A little bit about German candy.

I found something to write about this week, German candy and chocolates. I have only been here for a few weeks, but I have tasted some pretty tasty snacks. Most people know the line of "Kinder" chocolates; different shaped cookies or chocolates with chocolate cream or milk cream. One of the more popular are the "Uberrashungs Eier" (Suprise eggs). Here is a picture for you poor soles who have never had one.


The eggs have a thin chocolate shell, lined with milk cream. This milk cream is in many German candies. It is kind of an opposite of chocolate. Many people would say vanilla is the opposite of chocolate, but the milk cream seems to fit once you taste it. Once you eat the chocolate-milk shell (which is made from super delicious milk chocolate) there is a little container in the middle, like you would get for a quarter out of the machine at a supermarket. Inside the balls are little toys, here are some examples that me and Heiko (host brother) recieved. They are from a series of goodies that when placed in the sun for a while, their big noses turn red, like a sunburn. I have heard that there are some collecters that will pay alot for certain toys out of these eggs, similar to collecting Happy Meal toys or Beanie Babies.


Another brand of German candy I really like are Ritter Sport chocolate squares. They are like chocolate bars, but square shaped. Each color wrapper is a different type, so when you see the display, it presents you with a deliciously overwhelming raindow of deliciousness. The flavors range from Alpen Milch (milk chocolate with milk from the Alps), to chocolate with strawberry flavored cream and little crunchy strawberry bits, to my personal favorite of dark chocolate with marzipan.

On the line of marzipan, it is awsome. If you don't know what it is (which I think you should), marzipan is a super sweet, sticky, almond paste that is found inside of alot of chocolates and candies. It is really rich, and really tasty.

Today I found a new snack, Heiko showed it to me. It is called Koala "Kakao" or "Milch". The box is full of little cookies loosely shaped like koalas, with little koalas drawn onto them. They cookies are filled with chocolate or milk cream, both of which are delicious. The koala cookies also came with little toys, I got a snake and Heiko got a koala princes.