What is Snickers Crisp Black Rice Wafer and Snickers Crisp Purple Sweet Potato Wafer?
Snickers recently released the least Snickers-y Snickers ever. It’s a 6-layer wafer bar! It’s from China!
Ground floor – crispy wafer.
Second floor – black rice or purple sweet potato flavored creme filling.
Third floor – wafer.
Fourth floor – caramel peanut creme filling.
Fifth floor – wafer.
Sixth floor – chocolate coating!
There hasn’t been a wafer cookie Snickers yet, nor anything with this many layers before. The flavors may seem odd to the American eye, but purple sweet potato is a common dessert ingredient across Asia and black rice is often used in sweet breakfasts and desserts in Thailand and Indonesia. I couldn’t find any info about why Snickers chose this format, these flavors, and why now.
How are they?
These tasted like the flavors of a Snickers dialed down, with the texture of a foam packing peanut. That sounds dire, but it’s not. Foods have gotten so cranked up with spicy/sour/sweet that it was nice to have a break and try something quiet.
In the wrapper, these both had a strong peanut butter aroma. I tasted each layer individually at first. The wafers are exactly what you’d expect – bland, tasteless papery stuff. The caramel peanut layer was very peanutty, not very caramely, and not very sweet. There are crispy peanut bits in all the creme filling layers that give it a little crunch.
Both of the creme layers here were dry and crumbled when I tried to separate them. The purple sweet potato layer tasted earthy but not as intensely as matcha, for example. The black rice creme tasted like LITERALLY NOTHING.
The chocolate layer was where all the sugar and flavor action was. When I nibbled a piece of it alone, it didn’t taste particularly sweet, but the bar as a whole was a 6-out-of-10 on the sugar scale. I knew the other layers weren’t bringing anything to that table, so it HAD to be the chocolate. It also had an undefinable fruity tang to it. So mysterious.
Anything else you need to know?
Loving the packaging here – the pastel pink and purple is such a nice change from Snickers’ usual primary colors and earth tones.
Conclusion:
Overall, a nice but subdued wafer bar with a hint of fruit. If you like fresh-pressed, natural peanut butter, you will love these. If you’re a resident of Guy Fieri’s Flavortown, give these a pass. If you’re living in Flavortown but need to take a zen vacation for a few minutes, they might be worth the gamble.
Purchased Price: $42.99 + free shipping (24 bars, 12 of each flavor)
Size: 31 g bar
Purchased at: eBay
Rating: 6 out of 10
Nutrition Facts: (approx 1 bar) Snickers Crisp Purple Sweet Potato Wafer – 174 calories, 11 grams of fat, 5 grams of saturated fat, 0 grams of trans fat, 43 milligrams of sodium, 16 grams of carbohydrates, and 3 grams of protein. Snickers Crisp Black Rice Wafer: – 174 calories, 11 grams of fat, 5 grams of saturated fat, 0 grams of trans fat, 45 milligrams of sodium, 16 grams of carbohydrates, and 3 grams of protein.
If anything they should have done a black sesame nougat filled wafer bar.
These just don’t sound like complete, professional products–too bad. 🙁 (Maybe the fact that I’m watching “The Great British Bake Off” while I’m writing this is affecting me. 😉 )
and now what do you do with 22 remaining bars of 6/10 Snickers? i found myself with the same dilemma for the “cooling” lemon, coconut and peach Snickers. fun novelty but after one, i have no interest in having another 🙂