Sugar Savvy

See’s Candies is also known as See’s Famous Old Time Candies, and to be truthful there is something old-fashioned about the company’s candies. When old-fashioned refers to See’s emphasis on quality, natural ingredients and production techniques, it’s a good thing. When old-fashioned refers to flavors and tastes that my grandmother would have rejected […]

Hot chocolate is unusually easy to make: it requires only a basic recipe and the understanding of a few simple principles.
You need two ingredients to make a true cup of hot chocolate: chocolate and milk. (The Maya and the Aztecs used water instead of milk, and you can still find chocolate con agua […]

Dark Chocolate M&M’s were first introduced to us as part of the chocolate M-pire back in 2005. Limited Edition Dark Chocolate M&M’s were a huge success - their makers had over 30,000 inquiries from consumers trying to locate the product last year. With such high demands how could Mars, the parent company, […]

I’m completely in love with Hershey’s Take 5 candy bars. Chocolate and peanut butter has always been one of the ultimate flavor pairings for me, ranked right up there with mint and chocolate or caramel and salt. And we all know that Hershey’s mastered the chocolate and peanut butter combination with the Reese’s […]

Apparently, caramel is the new chocolate. This is, of course tantamount to declaring that peanut butter is the new jelly. Both caramel and chocolate are chock-full of merit in their own right; the combination of the two falling nothing short of a timeless classic. And for good reason. Caramel is […]

Dieting just isn’t what it used to be. In days gone by dieting meant you ate tiny portions, and your meals could pass as dinner for a rabbit. Or you lived off of grapefruit and rice cakes. Yuck. These days, there are so many different dieting options - you’ve got points […]

Forbes magazine released their annual list of the 400 Richest Americans this week and the Mars Family is still on top. Forrest Edward Mars, Jr., Jacqueline Mars and John Franklyn Mars all rank in the Top 25 of Forbes’ new list, with $10.5 billion net worth apiece. That’s a lot of candy! […]

Raisins are a popular snack at my house, even when they are not chocolate covered. But cover a nice, juicy raisin in chocolate, particularly dark chocolate, and you’ve got The Chocolate Box salivating.
Tasting Report
Description: See’s Candies Dark Chocolate Covered Raisins are covered with a rich, glossy brown dark chocolate coating. There is so much chocolate […]

It’s a candy, it’s gum, no it’s Skittles gum! From the makers of our beloved chewy fruit-flavored candies comes bubblegum. Skittles currently offers “original” bubblegum featuring their original flavors; lemon, lime, strawberry, orange and grape so that (according to Skittles) you can “blow bubbles all day long with your favorite flavor combos!” […]

This Friday, September 22nd is Rosh Ha Shannah, the Jewish New Year. It is the tradition on this holiday to dip apples in honey, signifying hopes for sweetness in the year to come. I can only guess that it was in this Rosh Ha Shanhah spirit (honey on the brain) that I was […]