dark brothers will be a bit hesitant, but worry not for the flavours are enjoyable enough there’s room for all of us. My favourite out of the batch is the hazelnut in praline creme. It’s safe to say Ritter’s claim to fame is their nut bars, and this is no different. All good flavours in their own right though, so go out and give these a try if you can find them.
