Not what I expected, but not disappointed at all. For some odd reason, when you associate a candy with turtles, I expect to get chewy caramel with pecans, covered in chocolate. I expect it because when I was growing up (and even still today), there’s a very popular chocolate that fits that description. My bias wants any chocolate themed candy with the name turtle or tortoise or that even looks like a turtle or tortoise to be the same candy that I grew up eating. This is a great lesson in candy creativity and cultural differences. A candy can have the same theme, but also be something completely different.

What you find inside these turtles is a rich cream filling with a layer of very gooey caramel. The texture is super smooth, but the flavour is really intense. It does have a caramel flavour, but it also has what I can only describe as an alcohol overtone. It’s almost like someone made butterscotch using real scotch, only they didn’t burn off all the booze. I’m not totally sure that the flavour is actually coming from the caramel, it could be that the cream is what’s providing the boozy flavour. I do like the flavour, but I feel like more than a couple of these turtles might be a little too intense for me.

The chocolate on these turtles is very nice. I would describe it as milk, but on the darker side of milk. People often assume that there is just milk and dark chocolate, but I think of it more of a spectrum, with dark happening at about 70% cocoa. The slightly stronger chocolate flavour worked well as the cream/caramel centre needs something strong to cut through the booze flavour.

I enjoyed eating these, but I feel like there’s a limit to how many you can eat in a sitting. They’re both very rich and the booze flavour hits pretty hard.