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Brown French Fancies are the worst...

143 replies

UniBallEye · 17/09/2021 12:57

And yellow are the best!

I've just opened a box here and there are 3 brown - they always get left to last.

My personal favourite is the yellow.

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whatwasIgoingtosay · 17/09/2021 13:47

www.tastemade.co.uk/videos/homemade-french-fancies/
Make your own - get whatever colour you choose!

PumpkinKlNG · 17/09/2021 13:51

Annoyingly I can’t eat the pink ones due to them not being vegetarian so only yellow and pink for me but I do like the Halloween ones, not keen on the white ones

PumpkinKlNG · 17/09/2021 13:51

Yes the white ones are too sweet for me

DismantledKing · 17/09/2021 13:53

You’re right. Yellow FTW.

Lupinhere37 · 17/09/2021 13:57

Hello are amazing. Love the brown, although less so than yellow.
Pink; just completely vile. I’ve stopped buying them now, unless I can get a box of Easter yellows.
The M&S version are the worst. The buttercream piece tastes like pure salted butter. I was nearly sick.

TheKeatingFive · 17/09/2021 13:59

Yeah they are 😆

Pink are the best though.

And the M&S ones are nicer than Mr Kipling

TheKeatingFive · 17/09/2021 14:00

The buttercream piece tastes like pure salted butter.

And that’s a problem why now? 😆

NutellaEllaElla · 17/09/2021 14:04

@whatwasIgoingtosay

www.tastemade.co.uk/videos/homemade-french-fancies/ Make your own - get whatever colour you choose!
I've tried baking Fondant Fancies before three times and if my experience is anything to go by, they look like shit.
Ginghamize · 17/09/2021 14:05

Yuk - Wikipedia says there's no lemon or strawberry in them at all and they're 30% sugar. Blee, as Smash Hits used to say.

TheKeatingFive · 17/09/2021 14:08

Yuk - Wikipedia says there's no lemon or strawberry in them at all

And this is a surprise? 😆

I've tried baking Fondant Fancies before three times and if my experience is anything to go by, they look like shit.

They are a purely mass manufactured treat. Baking them seems pointless. It’s like those bake-off challenges where they baked tunnocks tea cakes. Just why?

bumblingbovine49 · 17/09/2021 14:13

Sorry I prefer the brown ones. That are my favourite. I hate the pink ones and don't eat them. The yellow ones are ok ( just)

Mol1628 · 17/09/2021 14:17

Pink, brown, yellow.

I love the cream egg ones !

Livpool · 17/09/2021 14:18

Agreed - the yellow ones are infinitely the best ones

Laiste · 17/09/2021 14:22

I love them equally :)

I like to peel off the icing with my teeth and then eat the little blob of cream off the top and then the whole sponge square Grin

i also peel/eat fish fingers, kit kats, bounty bars and mini rolls

Laiste · 17/09/2021 14:22

Cream Egg ones?????! Shock

Where do i get these?

PurpleSproutingSomething · 17/09/2021 14:25

YABVU.

The brown ones are mine, the pink ones go to DS and the yellow ... well they either get eaten in desperation or binned!

NutellaEllaElla · 17/09/2021 14:30

Again - creme egg ones???

BareVanilla · 17/09/2021 14:32

and just so you know, you can buy boxes with just yellow in them. Delish.

sammylady37 · 17/09/2021 14:34

Pink
Brown
Yellow

Non negotiable

ReeseWitherfork · 17/09/2021 14:36

Also did anyone else use to call them Fondant Fancies yes, I was immediately debating if I'd been calling them the wrong thing. PP theory that 'french fancies' is the Kipling branded version, as I can't imagine my parents ever spring for the expensive ones.

PattyPan · 17/09/2021 14:36

All French fancies are gross, Yabu to think any of them are nice Envy

Badabingbadabum · 17/09/2021 14:46

I'm lucky that one dd still goes for chocolate first. Other dd is into pink ones but I can still get by without having to consume any chocolate ones from the box.

They just aren't in the 'spirit' of a French Fancy are they!

FortunaMajor · 17/09/2021 14:47

Wait until you try the special edition After Dinner Mint or Chocolate & Orange ones. Divine. All others pale in comparison. And they're brown.

sammylady37 · 17/09/2021 14:48

@FortunaMajor

Wait until you try the special edition After Dinner Mint or Chocolate & Orange ones. Divine. All others pale in comparison. And they're brown.
More info required. Immediately!

Mint ones?? Where would I find them?

NutellaEllaElla · 17/09/2021 14:55

They need to do Bounty - Chocolate/Coconut ones. I may have emailed them to request this plus mixed boxes of After Eights, Chocolate Orange and Bounty. I really feel like a lil MN email campaign would help me lobby them here Grin