Candy Blog Talk

REINDEER FOOD COOKIE BOWLS.

2009-11-07T17:19:33-08:00

THESE ARE GRAHAOM CRACKERS COOKIES THAT LOOK LIKE RENIDEER PELLETS . ANYONW KNOW WHERE I CAN BUY THEM SINGLELY?

Help me figure out what this gum is!

2009-11-06T14:47:50-08:00

Please help me! I remember a package of gumballs, smaller, not large, in the early-ish 90’s that looked and tasted like normal gumballs, but one of them was spicy! They were like a trick and sometimes there were more than one trick gumball in a package, but you couldn’t tell which one was the trick one. It was almost like eating a handful of black pepper. Similar to a pepper flavored Bertie Bott’s Every Flavour Bean…..can anyone tell me what the name of this gum was? It’s driving me crazy!!!!!

Thanks!

Name that GERMAN Candy!!!

2009-11-05T23:25:16-08:00

Hi all,

I grew up in Germany in the late ‘70s. We used to visit a candy store in Ansbach. I am trying to figure out what two of the types of candy they sold were.

The first was a sour candy with a consistancy of a sugar cube (it kind of melted away in your mouth). It was about 1"x.75"x.5” and wraped in a plastic wrapper. For a while, these candies had Smurf characters on the wrapper. They came in a few different flavors. I can remember orange, lemon, and grape… might have been more.

Ok, the second candy looked almost exactly like paper. Yeah, paper. It was ultra thin and about 8.5"x11” (no idea what the real measurement was but lets say it was a thin rectangle). It came in multiple colors but (if I remember correctly) the color did not really change the taste. Over all they tasted sort of bland rather then real sweet. You could tear it or bite it but it was flexible sort of wafer-ish. You would buy it by the sheet. Unwrapped.

Please help. Leave a post here or write direct at eyeinthesky57 at gunclangaming dot com

Thanks a ton.

Sugar Babies

2009-11-03T19:34:58-08:00

I just joined today, so hello to all.

I bought a book several years back about making candies, and have never had any time to make them. But of late I’ve been thinking about the book again.
I always like to ‘play’ with the recipes too, to try and make them my own, often to try and duplicate the flavor of something from my past.
So tonight I started thinking of when we used to go to the movie theatre (as children) and ‘Sugar Babies’... the sugary, gritty texture that melted in your mouth after a few moments, and that half-crunchy sugared shell…yum!
The taste I remembered reminded me a bit of toffee, but softer of course, and with a tad of chocolate.
Here’s what I came up with:
(PS: My candy thermometer had humidity somehow get in and ruined the degree-chart, so did it by water-test)

Sugar Babies (insides)

*1 cup butter
*1 cup light brown sugar, slightly packed
*1 tsp. Hershey’s Chocolate Syrup

Melt the butter and light brown sugar in small saucepan, stirring occasionally. let it boil, then stir more often. After it is boiling well, (4-5 mins) add the chocolate syrup. I began testing a string in water about a minute afterwards, and it took another 3 or 4 minutes to get the soft, gooey consistency i was looking for.
Spread on buttered wax paper on chilled cookie sheet, spread out and chill in refrigerator a few minutes.

*Note: I got very close to the taste I was looking for, an instant reminder of sugar babies as soon as it hit my tongue!
But now I’d love YOUR HELP!
Can someone with more experience than I take this a step further and help me think of a way to make the shell that coats them? And any ideas on making them the shape of the sugar baby too.
Thanks to all,
A

A Candy "Rap" Song

2008-10-13T07:46:14-08:00

Here is a little rap/song that I made about candy. I love candy and had to express it in some other way than eating it Check it out, it is pretty “sweet” Let me know what you all think! Thanks alot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-niXDr6ymJg

Jcubed

Bazooka madness!

2009-11-03T09:08:28-08:00

have you ever been completely crazy because you were desperate for a bazooka? i have! thats why i keep a stash of bazooka for emergencies and im almost gone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Violet Candy!!!

2009-09-26T00:15:31-08:00

Hey everybody!

I’m looking for some violet candy, I know that you can find it in Sweden ( called Violpistoler) but they have changed the recipe , so the taste is not the same as before! Is there someone who could help me to find violet candy ( soft candy )?? Thanx

Holiday Dots…

2009-08-26T11:48:46-08:00

It almost seems too early but my grocery store had Bat and Ghost Dots as well as Candy corn dots…

At first taste, they are pretty good, but will check them after work to see how they are after the wrapper comes off the box.

poprock explosion!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2009-11-03T08:27:20-08:00

i dont really like pop rocks so instead i stick the whole pack into a water bottle and listen to them pop! every one around the lunch table in the cafeteria at my school are amazed putting the water bottle up to there ear and stuff!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oddest candy you’ve found

2009-01-15T16:05:39-08:00

I’m not trying to dis candy companies, but I like the odd candies somewhat. Though with that thought I actually thought it would be cool to share odd candies we find. I think it would be kind of sweet. (No pun intended)

I’ll give you and example. Yesterday (1/14/09) I happened to come across a chocolate bar with bacon in it. First I thought it was a flavor, but apparently it has bacon in it. Though I almost bought it to try I went with three other candies.

(Lindt Postachio, and raspberry, and peanut butter pillows, a.k.a golden crunchies)

I did constitute one flavor of Ritter Sport because it said “New better tasting flavor”.... something along those lines. Though I need to look back at the review to that one.