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Skippy is officially coming for the Reese’s peanut butter-chocolate crown.
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The Reese’s Peanut Butter Egg is synonymous with Easter. It’s hard to resist the charm of an egg-shaped Reese’s, so this treat consistently tops the Easter candy charts. The individually wrapped eggs fit perfectly into plastic eggs and look lovely heaped in our Easter baskets. Though they’re not my favorite Easter candy, even I can’t help but fall victim to this goodness!
Recently, we’ve heard whispers of a competitor on the scene. There’s another peanut butter and chocolate combo that’s coming for Reese’s top spot. It’s none other than Skippy with its new PB Bunnies, so I had to do a full candy comparison.
How do Skippy PB Bunnies compare to Reese’s Peanut Butter Eggs?
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To be completely, truly, absolutely honest—there’s really no competition. Reese’s Peanut Butter Eggs drilled the Skippy PB Bunnies into the ground. As excited as I was to give Skippy the old college try, it lacked substance compared to its rival.
What we love about Reese’s Peanut Butter Eggs is the ratio of peanut butter to chocolate. Sweet chocolate thinly coats the outside, containing everything in a neat package without overpowering the taste of the final product.
Some argue that each Reese’s shape contributes differently to its peanut butter-to-chocolate ratio, making certain shapes taste better than others. I personally think the Reese’s Egg is a thoroughly developed feat and a top Easter candy option. It hits the creamy, fluffy, sugary and chocolaty marks in just the right amounts.
So, what of the Skippy PB Bunnies? Let me start with this. Even though we’re close to Easter weekend, I had to search high and low at three different Walmart stores. (The Bunnies are currently only available at Walmart.) I finally got a hold of a lonely, out-of-place bag. It was $2 for a 1.05-ounce bag with three pieces, while Reese’s offers a 9.6-ounce package of its eggs for $4.48.
I overlooked the price in hopes of a phenomenal product. I was so disappointed that I had to abandon the bag, unfinished.
The Bunnies had a much harder chocolate on the outside with clear-cut details. Cute! Then I took one bite and tasted nothing but chocolate. I mean it. Shocked, I looked at the cross-section and found an empty shell of chocolate. Just a whisper of Skippy peanut butter sat inside. I was devastated. I couldn’t even taste the peanut butter, let alone see it!
I opened another Bunny to make sure, but no luck. The chocolate was not great and didn’t have the same flavor as the Reese’s. While Skippy has always been one of the best peanut butter brands, it missed the mark by a mile on this one. Stick with Reese’s this Easter, folks. You’ll thank me for it.
