Reese Peanut Butter Chocolate Spread: An Honest Review

Last November, I took a lovely road trip with my fellow Wine & Cheesy Book Club ladies to Ithaca, New York, the main purpose of which was to spend some quality fun time with a former co-worker. One of my goals during said trip was to acquire a newly launched product only available in the states: Reese chocolate peanut butter cup spread. Yum. 

Or at least, I was pretty sure that it’d be Yum. It’s hard to tell – chocolate and peanut butter is a glorious mix, but they can sometimes hide each other’s best qualities if not balanced perfectly. And I’ve had several other chocolatebar-turned-spreads – when I was living in England in 2004, I had Mars spread and Snickers spread – the Snickers held up nicely, but the Mars spread was a bit of a disappointment. {Side note: does anyone know if that stuff is still made?}

Sadly, I couldn’t find any Reeses spread in the stores that we visited. During the year, I picked up a jar of Kraft Chocolate Peanut Butter, but it wasn’t all it was cracked up to be – we still have a half uneaten jar in the cupboard. 

Earlier this fall, I started to see blog posts everywhere claiming that Reese spread had landed in Canada, but, try as I might, I didn’t see it at any of my local retailers until Sunday afternoon. No sooner had I spotted the jar than it was in my cart. 

When I got home, the first thing that I did after dropping the grocery bags on the kitchen floor was dig out the coveted orange and yellow jar and rip the seal off the top. 

Let me tell you one thing: Reese spread didn’t meet my expectations. 

It flew past them. Wow. It’s SO GOOD. I meant to take one spoonful to try, and then I’d leave the rest until I could take some pictures…. Yup. That didn’t happen. Not only can you taste the chocolate and the peanut butter, but they’ve even made it just a wee tiny bit crunchy, like the peanut butter filling in the cups. 

I know that Nutella is currently the darling of Pinterest and Stay at Home Moms everywhere, but I’m kicking the hazelnuts to the curb – Reeses spread is my new guilty pleasure.

I’m proud that I’ve managed to not eat the entire jar and it’s been in the house for 30 hours now. 

On another note, I’m not sure I’ll be buying this very often – I looked at the nutritional information, and 1 serving = 1 Tablespoon. Are you kidding?  I don’t think my willpower can handle it. My willpower thinks that 1 serving = 1/2 cup. And considering the fact that there’s 19g of sugar in each serving…. well, let’s just say it’ll be a special treat in this house.

I hope it’s pretty clear that this isn’t a sponsored post. I’m just a girl… standing in front of a jar of chooclate peanut butter spread… asking it where it’s been all my life. 

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Jenn vanOosten

I live in Hamilton, Ontario, and love my city. I'm a Netflixer, choral music geek, bookworm, inventor of recipes (I take Artistic Licence on EVERYTHING that I make), wife of one, mother of two, and owner of a neurotic Schnauzer. I respect people who respect others. I love good food that's well done, but my favourite lunch is KD & hotdogs. With ketchup. I'm addicted to Clearance Shopping. I will ALWAYS get the product that I want at the price that I want, eventually.

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