The Good: Amazing flavor for the chocolate and coffee, Great ingredients, Awesome corporate ethics
The Bad: The vanilla center is entirely overwhelmed by the incredible chocolate coating!
The Basics: Wild Ophelia Cold Brew Mexican Vanilla Chocolate Coffee Bites are interesting, but the center cannot hold its own against the rich chocolate and coffee coating!
When it comes to incredible chocolates, sometimes finding the balance in the promised flavors is the key to success. I love all sorts of chocolate and almost all of my favorites are blends - like chocolate mint or dark chocolate coffee. Wild Ophelia usually manages to find the right balance between the flavors they promise. Once in a long while, Wild Ophelia produces a chocolate that is very much out of balance. Wild Ophelia Cold Brew Mexican Vanilla Chocolate Coffee Bites are one such chocolate that doesn't quite get it right.
The Wild Ophelia Cold Brew Mexican Vanilla Chocolate Coffee Bites have an amazing chocolate and coffee-flavored coating, but the center is more generically sweet than it is a ganache that is able to hold its own opposite the chocolate coating.
Basics
Wild Ophelia Cold Brew Mexican Vanilla Chocolate Coffee Bites are a fairly new candy. The Wild Ophelia Cold Brew Mexican Vanilla Chocolate Coffee Bites are like square bon bons. They come as a quartet of treats on a thin cardboard tray. The 1.39 oz. package houses four candies which are each 1" by 1" squares that are 7/16" thick.
Ease Of Preparation
These are candy, so preparing them is as simple as opening the wrapper, removing it from the plastic wrapper and the cardboard tray, and then eating the candy. There is no trick or mystery to eating Wild Ophelia Cold Brew Mexican Vanilla Chocolate Coffee Bites. As long as you have opposable thumbs and a mouth, the Cold Brew Mexican Vanilla Chocolate Coffee Bites are pretty much yours to enjoy!
Taste
The Wild Ophelia Cold Brew Mexican Vanilla Chocolate Coffee Bites smell powerfully of dark chocolate and coffee. The coffee and dark chocolate blend together in the aroma of these chocolates to entirely overwhelm any other scent that might have come from them.
In the mouth, the Cold Brew Mexican Vanilla Chocolate Coffee Bites taste dry and rich with the chocolate and the coffee flavors manifesting powerfully. The center is sweet, but contrasting with the dark chocolate and coffee flavors that explode from the candy's shell, the center tastes more generic than truly vanilla. The center is all right, but not impressive compared to the chocolate coating.
The Wild Ophelia Cold Brew Mexican Vanilla Chocolate Coffee Bites have a dry, but pleasant and slightly sweet aftertaste to them that lasts only a few minutes after the last of them is consumed.
Nutrition
These are candy, so they are not exceptionally health-oriented. Wild Ophelia Cold Brew Mexican Vanilla Chocolate Coffee Bites are not nearly as bad as they could be on the nutrition front, which is unsurprising given how good the ingredients in this chocolate are. The primary ingredients are bittersweet chocolate, caramel, and sugar. There is nothing unpronounceable in these candies; everything in them is easily identified.
A serving of the Wild Ophelia Cold Brew Mexican Vanilla Chocolate Coffee Bites is considered one package (four pieces). From a single package, Wild Ophelia Cold Brew Mexican Vanilla Chocolate Coffee Bites provides 190 calories and 14 grams of fat. There is 1% of the RDA of cholesterol and they are sodium free. There as 2 grams of Protein and 4% of one's daily Potassium in the Bites, as well as 20% of the RDA of Iron.
Honestly, these are candy and anyone looking to them for actual nutrition needs to get a reality check. These are not Vegan-compliant, nor are they recommended for anyone with a nut allergy as they are produced on equipment that processes peanuts and tree nuts! They are not noted to be kosher, though they are gluten-free and made using Non-GMO ingredients. There are allergy warnings for milk and soy.
Storage/Clean-up
The package of these Wild Ophelia Cold Brew Mexican Vanilla Chocolate Coffee Bites remain fresh for quite some time. The ones my wife got me for my birthday would have expired on April 18, 2018, had we not eaten them up already. Given that they are wrapped in a very sealed package, it is hard to imagine just what it would take for these to go bad outside melting and refreezing. These Wild Ophelia chocolates do not seem especially susceptible to melting, though.
As for cleanup, simply throw the wrappers away in an appropriate place. There is no real cleanup needed, unless one is eating them in a hot environment. In that case, it is likely one would need to wash their hands. If this chocolate melts into most fabrics, it will stain. Getting them to melt, though, takes quite a bit.
Overall
Wild Ophelia Cold Brew Mexican Vanilla Chocolate Coffee Bites have good components, but the quality of the chocolate overwhelms its center.
For other coffee flavored candy reviews, please check out my reviews of:
Cappuccino Jelly Belly jelly beans
M&M's Premium Mocha
Lindt Cappuccino Lindor Truffles
3.5/10
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