Candy German are one of the ever-increasing companies to offer monthly subscription "blind boxes"...only these are filled with German confectionery. Below we take you through our impressions of December's goodies. You can read Candy German's own blog on these products here, which I would highly recommend.
You can subscribe to Candy German at www.candygerman.com. Prices range from 27 to 29 Euros, depending on the length of subscription that you choose.
Ritter Sport were a firm favourite of mine when I lived in Germany - the chocolate is so creamy, and the varieties are almost endless. This variety is a special winter creation, filled with a "Nusskipferl" cream - a cream tasting of nut cookies of the crescent-shaped variety seen on the wrapper. There are tiny crunchy morsels of the cookie in the cream to add a bit of bite. Delicious!
Yep. That's right. Marzipan Potatoes: little balls of marzipan dusted with cocoa so that they resemble potatoes. If you like marzipan then I really don't need to sell these to you!
Get. In. My. Mouth!! The Baumstamm (literally: tree trunk) is marzipan, coated with creamy nougat, coated in chocolate. It's rich and decadent - sex in food form. I shared this with my boyfriend and wanted to fight him to reclaim the other half. I swear my pupils dilated! I think I'm now an addict.
Coconut macaroons with chocolate-dipped bottoms. These were sweet, soft and very moreish. they weren't at all dry, despite their appearance and outward texture. The best that I've tried that weren't freshly baked.
Dark chocolate covered soft spiced biscuits (not too dissimilar to gingerbread) that are flavoured with honey (Honig). The closest UK comparison I can make is probably shop-bought Jamaican Ginger cake. The sweetness of the honey in the Honig-Printen is not a far cry from the treacle flavour to that. Just add a little more bite and a dark chocolate coating.
Pfeffernüsse literally means "peppernuts", which is odd as there's none of either of those things present here. The "nuts" are, I have been informed, a reference to the shape of this snack, where the "pepper" is a reference to the spiced flavour - again, another take on the gingerbread recipe. The flavour is, again, complex and rounded and the texture soft. These are difficult to put down. The sweetness that was brought by the honey in the Honig-Printen is here supplied by a icing sugar glaze.
What is my overall impression of the Candy German subscription based on the December box? Well, receiving this as a surprise festive treat was wonderful - Germany is too often overlooked in the confectionery stakes and it really shouldn't be as they have some wonderful variety to their sweets and some great traditions. I can also vouch for the fact that the brands being shipped are very high quality - no cheap knock-offs here!
Is the subscription price a little high? That all depends upon your view point. It's worth considering the quality of the goods, the fact that you simply couldn't buy these outside of Germany, as well as the postage cost. Also, you would probably pay a similar price for exported confectionery even if you bought it in the UK. If you're happy to pay export prices in general, you love candy and you enjoy trying new things then I really do think that Candy German offer a really "sweet" deal here that shouldn't be passed up.
-(sorry about that pun there!)
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