If you’re handy with a soldering iron, here is a neat hack to create an LED flashlight out of 3 AAA batteries, an empty Tic Tac dispenser (doesn’t have to be orange), a resistor, an LED, and a microswitch. I’m tempted to actually give this a try since I have all of these items lying [...]
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Tic Tac LED flashlight
Cocoa Puro Kakawa Chocolate Covered Cocoa Beans
Don’t these look simply wonderful? They look like fossilized dinosaur eggs – what a great photo. They are actually high-quality cocoa beans “covered in layers of the best dark, milk, and white chocolates and velvety cocoa”. They look simply amazing. One 12oz bag is a whopping $28 (and with shipping it is almost $37) – [...]
Sweet Tooth license plate
(photo by Flickr user MR38) I spotted this photo on Flickr, the note says: The driver was eating candy when I asked her about her vanity plate. Check out the plate frame. I thought about getting a candy-themed license plate, but CANDYADDICT won’t fit, no matter how much I abbreviate and I<3CANDY seems insulting to [...]
Candy Wrapper Alphabet Quiz
Just for fun I created a candy wrapper alphabet quiz. I have tried it out on some friends and they have really enjoyed it. Give it a go and let me know what you think of it. If you really like it, post a link from your blog, leave a comment and let me know [...]
Explosive Chocolate Bomb
I sent this in to Boing Boing last week and realized I never wrote about it myself! This really is a chocolate bomb – you light the wick and it explodes chocolate all over the place – enough for 10 people (or one Candy Addict). It comes with a plastic guard to keep the chocolate [...]






