Like Wednesday’s chocolate covered gummi bears, these Gummi Bear Dips were free samples given to me by the folks at the Koppers booth at Sweets and Snacks. They came in two flavors,…
Month: August 2012
Ikea sweets review
Serious Eats recently posted a taste-test round-up of an impressive variety of the foods sold at Ikea, including some of their sweets.?They managed to make something called “oat balls” sounds like a…
Koppers Chocolate Covered Gummi Bears
These chocolate covered gummi bears were a free sample given to me at the Koppers booth at Sweets and Snacks. They call themselves “the original”, so I wonder if they predate the…
Doctors immune to candy bribes
Via Discover Magazine’s Discoblog, news of an academic study that found that doctors are not very susceptible to candy bribes, at least not when it comes to increases responses to mailed questionnaires….
Blommer Milk and Dark Chocolate Covered
I got these Blommer Milk Chocolate Covered Grahams and Dark Chocolate Covered Grahams as free samples at Sweets and Snacks. Mine were individually wrapped (unfortunately, I ate them before I realized that…
Warheads Sour Chewy Cubes
Original Warheads hard candies made their splash on the U.S. market when I was a kid. My friends and I used to compete to see how many we could stand to hold in…
Juice-infused chocolate – a lower
Today’s news post is a fitting one to come on the heels of this week’s “diet” chocolate reviews. Via Gizmodo, scientists have reported inventing a technique to create chocolate built around tiny…
Skinny Cow Heavenly Crisp – Milk C
On Monday, I reviewed Skinny Cow’s Milk Chocolate Dreamy Clusters. Today, I’m covering their Heavenly Crisp bars in Peanut Butter and Milk Chocolate, which were also free samples from their booth at…
Project Runway Candy Couture Challenge
I swore off watching Project Runway after the judging travesty that was Season 9. It used to be a show about true talent but has since devolved into all about the best…
Skinny Cow Dreamy Clusters – Milk
Ira Glass had a great quote in his recent NY Times interview: “I don?t believe in guilty pleasures, I only believe in pleasures. People who call reading detective fiction or eating dessert…
Sanders Potato Chip Chocolate Bar
I got this Sanders Potato Chip Chocolate Bar in my free swag bag at Sweets and Snacks. The chocolate and potato chip combo has been dancing around the edges of trendy foodism…
Chocolove – going Southern and loc
Last week’s news post was about regional American candies. Today, I’m sharing a Serious Eats post that suggests that Chocolove’s new bars, ?Peach & Pecan and Salted Peanut,?were crafted with a focus…