Sugar Savvy

See’s Candies, while known for its chocolates, has a long tradition of making non-chocolate candies. Perhaps the oldest is the bonbon. This week The Chocolate Box is putting aside its prejudices to explore the non-chocolate Maple Bonbon.
Now bonbons occupy a special place in the American past. The very word conjures up images […]

I was searching for a quick, no-fuss candy recipe for this week. As luck would have it, I came across the perfect book with the perfect recipe on a recent trip to my local library. I’ve scoured the cookbooks and food reference section many times over, and yet somehow never before found this book: […]

What’s up, Pumpkin?
Easter is over and it’s six long months until the next candy holiday. Well, more like four months, as the Halloween candy will hit shelves by mid-August, at the latest. But why let the candy marketers arbitrarily confine our consumption to specific seasons? If you heart pumpkin, I see […]

Love at First Bite
I walked into northern California’s largest See’s Candies store looking for something new. My local store, while historic and charming, is a bit small and I thought I might find some new temptations to taste at this one. I stepped up to the counter and was handed a free sample […]

The flowers are blooming, the birds are chirping, and the pollen is flying - yes it is springtime. If I close my eyes and drift off into a daydream, I can just hear the bells of the ice cream truck. Can you tell that the warm weather has me craving ice cream? […]

What the…!?!
Okay, so I am starting to find a strange guilty pleasure in Dollar Tree, which I have been visiting with a dismayingly increased frequency. They started off, these visits, as a hopeful source of “inspiration,” but have developed, frankly, into something of a compulsive addiction. As in, I can’t drive […]

Traveling always exposes one to new food customs and products. Since I’ve been to Spain a few times, I didn’t really expect to find anything that would seem REALLY different than I’ve seen before. But I have to admit, one packaged food did stop me dead in my tracks — dog biscuits […]

Like a cup of coffee brewed just right, See’s Candies’ Milk Chocolate Mocha Buttercream is good to the last drop.
This week’s See’s Piece by Piece is a longtime favorite that combines several tastes I enjoy. If you like a strong coffee flavor in your candies, this piece will be like cream in your coffee.
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Look at your calendar or walk into your local supermarket, pharmacy or discount department store and you’ll know right away that Easter is upon us. With the holiday fast approaching, I figured that now would be the perfect time to test and share this recipe that I found on allrecipes.com for Chocolate Covered Easter Eggs. […]

April 12th is National Licorice Day and as a licorice lover it is reason for me to celebrate. Sugar Savvy has already published a survey of some of the more “gourmet” licorice products around. Don’t get me wrong, I like all those, but in our house Red Vines (in red and black) rule […]