Pop Rocks Candy

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Chocolate Pop Rocks- Hard Candy

Chocablog has reported on popping candy in chocolatebefore; having, however, not personally tried this strange combination, Ipicked up two packets when I stumbled across plain milk chocolate covered PopRocks. While I can’t say from experience, the idea of keeping Pop Rocks intheir usual loose state versus adding them to the contents of a chocolate bardoes seem less intimidating and less likely to go wrong. There is perhaps more(or at least a different kind of) expectation from a bar form versus a memberof the more informal candy species. I for one would likely approach the bardifferently from a Pop Rocks packet.

Speaking of the candy species, Pop Rocks are one of its odd members, one Inever really know what to make of. The sizzling and crackling feel they make,while intriguing, also feels slightly wrong, like this isn’t something youshould be eating. Its similarity with chocolate is that they both melt ordissolve somehow in your mouth. Yet chocolate does this with smoothness, slowlyreleasing its flavors instead of lashing out like a collection of fireworks.Are the two beings too opposing to be combined?

Not really. Not if you take Chocolate Pop Rocks simply as Pop Rocks with atweak to the original formula.

They come in different sizes, some being small while others are clusters ofchocolate covering a few rocks instead of just one. Because the coating is onlymilk chocolate, it melts away pretty quickly, leaving the rocks to do theirusual wizardry. Also because it is milk chocolate, it isn’t a great amount ofaftertaste that lingers during the crackling stage. That is, not unless you eata large enough portion at once, which I was only brave enough to do once.

The effect reminds me of chocolatesoda , what with the crackling and the mild chocolate flavor. In fact, Iwonder if I prefer Pop Rocks to have this thin coating to soften the effect abit–rather than the two sides clashing, the chocolate seems to tone down thestrangeness of this most strange candy. And that isn’t something I mind.

Chocablog has reported on popping candy in chocolatebefore; having, however, not personally tried this strange combination, Ipicked up two packets when I stumbled across plain milk chocolate covered PopRocks. While I can’t say from experience, the idea of keeping Pop Rocks intheir usual loose state versus adding them to the contents of a chocolate bardoes seem less intimidating and less likely to go wrong. There is perhaps more(or at least a different kind of) expectation from a bar form versus a memberof the more informal candy species. I for one would likely approach the bardifferently from a Pop Rocks packet.

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