*New Product* Haagen Dazs Raspberry & Vanilla Milk Chocolate Bars

Haagen Dazs' ice cream bars are definitely a treat.  The outstanding tradition of delicious ice cream morphed into a easily portable ice cream bar, it is like happiness on a stick.  The new flavor, Raspberry & Vanilla milk chocolate is definitely lived up to the standards, and is delicious in every bite.  The outside is covered with milk chocolate shells, which instantaneously melts in your mouth, with the creamy and smooth mouth feel.  The vanilla ice cream is rich and dense, which is exactly what you expect from Haagen Dazs.  The vanilla ice cream is swirled with fruity raspberry swirls, and you get the slightly tangy, sweet, and aromatic raspberry in every bite.  Raspberry in sweets just works out perfectly, especially with chocolate.  This sweet frozen treat will keep you going back for more. 

I give it a 8.5 out of 10. 

Haagen-Dazs 2012 Limited Editions ARE HERE!!!!!

OMG!!!  Finally!!!  The time has come.  As you may know, I am a Haagen-Dazs fanatic, and I pride myself for having sampled all of their flavors(which many have been discontinued...*sop*).  This year, maybe because the world is coming to an end, Haagen-Dazs released four...FOUR new flavors.  They are coconut macaroons, salted caramel truffles, spiced caramel biscuit, and vanilla espresso beans.  You can get a preview of the flavors here.  I will have reviews for these flavors up soon.  They can be hard to find, because sometimes the store doesn't always carry all of them at once.  

Stay tuned!!!! 

Milka ChocoMinis review

This is one of many Milka's products that is not a chocolate bar.  This one looks like something kids will love.  The box contains five packages of cookies, and each package contains six cookies, so the cookies are fairly small.  

The cookie on the package suggested that the cookie has a milk chocolate topping, with a creamy filling inside, and a crust-like cookie.  The crust-like cookie tastes just like a nice buttery shortbread cookie.  The milk chocolate is creamy and sweet, which fully expected from Milka.  However, the interior white filling was nearly non-existent.  The layer of the white filling was so thin, you will not see it unless you look close enough.  You cannot quite taste it either, because it does not have a distinguished taste, and is easily covered up by the milk chocolate.  But overall, it is tasty.  

I give it a 6 out of 10.

Best of 2011 - Ritter Sport Limited Edition Chocolate Review

I said "Best of 2011" because it IS the best of 2011.  This flavor is the 2011 limited edition flavor by Ritter Sport, along with two other chocolate flavors which you can find in my previous posts.  This flavor is the most interesting out of all three of them.  It is a white chocolate with peach-passion fruit-yogurt filling.  Yes, I know, it sounds weird, and I got that from everyone that I talked to.  I bought it for two reasons: one, it is from Ritter Sport, which so far they haven't failed me; two, it contains passion fruit, which is one of my favorite fruit flavors of all time.  Americans however, don't know what passion fruit is, and can't somehow appreciate the purely awesome deliciousness of passion fruit.  So, of course I have to try this.  

Peach and passion fruit and yogurt seemed like a weird combination with chocolate, but let's not forget, it is with white chocolate.  White chocolate only has cocoa butter, which is the fat from the cocoa beans, which is basically tasteless.  White chocolate is basically made with cocoa butter, vanilla, sugar, and cream.  So really, it is very versatile, especially with fruity flavors.  And it worked out so perfectly with the peach and passion fruit.  The aroma of sweet peach and tropical passion fruit conquered me even before I took a bite.  The flavors of the fruits complimented the white chocolate, and harmonized in my mouth.  The combined flavors just burst in my mouth, and as described by one of my friend, a "festival in your mouth".  I personally do not like white chocolate all that much, but this one really worked out perfectly.  If you are looking for chocolate perfection, this is it. Hurry and get some, because 2011 is almost over, and they may not keep this flavor next year!!

I give it a 10 out of 10.  
*PERFECT SCORE!!*

Ritter Sport Limited Edition Amarena Kirsch Review

This is one of the three limited edition flavors of 2011 from Ritter Sport, Amarena Kirsch, or Amarena cherries.  I personally do not like general cherry flavoring too much, because it just tastes extremely fake and artificial.  However, this chocolate does not have so much of that fake flavor, but a hint of the tartness of the cherries.  The outside is creamy milk chocolate, with the smooth filling of cream and accent of sugary cherry crunch.  That's right, the cherries inside are actually crunchy, or more like crispy.  The texture feels like sugar crystals, so I am guessing that they were candied cherries.  The flavor combination worked out fairly nicely, and not contradicting at all.  

I give it a 8 out of 10.