Sugar Savvy

Pralines have always seemed a bit old-fashioned to me. I can’t really explain it. I guess because you don’t see Hershey’s or Nestles coming out with praline candy bars or praline filled reese’s cups. Regardless of whether I think of them as old-fashioned or new age, I think of them as delicious. […]

Andes Mints. Coffee Nips. Almond Roca. Three candies with not much in common, really, other than the fact that my grandma ALWAYS had them. And I always ate them when I visited her. (AND, as it turns out, they were all born not long after she was.) So, in […]

Almost four months of tasting See’s Candies has made me a bit of an expert on See’s. Having raised two sons has automatically made me a mother. So today I thought I would combine those qualifications in The Chocolate Box.
Every good son and daughter (or spouse purchasing for said son and/or daughter) should […]

A couple of months ago while shopping at World Market, I came across a display of an assortment of Guittard products. I’ve tried the mint chips and absolutely love them, so I grabbed a bag of the cappuccino chips. I could never seem to find anything to use them in. I didn’t […]

What is it about the ubiquitous yet simultaneously elusive “Limited Edition” that makes my pulse speed up just a little bit? Why is this so exciting to me? I even find myself giving pause when the Limited Edition involves my dreaded white chocolate; not in the interest of tasting it, so much (because […]