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Most Brain-Like Chocolate Easter Egg Confection

Posted by Robyn Lee, April 7, 2009 at 7:45 PM

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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Tags: candy, chocolate, Easter, See's