Candy Blog

1. I really like this feature!  Its neat to see some extra candy news and to see the reviews summed up.  Thanks!

   Comment by Kimberly on 7/25/07 at 7:37 am

    

2. It’s too bad some candy is forgotten. In the 40’s there was a candy bar named “Welch’ Rum Frappe”.  It was chocolate covered rum flavored fudge with raisins.  I have searched the internet trying to find it. Do you have ANY information?  The rum cordials you mention sound good, but have never seen them.

   Comment by Shirley Fischer on 7/25/07 at 5:38 pm

    

3. Kimberly - I’m glad you like it!

   Shirley - Welch’s used to make Poms, Sugar Babies, Sugar Daddy and Junior Mints as well as a few different fudge bars including the Welch’s Frappe.

   The company was later sold to Nabisco who then sold it to Tootsie.

   Though I don’t remember the bar, I think the closest thing you’ll find would be something at a classic candy shop. See’s makes a Rum Nougat that has cherries and a pretty intense rum flavor but in a chewy nougat, not fudge.

   Ritter Sport, a German chocolate bar company, makes something called Rum Trauben Nuss or Rum, Raisins and Hazelnuts that has 2% rum in it! Again, not fudge, but the rum-ness is quite good. I’ve seen the Ritter Sport bars at Cost Plus World Market and some upscale grocers in the candy aisles.

   Comment by Cybele on 7/25/07 at 5:48 pm

    

4. The Welch’s Frappe bar was last seen in the 1960’s. I remember the wrapper was a light pinkish-purple and cream color, and the bar itself resembled a Hollywood bar, only much more slender. The icing was white, and the fudge & raisins were the next best thing to heaven.  They always cost me a dime in the machines, and none of the stores ever had them in stock. I always had to rely on the vending machine guy. I could get a much larger Hollywood bar or a Zero bar at the store for a nickel, but, even at half the size of the others, and twice the price, the Welch’s Frappe bar was worth it, and is sorely missed.

   Comment by Rick French on 8/16/07 at 6:15 am

    

5. Thanks, Rick, for letting me know there is at least ONE person out there who can remember the Welchs’ rum Frappe! I had asked so many people who never heard of it, and I think they thought my memory was failing.  Shirley

   Comment by Shirley Fischer on 8/16/07 at 7:13 am

    

6. Hi Shirley,

   I have been searching for the name of this bar for a long time If we are talking about the same candy bar my recollection of it was a bit different than Rick’s.  I remember it as a dark chocolate covering a rum flavored cream filling that had raisens mixed in.  I remember it as hard to find and a great treat when you did.  I would place it in the 50’s and maybe into the early 60’s.  I also remember it as a great loss of a great and unique taste. Are we thinking in the same line of thought?
   Bob

   Comment by Bob Patterson on 8/23/07 at 12:01 pm

    

7. My family knew the Welch toffee family, really lovely people. Does anyone know where they are now Sylvia, Wilfred and son Paul.? I would love to make contact after so many years of losing touch.  Yvonne

   Comment by Dalton on 8/27/07 at 12:39 am

    

8. The Welch Frappe Bar was definitely dark chocolate covered heaven. I ate a lot of these in my day. I want to try to recreate this candy bar. Any ideas on how to find the recipe?

   Comment by ART DIMATTIA on 11/17/07 at 8:24 pm

    

9. Thanks for your input, Art.  I wish I knew how to find the recipe, too.  Did try once to make some fudge with raisins and rum flavoring, but it didn’t taste right. I agree it was dark chocolate coated. For a time, T thought my memory was failing me. I’ve tried to check internet to see if there’s still a Welchs’ candy factory.  But no leads.

   Comment by Shirley Fischer on 11/17/07 at 8:47 pm

    

10. Thanks Shirley for your response.

    I applaud that you tried to make the filling. Of course the chocolate coating would be easy. The rum-raisin fudge is a definite challenge.

