Holiday Break
Rosa Hi readers, Happy holidays! I’m taking a hiatus through the holiday season. See y’all in 2013! In the meantime, I’ve started a science blog, Beyond the Abstract. Check it out!…
2012
Ritter Sport Yogurt: An Elusive Chocolate [Review]
The Ritter Sport Yogurt is an elusive chocolate bar. Its more common brethren, like Milk Chocolate with Cornflakes or Dark Chocolate with Whole Hazelnuts, are easily found in many major…
European-style Nougat Recipe
If you’ve got some spare time around the holidays for an intense candy-making project, check out?Liddabit Sweets’s recipe for European nougat, via Serious Eats. They’d make a great holiday treat!…
Mini Chewy SweeTarts
I used to love SweeTarts when I was a kid. My parents used to buy me a big roll of them to keep me quiet on long car rides and…
A twist on holiday chocolate bark
Serious Eats has a recipe for what they’re calling crack, which is basically just saltine crackers covered in chocolate and, if you’re in the holiday mood, crushed candy canes.?I’ve never…
Bissinger’s Grapefruit Gummy Pandas
I’ve said many times on this blog that there aren’t enough grapefruit candies out in the world. There are, at least, Bissinger’s Gummy Pandas that come in pink grapefruit (with…
Kraft Jet-Puffed Mallow Bites
I bought this bag of Kraft Jet-Puffed Mallow Bites at the dollar store because they had a big “New” banner. I don’t think there are other mass-market “milk chocolate covered…
Whimsical Candy Garden
Via Neil, check out this whimsical series of photos of a candy garden?featuring Mike & Ike flowers and Pop Rocks fertilizer. Maybe I should take up candy gardening as a…
Vidal Sour Rainbow Pencils
Vidal Candies had a colorful booth at Sweets and Snacks full of all kinds of non-chocolate treats. It looked like they carried candies that are more commonly seen abroad than…
Holiday Candy Giveaway from Temptation Candy
The folks at Temptation Candy, an online candy store, would like to give one of my readers free holiday candy. How awesome is that? The holiday giveaway candy includes Ghirardelli…
Ferrero Raffaello: What Is It? [Review]
I’ve written before how, when I was a kid, Ferrero Rochers were the pinnacle of fine chocolate. The?Ferrero Raffaello is in the same vein as the Rocher, but without those…
Clark Bites
Many of the free samples that I got at Sweets and Snacks were in “not for retail sale” packaging. Usually that just meant that they weren’t properly labeled with nutrition…