Quick Bites are rapid-fire reviews without the lame story.
Today’s quick bite is:
Reese’s Snack Cake
Description via Reese’s: Soft baked chocolate cake topped with Reese’s peanut butter creme covered in smooth real milk chocolate.
Description via Junk Banter: When you’re filling up on gas and walk inside to grab Pepto Bismol but spot these and leave with something that will make your diarrhea worse.
The new Reese’s Snack Cake contains 2 Reese’s flavored cakes that are shaped like Twix bars on steroids.
Each cake is 190 calories, but just know that the whole pack is 380 calories because whether you like them or not, there’s no way you’re not going to eat both.
The first thing to note is that these smell great; you can smell the peanut butter right through the chocolate.
The second thing is that these feel quite dense, even if they’re not especially heavy.
The final thing worth mentioning before I take a bite is that the exterior chocolate is similar to the chocolate surrounding a candy bar. It’s not soft and fluffy like a frosting, nor is it crisp and “flaky” like the chocolate covering a Hostess Ho-Ho or Drake’s Yodel.
As I bite in, I can confirm these are dense. There are two layers inside: the baked chocolate cake and the peanut butter creme. The “soft-baked” chocolate cake is so dense that it feels more like a brownie, which is less satisfying to bite through than the soft, fluffy cake I was expecting. The Reese’s peanut butter creme tastes like the same sweet & salty stuff we find in the candy version, yet it feels thicker. Maybe it’s just because the chocolate cake doesn’t melt down like the milk chocolate does on the candy bar version.
Here’s a silver lining: this cake doesn’t crumble at all. It’s a perfectly clean bite every time, which should make snacking in your car relatively worry-free, except for the diarrhea.
Overall, I think the Reese’s Snack Cake tastes fine but doesn’t quite hit the spot. When I eat cake, I want a soft creme filling or frosting breaking up the cake. In this case, both the cake and the peanut butter are heftier and therefore it plays too dry, unless you also buy a nice bottle of gas-station milk to wash it down with each bite.
Bring on the diarrhea!
Burning Questions:
- Do you just ALWAYS have diarrhea? Mind your business (yes.)
- Do you prefer these or Funny Bones? I prefer Funny Bones.
- Which brand of laxatives is your favorite? Funny Bones.
Place of Purchase: 7-Eleven
Rating: 6 out of 10
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