September 2024

 

 

 

 

Julia

Fazer

I’ve never loved jellies or gummies covered in chocolate. I don’t hate most of or possibly all gummies I’ve had covered in chocolate either. I just find that the combination of flavours and textures is a hard one to make work. It’s true that chocolate and fruit do often go together, however most jellies and gummies use more synthetic flavour, and those don’t blend with chocolate nearly as well as real fruit. These Julia chocolates also offer another problem, and that’s balancing the chocolate and gummy flavours. In this case the chocolate vastly overpowers the gummy.

With high quality chocolate like Fazer I don’t mind if the chocolate is playing the starring role but this time it created a bit of a problem. The chocolate flavour overpowered the jelly so much that I couldn’t tell what flavour it was supposed to be. I think I tasted a bit of a fruity flavour, but it was too subtle to make out exactly what flavour it was supposed to be. That made this candy feel like it was a chocolate covered ball of flavourless and very dense slime. Gummies need flavour as it’s the thing that keeps them from being slime. It’s a crucial part of the makeup of gummies. If you don’t believe me, next time you’re so congested that you can’t taste anything, eat a bag of fresh gummy bears.

After all this complaining I do want to point out that it was still not a bad candy. It’s very possible that it’s my least favourite Fazer treat, but I don’t think I would call this treat bad. I really wish they amped up the fruit flavour, and possibly used a more obvious flavour.