I recently received a free Kooky Kid Crazy Candy Gift Box from the folks at Candy Crate. They repackage candy into themed boxes (or crates?) or care packages. The box I got had lots of sugary treats, including some e. frutti gummies. The Gummi Pizza contained 5 “slices”. At first glance, the blobs of toppings…
Month: August 2013
YumEarth Giveaway Reminder
The entry period for my giveaway of YumEarth Fruit Snacks ends tomorrow. Don’t forget to enter if you haven’t already! I’m getting a kick out of reading about people’s lunchbox snacks.
Chocablog covers Paul Young chocolate making class
Chocablog’s Dom recently wrote up his experience taking a salted caramel making class with Paul A. Young. Alas, he doesn’t share the secret recipe – a shame since I just got a candy thermometer – but he did post some gorgeous photos.
Splendid Chocolates – Milk Chocolate with Ginger and Pink Himalayan Salt
On Monday, I covered Splendid Chocolates’ milk chocolate with toffee and sea salt. Today, I’m reviewing their milk chocolate with ginger and pink himalayan salt. Both were free samples handed to me at Sweets and Snacks. Like its toffee breathren, the ginger and pink himalayan salt bar was segmented into rose stamped rectangles on one…
How many licks? Maybe 850
Via AdFreak, some dude reported taking exactly 850 licks to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop. And called it science. Take it from this struggling grad student – it ain’t science until you replicate it and 2-3 reviewers believe you.
Splendid Chocolates – Milk Chocolate with Toffee and Sea Salt
Last May at Sweets and Snacks, I snagged a couple of beautiful chocolate bars from Splendid Chocolates. One was Milk Chocolate with Toffee and Sea Salt, and the other was Milk Chocolate with Ginger and Pink Himalayan Salt. I’ve got the first one on deck today, and I’ll save the second the review for Wednesday….
YumEarth Organics Fruit Snacks + Giveaway
Is there a different between gummis and fruit snacks? The former is definitely a candy and is usually viewed as an occasional treat for kids, whereas the latter is often found in school lunch boxes. To me, they’re basically the same, though fruit snacks get a health washing. I think it’s because they can usually…
Absurdly adorable marshmallows
Via CuteOverload, check out this RocketNews24 piece about flavored marshmallows shaped like kitties and paw prints. You’re supposed to melt them into your coffee and create instant latte art. Unfortunately for me, they’re made by a Japanese company, Yawahada, and only sold in Japan, so I can’t get my paws on those cute little paws….
Oishi Hard Candies [Review]
I bought these Oishi Hard Candies while I was in China (I did more than just hug pandas there!). I don’t know the package says – I’m functionally illiterate in Chinese, so only recognize the character for fruit in the description – but I did manage to find them listed on the Oishi website, where…
Chocolate consumption and rampaging killers
I’ve posted a couple of times now about how a country’s chocolate consumption is correlated with the number of Nobel Prize winners it has produced. Now a new study in the open access journal PLoS One uses massive amounts of data to show how easy it is to find such accidental correlations. They also note…