Not a hazelnut butter cup (Storck Toffifee)

Member Name: iamasadlittleboy

Product:	Storck Toffifee
Date:	16/09/09 (29 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Taste, texture

Disadvantages: Not what I had expected

After having had some of the Hershey's Reese's Cups I commented that they would taste better if they we're made with hazelnut and not peanut butter. Some when I saw something "cup" shaped and the word "Hazelnut" I put 2 and 2 together and declared these we're going to be amazing. Hazelnut butter as found in things like Kinder Bueno is a filling that is just brilliant, it's godly and as perfect as is possible for a filling to be. The idea that nuts could be used to make it is even more amazing, it tastes like heaven but is made from the humble old hazelnut, the man behind it is a legend.

Anyway enough about what a great man the founder of Ferrero is and back on to these. Toffifee I had imaged, obviously not reading the box would be a chocolate cup with a gorgeous hazelnut butter filling. As it turned out I was wrong, on later inspection the box said "A Hazelnut in Caramel with Creamy Nougat and Chocolate", but was it time to regret my buy now, read later attitude that had for years served me well?

Coming in a rather simple looking orange box, that then contains a plastic wrapped inner box and a cup holder (similar to the Ferrero Rocher eggs) that looks quite high quality and posh in a gold foil. They inner packaging looked the part until you saw what the actual sweets looked like (as had become very obvious by now, I really didn't look at the box after seeing hazelnut). Their was 15 2 tone sweets, with what looked like a giant chocolate button sat on a slightly milkier chocolate base, it had looked like the wrapping and the looks of the chocolate had deliberately tried to confuse me. Where was the sex appeal of hazelnut, where was the magic that seemed to follow the idea of hazelnut butter?

Any way the taste test, my chance to go weak at the knees under the power of the magic of hazelnuts, the soft smooth silky quality that they seem to have. Boy was I going to be shocked, biting into one of them, I realised the name wasn't lost in translation the outside coat wasn't a light chocolate, it was a caramel a soft toffee, forming the cup. The "cup" was filled with a solid hazelnut chocolate mixture, that was nice, though sadly not what was being expected. In the depth of the cup was an actual hazelnut (that was unexpected). Of course the chocolate button on the top actually was a glorified chocolate button.

Now for someone expecting a rather Ferrero style sweet, a soft sticky sort of thing, that was easy to get through and rich. I have to admit I was shocked (big time) by what turned out to be a very different sort of sweet, a tough chewy thing with a huge array of textures ranging from the smooth to the erm...nutty. Whilst originally being hugely disappointed at being so massively wrong in what I thought it was I've just sat here eating the box as I've typed, so beyond the original disappointment it needs to be admitted that they are actually really nice and really good sweets. What was wrong was the expectation that they were simple going to be hazelnut butter cups, not the actual product themselves.

Overall they were (past tense) really enjoyable and tasty with 15 cups in the 99p box I got, they work out at just shy of 7p each which may seem quite steep when you see the size of them, but when tasted you will see the reason for the price. There is simply so much going on in each sweet that it's hard to understand quite where the idea came from to have a real nut covered in hazelnut chocolate and caramel. Though the idea ends up being lovely to taste an an explosion of textures.

Those with nut allergy's have to be advised to stay away, they obviously contain hazelnuts, and may contain traces of almonds, peanuts and "other nuts". Though for those able to try nuts, then these come highly advised but you need to try a few, until you realise there is a lot more to these than meets the eye.

Summary: Nice, different but nice