Category: Candy & Confections

PRODUCT: Megaload, Chocolate Candy With Double The Pleasure

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Megaload isn’t the name we’d have given to this candy line. It’s more like “double the fun.” Created by someone who obviously couldn’t decided among different treats, Megaload offers peanut butter cups and caramel cups topped with other favorite sweet snacks: Almond buttercrunch A chocolate chip cookie A chocolate-covered pretzel A chocolate sandwich cookie (think…
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FATHER’S DAY: Chocolate Marshmallow Pops Recipe

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Make these treats for Father’s Day. Photo courtesy La Chocolate | Australia.   We saw these inviting marshmallow lollipops on the website of La Chocolate, an Australian chocolatier. “Make a batch of me,” they called out. So we decided to make them for Father’s Day—and also for July 4th with white chocolate and red and…
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FOOD HOLIDAY: National Licorice Day & Licorice History

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April 12th is National Licorice Day. We’ll let others debate the merits of Red Vines versus Twizzlers; our heart belongs to Australian licorice, which is spelled liquorice there and in other parts of the former British Empire. In 2011, the last year for which we could find figures, U.S. licorice sales topped $359 million, a…
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