Sugar Savvy

I am on a quest to find the “perfect malt ball;” a malt ball with a nice milk chocolate coating (real milk chocolate) and a light crispy (not powdery) malt center that will satisfy my cravings.  Alas, my quest has remained unfruitful to date.
You see, I find that there is always one missing component; for […]

I was surprised at the show of self control I exercised while in Costco, walking past a giant bag of Brookside Dark Chocolate Covered Pomegranates.  Pomegranates… a huge weakness for this girl!  Nonetheless, I wasn’t at the store for me. I was there for work… work, I had to keep thinking work.
Then, it was onto […]

I first saw these in a convenience store just across the street from work. I saw the display box, at least, because all that they had in it were regular peanut Reese’s candies. It took a couple of weeks for me to finally secure a pack of these hazelnut filled cups.
Being a lover of both […]

I picked this up at Sainsbury’s in Cambridge after I read Terry’s review of it on The Chocolate Review, and I wasn’t sorry. I bought them in a pack of six and brought them home to give out as “I remembered you while I was abroad!” gifts. The big six-pack contained six individually wrapped bars, […]

Altoids always lived up to their tag line “Curiously Strong” in my book. I remember having my first taste of them in middle school and totally having my mind and taste buds blown by how intense they were. The friend who shared them with me told me they were from England, and somehow that made […]

Riesen is one of those candies that I’d often seen on store shelves and in commercials, but had never bothered to try. When I was in England on my toffee binge, I saw these under the counter and thought it was time I gave them a shot. It helped that they came in a small candy […]

The folks at Oh! Nuts were kind enough to send me a few bags of their bulk candy. They seem to specialize in event planning, as evidenced by their wedding candy section and their convenient candy by color section. But for me, it was their assorted malted milk balls that caught my eye. As I’ve […]

I had the chance to taste Mozart chocolates on two separate occasions. I got to try MozartKugel when a woman visiting the family that I boarded with in Cambridge brought a bag as a hostess gift, and I came across the flat MozartTaler when a lab member got back from Austria. According to the Wikipedia […]

Candy lovers everywhere rejoiced this June in honor of National Candy Month.  Did you celebrate?
I certainly did, with a little help from the nice people at Emily’s Chocolates, who sent me some of their Dark Chocolate Covered Cherries to sample.
Emily’s Dark Chocolate Covered Cherries are part of their Every Day Treasures Line and come in a […]

If I remember correctly, Steve Almond wrote about tracking down the Idaho Spud in Candy Freak and watches them as they are made. He then eats one and hates it. You’d think that would have been enough to stop me from paying way too much for one at an overpriced candy boutique that charges a […]