candy

Recipes

• Mendiants
  Petite chocolate bites with nuts and fruit
• Lemon Drop
  A candy store classic goes alcoholic
• Candied Angelica
  No, not candied Angelina!
• Charles Chocolates Bittersweet Chocolate Truffles
  Rich treats in cocoa packages
• Honey Nougat
  A chewy, nutty honey-flavored candy
• Charles Chocolates S’mores
  A recipe that's become a staff favorite
• Sticky Peanut Cookie Bars
  Layers of peanuts, caramel, and chocolate
• Double Chocolate–Caramel Cookies
  Thumbprint cookies filled with caramel candies
• Chocolate Toffee Pumpkin Seed Bark
  With a pinch of cayenne
• Licorice Ice Cream
  For anise-lovers only
• Twixt
  Cookie crust and gooey caramel covered in milk chocolate
• Peanut Butta Cups
  Crunchy peanut filling covered in milk chocolate
• Almond Jay
  Coconut and almond filling dipped in milk chocolate
• Snickles
  Nougat and peanut caramel covered in milk chocolate
• Frito Candy
  

Grinders

• Make mine a double
  Celeb pastry chef David Lebovitz has just invented Shallot, Beer, Prune, and Cocoa Nib Jam, a recipe articulated in delicious detail. I couldn't agree more with his glowing assessment of the beer-c...
• If You Can't Beat Them ...
  What do the nutritionists, dentists, and other health advocates pass out on Halloween night? Inquiring minds (and the L. A. Times) want to know.
• Don't Leave Home Without It
  Wherever you roam, don't forget to check Chocomap first.
• Gifting 2006: New York Reprazent!
  New York magazine is frontin' chocolate and pork for this year's foodie-friendly holiday gifts.
• Overachievement, in Chocolate Form
  Remember those students in school who couldn’t be content with simply completing the assignment—they had to outshine everyone else? Well, this month’s food-blogger event, Sugar High Fridays, ...
• The Chocolate Wars
  With a brand-spanking-new M&M's World retail store opening in New York's Times Square, the chocolate wars may be heating up again.
• Valentine's Day Yummies
  The people speak up for chocolates, cinnamon Red Hots, and other seasonal treats.
• Peeps: Now With Even More Preservatives!
  Don't eat too many of the new sugar-free Peeps unless you're within sprinting distance of a toilet.
• Taxation Without Nougatization
  New Hampshire has thoughts of imposing a candy tax.
• Where My Peeps At?
  Easter's just around the corner—time to make your own marshmallow chicks!
• Good Taste in Advertising
  London gets the world's first edible billboard, but it doesn't last long.
• Licked
  In yet another bizarre food vid, two people lick a huge candy to death.
• Candy: The New Sleeping Pill
  The Los Angeles Times on the myth of the sugar high.
• Sugar Psychology
  Steve Almond analyzes your Halloween candy-giving choices.
• The Decline and Fall of "Trick or Treat"
  The online comic Achewood tees off on changing norms among those who reward trick-or-treaters.
• The Second Ingredient Is Usually Whipped Cream
  Norway's sellers of edible sex products have been encouraged to take more care in labeling their wares.
• Thwarting the Candy Bandit
  A thief finds out that stealing a three-foot-tall M&M's statue is not as easy as taking candy from a baby.
• Mars Eats Wrigley's
  It's a never-ending gob-stopper of a deal, creating the world's largest candy company.

Picks

• Toffee-rific
  Toffee that even a dentist can love.
• The Easter Bunny Rings Twice
  Cadbury Creme Eggs available now!
• Tongue-Tingling Lollies
  You're not hallucinating—that's absinthe.
• Mademoiselle de Margaux Le Raisin
  Revelatory chocolate-covered fruit.
• Charles Chocolates
  Good even if you don't like chocolate.
• PimpThatSnack
  When you crave a meter-long Twix.

Stories

• What’s in the Bag, Kid?
  A very special Halloween episode of our man-on-the-street series
• Barcelona Exotic Candy Bar
  Candy à la mode
• Kakawa Cocoa Beans
  Chocolate-covered magic
• Lobmeyr Candy Dishes
  Oompa, loompa, doopatee-doo
• Candy Matching Game
  Find the jellybeans
• Candy Bars Worth Crossing State Lines For
  A field guide to great American treats
• Candy’s Black Sheep
  Black licorice won’t satisfy your sweet tooth, but you might like it anyway
• Sweet or Salty?
  Black licorice can go both ways
• Elvis Cups and Sopranos Soda
  Pop with a bang
• Make Your Own Halloween Candy Bars
  Corner-store sweets go high-end
• How to Temper Chocolate
  Get the perfect gloss and snap
• What Is Nougat?
  It’s the candy you love to pronounce
• Country Breakfast Burrito and Hot Tamales Ice
  A mint revamp of an old-school candy
• Winter 2007 Gift Guide
  76 gifts you’ll love
• Crispiness Jihad
  Ben & Jerry’s Cinnamon Buns ice cream, and Nestlé Crunch Crisp bar
• What Does Beige Taste Like?
  Chocolate Mix Skittles and Tea-over-Ice
• Shelf-Stable Ice Cream Float Disaster
  Sunkist and A&W Floats, and the Nestlé “Richer” Bar
• What Shame Looks Like
  100-calorie Hostess coffee cakes, and fruity Tic Tacs