Candy coating, terrible core
593372
Just utterly depressing.

It's only worthwhile if you're looking to buy a game, play it for a week or so, and then drop it.

It does NOT have the replay value of D2. Farming is ruined, endgame is ruined. It's pathetically bad.
4324499
My family loves the Tootsie brand caramel apple pops, they're our favorite treat of the Halloween season. We were excited to hear that Jolly Rancher would be doing a similar pop because we assumed it would be a flat-ish green apple Jolly Rancher with some yummy caramel covering, much like the Tootsie ones. If only! Its hard to describe the pops themselves but the overwhelming rancid popcorn taste is what stuck with me the most. If given to an enemy combatant these would violate the Geneva Convention. They can be compared to the snack food version of pornography in that they have no redeeming qualities whatsoever. The only being in my house that ate *almost* the entire sucker was the dog that has been spotted consuming waste and she wouldn't even finish it. Seriously, just don't do this to yourself.
388035
Expecting a product similar to the tasty dried mango slices with chile seasoning, these pineapple bits are a disappointment.  They are coated with granular sugar, and what chile there is.....barely noticeable.  I am brushing off the excessive sugar and spicing the pieces with some salt-based Tajin Clasico seasoning and they are considerably improved.
2281612
I found that everything tastes the exact same, and it's a taste I don't like. I like the taste of almonds. I like the taste of coconut oil. I like honey too. It seems that together these three ingredients would taste good, and at first they do, but then as you make more of the recipes in this book, you realize it ALL TASTES THE SAME. To me, it becomes a cloying taste. I'm also convinced that she makes things with regular flour, takes pictures, and then says it's almond flour, because I have a 75% failure rate with this book. That chocolate and meringue cake? Good luck with that. That meringue was a tremendous failure. That's tough too, because the ingredients are expensive. Just yesterday, I decided to make her almond flour Christmas cookies. It requires mixing, refrigerating, rolling between 2 pieces of parchment, and cutting out the shapes. I got that pulled off. Put them in the oven, and they just spread everywhere, covering the whole pan and not even holding any semblance of shape. My daughter cut shapes out of the giant almond pancake after the thing cooled. But still, there was that same old, strangely cloying taste.
2277456
Wow, what a complete and utter waste of my dollars.  I bought this along with the caramel frosting packet.

Pros:  It did mix well, there was enough space left on top to stir and the powder did dissolve nicely.

It was very easy to spread and swirl.

Cons:  The texture was almost stringy/rubbery.  The taste was horrific without anything. It tasted like a gooey marshmallow having a bad day.

We added the flavoring and it did not help.  The strange texture, flavor and now with the added caramel, it was simply disgusting.

While the idea in theory was intriguing, the product failed completely in its execution.
2590133
I got this for my 5 and 6 year old kids for Christmas, and they had a good time putting the contraption together and making the bugs. They were excited waiting the 10 minutes for the mix to harden into a gummy candy. The candy looked great, but then they took a bite. Both kids immediately spit their "candy" into the trash. I took a bite just for kicks, and I did the same.

Pros: Fun concept
Cons: The candy tastes gross. There's no way I'll be able to get my kids to make it again unless they're trying to play a trick on someone. You also wind up with a bunch of candy powder that needs to be stored as you can't reseal the bag it came in, and clean up is a little annoying as some of the gel will run out of the base while you're filling the mold.

User Tip: Use -6- little cups of water instead of 4 as recommended in the directions. This will make the gel less viscous and able to fill the whole mold without becoming stuck.
2368072
Terrible.  The coating chips off.  Would never buy again.
266222
I wanted to like these, I REALLY did.  As a brand new Vegan, I remember what cheese should taste like.  These don't come anywhere remotely close.  Not even in the same universe.  I made pizza and used the Daiya Mozzarella shreds.  They *do melt and stretch.  That much I'll give them.  The texture is somewhere between glue, rubber cement, and most closely resembles slime (remember Nickelodeon Slime?).  The taste is vile. Nothing at all like cheese.  I tried really hard to eat a slice.  I tried scraping off the slime for the next slice, but the whole pizza tasted gross.  Inedible.  I had my family try to be certain it wasn't just me.  Nope.  It got five hands down.  I guess all pizzas will have to be completely cheese free for me.  Fake cheese isn't cutting it.
2746587
Blech. Meat paste formed into bars, which should have been more described in the product info.  One person I pawned a bar off one said it was like a brownie made of meat. I'm lucky the bite I took stayed down. The flavor (beef, habanero & cherry) had potential. The texture killed it. I gave it two stars because I was able to find someone who liked them. They're definitely a love it or hate it thing. If you've never had them, buy one bar at a grocery store to try before investing in them.
4664776
The cake itself is good, but a lot of work.  The frosting is horrible!  It doesn't even taste like chocolate.  It has a harsh chemical flavor that just ruins the whole cake.
198925
We've tried two recipes from this book, and both of them turned out badly. One kind was baked, and one kind was fried. Given that I've been able to make doughnuts from other books fairly easily, it's pretty clear that the problem lies in the recipes. (It'd be nice if more of the other reviewers had tried the recipes, rather than just the physical makeup of the book.)

