The Mini Malteser Bunny Challenge

I know it's been a while since our beloved follower Pharmacy Michelle threw down the gauntlet for us to indulge and review a selection of the mini Malteser Bunnies available this Easter .........

 ..... and so with our palates now cleansed of quite so much seasonal chocolate, we now feel well able to afford said bunnies our best and fairest shot.

Let's just say it was a lot trickier than we first anticipated.  Fortunately, we were tres au fait with the "ordinary", traditional bunnies, to wit milk chocolate with the iconic Malteser centre and as such, they didn't present us with any problems. So, with no unexpected plot twists or surprises, we liked them very much, they were familiar and comforting, scoring an assured ten out of ten!

However, on the other hand, the white chocolate bunnies with the same centre, even for our famous, communal, mega sweet tooth, proved to be a little too sweet for our liking. The sweetness was striking, therefore we felt we could only award them a score of five out of ten, making it highly unlikely that we would dash out to replenish the bag, even if they are/were still available in the shops.

Then the most contentious of the three varieties of bunny proffered by Pharmacy Michelle were undoubtedly the popcorn flavour ones ........

We'll be honest, we weren't too sure what to expect, from the wrapper we sort of assumed they would be white chocolate too, but were in fact milk.  At first we quite liked the toasty flavour of popcorn melded in with the usual Malteser ........

..... however as the chocolate melted along with the Malteser, the popcorn came to the fore, there was some extra crunch, but that quickly gave way to the huskiness (??) of the popcorn ...... a bits that get between your teeth type of scenario, that we just didn't like and so, only four and a half out of ten were awarded this time.
  

Our conclusion, keep to the tried and tested recipe Mars, don't mess around with our much loved, good and honest Malteser. If you need to do anything, simply bring down the price of what was always our confectionary of choice for our televisual viewing. At £3.00 for a 110gram box, they are a luxury we just don't buy that often any more. It's now cheaper to serve up steak instead! A year or so ago you could get two 110 gram boxes, when on offer, for the same sum ...... as for the bigger 310 gram boxes, they are also way out of our league these days.  Sad, sad times ......