Vosges Blood Orange Caramel Bar
Rosa You can always count on Vosges to come up with something unique and intriguing. This Blood Orange Caramel Bar boasts hibiscus flowers, blood orange caramel, Campari, and dark chocolate (70%…
September 2011
Ryan Gosling – Leading Man and Candy Connoisseur
Via my friend Neil, an invitation to check out this Esquire profile of Ryan Gosling. Why news of Ryan Gosling on a candy blog? Turns out the dude loves candy!…
Hissee Fit Snake Spray – Cherry Chase
This Hissee Fit Snake Spray?came, along with a bunch of other candies, as a free sample from the National Confectioners Association. It is definitely not something that I would have…
More Chocolate and Health Benefits
Big chocolate health news has broken again, and it’s been all over the internets, from the NY Times to Jezebel to the Kitchn: a recently published meta-analysis has shown that…
Cranberry Bog Frogs
These Cranberry Bog Frogs have been lurking in my candy stash for a while now. I know I received them as a gift from someone, but alas, I can’t remember…
Enstrom’s Milk Chocolate Almond Toffee
I received this box of Enstrom’s Milk Chocolate Almond Toffee as a free sample from the manufacturer. Apparently they’ve been making their toffee by hand for over 50 years! The…
Learn to count with candy
When I was a kid, my mother used to quiz me with math problems that I had to answer out loud (she was a Tiger Mother before the phenomenon existed).…
The Tea Room – Honeybush Caramel
I’d never heard of The Tea Room brand of chocolate bars until I saw a bunch of them at Cost Plus World Market. Having already filled my basket with candies,…
World’s Largest Chocolate Bar
Thanks to my friend Steve for bringing this story to my attention: the World’s Finest Chocolate Company has set a Guinness World Record for creating the World’s Largest Chocolate bar,…
Katjes YoguBerries
These?Katjes YoguBerries were a Cost Plus World Market find. They’re a big gummi maker in Germany, and my bag was in its original German packaging. They came in three shapes…
Eiffel Bon Bons
When I was in middle school and high school, we used to sell these little bags of Eiffel Bon Bons to raise money for French Club and the National French…
Chocolate-Covered Bug Dystopia
Via Chow, a Telegraph story about how the European Union has spent/is spending millions of Euros to investigate the nutritional qualities of bugs as food. For humans. For when we’ve…