Day 68
I am having a secret love affair. Unbeknownst to my closest friends or even my kids … I am madly, deeply in love with Russell.
Russell Stover, that is.
Seriously. I am so glad and so lucky Easter only comes around once a year or I’d have a terrible complexion and weigh about 200 pounds more than I do now.
And I mean that in all seriousness. This love affair runs deep.
I am, at the moment, eating the last square inch of a Russell Stover Dark Chocolate and Coconut Cream Easter bunny. I knew, when I plucked it off the half-priced shelf at the grocery store the other day (with its twin), that for 64 cents I was buying pure Heaven. I just didn’t realize just how big Heaven can be!
I have had the RS Dark Chocolate and Coconut Cream Easter eggs before but I think these bunnies are nearly twice the size … meaning, quite simply, double the sweet (teeth numbing) goodness!
And, oh boy, goodness doesn’t quite say it right! But the name of this particular candy does … Dark Chocolate (decadent dark chocolate with a hint of bitterness that lingers) and Coconut Cream (ooey, gooey, thick, sweet cream with a true coconut flavor and texture.) Oh my.
I didn’t used to be a dark chocolate fan. It kind of crept up on me over the years and now it is my chocolate variety of choice. I was strictly a milk chocolate gal for a long time … and then I discovered dark chocolate via a Mounds bar and I was a goner. (And just fyi – this candy concoction is 1000 times better than any Mounds bar!)
From the Mounds I graduated to dark chocolate non-pariels. Trader Joe’s has nice fat ones. World Market has paper thin ones … I haven’t decided which I like better. Think I’ll have to do more taste testing!
I have never been a fan of strawberries and chocolate or chocolate covered strawberries or cherries or Black Forest cake with the raspberries and chocolate. However, put orange, lemon or blueberry with dark chocolate and I’ll follow you just about anywhere! Throw a nut or something crunchy like granola or crisped rice or something gooey, like caramel, in with the mix and I am practically delirious!
Russell Stover makes a double decker pecan and caramel patty – their version of a Turtle. OMG. And though not dark chocolate, just one of those just about sends me into a diabetic coma! But, I tell ya … I can’t think of a better way to go!
All I can say is … thanks, Russell. I love you!