cybele posted an article on Candy Blog - Dec 9, 2009, 6:06 pm
Back in October the Chocolate Salon came to town, it’s a one day show devoted solely to chocolate and open to the public. It was quite small compared to some chocolate shows held around the worl...
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cybele posted an article on Candy Blog - Dec 8, 2009, 2:31 pm
My mother sent me a crazy-big box of holiday candies from Aldi that arrived over the weekend. I’ll have lots more on those (photo here) soon. The first item I wanted to mention was such an inc...
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cybele posted an article on Candy Blog - Dec 7, 2009, 4:10 pm
Ferrara’s expansion into the midscale chocolate market has been quick. The first items I spotted are their Belgian chocolate bars, conceived to compete with Kraft’s Toblerone products. For...
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cybele posted an article on Candy Blog - Dec 4, 2009, 4:23 pm
A couple of month ago I reviewed the set of trio of Dots candies for Halloween: Bat Dots, Candy Corn Dots & Ghost Dots. For Christmas Tootsie can only muster one holiday version: Christmas Dots. Chri...
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cybele posted an article on Candy Blog - Dec 2, 2009, 2:38 pm
Long before Hershey’s came out with Kissables, they had a product called Hershey-ets. They were introduced in 1954 and were pretty much direct competitors to M&Ms. They never quite took off so b...
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cybele posted an article on Candy Blog - Dec 1, 2009, 4:07 pm
These new Trader Joe’s Dark Chocolate Crisps aren’t exactly a holiday item. They look like an all-year round treat and perhaps more appropriate for an upscale football watching party than ...
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cybele posted an article on Candy Blog - Dec 1, 2009, 4:07 pm
These new Trader Joe’s Dark Chocolate Crisps aren’t exactly a holiday item. They look like an all-year round treat and perhaps more appropriate for an upscale football watching party than ...
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cybele posted an article on Candy Blog - Nov 30, 2009, 5:29 pm
Russell Stover has a large assortment of holiday treats in Santa-themed packaging. What’s nice about them is that they’re always fresh and moderately priced (often on dramatic sale for thr...
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cybele posted an article on Candy Blog - Nov 25, 2009, 4:30 pm
The weekend began without much new candy. The purpose was to get rid of it. What some of you have gleaned over the years as regular readers is that I do product photography on the side for Candy Wareh...
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cybele posted an article on Candy Blog - Nov 25, 2009, 4:30 pm
The weekend began without much new candy. The purpose was to get rid of it. What some of you have gleaned over the years as regular readers is that I do product photography on the side for Candy Wareh...
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cybele posted an article on Candy Blog - Nov 25, 2009, 4:30 pm
The weekend began without much new candy. The purpose was to get rid of it. What some of you have gleaned over the years as regular readers is that I do product photography on the side for Candy Wareh...
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cybele posted an article on Candy Blog - Nov 24, 2009, 3:36 pm
It’s that lovely time of year when Trader Joe’s trots out oodles of holiday candies and treats. I like to cruise the aisles and look at all the great new and returning items. This year m...
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cybele posted an article on Candy Blog - Nov 23, 2009, 10:51 am
Last month I reviewed the new Ferrara Milk Chocolate with Almond Nougat, today I have the companion bar without the nuts and nougat bits. The new Ferrera chocolate line is to take the place of the cho...
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cybele posted an article on Candy Blog - Nov 19, 2009, 5:52 pm
I love it when the Candy Blog community points me to something new. We have a little conversation going on in the Candy Blog Forums about the 2009 holiday candy offerings. One that ruffy mentioned was...
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cybele posted an article on Candy Blog - Nov 18, 2009, 5:43 pm
I know some folks may have been worried that I wasn’t going to give Fannie May another chance after the disappointing Mint Meltaway yesterday. Well, no worries, as I also found the Fannie May Pi...
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cybele posted an article on Candy Blog - Nov 17, 2009, 3:06 pm
It’s November, there’s a crisp chill in the air (yeah, it was in the fifties last night here in Los Angeles) which usually signals mint & chocolate combinations are in season. Last week I ...
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cybele posted an article on Candy Blog - Nov 17, 2009, 3:06 pm
It’s November, there’s a crisp chill in the air (yeah, it was in the fifties last night here in Los Angeles) which usually signals mint & chocolate combinations are in season. Last week I ...
