Every ingredient in this bar is exactly what I was expecting, but I was kind of surprised at how they were put together. I have to be honest, I wasn’t totally sure that I would enjoy these cups. The fact that it contains the ingredients of two bars that I really enjoy didn’t mean for sure that I would enjoy them together. The strange thing is that I’m still not sure if they would work together. The way they merged these peanut butter cups with the Hershey’s Cookies and Creme bar is a little weird.

What I was expecting is a traditional peanut butter cup with the top portion being the cookies and cream chocolate and the bottom being regular milk chocolate. If there wasn’t a picture depicting something like this on the package, then I might have thought that it was a standard Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup made with cookies and cream chocolate entirely. The thing that threw me off however is that this is actually a peanut butter cup, made with white chocolate (similar to Hershey’s Cookies and Creme chocolate) and milk chocolate, but the crunchy cookie bits are mixed into the peanut butter.

This might not seem like much, but it actually messes with the ratio of ingredients a lot. What this means is you have a bit more white chocolate and a bit less peanut butter. That ingredient shift made the flavour of the white chocolate a little overpowering. The milk chocolate is almost completely lost, but the peanut butter is also not that strong a flavour either. I really think that the cups would have not only looked better if there were chocolate cookie pieces floating in the white chocolate, but I think it would have tasted better too.

The other flaw caused by this choice is something that I believe had to do with the manufacturing. All of my cookie bits were kind of clustered together in the middle of my peanut butter. I assume that they added the cookie pieces before adding the peanut butter, and they just kind of rolled together. Mixing the cookie bits into the peanut butter before might have solved this problem, but adding it to the white chocolate would have made it even better.

They’re not bad as peanut butter cups go, but I don’t think it really balanced the way it could have.