Chouquette Chocolates is covering Cicadas with chocolate and trying to convince everyone that they’re delicious. “It’s really like a chocolate-covered potato chip,” Sarah Dwyer, the owner of the Gaithersburg, Maryland confectionery told WBAL. “It’s really crunchy because we air-fry them. So, we clean them first, then air-fry them and then dip them in chocolate and you sprinkle whatever spice you want on top.”
If you’d like to try the chocolate-covered cicadas, you can special order a dozen ($18) from the Chouquette Chocolates website. Each batch of bugs can be coated with a combination of milk chocolate and Old Bay seasoning, milk chocolate and cinnamon, or dark chocolate and cinnamon.
These are REAL Brood X cicadas currently gathered from Silver Spring, Gaithersburg and Potomac MD,” the website explains. “Recipe: Gather Fresh Cicadas. Freeze. Boil. Airfry. Cinnamon Sprinkle. Cover in Chocolate. Enjoy??”
Will you be eating these?
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Dwyer told WBAL that the cicadas are the shop’s “best seller” for the year, edging out last year’s top chocs, which featured a pic of Dr. Anthony Fauci, and the slogan “I [Heart] Dr. Fauci.” Some of Chouquette’s other limited-edition sweets have featured pictures of singer Harry Styles, Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist Malala Yousafzai, and vice-president Kamala Harris.
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