Eatable: Hershey’s Drops
What kind: candy
Main ingredient: milk chocolate
Calories per serving: 200
AMAZON: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0046H8KNC/?tag=kimichee-20
For some reason my dad is always giving me candy. And me being me, I end up eating the candy. It’s my secret shame.
Anyways, he brought me a big bag of Hershey’s Drops, which I had never tried before. I thought the pieces would be the size of the M&Ms they resemble, but they aren’t. Each drop is approximately the size of a nickle and are pure milk chocolate. There is no shell, yet they feel solid and they don’t make a melty mess everywhere.
I suppose that if you make a dessert recipe with M&Ms (rice crispy squares, chocolate chip cookies, chocolate chip muffins) and you don’t want to deal with shell mess, these drops might be a perfect substitution. They are rather big, but they should melt into perfect gooey bites of chocolatey goodness.
Serving Size: 15 pieces
Servings Per Container about 6
Calories: 200
Calories from fat 100
Seriously, I’ve eaten most of this bag. After about six there’s this sense that it’s too much chocolate at one time. I can’t imagine eating fifteen at once.
So if a realistic serving is 7 pieces, that’s only 100 calories.
I like the idea of these because they are seriously solid. The chocolate has been pressed into such dense little discs that I don’t think there’s much worry that they’ll get all melted and gooey in the cupboard. Though I would have to experiment with the melting point, as no one wants to bite into a cookie and get a hard chunk of chocolate.
My suggestions:
- Chop them up or send them through a food processor and use them in a milkshake or on ice cream. (I’m picturing an Oreo-style shake, but with granola and chocolate, or graham crackers and chocolate.
- Make giant chocolate chip cookies.
- Chop them up and make chocolate muffins. (Pumpkin muffins with chocolate chips and walnuts, chocolate chip muffins with pecans and raisins.)
- Write messages on them. Either with edible frosting, or by etching out a message and dusting with powdered sugar or edible dust. (They are printed with “Hershey’s” on one side in white, but that could be painted over with food paint. [AMAZON: Metallic Purple Food Paint. I’ve never used this, but it looks very pretty. I just don’t bake enough to excuse the purchase. link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009GDK2XC/?tag=kimichee-20])
