Sugar Savvy

Easter signaled the end of the candy season until Halloween, and Easter candy sales were the last chance to stock up on favorites until next year.  Every year I look forward to making the rounds and picking up some of my favorite Easter cand,y as well as trying out a few new things I would […]

One of the best things about the holidays is the new candy that gets released. Now that it’s November, I cannot help but look forward to Christmas, Valentine’s Day and beyond. Candy season is here!
One of the new varieties for Christmas I’ve heard about are new flavors of candy canes from Spangler Candy: based on […]

Sometimes the shape of candy greatly affects its taste.  Take Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, for example.  The taste of a regular Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup is quite different from the taste of a Reese’s Miniature Cup or a Reese’s Big Cup.
One factor as to why shape of the Reese’s affects its taste is the ratio […]

Do you love Easter’s Cadbury Creme Eggs? Well, Cadbury has delivered an early Christmas gift in the form of the Cadbury Ornament Creme Egg. Yes, you read that right!
The Ornament Creme Egg is the classic Cadbury Creme Egg wrapped up in red foil. Personally, I think Cadbury is cheating by not making any changes. What […]

It has been a year since my semi-comprehensive Candy Corn Round-up, in which I tasted and rated several different brands of candy corn. This experiment resulted in the ultimate hypothesis that the superior candy corn is made by Zachary, who produces the candy under their own label, as well as Target’s house label.
It is difficult […]

We are at the tailend of strawberry picking season so there are a lot of bloggers out there baking and creating with fresh, delicious strawberries. Even here at Sugar Savvy we’re in the strawberry way. Just the other day, we showcased a yummy strawberry syrup. I personally have frozen strawberries and made strawberry sauce over […]

When holidays roll around, kids and adults who follow any type of “free-from” diet can feel a bit left out, and Easter is no exception. Baskets loaded with milk chocolate and marshmallow peeps become the enemy rather than an indulgence. Luckily, specialty food manufacturers have been popping up everywhere to offer delicious (and […]

To some of us, the first indications of spring are not pale pink cherry blossoms budding on trees, yellow daffodils waving their heads, or purple crocuses poking out of the snow. No, the first sightings of spring for us are the arrival of Just Born’s Marshmallow Peeps candy chicks in our local markets. For […]

In honor of Valentine’s Day, the Well Fed team was sent two boxes of chocolates from Ethel’s Chocolates. I have often noticed one of Ethel’s cocoa and pink speckled locations on my visits to Chicago, though have never been inside. When our editor Cate asked if anyone would like to review them, I jumped at […]

Unless I am in the presence of puppies and dogs, you will not often hear me utter the word: “Cuuuuuute!” But come ON!  This is cute. Well, to be precise, it is CUUUUUUTE!
I mean, I don’t even like Kit Kats and I bought it. Because it was so stinkin’ CUUUUUTE! However, I suppose the point […]