Most Brain-Like Chocolate Easter Egg Confection
When I was little, I was always disappointed by hollow chocolate Easter eggs or bunnies. Hell, I'm still disappointed in them. I don't care if I'm eating a piece of chocolate molded into a fun shape if it's mostly air.
But when we got this Rocky Road Egg from See's Candies, a milk chocolate egg filled with honey marshmallows and walnuts, I was kind of scared. It was big. And heavy (9.5 ounces).
I felt a surge of power flow through me as I held that 1200-calorie bomb of chocolate-mashmallow-nut goodness in my palm. And then I cut it open. And it looked like this.
It's a glob of marshmallows and walnuts bound together by chocolate. The pattern of the bisected egg kind of reminded me of brain folds. To add to the brain-like comparison, when I separated the halves, the marshmallow came apart in a sticky, unclean manner. Just like human meat!...I assume. I've never cut a brain in half before.
it tastes like what it looks like: very sweet, sticky, and a bit nutty. But mostly sweet, as it's mostly sugar. Like a dense Asian mooncake, this is best eaten in thin slices.
Rocky Road Eggs and other Easter confections are available at Sees.com for delivery by Easter until 9 a.m. PT tomorrow, April 8, with 2-day shipping. You can also check out their retail locations.
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11 Comments:
OMG! That's beautiful! What an autopsy shot!
arm1970 at 8:04PM on 04/07/09
Did you use a band saw for that shot?
DanielJ at 8:14PM on 04/07/09
@arm1970: It is a rather nice pattern, in an abstract way.
@DanielJ: We have a large chef's knife that cut through it like buttah. But a band saw would ALSO BE COOOOOL.
roboppy at 8:17PM on 04/07/09
that gave me goosebumps. it's like seeing a bunch of blisters on a person. if chocolate had blisters, that's what it would look like.
i'm going to stick to the scotchmallows.
lokamotion at 8:31PM on 04/07/09
as far as looking like a brain, there's that walnut that sort of looks like a corpus callosum, and other things that look like ventricles, which you might get depending on where the slice is, and assuming it's in the sagittal plane, though you hopefully wouldn't have both in the same slice. based on experience with a "fixed" (formaldehyde-d) sheep brain, it isn't that sticky, sort of like if somebody made meat that imitated tofu.
/nerd-ery (wait....)
ChickenFinger5 at 8:34PM on 04/07/09
I picked one of those up in the store on Sunday. And then put it back down. Waaayy too much candy in one piece (I always think candy should be pre-portioned and require no serving implements).
cybele at 9:20PM on 04/07/09
Eww, human brain meat. And yet, I want it!
leeber at 10:00AM on 04/08/09
i agree with your hollow bunny repulsion...always so disappointing...i want something i can gnaw on for a few days.
i've never seen an egg like that before-very brainy looking indeed.
my mom normally gets me a coconut version-also best eaten in thin slices.
gastronomeg at 11:17AM on 04/08/09
This brings back memories. When i was little my Godmother would make me and my brother an egg like this full of all sorts of things, it was dense and heavy and so good, much better than a crappy hollow shell
Edwardkimuk at 2:02PM on 04/08/09
ur right man those hollow eggs were a real downer...
I would TOTALLY freeze this thing and eat it all year!
hungrychristel at 2:42PM on 04/08/09
Oh and if you are interested in learning how these eggs are made, head over to YumSugar!
http://www.yumsugar.com/3012520
partysugar at 2:47PM on 04/08/09