    I came across a recipe that I saved but haven’t had time to make. You may want to try it. Go to hugs.org and the recipe is listed in the index as rum-raisin fudge. Maybe this is different from the one you used. I can still remember the taste of this wonderful candy bar. They also made an excellent chocolate fudge bar. If we could only find the original recipes! Art

    Comment by ART DIMATTIA on 11/18/07 at 7:41 am

     

11. My mother has been looking for the Frappe.  We thought we just couldn’t find it.  She is so disappointed that it is not made any longer.  She is 85 years old and wants to have just one more taste of this delicious candy bar.  I think we should all continue to find out about this candy bar.  Surely there is someone who knows the recipe and this bar can be made again.
    Cathy of Charleston, SC

    Comment by Cathy Blanchard on 12/30/07 at 3:58 pm

     

12. I WOULD BUY RUM FRAPPE BARS WHEN I WENT TO SATURDAY NATINEES AT VARIOUS MOVIE THEATRES IN DETROIT IN THE THE 1940S, INCLUDING YHR DEXTER AND RIVIERA.IT WAS A GREAT CANDY BAR WITH A CHOCALATE COATING AND DELICIOUS RUM FLAVORED CREAM FILLING WITH RAISINS. THE BEST CANDY I EVER ATE, I STILL REMEMBER THE TASTE.

    Comment by FLOYD RAPPAPORT on 1/01/08 at 2:05 am

     

13. I grew up in the Boston area and absolutely loved those Frappe bars, which I remember as costing a nickle (then a dime), being dark colored with raisins, and the most delicious candy bar ever made, bar none! I have been hunting online for the correct name of it for years. This was the early 60s.

    Comment by Winifred Sherman on 1/21/08 at 9:17 am

     

14. I grew up in southern California and bought Welch’s Rum Frappe all the time - the store quit carrying them because they said “It attracted ants”. I’ve never seen them again and OH SO MISS THEM!!!!!

    Comment by Jo Hoogestraat on 1/28/08 at 12:39 pm

     

15. I can still see that gold & red wrapper in the candy section of some of the stores I used to find this delicious candy bar. My father introduced me to this candy and would sometimes bring home a few bars. There was a drugstore on Broadway and 157th St. (Manhattan) that used to stock them because a group of us, adults as well used to buy them out. I wish I could find the recipe or a candy company that could make that candy bar.

    Comment by Jim Cummins on 4/01/08 at 6:36 am

     

16. My mother would send me to the store when I was a kid in the 60’s and have me get her a Frappe bar or a Fudge bar.  I had my share and remember them well--to die for.  I also remember when all candy bars were a nickel.  The machine in my office just went up to 95 cents.

    Comment by lawtoc on 5/08/08 at 2:12 pm

     

17. I continue trying to find more about them, but suppose it’ll just have to remain a memory. One site said Nestles purchased the Welchs’ Candy Co., but when I wrote them, they knew nothing. Did suggest trying a recipe using marshmallows and
    melted butterscotch chips, but it’s not the same.
    Even if they were still around, they’d probably be much smaller and cost lots more.

    Comment by Shirley Fischer on 5/08/08 at 2:44 pm

     

18. My favorite candy bar of all time -Welch’s Frappe
    contrary to a comment made above, I don’t recall any white icing on it . It was a choc. bar with rum flavoring and choc with rasins . Does anyone know if it is even available ANYWHERE ?
    Glad to hear from so many Welch’s Frappe lovers !

    Comment by chip on 7/16/08 at 10:34 am

     

19. I remember getting welch’s frappe at Howard
    Johnson’s the only place I could find it. But I
    thought it was a chocolate raspberry bar. Maybe
    they made some different types. But it has been
    50 years so it might have been rum raisin. But
    boy I miss them and would buy a case if I could
    find them. Of course I said the same when I find
    all chocolate Neccos and I did buy a small box of
    24 rolls. I ate 5 rolls, got sick and give the
    rest to my grandkids. Live and learn!

    Comment by greg thompson on 8/07/08 at 12:34 pm

     

20. I can remember buying Rum Frappes before WWII. I used to get them from the First National Stores.
    They were a nickel a piece, three for a dime. My Grandmother gave me a dollar for my birthday and I went right down to buy my favorite treat. I told the groceryman I wanted a whole dollars worth. He told me to come back in a couple of days. Sure enough, I returned and I got three whole boxes of 12 bars apiece. I was in tooth decay heaven. I had gone through I think about five bars when my mother found my store of candy. She took them away, saying something about sugar diabetes, never to be seen again. God, I miss my Rum Frappes.

    Comment by Bob Folsom on 9/03/08 at 4:29 am

     

21. Bob, do you have diabetes, or did your Mother just think you’d get it if you ate all them?
    Wonder what happened to them after she took them.
    I don’t remember the bars before WW2. It was just after it was over that I discovered them.But
    they were Soooo good!

    Comment by Shirley Fischer on 9/03/08 at 6:52 am

     

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