The thing that interested me about this eclair candy is the fact that it was hazelnut flavoured. Most eclair candies are either chocolate or cream flavoured, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen a hazelnut flavoured eclair candy before. Just so we’re clear, an eclair candy is very different than a baked eclair. The baked eclair is a pastry filled with cream and often covered with some kind of chocolate. An eclair candy is often some kind of chewy caramel candy filled with chocolate or cream.

After I bought this candy I was a little worried that the hazelnut flavour wouldn’t be that strong. I figured that they likely just added some hazelnut to the traditional chocolate centre and it wouldn’t really come through. Caramel and chocolate are pretty powerful flavours, so adding a bit of hazelnut could be hidden if the flavours aren’t balanced properly. Strangely, the opposite actually happened in this case. I would say that the main flavour I could identify was hazelnut. Unfortunately the chocolate and the caramel flavour wasn’t that strong, or that good.

I felt like there was something wrong with both the caramel and chocolate flavour, it almost seemed like they were weak and a little bit off. The texture of the candy was perfect, so I don’t think the candy was expired. I would imagine that the caramel texture would be off as well. I’m wondering if there’s something else going on here that’s ruining the caramel and chocolate flavour, maybe a manufacturing issue or even a quality of ingredients issue. Strange how both of those aspects were not great, but the hazelnut wasn’t too bad at all.

In general I wasn’t a big fan of this candy. The only reason I’d be interested in tasting it again is if there was word that they improved the recipe a bit.