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Last week’s episode of The Office had a great little candy moment when Andy couldn’t quite remember the rest of the lyrics to the Kit Kat jingle. Observe:
It’s too bad Andy didn’t check online. If he had, he would have easily discovered our list of the Top 10 Candy Jingles, with useful links to the commercials on YouTube. At least he’d know that the song doesn’t advertise a brand of cat food!
UPDATE: Here’s a hilarious mashup of the real commercial and Andy.
Everything tastes better home-made, right? This is true of almost everything, but it is especially true when it comes to treats. Cookies straight out of the oven are infinitely more pleasing than the ones straight out of the factory. Foodie website chow.com understands this concept perfectly, and they’ve put together a small collection of recipes which take the standard chocolate candy bar to higher levels.
The article suggests that you should give the store-bought stuff to the kids in costumes and make these fancy takes on classic treats for yourself. After all, most children are taught to avoid eating handmade treats anyway, but these bars sound perfect to serve at a Halloween party. CHOW even offers wrapper templates that you can print out for each bar, which is a nice touch.
The simplest recipe they have is for the peanut butter cup, which requires a mini-muffin tin to help form those delectably deep shapes and suggests mixing in graham cracker crumbs with the peanut butter filling to create that wonderfully crisp texture. For the really adventurous, there’s the DIY take on the Snickers bar, Snickles. That recipe includes mixing your own nougat filling and caramel. Of course, any DIY project takes a lot of time and effort, but the rewards (including a whopping 24 servings of each bar!) make it all worthwhile.
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It’s that time of year again, when strange creatures roam around in the dark searching for sugary snacks at strangers’ homes. Ah, I love Halloween! Do you go all-out for the holiday, or is it just an excuse to buy more bags of candy than could ever be devoured by the neighborhood kids just so you’ll have enough Fun Size bars to last you through Christmas? We at Candy Addict want to hear your plans for the best candy holiday ever, and how you pass out candy to the trick or treaters.
Myself, I’m a big fan of the goodie bag, and I stick a nice variety of chocolate (classic Fun Size Bars and M&M’s packs) and hard, sour candies like Jolly Ranchers. I also like putting in a Halloween-themed sticker or a toy in each one.
What do you do for the holiday? Do you dare buy full-sized candy bars from the big box stores instead? I can see how your house could get very popular, very quickly. But think of the expense!
I’ve got one tip: please don’t be the one house that gives out boxes of raisins. It’s just not worth the ridicule.
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Maybe the whole Mentos + Diet Coke craze is well-worn. Candy Addict’s first post about this phenomenon dates back to October of 2005. In Internet historical reckoning, that’s around the same time as the extinction of the dinosaurs. Even the Mythbusters got into the act, exploring the scientific principles that govern the geyser.
Now ThinkGeek, the Web’s premier destination for all things nerdy, is selling a special kit which will let backyard Mythbusters conduct experiments of their own. For $19.99, the Great Geysers Kit includes a specially-designed quick-release tube, allowing folks to add Mentos down the neck of the bottle without having to flee for their lives afterwards. It even comes with two tubes of Mentos, so the only thing you need to provide is the two liter bottle of soda. Result: Fun and sticky science!
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So nice they named it twice. That’s not the official word from Sweet Sweet Confections, but it should be! I was really eager to see what this company had to offer because they’re located in San Jose, California, just a stone’s throw (well, maybe a stone’s throw plus another stone’s trebuchet pull) from my home. It’s great to see a local company featured on Candy Addict, so I was hoping that Sweet Sweet Confections wouldn’t disappoint.
The Smores Bars are billed on the website as “Our signature graham crackers topped with a delicious marshmallow and hand dipped in luscious milk chocolate.” They don’t spare any expense in creating this treat. All the components are handmade, and it definitely tastes that way.
The graham cracker had this great, fresh-baked quality that I found wonderfully surprising. It’s not crisp like the store-bought ones; it’s fairly chewy, almost cookie-like in consistency. I found this strange at first, but then I realized how well this chewiness melded with the marshmallow. The milk chocolate coating had a nice snap when I bit into it which really complemented the softness of the cracker and the marshmallow.
What really impressed me, however, was the ingredients list on the back of the package. For example, here’s what their marshmallows are made of:
Sugar, water, gelatin, vanilla extract, salt.
That’s it. How can something so simple turn out so wonderful? I guess it goes back to the simple pleasure of a S’more itself: chocolate, graham cracker, marshmallow. Easy to pack, easy to make, extremely easy to eat. Maybe the simple things are the best after all. And I didn’t even miss the melted gooeyness that’s usually one of the highlights of eating S’mores fresh from an open fire.
