Reviewing Benton’s Dark Chocolate Gingerbread Hearts, M&Ms Mint, & More

These have a light crunch–not as much as a KitKat or your typical crunchy chocolate bar, but there’s there and just enough. It’s pretty sweet and consists mostly of chocolate flavor with a noticable peppermint taste. It reminds me of a peppermint patty with a lot less peppermint.

Released November 2024. Found at Walmart.

Bigger than regular M&M’s, these have a light minty taste that’s mostly overshadowed by the milk chocolate flavor. If you’re not the biggest fan of mint, you might still come to enjoy these. However, mint fans might be disappointed!

Likely first released in the 1990s. These generally come back around November. Found at Walmart.

Artificial as heck! Not to mention, they all taste almost the same. The white bits are semi-sweet vanilla and brown ones are light chocolate. These really aren’t that special and don’t give me the vibe of hot cocoa and marshmallow.

First released fall 2023, they also came back fall 2024. Found at Walmart.

This might be one of the best candies. It’s as if Reese’s and Snickers had a child, and that child surpassed both of them. The flavor of a regular snickers but instead of being semi-hard, it’s substantially softer, nearly melting in your mouth. This all comes from replacing those hard peanuts and adding a thick, soft, gooey layer of sweet peanut butter. Just, amazing.

Released in the 1960s.

A lot less sweet than regular snickers. It has a light almondy taste that has replaced the peanut, that’s about it. Compared to regular Snickers, it seems to be missing so much more flavor and nuance.

Not sure when this was released.

The miniatures are more crunchy as they contain substantially more large bits of sugar cookie vs. the Cup. In addition, you can really taste a sugar cookie flavor along side the sweet Reese’s chocolate and peanut butter, it’s a wonderfully tasty and an interesting combo! However, the Big Cup lacks much of the crunch and sugar cookie flavor the minis do as they don’t have as many embedded bits–it almost tastes like a regular Reese’s Cup!

Released around October 2024. Found at Target.

For both of the kits: The cookie itself is dry and the taste resembles that of the cookie part of an Oreo. The package comes with plenty of them. The white creme it comes with is very smooth and is a much sweeter version of Oreo creme. Notably about this package, it doesn’t give you nearly enough creme or sprinkles for the decorations! Still, overall, it’s tasty, just very sweet with that frosting!

Not sure when this was released. Found at Target.

Sundae? Not really. A light chocolate covering a soft-chewy, moderately sweet, vanilla flavored protein bar. It’s good, just kind of plain.

Both Pure Protein Sundae Cone & Brookie released August 14, 2024.

Two layers: top is “cookie.” It’s super soft and has a very artificial chocolate cookie protein taste. The other, bottom layer is a more hard (but still soft and chewy), slightly dark chocolate. Together, the sweetness is just right, although it’s more on the artificial side. For the most part, it just tastes like chocolate.

Both Pure Protein Sundae Cone & Brookie released August 14, 2024.

The flavor is so complex and such a good combination! You can definitely taste the lightly sweet apricot and the dark chocolate, though, I’m not sure if I can’t make out the ginger. Either way, it’s overall pleasantly sweet with light, bold apricot and dark chocolate flavor. The texture is soft while the shell is semi-hard and provides a complimentary crunch.

May have been first released November 2023. Found November 2024 at Aldi.