Happy Valentwinkies Day! (Spotted by Robbie at Walmart.)
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I want them!
I don’t understand what they are? Chocolate? What is a candy heart made of? Surely not conversation hearts. This candy is perplexing me way too much, lol
They’re made by R.M. Palmer. So it’s low quality, Dollar Tree level faux white chocolate. Save your money and buy something else. This is the ingredient list: “Sugar, hydrogenated vegetable oil (palm kernel, coconut, and/or palm), whey, whole milk, skim milk, lactose, soy lecithin (an emulsifier), vanillin (natural and artificial flavors), U.S. certified colors (FD&C yellow 6, yellow 5, and blue 2 lake). Contains milk and soy. Manufactured on equipment which processes wheat, peanut butter and almonds.”
Since I was also curious of what “Twinkies Candy Hearts” could possibly taste like, here are the ingredients from Walmart’s website:
INGREDIENTS:
Sugar, hydrogenated vegetable oil (palm kernel, coconut, and/or palm), whey, whole milk, skim milk, lactose, soy lecithin (an emulsifier), vanillin (natural and artificial flavors), U.S. certified colors (FD&C Yellow #6, Yellow #5, and Blue #2 Lake).
CONTAINS: Milk and soy.
Since there’s no cocoa to be found in the ingredients, off the bat, it’s not chocolate. So I’m gonna assume that the shell is a “milky” flavor, and the “cream” is “vanilla” forward. That being said, I’d rather buy a box of actual Twinkies. Lol
It is more Palmer junk of waxy white “chocolate” dyed yellow with a creamy filling.
Many of the respondents hit near and around the answer, including posting the ingredients.
Without even seeing the ingredients, by being labeled and sold as “candy” in this context translates to “not a product made using chocolate”. What can be labeled and sold as chocolate is governed by regulatory agencies such as the FDA.
This specific product was made using candy melts. A candy melt is not “a low quality, Dollar Tree level faux white chocolate”. It’s just a different kind of confectionary product which uses vegetable fat (usually an oil) instead of any cocoa solids or cocoa butter.
Products similar to this can made with white chocolate, which is made using actual cocoa butter instead of the aforementioned vegetable fat. Those can be sold as actual “chocolate”.
One chief reason to use a candy melt instead of an actual chocolate is obviously cost – both cost of the ingredient itself as well as the manufacturing challenges use of actual chocolate can require. One of those challenges is that using any actual chocolate requires tempering of the chocolate. Tempering is a technique that produces an end-product chocolate which has a very glossy, smooth texture that “snaps” distinctly and doesn’t melt at room temperature.
Tempering chocolate can be notoriously difficult – especially for home cooks, but even at the industrial scale as well. Candy melts are popular for candy making beginners because they require no tempering.
So posting the ingredients of Twinkies Candies to find out the flavor of it is forbidden?
Your post is showing up. Not sure what you’re on about with the “forbidden” nonsense. Are you drunk, Johnny?
Whatever, have a good one. Goodbye.
For a brief moment I wondered if the outside was made of the same stuff as circus peanuts…
Thanks for that not at all horrifying mental image. *barf emoji*