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cybele posted an article on Candy Blog - Nov 17, 2009, 3:06 pm
It’s November, there’s a crisp chill in the air (yeah, it was in the fifties last night here in Los Angeles) which usually signals mint & chocolate combinations are in season. Last week I ...
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cybele posted an article on Candy Blog - Nov 16, 2009, 5:40 pm
When I was in London last time, my mother and I went to Portobello Road to the flea market. While there we stopped in a little basement cafe to get some coffee and had what turned out to be the best s...
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cybele posted an article on Candy Blog - Nov 13, 2009, 3:38 pm
If you’d asked me a year ago if there were any more mint flavors that Altoids could come in, I would have said, “Nope, it’s all been done.” I know, this is a really short revi...
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cybele posted an article on Candy Blog - Nov 12, 2009, 3:16 pm
Heide Red Hot Dollars have a colorful past. The original Heide Red Hot Dollars were raspberry flavored, but when they were bought by Hershey’s in the 90s, they thought the name was confusing, so...
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cybele posted an article on Candy Blog - Nov 11, 2009, 5:13 pm
One thing that was missing in the Dove chocolate line was white chocolate. Well, Dove’s new Dove Peppermint Bark Promises are the first step to remedy that. This new holiday version of Dove̵...
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cybele posted an article on Candy Blog - Nov 9, 2009, 5:02 pm
The problem with Mr. Goodbar was that it was never Mr. Greatbar in the first place.  When Hershey’s replaced the cocoa butter in it, I completely lost interest. So, I’ve been looking ...
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cybele posted an article on Candy Blog - Nov 6, 2009, 11:27 am
This summer Morinaga came out with a limited edition line of World Fruit flavors of HiCHEW. I tried to collect all of them. Shown here is the Blood Orange I reviewed over the summer. HiCHEW, original...
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cybele posted an article on Candy Blog - Nov 4, 2009, 5:45 pm
The Twilight Saga: New Moon opens in theaters all over the world at the end of November. It’s expected to be a huge hit, as was the first movie in the series, Twilight. New Moon again stars Kris...
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cybele posted an article on Candy Blog - Nov 3, 2009, 3:01 pm
Yesterday I reviewed the new All Natural Necco Wafers. Today I have the All Natural Chocolate Necco Wafers and I’m sure some people are thinking, Why review a single flavor from the regular Necc...
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cybele posted an article on Candy Blog - Nov 2, 2009, 5:37 pm
It’s hard to believe that I’ve never reviewed Necco Wafers. In the early years of Candy Blog I tried to concentrate on candies I’d never had before, but it became apparent that in or...
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cybele posted an article on Candy Blog - Oct 31, 2009, 11:57 am
Though today is Halloween, I’ve been inundated with a world of Mentos flavors thanks for Santos of Scent of Green Bananas. They were even part of a segment on Good Food on KCRW. I have a huge ba...
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cybele posted an article on Candy Blog - Oct 30, 2009, 2:35 pm
I was happy to see that Brach’s was expanding its Halloween offerings beyond candy corn. I love peanut butter and chocolate and though nothing really compares to the Reese’s products, a li...
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cybele posted an article on Candy Blog - Oct 29, 2009, 3:25 pm
I went to Las Vegas last week to attend a trade show, but I made sure to set aside time to visit the Las Vegas Strip and some of the fine chocolatiers there. Payard Patisserie was at the top of my l...
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cybele posted an article on Candy Blog - Oct 29, 2009, 3:24 pm
I went to Las Vegas last week to attend a trade show, but I made sure to set aside time to visit the Las Vegas Strip and some of the fine chocolatiers there. Payard Patisserie was at the top of my l...
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cybele posted an article on Candy Blog - Oct 28, 2009, 3:11 pm
Classic Lemonheads are one of my favorite candies. Even though I have to eat a huge variety of new to me candy for the blog on a regular basis, I still find a bit of room to indulge in Lemonheads from...
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cybele posted an article on Candy Blog - Oct 27, 2009, 5:16 pm
Go big or go home is kind of a mantra in the snack world. Bigger, bolder, stronger, faster, louder, saltier, fattier, sweeter, higher, longer, brassier, sourer and crunchier all grab market share. The...
