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Wonka Easter Candy Review

April 24, 2011 By

Running out to the store today to buy last-minute easter candy ? It’s okay, I forgot to buy a HAM for dinner! We might end up eating fried chicken from the Meijer deli for dinner instead! Anyway, I have some suggestions for last minute treats from Wonka that will make excellent additions to plastic eggs or Easter baskets.

Wonka sent me a few samples of their Easter candy, including the super-cute SweeTARTS Candy Carrot. It’s a clear, carrot-shaped bag filled with orange flavored Wonka SweeTART Jelly Beans that is almost too cute to open and eat!

DoubleYummy Gummies- Individually wrapped large gummy bunnies and chicks in natural orange, lemon and strawberry flavors. The back side of the gummy is a “soft mallow” which tastes sort of like a marshmallow gummy. It mellows the tartness of the fruit flavor.

Wonka Exceptionals Chocolate Waterfall Eggs- Milk chocolate eggs with a white chocolate “waterfall” marbled throughout. My husband loves white chocolate and claimed most of these for his own!  I did get one to try and it was delicious.

Wonka Exceptionals Scrumptious Chocolate Eggs- Chocolate eggs with crispies and toffee in them. I was tempted to not share these with the kids and keep them for myself! Ryan and I are the big toffee fans, and we both agreed that these are incredibly good!

Egg Fillers- All of the Wonka favorites like sweeTARTS, Gobstoppers, Spree and Bottlecaps in little packets perfect for filling plastic eggs. As the one who’s job it is to fill the eggs every year, I like looking for individually wrapped candy. After all, those little plastic eggs sometimes break open when grabbed by excited kids, and who wants to pick candy out of the grass?

The shelves at Walgreens yesterday were still pretty full, so I would check there or CVS if you have to run in somewhere quick. Otherwise, Target and Walmart should still have candy left today.  Check out the Wonka website to learn more about all of their products, play games, even listen to music. And also, HAPPY EASTER!

disclosure: Wonka sent me samples of their Easter candy to faciliate this review. No other compensation was received.

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Giveaway – Hershey’s Easter Collection Prize Pack

April 11, 2011 By

I’ve always been the one responsible for putting together the kids easter baskets, and one thing I never, ever forget to include is chocolate from Hershey’s! I’m a big fan of the assorted miniatures because everyone gets a little taste of different things.  I like filling plastic eggs with a few miniatures or a few Kisses before scattering them in the yard for the kids to find.

Hershey’s Easter 2011 Collection has a bunch of great new products for stuffing into plastic eggs, easter baskets, or just directly into your mouth!

NEW – Hershey’s Chocolate Creme Egg
NEW – Whoppers Mini Robin Eggs Bunny Bag
NEW – Reese’s Milk Chocolate and Peanut Butter Eggs 12-Pack Tray

Hershey also partnered with Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment to celebrate the theatrical release of “Hop” with Easter treats inspired by characters from the live action/CG-animated comedy arriving in theaters April 1, 2011. These will be available exclusively at Walmart and include:

NEW – Hershey’s Solid Milk Chocolate HOP The Movie Magic Bunny*
NEW – Cadbury Egg Scepter of Destiny: Hollow Milk Chocolate Egg filled with Cadbury Mini Eggs Candy*

For Easter crafts like a Foil Egg Wreath, recipes for treats like  Chocolate Marshmallow Slices,  and really terrific themed Easter basket ideas, visit CelebrateWithHersheys.com.

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Celebrate Halloween with Hershey’s

October 29, 2010 By

From pumpkin-shaped Reese’s® Peanut Butter Cups to Hershey®’s Kisses® Brand Chocolates disguised in Halloween colors of silver, black and orange, Hershey treats are spook-tacularly festive this Halloween season. With more than 60 percent of consumers planning to pass out candy for Halloween 2010, Hershey has ‘dressed up’ classic favorites for the season and introduced new, frightfully delicious Halloween candy assortments to enchant trick-or-treaters and sweeten seasonal parties. More than 50 percent of adults enjoy dressing up for the holiday as well, and a national survey has revealed that Hershey’s lovers are most likely to celebrate Halloween as a vampire, witch or monster.

The most popular Hershey’s candies given to trick-or-treaters are Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups (43%), Kit Kat® Wafer Bars (40%), Hershey®’s Milk Chocolate Bars (37%) and Hershey’s Kisses Chocolates (27%). During the Halloween time of year, Hershey adds a costume-like twist to these classic favorites with Reese’s Peanut Butter Pumpkins, Halloween Kit Kat Orange Snack Size Bars, Hershey®’s Miniatures (Hershey®’s Krackel® Bar, Hershey®’s Special Dark® Dark Chocolate, Hershey®’s Mr. Goodbar® Candy Bar and Hershey’s Milk Chocolate) wrapped in orange, black, purple and lime-green foils and Hershey’s Kisses Chocolates wrapped in orange, black and silver foils.

Hershey’s “treated” us (see what I did there? no tricks, just treats! lol) to some of their Halloween-themed bags of treats, and my kids were so happy to be getting Halloween candy without having to trick-or-treat for it!  Here’s what we received:

Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Pumpkins – the traditional Peanut Butter Cup, just shaped like a pumpkin.

Orange-colored Kit Kats – I couldn’.t get a good picture of the candy itself, the coating is orange and more like white chocolate than milk chocolate.

Variety Pack – Reese’s Pieces, Whoppers, Milk Duds, and Jolly Ranchers Lollipops, which I didn’t get a photo of, sorry about that!

Hershey offers a wide array of new candy assortments perfect for trick-or-treaters, including:

  • NEW – Twizzlers® Assortment 120 Snack Size Pieces (Mini Bars Candy Strawberry, Pull n’ Peel Candy Wildberry and Pull n’ Peel Candy Green Apple)
  • NEW – Hershey’s Cookies ‘N’ Crème Jumbo Bag Snack Size Treats
  • NEW – Hershey’s Chocolate Assortment with 100 Snack Size Pieces (Kit Kat Crisp Wafers, York Peppermint Patties, Hershey’s Mr. Goodbar® Candy Bars, Reese’s Pieces® Candy, Hershey’s Chocolate Lollipops, Milk Duds® Candy, Jolly Rancher® Doubles Candy and Whoppers® Malted Milk Balls)
  • NEW – Hershey’s Candy Assortment with 100 Snack Size Packages (Reese’s Pieces Candy, Whoppers Malted Milk Balls, Milk Duds Candy and Jolly Rancher Lollipops)

Additional classic favorites for the season include:

  • Reese’s Lovers 50 Snack Size Pieces (Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, Reese’s Pieces Candy and Reese’s Fast Break® Candy Bar)
  • Reese’s Peanut Butter Pumpkins Jumbo Snack Size
  • Hershey’s Seasonal Shapes Assortment with 50 Snack Size Packages (Hershey’s Tombstone-shaped Molded Bars in Milk Chocolate and Cookies ‘N’ Crème flavors, and Reese’s Peanut Butter Pumpkins)
  • Harvest Hershey®’s Kisses® Brand Candy Corn Flavored Candy
  • Harvest York® Peppermint Patties Pumpkin Shapes
  • York® Peppermint Batty

So, whether you’re heading out this weekend to buy candy for trick or treaters or just like having chocolate around the house, Hershey’s seasonal offerings can be found at retailers nationwide. For more information on Hershey’s Halloween products, as well as costume ideas, pumpkin stencils, Halloween recipes, craft activities and party invitations, visit www.CelebrateWithHersheys.com.

disclosure: Hershey’s sent me products as a gift to facilitate this review. All opinions are, as always, 100% mine.

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