I don’t really understand what’s going on with this Big Cup. It could be that I don’t understand the basics of peanut brittle, but from what I understand it’s sugar melted in a certain way with peanut in it. The hardened sugar gives it a sweet toasty flavour and texture of this hardened sugar is where it gets its name “brittle”. The reason I feel like I don’t understand what peanut brittle is come from the fact that there’s nothing brittle about these cups at all. As far as I can tell they’re just white chocolate cups filled with peanut butter with a few full peanuts inside the peanut butter.

I will say that the peanuts did have an extremely faint peanut brittle flavour, but it was so faint that I might be just projecting it onto the peanuts in order to feel like I understood this treat better than I did. I will say there is some kind of extra sweet flavour in these cups, but it’s so hard to pick out from the very sweet peanut butter that Reese’s uses in all of their peanut butter cups and the white chocolate.

It was really a struggle to try and imagine how this treat could possibly represent peanut brittle at all. The good thing is that other than this disconnect I enjoyed these cups well enough. The chocolate and peanut butter worked well together as it often does with Reese’s cups both big and regular. I also felt that the full peanuts added a nice crunch to the mix. It was a fine treat to be had, but it would have been much better if I wasn’t focused on trying to figure out why these had any connection to peanut brittle. Maybe instead of just peanuts, if these cups had had actual crunchy peanut brittle bits it would have worked much better. Even if the cups weren’t as tasty I wouldn’t have been so distracted trying to figure them out.