Malt, yummmmm

Okay so it has been waaaayyy too long! I have been very busy since the fall. I move 800 miles away from my boyfriend to finish school and well, school has been terribly hectic. I took 6 classes this past spring! With my track record, I am very impressed I did well! I have a technical certificate and in July I will have my A.S. Exciting! But anyway....

I have a mild sweet tooth. I am not always craving sweets, but when I do it is crazy! I usually want chocolate or sour candy! So when I want chocolate it goes to my two favorite chocolate combos: peanut butter & chocolate and malted mi

lk balls. I love Reese's cups and I love Whoppers. But sometimes I like to explore my other options in the malt ball department. There are many other brands of them and I am always open to new varieties. I have always loved malt balls so why not expand my horizon. I do hold Whoppers in high esteem, so most get compared to them. They have a thin chocolate layer and a huge malt center. I love that ratio! But I have tried others and here are my opinions on the ones I have tried lately

Cracker Barrel Malt Balls (I lost the packaging). I bought them at Cracker Barrel!I do not have the best close up photo skills.

So this one has a huge chocolate portion, and a rather small malt ball in it. I do not like have to scrape away at the chocolate only to find a small malt ball :-( the chocolate was tasty but it overpowered the malt. Meh.

Target Bulk Candy Malt Balls

Perfect ratio!!!! So that means awesome....not so fast! While it had the perfect ratio the malt was not that malty. It made me very sad. The chocolate was okay, but it was overall nothing special. The cashier forgot to weigh them so they were free; that's a plus!

Publix Bulk Candy Carob Malt Balls

So I had never had carob before. What is carob? It is a bean (I think) that is used as a chocolate substitute. There are some people who can not have dairy or chocolate, so it is there option! Well, I had been wanting to try it and my poppy was paying for groceries so why not? I did only get a small scoop people! So yeah, they were really good! It might be one of the better tasting chocolates I have eaten, considering it isn't chocolate at all! I even had poppy try one and he liked it too. He's terribly hard to impress. The malt, however, was not too great. It actually had too much something, moisture maybe? I don't know, it was just a little dense! But they were the best out of the three!!!!

So yeah, that's it. I'll be sampling more malt balls and I will be posting pictures of the food I have made/eaten that I deemed worthy enough for a picture. Super long post!!!!