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Candyblogging: Chocolate Covered Cherries

nobody@vox.com(Smiley) — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:35:55 +0900

We tried Turin's Chocolate Covered Cherries this weekend. After having mixed success with the Jack Daniel's filled and the Kaluha filled, we were a little apprehensive, but decided to try them anyway.

And we were quite pleased. The chocolates are again, good, not great, but the cherry liquor (un-named and presumably not a brand name) adds a very nice sweetness that goes down well.

At the same time, I don't know that I would recommend these as a special occasion candy. They seem more suited to a quick, after-dinner, choco. Maybe something to keep in a bowl on the coffee table or a dish on the kitchen counter. But, as a special birthday or Valentine's day chocolate, they do not seem quite adequate.

And, once again, the website does not seem to be working (there is a Spanish language access denied message this time, rather than the page not found error previously encountered) so I found the photo on Gift Shop Cafe. Enjoy.

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Candyblogging: Jack Daniel's Filled Chocolates

nobody@vox.com(Smiley) — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:08:42 +0900

Tennessee Chocolates

This weekend, my wife and I decided to try a bag of Jack Daniel's Filled Chocolates.

Our local import store has just undergone a remodeling and has brought in a whole slew of new candies and chocolates to help in their re-opening, and just in time for Valentine's Day.

Yamaya (the import store) is stocking three varieties of liquor filled chocolates made by Turin of Mexico: Jack Daniel's Whiskey, Kahlua Coffee Liquor, and Bailey's Irish Cream. We picked up a small bag of the Jack Daniel's as well as a small bag of Kahlua although we have not opened the later yet.

As I said, the candies are manufactured by Turin Chocolates of Mexico, although the website seems to be down at the moment. (www.turin.com.mx according to the bag.) The chocolate is good but not exceptional, and semisweet. The liquor is allowed to fully saturate the candies, making a sweet burn in one's throat, almost as if you did a (very small) shot immediately after eating a chocolate.

I found them to be good, but an unusual combination. And although stronger than other liquor filled chocolates I have had in the past, they had no aftertaste of liquor. For anyone (like me) who seems to have trouble stopping after only a single piece, I had no difficulties in saying one is enough due to the strong liquor content.

We're looking forward to trying the Kahlua filled chocolates this weekend.

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Belated Valentine's Greetings

nobody@vox.com(Smiley) — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:03:12 +0900

Valentine's chocolates from my wife.

I don't know where she gets them, but I do love chocolates in the shape of small amphibians. It just makes them all the more delicious, don't you know.

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