Gone Chocco

Harry’s Rocky Road are already renowned for their slabs of chunky heaven and this year they’ve gone a step better by releasing a range of Easter Eggs.

These aren’t delicate thin shells that tend to make you feel slightly ripped off if you ever look at the ‘price per 100 grams’ tag but are instead hefty halves that you know are going to actually feed you. In a fun way. 

This particular quartet features Triple Choc (top left), Cookies and Cream (oh go on, have a guess where that one is in the picture), Caramel (bottom left) and Pineapple (bottom right).

See what I mean?  These eggs are seriously solid and they smell so delicious when the plastic wrappers are off.  Just turning them over for this photo required an inordinate amount of self control.

Firstly, the Triple Choc.  In addition to the milk chocolate and particularly good quality marshmallows are chocolate jubes and chocolate cookie pieces.  We sliced this up (or should I say that we stuck a pointy knife in and let the chunks fly off in all directions) in front of a particularly good episode of ‘Frasier’ and in our satisfied munchings the most articulate comment was “Oh yeah. Niiiiiiiiiice.”  Harry hasn’t let the side down in the egg department.

 The Caramel egg is a slow starter.  Firstly you think that it’s not much different to the Triple Choc until you notice some crispy caramel wafer and then some chewy, Fantail-textured caramel that warms up and melts on the tongue with the chocolate.  Once again, my vocab extended to the very technical, “Mmmmmm.”

My daughter Sapphire particularly liked the Pineapple one.  This had pineapple-flavoured jubes inside with rice crispies for texture amongst the fluffy marshmallow.  The overall effect was very sweet and yet when washed down with a glass red wine (yes, it was well into the evening and coffee would have kept me awake and doing cartwheels and no, Sapphire had water) it worked.  Unsophisticated yes, but fun.

Finally the Cookies and Cream.  This was a real revelation for me and it’s becoming more and more of a shock to discover that I’m enjoying white chocolate.  Harry’s version has chewy vanilla jubes and really dark chocolate biscuit pieces (Oreos?) to give the white chocolate and marshmallow a run for their money.  It tasted so much like fresh cream and was the very clear favourite in my book.

These chunky honeys pack a flavour and sweet punch that means it will be impossible to eat a whole one in a single sitting so you feel like you’ve had value for money and end up with some lovely rocky road chunks in a tupperware container to revisit and sneak pieces off for several days afterwards.  Well done Harry, you’ve kicked a chocolatey goal. But use a football, not one of your eggs or you’ll find yourself in hospital….