Another year, another Easter, another face-off in Chocolate Easter products. This year: rabbits!
Three to be specific, all rabbits, all milk chocolate, all about the same size and identical price ($3.99). I’ve eaten one a weekend for the last three weeks… let’s see which was best?
The first was Lindt, who as far as I can recall pioneered this type of Easter treat. These familiar little rabbits have been available for years now, and I’ve eaten my share in years prior.
The taste was of course sublime: exquisitely creamy and moorish. This was the thinnest of the three (which is a plus) and almost impossible to not gobble down in one go. Maybe it was unwise to start with Lindt, for the taste would be difficult to beat…
Ghiradelli was next. The packaging is obviously much cuter than Lindt – more a character and less an animal – but their budget obviously didn’t run to a real ribbon.
The chocolate though… well it was bad. Sickly sweet, and possessing the sort of vaguely-coffee taste I associate with dark chocolate, I couldn’t stomach more than a few pieces. KLS was equally unimpressed, and unfortunately some of this guy ended up in the garbage. Easily worse than Lindt!
Lastly came Godiva. The packaging as you can see is impressive, and the feel of the foil is soft and delightful too. This guy was just nice to hold, and I was optimistic about what I’d taste inside.
Opening it was a treat too: the foil splits into two halves rather than a single sheet. But the taste… the taste… it’s awful. One bite was all I could manage before being repulsed. I was reminded of dollar-store fake-chocolate, and while KLS is still bubbling away at it I expect a good amount of this bunny will be trashed as well 🙁
So it was in the end no contest. Lindt effortlessly won the Easter chocolate rabbit contest. But was it better than the otherworldly Cadbury rabbit I bought last year? Alas I never found that product this year, so we’ll never know…
Oh, and Happy Easter to everyone! 🙂