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I am a super sweets person and cherry cordials are probably my most sugar packed indulgence. They are almost too much and would probably put most diabetics into some form of shock.

There are a lot of brands of these out there, but the Gertrude Hawk ones are the best. The chocolate is smooth and melts away in your mouth to reveal the creamy, sugary inside and then the cherry treasure in the middle breaks with a snap to unleash a flavor explosion.

Most of the brands in larger chain stores have a shell that tastes and feels more like wax than anything edible. I cannot even get past the supposed ‘chocolate’ part to enjoy the middle, but if and when I do the cherry is mush- they are all wrong.

I am a bit of a binge eater when it comes to sweets (two boxes of Girl Scout cookies in 2.5 days, may not be a world record, but I think we can all agree that it does not resemble the behavior of a normal rational human-being). I have been known to polish off a box of the above brand of chocolate covered cherries in a day and a half. To add insult to injury I have done so while sitting in bed reading a trashy romance novel until the very early hours of the morning.

I am just as surprised as the rest of civilization that after a night of romance novels and the sweets that I arise to an in-tact social life and jean sizes in the single digits. (Did I mention that sometimes the filling leaks onto my hands, therefore as I am turning the pages of my smut I am also licking every last bit of fat and calories of my fingers and into my mouth? Beautiful picture, that isn't it?) But, as luck would have it, my close friends are loyal and the rest are oblivious and my metabolism has not quite caught on to the fact that we are approaching 30 together.

Product: Milk Chocolate Cherry Cordials

Place: Gertrude Hawk

Price: $11.79 for a box of 20 (Yes, I can eat 20 in a day and a half)