Sugar Savvy

When I was recently at Target, I happened to be right in front of the Choxie display and a young couple was in front of me, trying to decide what to get someone they knew for Valentine’s Day.

“Well, I suppose you could get her that,” he said, pointing to the Choxie display, but practically spitting out the word “that” like Choxie’s were evil.“Yes, I could,” his girlfriend said, seeming unconvinced.Are they that bad,I wondered?  Or were they just skeptical because Choxie is a Target brand?  Who knows, but coincidentally, the very next day a box of Choxie’s Chocolate Flakey Truffles arrived on our doorstop, so I was about to find out.

I am a huge fan of melted chocolate, but the kind that is melting in my mouth, not the kind that melts before it even gets there.  I had this box sitting on my disk, near my computer and when I opened it, the little logs were mud-colored pools.  I had to get them back to solid before I could sample them.  The size and shape of them definitely lends itself to the “log” description, and with the way the chocolate melts, it’s not exactly appetizing.  That said, the chocolate itself was smooth and creamy and reminded me a bit of Nutella.  The chocolate flake covering is very apparent on the box photograph, but not so much on the actual chocolate.  For me, while I may like these chocolates, they are almost too soft for me, as they start to melt while you’re holding them taking bites.