Jelly Belly makes chocolate coated jelly beans called Chocolate Dips, and they are addicting!

Never before had it crossed my mind, while eating a jelly bean, that it might taste better wrapped in chocolate.  And, yet, here I am munching on Very Cherry flavored Chocolate Dips and I can't stop.  The whole bag is gone, and so is my shapely waist. 🙂

These jelly beans weren't just grabbed off the line and thrown under a chocolate curtain. The jelly beans have definitely been altered because there is no hard sugar shell.  The bean has been panned (rolled around in a revolving drum while being sprayed with a thin chocolate coating) with the chocolate covering the gooey jelly bean center.

The dark chocolate coating is a real chocolate made with cocoa butter.  The chocolate by itself lacks a strong chocolatey flavor.  Nonetheless, it is chocolatey enough!  Besides, you don't want to melt away the coating first.  Instead, chew up the combination together to get the full enjoyment of fruit and chocolate.  The texture is perfect.

I thought the cherry Jelly Bellies was evenly balanced, neither the chocolate nor the cherry overpowering the other. 

In addition to cherry, there are orange, raspberry, coconut, strawberry, and mint flavors. 

To me, jelly beans are really sweet, too sweet, and I can eat only a few.  The best thing about the chocolate dips is that the sweetness is toned down and a pretty authentic flavor replaces it.

The six flavors of dips get an OMG! declaration from me.