Ferrero Raffaello
I’d been eyeing up this lovely looking box for quite awhile before finally getting it. After all, Ferrero have never disappointed and so why the heck not get this and have the whole thing for myself?
The box is full of individually wrapped Rocher style balls. These though are white chocolate, filled with a praline cream and a hazelnut, and coated in dessicated coconut. Sounds lovely.
The bad thing about these is that because they’re individually wrapped and covered in coconut, when you open the wrapper the coconut spills out everywhere, all over my damn floor. Messy as hell, what I had to do was open them very carefully and scoop it straight into my mouth, and even then there was a bunch of coconut left in the wrapper.
You know what though? It doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter because these taste that damn good. Creamy, nutty and coconutty. Wow, if you think that sounds good then you have no idea. Incredibly moreish and worth every penny. I think these are better than Ferrero Rocher actually, I’d much prefer to see these on the table at little get togethers than those, even if they don’t look quite as pretty.
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March 13th, 2009 at 9:45 pm
Good to know about both the taste and the potential mess. I agree, though, good coconut flavor is worth a little clean-up!
March 14th, 2009 at 1:42 am
Around here they also come in a little 3 pack where they’re not individually wrapped, just in cups. Seems to mean that the coconut isn’t as likely to make a mess.
(Oh, and that’s the EXACT one I ate, as I took that photo.)
April 5th, 2009 at 9:28 am
I like the cream in Rafaello, but that’s it. I wish someone made a confection with a strongly-flavored coconut cream, without the sawdust texture of the grated coconut anywhere.
April 11th, 2009 at 8:49 pm
mmmmm these sound lovely i’ve never heard of these where can i find them???
April 28th, 2009 at 5:59 pm
I remember eating these over 15 years ago and mourning their loss when it seemed you could no longer buy them in the UK.. until an expedition to a supermarket in Italy where I couldn’t contain my glee as I wandered down an aisle and it was lined.. LINED with box upon box upon box of Coconutty goodness!
Then last year, in WH Smith’s of all places started stocking them, right around Mother’s Day which was perfect as my mum used to eat these and loved them.. I bought two boxes.. but since then they’ve disappeared again!
They’re ridiculously good, though my affection for true Ferrero Rocher holds precedent
May 6th, 2009 at 8:09 pm
Perhaps you could open them up into a bowl so as to not get a messy floor.
July 23rd, 2009 at 1:38 pm
Pretty sure that’s an almond in the centre of those isn’t it?
October 4th, 2009 at 5:59 am
Most delicious of the supermarket chocolates.
I used to eat a box a week of these. They are sweet, creamy, coconutty with an almond. No disgusting hazelnut anywhere.
They are beautiful unwrapped and on a chocolate dish after a dinner party. Shake off the loose coconut and its not messy either.
January 1st, 2011 at 12:17 am
This is the best – I hate any thing with chocolate!
March 7th, 2011 at 2:31 pm
yammmmyyy
April 10th, 2011 at 3:04 pm
They are the angels, melting in the mouth…remember me of snow balls…Lovely, tasty and i feel sad when they are over…b’coz i miss the snow white beauty
June 20th, 2011 at 3:47 am
They`re nice, I was in Germany as a kid and I ate them all the time when I was there.
July 24th, 2011 at 9:45 pm
just loving them!!!just bought some in a dubai supermarket for $2 yes two dollars a box(I THINK THERE ARE 16 IN A BOX)