Recently I received a jar of Reeses Spreads courtesy of Influenster to devour sample. I. Was. PUMPED. I didn’t even know this was a thing, but they had me and ‘chocolate and peanut butter spread’.
I set up a little spread for myself, the hubs, my daughter (who was beyond thrilled to get to have a treat in the middle of the afternoon), and we invited our neighbor over too, just to gather another opinion. The question was – what does this taste beston??
The options were: Apple slices, graham crackers, and wheat toast. Both my little and myself liked Reeses Spreads on apples the best. I am a HUGE fan of apples and peanut butter, and this is like a dessert version of that. Both my hubs and our neighbor liked it best on the toast.
How’s the flavor? I think this is where I was surprised the most. First off, it doesn’t taste like a Reeses Peanut Butter cup. In fact, when eaten WITH something, I feel like you hardly even taste the chocolate. It’s like a super sweet peanut butter. Good, but definitely not a great chocolate/pb combo in my opinion. We each tried a little spoonful just by itself, and I find that on it’s own it definitely tastes much more like a Reeses.
Overall, this is good, but I would not purchase this over Nutella any day. It has a good taste, but it’s really just like an overly sweet peanut butter. As someone who purchases natural peanut butter (as in, only peanuts – no added sugar) it’s almost sickeningly sweet, and it doesn’t have enough of a chocolate flavor to balance that out. I am quite intrigued how it’ll be to bake with though – I plan on making up some peanut butter cookies using this in place of half the peanut butter – we’ll see how they turn out!
I didn’t know they made this stuff! I love Reese’s so I really want to try it… Kinda weird that it doesn’t taste like a Reese’s cup when you eat it with something, I might just have to eat it with a spoon out of the jar haha
Jessica
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If you’re looking for the classic Reese’s taste, that the way to do it! 😀
I’m not a fan of Reese’s or peanut butter (so this won’t be my cup of tea) but I showed this to my boyfriend and his eyes widened so much. He desperately wants to try this and we’re both spoon-it-from-the-jar type folks. I’ll stick to Nutella though 😉 Good luck with the cookies!
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Thanks! Yeah, Nutella is still so much better haha.
I’m so glad to see a review of this! I love apples and peanut butter! I don’t like hazelnut so I stay away from Nutella. I think I’ll stick with peanut butter as things that are too sweet make my teeth hurt.
This is DEFINITELY sweet haha. It’s good in small doses. 🙂
I think this would be good baked into something, too! I can’t really see myself eating it otherwise, though. I’ll stick with crunchy peanut butter 🙂
I do think baking will be a good application for it….now just to come up with what to bake where the flavor won’t get too lost!
I had no idea this existed! I’m not a huge peanut butter fan, so a sweet peanut butter taste would not be good for me. I’ll stick with Nutella! Thanks for the honest review!
~Sara