Milk Chocolate Peanut Rainbow Drops
A peanut tucked inside milk chocolate, then coated in a crunchy candy shell that gets its color from beets, spirulina, and turmeric instead of synthetic dyes.
What It Is
These are the classic candy-coated chocolate peanuts you already know, made with real food colors. The shells land in reds, yellows, oranges, and greens pulled from vegetable and plant sources rather than petroleum-based dyes, and you genuinely cannot taste the difference in the shell. What you can taste is the crunch.
The peanuts inside are salted, which keeps the whole thing from being cloying. The milk chocolate is sweet but not aggressive. It is the kind of candy that disappears faster than you meant it to.
What To Do
Eat them by the handful. Scatter them over popcorn. Let kids use them to decorate a birthday cake or cookie without worrying about the dye list on the label. They hold up well at room temperature, so they travel easily in a bag or a pocket without melting into a mess.
Store them somewhere cool and dry and they will keep for weeks, though they rarely last that long. If you are buying for a crowd, count on people eating more than they planned.
