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Sweet Joe!


As I mentioned in a previous post about “grandma candy”, I’ve been a lifetime lover of the coffee candy. I suppose it is unlikely that one’s earliest candy memories should involve coffee, but in my case it’s true.
There are several different companies, of course, that produce a coffee-flavored toffee, ranging in consistency […]

Crispity, Crunchity, Chocolatey Candy!!


With a love of sweets as big as anyone I know, I’ve eaten my fair share of candy and then some. It seems I have taken quite lovingly to candy making. Sure I can buy candy, but besides the eating part, where’s the fun in that?
My most recent candy making adventure […]

The Chocolate Box — See’s Piece by Piece #26 — Am I Blue About the Blueberry Truffle?


Continuing my sampling of See’s berry-flavored chocolate candies, I decided that I would try the See’s Candies’ Blueberry Truffle for this See’s Piece by Piece.
The raspberry cream was one of my highest rated See’s pieces and the strawberry buttercream earned respectable marks. (Read about those candies in See’s Piece by Piece# 5.) I wondered how […]

Maybe I’m just a cavewoman…


I was in New York last week (on business, but let’s be honest – I managed to fit in a fair amount of pleasure, as well. I mean, it’s New York – it’s sort of difficult to avoid. Pleasure, that is. Not New York.)
Given the humidity and stickiness, I had no compelling […]

The Chocolate Box — See’s Piece by Piece #25 — The Just So-So Summertime


It was hot. I needed a candy that wouldn’t melt on the way home, so I picked one of See’s Candies “summer varieties” to sample. Just from its name, the Summertime candy seemed ideal.
Tasting Report:
Description: Summertime looks a slightly flattened ball totally covered in bits of chopped walnut. The milk chocolate colored […]

Ayun’s Double Fudge Icing


There are some things in life that upon first glance, touch, taste - first whatever, you know instantly you just love. Ayun’s Double Fudge Icing is one of those things for me, and I’m not being dramatic when I say that. I whipped up a batch as a taste test with the intention […]

You Got Your Peanut Butter and Chocolate in my Marshmallow!


Alright…I’m NOT making this up. I’m quite non-proficient in Photoshop, actually, so the photo you’re looking at is FOR REALS!
REESE‘S MARSHMALLOW – (limited edition, naturally.)
I’m a little surprised that, after so MANY limited editions offered up by Reese’s over the past few years, that this is the first we’re seeing of a marshmallow […]