I love both mint flavours with chocolate and malt flavours with chocolate too, but when I spotted these Mint Maltesers Buttons I have to confess I’m not sure I liked the sound of all three tastes being combined together. It just felt like it might be a bit much and I have to admit it sounded like it was a curious choice for a launch of a new chocolate.
The buttons are a few centimetres across and speckled with balls of malt, the aroma of mint is quite strong once the bag is open. I tried a button and found mint to be the dominant taste, it was sweet and fresh and I liked it, the chocolate is quite thick in its melt and rather rich and soothing, I liked this combined with the mint. The malt flavour (and bare in mind this is a Maltesers brand product so that should be dominant) was lost at first, but did develop towards the end of the flavour. I liked the crunch from the malt bits mixed in with the chocolate and I can’t say they weren’t malty, it is just they were very much mint with a hint.
Mint is an overpowering flavour, there aren’t many products I have had that have managed to combine it with something daring and win, (one exception is Limited Edition After Eight Mint with Mango-Pineapple). These Mint Maltesers Buttons are heavy on the mint but there is enough malt to make them work and enough of a light crunch to make them enjoyable to eat. I would buy these again very happily.
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