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cybele posted an article on Candy Blog - Oct 26, 2009, 2:38 pm
On my recent trip to Las Vegas I spent zero time in the casinos (except to traverse them to get to the chocolate and of course scanning the slot machines to find a candy-themed one) and all my time ei...
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cybele posted an article on Candy Blog - Oct 25, 2009, 5:17 pm
Last week I attended the NACS show in Las Vegas. It’s about convenience stores and though there are 1,200 exhibitors, only about 75 deal in candy. Still, it was just a 4 hour drive so I went for...
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cybele posted an article on Candy Blog - Oct 23, 2009, 11:29 am
A couple of months ago all the foodie world was a’blab about the prospect of chocolate made from the milk of camels instead of the milk of cows. I didn’t find this terribly exotic, since...
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cybele posted an article on Candy Blog - Oct 22, 2009, 12:38 pm
Every once in a while I wander into a Gelson’s grocery store. If you don’t have this small upscale market chain in your area, perhaps you have a similar one. Regular food you see everywher...
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cybele posted an article on Candy Blog - Oct 21, 2009, 12:07 pm
There are some candies I get a hold of and I simply do not want to eat them. Grave Grabbers from Flix Candy are billed as a handful of fruit flavored gummy! and they certainly do deliver on both the...
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cybele posted an article on Candy Blog - Oct 20, 2009, 4:00 pm
I’ve had a few Hachez chocolate products over the years, though I haven’t written much about them (just this one review). They’re a German chocolate maker (though they have Belgian r...
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cybele posted an article on Candy Blog - Oct 19, 2009, 2:06 pm
Candy Corn haters probably think all candy corn is alike. And for the most part it is. It’s just a very sweet fondant lovingly crafted to resemble a stylized piece of field corn. There are doz...
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cybele posted an article on Candy Blog - Oct 19, 2009, 2:05 pm
Candy Corn haters probably think all candy corn is alike. And for the most part it is. It’s just a very sweet fondant lovingly crafted to resemble a stylized piece of field corn. There are doz...
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cybele posted an article on Candy Blog - Oct 16, 2009, 12:25 pm
Just Born announced some new mixes of their classic Mike and Ike jelly rods for different seasons. The first one on the calendar is the Autumn Medley which features four flavors in a fall color array....
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cybele posted an article on Candy Blog - Oct 15, 2009, 1:58 pm
I found out about Traditional Swiss Army chocolate a couple of years ago, they were a raffle prize for the annual Menu for Hope fundraiser.  I was surprised and pleased when I ran into the bars...
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cybele posted an article on Candy Blog - Oct 13, 2009, 2:04 pm
This is a pretty simple product and is part of a large line of Halloween candies from Russell Stover. The Russell Stover Dark Chocolate Covered Marshmallow Pumpkin is what it says. A marshmallow in ...
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cybele posted an article on Candy Blog - Oct 12, 2009, 4:15 pm
At the Walgreen’s I noticed a new set of bars far down on the bottom shelf in the candy aisle. They’re simply called 3 for $1 Buck (which seems redundant, three for one dollar buck bar?). ...
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cybele posted an article on Candy Blog - Oct 9, 2009, 3:39 pm
One of the hottest trends in candy has been the addition of sea salt. A little savory touch to a sweet. The use of salt in candy is as old as toffee, caramel, & licorice but now it’s popping i...
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cybele posted an article on Candy Blog - Oct 8, 2009, 3:04 pm
Nut brittle is an incredibly simple candy but at the same time completely flexible to adaptations. The most basic ingredients are sugar, corn syrup and baking soda. There’s no butter in it, lik...
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cybele posted an article on Candy Blog - Oct 7, 2009, 3:12 pm
Every once in a while a limited edition comes back. This one, the Reese’s Peanut Butter Lovers Cups, came out in 2005 along with its companion, the Reese’s Chocolate Lovers Cups. I spotted...
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cybele posted an article on Candy Blog - Oct 6, 2009, 4:51 pm
There’s a lot that goes on before our beloved candy hits the store shelves. The same is true with Candy Blog, though it probably looks like all I do is play with candy, take photos of candy and ...
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cybele posted an article on Candy Blog - Oct 5, 2009, 3:11 pm
Lindt is well known for their economically priced & widely available Lindor truffle line. Their line of individually wrapped bites called Fioretto differs from the Lindor Truffles in that it contain...
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