For instance, the chocolate cake doughnuts were very flat and dense, despite having weighed ingredients out precisely. The dough didn't come together very well, and it was super-dry when it did. Alarm bells were going off at this stage already. The results more closely mirrored hockey pucks with a center cut out. (In fairness, the glaze turned out just fine. But it should've, seeing how the instructions for that were tantamount to "pour boiled cream over chopped chocolate, wait a couple of minutes, and stir.")

Please don't buy this -- you're wasting your money both on the book and on the ingredients.
1983657
I wish I could return this 12 pack, minus the 1 bar I opened to taste. It tastes terribly sweet and too much like a candy bar. It has 2 or 3 different kinds of sugar. I ended up eating the entire one bar I opened because I didn't want to waste it and I felt I had eaten loads of sugar. My stomach wasn't happy. I will have to give these away. I can't believe I spent so much money on these. There goes my adventure of trying new bars. I think I'll just stick to the ones I like, which have really clean ingredients and taste healthy, fresh, and natural:

- Raw Revolution Organic Live Food Bar (flavors: spirulina, cashew, coconut)
- Greens+ Energy Bar (Chocolate flavor)
- Organic Food Bar (flavor: original Bars)
- The Bliss Bar (all flavors)
1374309
The chocolate coating on each bite is so thick, you run the risk of breaking your teeth if you bite into this goodie directly out of the freezer. Yet if you allow the bite to soften a bit, the fruit inside turns into a gummy mess. Sorry that Dole didn't apply a thinner coating of chocolate that was easier to bite into. Make an appointment with your dentist before digging into Dole Banana Dippers!
650480
Very disappointed.  The 'pillows of filling' is a microscopic layer that is absolutely flavorless.  I would have guessed this as the exact same chocolate bar flavor I had tried last from the same company, except this one had a strange smell coming from it.  The chocolate is not good.  It is not the fancy flavorful treat the packaging would lead you to believe.
2093951
Exactly what is being praised here - looking at all the positive reviews? I was expecting something close to Chicago-style cheese popcorn impact. As another reviewer noted, the flavor - the reason for buying in the first place - is mild at best. The coating is inconsistent, too. The net result is higher-fat popcorn without the payoff. As with many things (and people) who call themselves "The Big Cheese", disappointment awaits.
1525757
The Cakelove story and unsual flavors combos are intriguing. I used the Pecan Crunch Buttercream recipe (sans crushed pecans) as the filling for my daughter's wedding cake in May (150 guests) and heard nothing but raves! So I was anxious to try some of the cake recipes. I'm sorry to say, "they've been much less satisfying than the buttercream."
The cake texture of the three recipes I've tried has been disappointing (Yellow Butter Cake, Mr. Banana Legs and Mojito Pound Cake which doesn't live up to its flavor billing in my opinion). After following each recipe carefully, the result each time was the same... dense, gooey cakes that didn't brown well or seem to have enough leavening.
Checking my oven temp and upping the temperature ten degrees didn't help. Even when the cakes seem to rise well during baking, once they cooled, the consistency was like a fallen cake. I've baked for over thirty years and frankly never encountered this problem three times in a row. I guess there's just something about the ingredient balance in these recipes that's not working for me. I've hesitated to alter the recipes but have wondered more than once if baking powder was simply forgotten in the ingredient list and if adding a teaspoon wouldn't solve the problem.
2024659
I tried a Full Circle brand GF pancake mix from my local market and thought it was very nice- vanilla flavored, light, somewhat rice flower tasting, but quite nice.  I tried to find an online version but this Namaste brand was as close as I could find.

This is very disappointing, one of the worst GF pancake mixes I've ever had. There is an excess of arrow root and tapioca makes this gummy and awful texture.  Note in the questions sections the person suggesting blowing bubblegum... There is no vanilla flavor noticeable.

If you are looking for a GF pancake mix that tastes like pancakes and has a decent texture, try Pamala's Pancake mix from Amazon. It has almond meal and buttermilk powder added which greatly enhances flavor, and a good blend of flours for a decent texture.  It also makes outstanding banana or pumpkin bread...the recipe is on the bag.