Sweets "Meteorite" - a delicious chocolate-nut dessert, which has become a favorite treat not only for Russians. but also the guests of Russia who at least once tasted these wonderful sweets.
Taste description
On the palate, these sweets are similar to the well-known delicacy "Grillage", but they are more delicate and light. Their thin chocolate shell slowly melts in the mouth, exposing the nut-honey-caramel filling, which crunches on the teeth with fried peanuts with a hint of honey and shortbread cookies. They are also very satisfying.
The filling itself is soft, easily bites off. This, in the first place, distinguishes Meteorite candies from roasting.
Varieties of this treat
There are several varieties of these sweets depending on the fillings. It can be peanut topping, hazelnut filling or from sunflower seeds. The sweet dessert also includes shortbread cookies and honey. All the ingredients are natural, so it is not worth storing meteorite candies for a long time. Their shelf life is no more than 6 months, and yet it is better to keep them in the refrigerator. But usually they do not lie for a long time, because they are very tasty. Children and adults are happy to eat this delicacy.
Appearance
In appearance, real meteorite candies resemble medium sized chocolate balls. If you cut them with a knife, you can see the filling of nuts or seeds with honey caramel, covered with a thin layer of chocolate. They are wrapped in a dark blue wrapper (the colors of the night sky), most often packaged in small cardboard boxes, but also sold by weight.
Customer reviews
The vast majority of adults and children who have tried these chocolate balls with nut-honey filling, enthusiastically respond about them, advise all friends and relatives. Also, these sweets are great for the role of a delicious gift. Due to the fact that Candies "Meteorite" are produced in a box, you can safely come for a tea party with them, and everyone will appreciate their unsurpassed taste and high quality.
Manufacturers
This dessert has been known since Soviet times. He was very popular among citizens of the USSR. Sweets were produced at such famous confectionery factories as Red October (Moscow), Bucuria (Kishenev), Amta (Ulan-Ude).
Now also produced candy "Meteorite". Nalchik-Sweetness is a confectionery factory that produces their counterpart, called Meteor Shower, Ural Meteorite is produced by Ural Export Company LLC. But Slavyanka confectionery produces Star Meteorite candies. Their comparison with the classic version given below.
"Meteorite" ordinary, "Ural" and "Star meteorite" - what are the differences?
If you compare these sweets, it can be noted that they are covered with milk chocolate and have nuts in their composition. However, the differences between them are much greater than the similarities.
Star meteorite candies are harder, they have a filling made of nuts frozen in hard caramel, very much like a solid roasting. It should be noted that they contain boiled condensed milk, which is not found in Meteorite sweets. The stellar ones are smaller, rectangular and flat, while the classic version has a round shape.
"Ural meteorite" in taste and appearance is practically no different from Soviet sweets.
How much are?
Classic candies "Meteorite" are very expensive, depending on the manufacturer, their price starts from 700 rubles per 1 kg. But fastidious sweet tooth are willing to pay for them and more. There are many recipes according to which you can cook delicious meteorite sweets at home.
A kilogram of Star Meteorite sweets in Moscow stores costs from 300 rubles.
At the moment, the price of Ural Meteorite sweets ranges from 100-150 rubles per box weighing 180 grams (there are 15 of them), that is, about 650-700 rubles per 1 kg. The box of these sweets itself has an interesting design, where the boy plows the expanses of space astride a Soviet satellite.