A Mouthful To Say, Reese's Milk Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups Stuffed With Pieces Are "Meh."

The Good: Generally good flavor, Comparatively inexpensive.
The Bad: Not the most nutritious thing ever, The Reese's Pieces do not add anything to the flavor.
The Basics: Reese's Milk Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups Stuffed With Pieces are surprisingly unimpressive given how cool the concept is.


I am a sucker for a concept that combines two things that I enjoy. So, when my local grocery store started stocking the Reese's Milk Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups Stuffed With Pieces, I was right there ready to try them! The Reese's Milk Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups Stuffed With Pieces combine Reese's peanut butter cups and one of my favorite candies - Reese's Pieces. And, as excited as I was to try the Reese's Milk Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups Stuffed With Pieces, the results were less impressive than I would have hoped.

Instead of zesting up an average peanut butter cup, the Reese's Pieces in the Reese's Milk Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups Stuffed With Pieces barely enhance the flavor - adding only a minor texture to the peanut butter cups.

Basics

Reese's Milk Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups Stuffed With Pieces are a fairly new Hershey's candy. The Reese’s Dark Peanut Butter Cups are the same size and shape as the traditional Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, which means that each one is approximately 2" in diameter and 1/2" thick. Like the rest of the Reese’s peanut butter cups, they come as pairs in a thin wax paper cup. The 1.5 oz. package houses two 21 gram candies.

Each Reese's Milk Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups Stuffed With Pieces is sold as a pair for about $.99.

Ease Of Preparation

These are candy, so preparing them is as simple as opening the wrapper, removing it from the paper wrapper, and then eating the candy. There is no trick or mystery to eating Reese's Milk Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups Stuffed With Pieces. As long as you have opposable thumbs and a mouth, the Dark Peanut Butter Cup is pretty much yours for the consuming!

Taste

The Reese's Milk Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups Stuffed With Pieces smell both chocolatey and like peanut butter. The scent is distinct and inviting for anyone who loves peanut butter or milk chocolate. The Reese's Milk Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups Stuffed With Pieces smell great!

In the mouth, the Reese's Milk Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups Stuffed With Pieces are sweet and dry, as one expects of something that starts with a light, sweet chocolate shell and then blends with the peanut butter center. The peanut butter center is nutty and grainy, flavored exactly like the sweet peanut butter one expects from Reese's products. Unfortunately, the Reese's Pieces inside the Reese's Milk Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups Stuffed With Pieces manifest entirely as a texture instead of a varied flavor that truly adds anything to the candy.

The Reese's Milk Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups Stuffed With Pieces leave a slightly sweet - not at all dry - aftertaste in the mouth for about five minutes after the last one is consumed.

Nutrition

These are candy and a mass produced one at that, so it is tough to look at these for something nutritious and then blame them for not being healthy. Reese's Milk Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups Stuffed With Pieces are not nearly as bad as they could be on the nutrition front, though, which surprised me as the ingredient list did not degenerate into a listing of chemicals I could not pronounce. Instead, the primary ingredients are milk chocolate, peanuts, and sugar. There is nothing unpronounable in these candies, which is somewhat surprising.

A serving of the Reese's Milk Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups Stuffed With Pieces is considered one package (two cups). From a single package, Reese's Milk Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups Stuffed With Pieces provides 220 calories, 100 of those calories being from fat. There is 1% of the RDA of cholesterol and 5% of one's daily sodium, but there are no vitamins in these chocolates, unsurprisingly. There is, also, 6% of one's daily iron and 4% of the RDA of Calcium in the cups.

Honestly, these are candy and anyone looking to them for actual nutrition needs to get a reality check. These are not Vegan-compliant, nor are they recommended for anyone with a nut allergy as they contain peanuts! They are not noted to be either kosher or gluten-free.

Storage/Clean-up

The pack of these Reese's Milk Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups Stuffed With Pieces remain fresh for quite some time. The ones we picked up last week would have expired in July of 2017, had I not eaten them already. Given that they are wrapped in a very sealed package, it is hard to imagine just what it would take for these to go bad outside melting and refreezing. Hershey's chocolates do seem especially susceptible to melting, though.

As for cleanup, I applaud those who actually throw the wrappers away in socially appropriate places, as opposed to litter. Outside that, there is no real cleanup needed, unless one is eating them in a hot environment. In that case, it is likely one would need to wash their hands. If this chocolate bar melts into most fabrics, it will stain. Getting them to melt, unfortunately, does not take much.

Overall

Reese's Milk Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups Stuffed With Pieces seem initially clever, but the execution of them is entirely underwhelming.

For other Hershey's candy reviews, please check out my reviews of:
Cadbury Screme Egg
Reese's Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup
Whopper's

4.5/10

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