Sugar Savvy

Ah the elusive Skybar; a nostalgic bit of American candy history that is often talked about, but difficult to track down today.
According to the Necco website, the Skybar was introduced in 1938 through a dramatic skywriting campaign. Apparently it was the first, and only, molded chocolate bar of its kind to have four distinctly different […]

I had a few catering jobs lined up this week, so I turned to my trusty tried-and-true file to figure out my game plan. This time, it was a meeting with guests that were visiting from outside the US. Normally, in that case, I always plan to make a little fudge to add […]

Few sweets are quite as welcoming to a novice baker or cook first entering the world of homemade candies as fudge. Don’t be scared off by recipes that call for boiling sugar to temperatures sounding comparable to the surface of the sun, or ingredient lists sourcing oddities such as evaporated milk. There’s truly an easier […]