Smores Bars are a neat gourmet take on a campfire classic, and if you’re a fan of the real thing, you really should give these offerings a try. My only qualm with these is the packaging. Alas, they only come three to a bag, and those three left me wanting so much s’more.
Editor’s note: I received some of these too and they are indeed delicious. My favorite part is that they aren’t too sweet. The chocolate doesn’t overpower the marshmallow or graham cracker and the resulting combination is close to perfect.
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Putting words on candy isn’t a new concept. We’ve already mentioned conversation hearts, personalized M&Ms, and even chocotelegrams. For those who crave something different for their Valentines there’s even BitterSweets, with sayings like “SETTLE 4 LESS” and “PRENUP OKAY?”.
But, you say, those are just for Valentine’s Day. What if I need to send an edgy message after February 14th? Well, maybe Embittermints are for you. With words like “Bite Me” or “You Suck,” Embittermints are, according to the official website, “the perfect gift for sworn enemies, annoying door-to-door solicitors, and anyone who rubs you the wrong way. You can give them to the one you love, or at least the one you used to.” The words are clearly pressed into each mint, so each message comes in loud and clear.
I felt kind of weird popping one of these Pez-sized mints (”Idiot,” it read) into my mouth. Giving this to sworn enemies? Did something evil lurk beneath the strong, minty flavor? Would I keel over backwards? Would I be overcome with a sense of terror? But nothing like that happened. They’re pretty much standard mints: not chalky, and similar in texture and flavor to Certs. They’re good, but nothing spectacular.
I really like these mints as a concept, though. Goodness knows there are a lot of mint tins vying for people’s attention already, and Embittermints is unique enough to push past the rest. Get them for your favorite obnoxious individual, but I would first make sure that their sense of humor is still intact… or that you’re three states away when they open the tin.
Embittermints are available for $2.50 per tin at select New York specialty retailers or from the Embittermints website.
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Candy bouquets taste better than flower ones. I suppose you could eat flower petals and leaves, but regular decorative plants are yucky. Heed my warning; I know this from personal experience. Candy bouquets, though, are a unique and sweet gift, and they’re surprisingly simple to make.
DIY Wedding Bouquet site Visions of Silk offers easy to follow instructions on how to create your own candy bouquet out of Chupa Chups lollipops (excellent choice of lolly, by the way), a few silk flowers and leaves, thin gauge wire, tape, and ribbon. It doesn’t look difficult at all, and could make a great keepsake for the Candy Addict in your life.
Or you can just have a great excuse to buy and eat tons and tons of candy.
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The rising price of corn has hit some farmers hard, so they need to get more creative with animal feed. Farmers like Albert Smith, from Sampson County North Carolina, has started to add trail mix with his pigs’ usual diet of corn meal. He says the pigs are quite fond of their new diet, adding that “they prefer trail mix with M&M’s.” (Who doesn’t, really?)
Now I’m curious about how this pork might taste. Sure the feed is only 5 percent trail mix (and only a part of that trail mix is made up of M&Ms), but chocolate-fed pigs might give rise to something unprecedented in culinary history: chocolate-flavored pork. Can you imagine apple-smoked bacon with a hint of chocolate? Or ham? (If you are interested in the chocolate and bacon combo, try chocolate-covered bacon or Pork Chocs).
Homer Simpson once dubbed the pig “a magical animal.” Amen, Homer. Amen.
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China is the world’s fastest growing economy, and the unfortunate source of problematic food exports lately. But no one can deny this country’s creativity when it comes to candy. Witness, for example, this simple street food vendor, who creates an elaborate fish lollipop (complete with detailed fins) out of sugar syrup. Using his cooking spoon as a brush, the vendor - though I’m more inclined to call him “artist” - pours the image of a carp onto the work surface, which cools the syrup solid. Add a stick and the snack/art piece is good to go.
July is Harry Potter month. The new movie, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, is coming on the 11th, and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Candy is a huge part of the Harry Potter universe. Chocolate is used to treat the effects of the Dark Arts, and who can ever forget Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans? or the Chocolate Frogs? Of course, Candy Addict has focused on quite a few of the real-life equivalents of these candies, which give us lowly Muggles a taste of the Wizarding World. Here are the real-life Harry Potter candies we have covered here at Candy Addict:
Luckily, you don’t need to plan a trip to Honeydukes to get these, since they’re available the magic-free Muggle way: on the Internet.
Buy Harry Potter candies online:
- at Candy Direct
- at Stupid.com
- at CandyCrate
- at Amazon.com
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