Schoc Peanut Chili Cluster
Rosa Around Thanksgiving-ish, I did a candy exchange with Saskia, a ZOMG, Candy! reader from New Zealand. Quick tip – if you ship internationally via USPS, hang onto the customs form…
2010
Jelly Belly Honey Beans
Jelly Belly just debuted their 92nd flavor of jelly bean – a honey bean, infused with real wildflower honey. They’ve got a descriptive PR team working for them. Check out…
True Confections by Katharine Weber
I was surprised to get an email from Katharine Weber, asking if I’d like a free copy of her latest novel, True Confections. After all, I specialize in writing about…
Snowy Bears Sour Gummi Candy
I picked up this box of Snowy Bears Sour Gummi Candy as a post-winter-holidays sale item. I don’t really see why these had to go on sale, as they’re not…
At home chocolate tips
In an article and video in the NY Times Dining section, the Minimalist writer Mark Bittman breaks down the process of tempering chocolate (messing with its chemical structure to get…
Q.bel Mint and Double Dark Wafer Bars
When Q.bel debuted, I got a chance to review their line-up of wafer bars and wafer rolls. They’ve recently added a Double Dark Chocolate and a Dark Chocolate Mint to…
Essential Candies List – 56-110
Today, y’all get the latter half of my take on Cybele’s list of the 110 Essential Candies for Candivores. In case you missed it, the first half of the list…
More Chocolate + Design
From a long-over contest at Re-nest, the Chocolates Birdfeeder from Vanishing Creatures Chocolates. The box contains 15 pieces of organic dark and white chocolates that look like endangered animals. When…
Brach’s Jelly Nougats [Review]
I love bulk bins because they let you buy exactly how much you want. I especially love them for candy because they let me buy just enough to taste for…
Chocolate + Design
Via Candy Yum Yum, the French design firm 5.5 and the Spanish chocolatier ChocolatFactory have teamed up to give the folks at Mary and Matt a run for their creative…
Wei of Chocolate – Vegan Dark Chocolates
Apparently my distaste for Rochester winters has been, well, apparent. I recently got an email from Lisa Reinhardt, a University of Rochester grad, telling me that she sympathized about Rochester…
Essential Candies List – 1-55
To kick off 2010, Cybele from Candy Blog posted an exhausted list of the 110 Essential Candies for Candivores. She suggested that we repost it with what we’ve had checked…