An oldie but goodie seasonal sweet I hope never goes away, the Reese's Pumpkin is larger than your standard Reese's Peanut Butter Cup, and, from my observations, employs richer peanut butter cream.
This to not to say, however, that you should restrict yourself to just one. Pumpkins are most fun in pairs, I think, so why not honor the consumption tradition of the peanut butter cup and eat two at once? Reese's, btw, should offer two in a package to facilitate this practice. Hope they get on that.
Ever since the disastrous introduction of the blue M&M, I have especially welcomed the release of M&M's in fall colors, which, thank God, do not include blue. The dark maroon hue also reminds me of my departed friend, the tan M&M, whose resurrection I pray for daily.
I picked up a bag of autumnal peanut butter M&Ms at CVS. For baking purposes, I would have preferred plain milk chocolate, but there were none to be found. Also, I find the package illustration of the coy female M&M sipping a latte endearing:
Actually I have no idea if it's a latte. It could be a hot cocoa. But I don't like to think of a chocolate candy sipping on a chocolate beverage. It's akin to me drinking my own blood. But perhaps brown lady M&M is a vampire, which is not totally inappropriate, given the Halloween release.
Anyway, buy some and use them to make chocolate chocolate chip peanut butter M&M cookies.
