Hawaiian Host is familiar to most folks who have either visited Hawaii or been lucky enough to be on the gift list of someone who has. Their confectionery product line emphasized locally grown items like macadamia nuts and Kona coffee.
Their Hawaiian Host MacNut Crunch is described as Chocolate covered macadamias & crisp rice. As you’ll see, the term “macadamias” is kind of loose, as they’re not whole nuts as in the dark chocolate covered version.
The pieces are in fluted cups, the base is one inch and the top is 1.25 inches.
It’s a mix of crisped rice and crushed macadamia nuts in milk chocolate. It’s a thick piece that has a good, solid bite to it. The crispy rice is the first texture I got from it, which was pleasant mostly because it offset the very sweet milk chocolate. The macadamia bits were tiny and provided a different sort of texture and that vague fresh tropical flavor, but not much else. I would have liked more macadamia playing around in there.
It’s certainly an unusual product and I enjoyed the fact that Hawaiian Host is providing all their popular candies in these single serving packages. This one might be more fun as a bar, Hawaiian Crunch Bar of sorts. None are quite to my taste as ideal iterations of macadamias and chocolate, but it’s still a good quality product at a fair price.
Related Candies
- Hawaiian Host Maui Caramacs
- Hawaiian Host Dark Chocolate Macadamias
- Nestle Crunch - Even More Scrumptious
- Malley’s Chocolates
- World’s Finest W.F. Crisp
- Hotel Chocolat Crostini Fruit & Nut Slab
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Comment by
Ryan on 2/08/11 at 9:47 am #
Commenting is not available in this channel entry.I wish I would have tried more Hawaiian Host products when I lived in Hawaii. All I have easy access to now is the same boring stuff. :(
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