We here at Candy Addict eat a lot of candy. Over the past year, we’ve reviewed over 260 sweets and treats, but only 14 were deemed worthy of our highest honor: the CandyAddict.com Awesomely Addictive Candy Award, an award given to candies that truly stand out as being the best of the best. We don’t give this award lightly: this is the Gold Medal of Candy, and is only given to those delicious sweets that earn it.

This year’s list includes something for everyone, in every price range, so if you’re looking for a great candy gift, this list is an excellent place to start. From chocolates to chews to sweet to sour to fancy to simple, we’ve got you covered. Every candy on this list is quite different from the next, but they all have one thing in common: they are Awesomely Addictive.

• 100 Calorie Bars- Hershey’s Crisp Wafer Bar
• Japanese Candy: Super Lemon
• Pucchoco Almond and Chocolate
• Nestle Heaven Bars
• M&M’s Premiums
• Wonka Tinglerz
• Popsters- Covered Mini Popcorn Balls
• Toffifay
• Giant Chewy Nerds (Nerds Bumpy Jellybeans)
• Reese’s Peanut Butter Egg
• Chocolate Dipped Strawberries From The Chocolate Covered Company
• Delacre Crepes au Chocolat
• Cinnamon Flavored Fire Twizzlers
• BonBonBar Confections

Despite the proliferation of talented chocolatiers in the world, I rarely feel blown away by the stunning appearance of a product. A lot of candy looks really cool or is a creative, original idea, but the Mori Ex Cacao (Death by Chocolate) Gift Set sold at Valerie Confections is fascinatingly, macabrely beautiful.

The gift set includes three skulls nestled in an upscale black package, and each skull (at least from what I can see in the picture) looks frightening realistic and intricately crafted. The flavors sound fantastic, too: Scorched Caramel; Bitter Brandied Cherry; and Curious Chili.

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These are the best candies we have reviewed from the past year. We have written 191 candy reviews so far in 2007 and only 15 of them earned our Candy Addict Awesomely Addictive Award.

The list below is a list of those 15 candies that earned our highest honor. Some are a little expensive, and some are cheap, so there should be something on the list for everyone’s budget. (The list is in the order that we reviewed them this year.)

• Vertigo – Candy & Chocolate Flavored Pops
• Caffe Acapella Coffee Bars
• Meiji Rich Strawberry Bar
• Amano’s Single-Origin Dark Chocolate Bars
• KitKat iStick
• Chocolates from Ms. Chocolate
• Route 29 Napa Candies
• Chocolate Covered Potato Chips and Popcorn from Sugar Plum
• Pretzel Pete Chocolate Peanut Butter Pretzel Gems
• Dark Chocolate Peanut M&M’s
• Strawberry 3 Musketeers
• Twix Java
• Nestle Crunch Crisp
• Chuao ChocoPods
• sweetriot

holiday, gift

I previously reviewed the chocolate-covered cacao nibs from sweetriot and they were so good I gave them our coveted Candy Addict Awesomely Addictive Award. They are truly delicious. For the holidays, sweetriot has launched a new Santa Gift Bag that includes one of each of their flavor 50, flavor 65, and flavor 70 for $16.99. You can save 10% any online purchases with the coupon code rioting.

The sweetriot Santa Gift Bag would be a perfect gift for a chocolate lover in your life.

• sweetriot Santa Gift Bag
• sweetriot home page
• our sweetriot review

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