Treats is a monthly snack subscription full of snacks from around the world. You can expect to receive eclectic and interesting snacks that you’ve never sampled before (unless, of course, you’ve lived in the featured country recently)! The Standard Pack offers 4-5 snacks, while the Premium box offers 8-10. This, of course, is the Premium Box. It’s quick to enroll, and you’ll get your first box within a few days of when you subscribe.
The packaging is simple and elegant. Tissue paper keeps the contents a surprise until you are ready to immerse yourself in the destination country’s food culture.
The box is crowned with a beautiful postcard welcoming us to this month’s Treats destination – Russia!
The box is filled to the top with goodies! Everything comes in its original packaging, often solely in the language of the featured country – sometimes it’s just as much fun to see the unique package styling as it is to try the snacks!
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What a treat, a Russian themed box! The introduction card tells a little about the snack culture.
Treats now includes an additional card in each box that gives even more info on the destination country and its culture. There is also a blatant giveaway of next month’ s destination – I’m thinking it must be INDIA.
There’s also a recipe card for a traditional Russian Cabbage Borscht!
There is also a handy info card that gives the name and maker of each treat, as well as a short description of each.The blurbs give you a sense of what to expect, but you’ll have to check each treat’s label (and possibly hire a translator) for more detailed info on ingredients and nutrition. Even with the card, the only way to truly appreciate everything is to taste it!
Everything in the box. The composition of each Treats collection depends on the local snacking culture, but there is usually a good mix of sweet and savory and individual and family packs. Lots of shiny wrappers this month, too!
Pravilnoe Pitanie Ruzik Corn Sticks
These large corn puffs (almost corn thumbs, except that’s weird) are exactly as the info card describes – a balance between salty & sweet. Tom thought they were reminiscent of breakfast cereal. Things only got sweeter from here!
Posolstvo Vkusnoy EdyKo Kolechki Posolskiye: Well, except for the pretzels!
These light airy pretzel rings were an excellent salty/carby accompaniment to the sugar rush that followed!
Rot Front “Korovka” Cookies With Baked Milk Flavor
These are someone like my favorite Petit Ecolier, with a bit of a more rustic, airier texture on the biscuit, but great chocolate coating. If you haven’t had the pleasure of Russian candy yet, theirs is all very good. I’m not sure that my husband or I has ever met a Russian candy we didn’t like. They’re actually pretty amazing.
Krasniy Oktyabr Alenka Biscuit Cake: Our familiar creepy baby, in cake form. Alenka is a well-loved and highly respected brand that has this spooky bug-eyed baby as their mascot. If you see her, you know you have a good treat!
This spongey cake has a somewhat dulce de leche filling and the entire thing is liberally coated in chocolate.
Rot Front Korovka Wafer Sticks With Condensed Milk Flavor
I am not really sure if the wafer sticks are any different than the next item – I indulged at different times and totally failed to compare :/
Rot Front “Korovka” Wafer Candies
I can report that they’re both very good, with a thin sweet filling, nice crispy wafers, and a great chocolate coating!
Krasniy Oktaybr Irish Krepysh With Nuts
This is totally like the nougat and peanuts of the inside of a candy bar. It’s a little odd by itself only because you’re used to chocolate with something like this – but super tasty and not too sweet!
Krasniy Oktyabr Mishka Kosolapiy
These fancy little wafers sandwich in almond praline and it’s all covered with chocolate. Super tasty!
Krasniy Oktyabr Alenka Milk Chocolate: Hello again creepy baby! This is the plain high quality milk chocolate bar, and the gold standard for Russian chocolates.
If you’re thinking of Russian chocolate as somehow downmarket – don’t. It’s far better quality than Hershey’s (which I don’t eat).
Rot Front Ptichye Moloko: This is actually not as the card describes.
It’s a tasty and sweet fluffy marshmallow like filling!
Babaevskiy Chocolate Bar With Fondant-Cream Filling
This is described as a melt in your mouth fondant cream filling. It has somewhat of a cordial taste (like cordial cherries, without the syrup or the cherries). This isn’t unusual for Russian candies and the dark chocolate is the perfect counterpart to the sweet filling.
This month’s box was so great and the deep dive into Russian sweets was a very welcome change over last month’s box. I love that the flavors are so rich and that the candy and chocolate tradition shares early European roots with the rest of the great chocolates of the world – but is also entirely different!
Have you tried Treats yet? What did you think of the box?
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