SAXON BELGIAN CHOCOLATE TRUFfLES

Hello to my dear chocolate loving family, welcome back to yet another blog post about the most delicious food on the planet. Yes I am referring to the decadent, divine, scrumptious, incredible, mouth-water, devouring, hungry like a wolf, palate loving nourishment that we all know as chocolate. Can you tell where my love is? Okay, let’s just get into the review before I am truly carried away. Today’s chocolates that I happen to be tasting are by a company named Saxon. I have never heard of them before. It was by chance that I was watching the Shopping Channel, and what do you know, some brand that is unknown to me pops up, with all sorts of different chocolates. I call the Shopping Channel personally before ordering anything to obtain some further information. Apparently, Saxon is a regular on the Shopping Channel and their products always sell out fairly quickly. Hmmm I thought to myself, in that case, I must have a box, or two, or three. Yes, I went overboard as you will see in further reviews of other variations of chocolates but remember, it is all for work purposes, ha ha ha. I must admit though, the excitement from the time I made the order to when I actually received this boxed chocolate was immense. Upon finally obtaining the truffles, my first impression was that the quantity is quite small. I would not gift this to anyone as it really looks too little, too thrifty. I do like the appearance of the packaging as it is festive, fun with the magnificent truffles in the front, and beautifully written description on top. I really have nothing to complain about there. Upon opening this tiny box, I find nine truffles, three from each flavour which happen to be peppermint, gingerbread, and salted caramel. At this point, I am ecstatic, like a little kid in a barbie shop. The truffles look picturesque, blemish-free, without a single scratch or crack, just perfectly covered chocolates. In addition, each bon bon happens to be drizzled with either peppermint, salt, and did I say more peppermint! I am truly delighted with the exterior appearance and the effort that Saxon implemented to have an end product that is this captivating. Since my excitement was overwhelming for the chocolate façade, I was ready to devour. Ohhhhhhh my, what a disparity. I could not believe this. How can a chocolate look this magical and yet taste this horrific. Is this even possible? My first bite of the peppermint truffle is devastating. All I taste is peppermint, it has truly taken over the chocolate that I no longer recognize. My mouth feels like a Ricola cough-drop that has just dissolved. The chocolate itself has been lost. Perhaps Saxon was going for the sore-throat theme with this one, who knows, maybe a truffle for Covid? Moving on to the ginger truffle. It is engulfed in white chocolate on the outside with milk chocolate on the inside. It is funny because the gingerbread is so prominent in this bon bon as well however, I do not visually see any crumbs of gingerbread, none, nada. Is this just some flavour added? This truffle is also on the incredibly sweeter side, nauseating syrupy. Uhhhhhhhhh! I will be drinking a liter of green tea just to kill the insulin spike. Gross. Third truffle happens to be the salted caramel. When I think of this flavour, I am truly thinking of an equally proportioned chocolate with salt and caramel. There is nothing well balanced here. Toooooooooo much salt, ahhhhhhh. Wow!!!!! Saxon obviously has a problem in the taste department. I am not quite sure why they would think that these truffles are acceptable to the public as is. They might be going for the mediocre theme so in that case, it is perfectly okay. There you have it, another disappointment with chocolates that I have been tasting lately. What can I say, unfortunate luck but still greatly being hopeful. 
 
Would I repurchase: NEVER
 
ChocolisciouslyDelightful Rating: 0.2 / 5.0
 
Ingredients: Chocolate (Sugar, Cocoa Butter, Whole Milk Powder, Skim Milk Powder, Belgian Unsweetened Chocolate, Milk fat, Soy Lecithin, Vanilla Extract), Butter (Milk), Liquid Sugar, Condensed Milk (Evaporated Milk, Liquid Sugar, Lactose), Caramel (Sugar, Water), Peppermint Candy (Sugar, Corn Syrup, Peppermint Oil, Colours (Erythrosine (FD&C, Red#3), Allura Red (FD&C Red#40), Brilliant Blue FCF (FD&C Blue #1), Palm Oil), Natural Peppermint Flavour, Sunflower Oil, Natural Flavours, Sea Salt
 
May Contain Tree Nuts, Peanuts, Eggs, Sulphites and Wheat
 
NUTRITION FACTS                         
Per 4 Pieces (52 g)                                               % Daily Value 
 
Calories                                 280
Total Fat                                20 g                        27 %
   Saturated                           12 g                        62 % (both Saturated and Trans)
   Trans                                 0.2 g
Carbohydrates                       26 g
   Fibre                                    2 g                        6 %
   Sugars                               23 g                       23 %
Protein                                    2 g
Cholesterol                          20 mg
Sodium                              140 mg                       6 %
Potassium                          150 mg                        3 %
Calcium                               50 mg                       4 %
Iron                                      3 mg                       17 %