I saw the commercial for Werther’s Original Caramel Chocolate several weeks ago and knew I had to give them a try. I love Werther’s caramels and was glad to see them expand their line with a non-hard candy caramel chocolate combo!

My first impression of the candies were how small they are - they look much bigger in the commercial, maybe about half the size of your palm, at least a couple of bites. I don’t know if they did that on purpose in the commercial or if they decided to make them smaller after the fact, but these are tiny! One bite and they’re gone.

Anyway, the bag is 5.2 oz of candy, which came to about 16 or so pieces (I forgot to count!). Each oblong piece is wrapped in the recognizable Werther’s gold foil.

Unwrapped, each piece is actually rather pretty with the swirled caramel and chocolate.

The chocolate is smooth but it’s obviously just the vehicle for a weird caramel flavor - it looks like chocolate but I don’t taste any, and by only the second piece the caramel flavor starts to taste kind of burnt. I’m not sure how that happens but the yummy Werther’s caramel flavor seems to be lost.

Have you tried these? What do you think?

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I do have a few people I could get this for!