Adding a little light creaminess to this otherwise dark affair somehow-bear with me-makes it taste like a s’more maybe with some sort of Ivy League Reese’s Cup. I was heavily reminded of an Oh Henry, as peanuts, chocolate, fudge, and some sort of ethereal caramel merged essences in my bowl. Speaking of cookies, Dark Chocolate & Peanut Butter Love Crunch cereal eaten all together is more than the sum of its parts: it’s the su mmMMMmmm of its parts. Perfectly toasted, these magical crags do something no other PB cereal truly has: they’re salty! Pairing mouthwatering nut flavor with a salty butter one and the wholesome platform of oats, these peanut butter clusters are pretty much crunchy peanut butter cookie dough. Yet Dark Chocolate & Peanut Butter’s breakout stars are actually the peanut butter oat clusters. But the catch is that they’re as rare as they are indulgent, as I found myself mining my box for photogenic bits like a down-on-his-luck prospector in desperate need of that big score. Seriously: these lil Ferraris make Cocoa Pebbles look like used sedans. With a smooth texture, buttery bittersweetness, and fudgy finish, they’re exactly as tasty as you’d expect Italian dark chocolate to be. The same can’t be said for the chocolate chunks. Sonny might not go cuckoo for them, but they’d probably make him consider a Gingerbread Cocoa Puffs flavor. To simplify things, let’s just say Love Crunch Dark Chocolate and Peanut Butter flakes taste like corn flakes dusted in a 2:1 mixture of crushed Cocoa Puffs and molasses. The chocolate sheen on every shard is very darkly sweet, with a bitter sort of semisweet cocoa flavor that’s tinged with burnt caramel. Because you don’t really do much. Each hardy flake has an impressive crunch and a glossy glaze, but its oily toasted maize flavor tempers its pleasant coating a little too much. And while the cereal as a whole is surprisingly, nay, shockingly good, I think I need to give credit where it’s due. While each piece glistens beautifully in the sunlight (I’d take this cereal out for a romantic, dark chocolate-covered red berry dessert any day), Love Crunch Dark Chocolate & Peanut Butter really does have a hierarchy. But I digress: let’s ↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → B A START this review. This new Love Crunch line of flake ‘n’ cluster foodstuffs also includes Dark Chocolate & Red Berries and Dark Chocolate Macaroon, but my ennui about fruity cereals and boycotting of macaroons until we get a French macaron cereal made my first flavor choice obvious.Īnd really, how could I lose, when all 3 flavors contain weirdly specific fair trade Italian dark chocolate that Nature’s Path probably impulsively bought like it was Milo’s Egyptian cotton? Real chocolate chunks are like a cheat code for cereals. Thus, Love Crunch Dark Chocolate & Peanut Butter Organic Cereal was born, ready for the well-mouthed silver spoons of people who can afford $4 boxes of cereal. “They’re all the same. We’re capitalists, for GORP’s sake: we need a hierarchy!” “Look at those pithy Puffs,” one doubtlessly said. No, while the most famous chocolate and peanut butter cereal is a sugary smorgasbord of twinkling cocoa spheres, downright pedestrian peanut butter puffs, and the persistent spirit of a million Saturday morning memories, the granola gourmands at Nature’s Path have conspired in their organically all-natural gluten-free ivory tower to produce a choco-nutty cereal with class. These ain’t your kid brother’s Reese’s Puffs.
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