Lately the chocolate candy market is seeing more and more low calorie, low fat options. This includes promoting an existing recipe like 3 Musketeers as lower fat when compared to other candy bars, launching snack packs or even producing a whole new formula with less sugar. Today, we’re going to break down Mars’ Caramel Twix [...]

You may or may not heard by now about all the hubbub surrounding the new Hershey chocolate formula which includes vegetable oil over cocoa butter. What this substitution means is that the chocolate is no longer “milk chocolate” but “chocolate candy.” The reason behind this switch is what it always is: money. Vegetable oil is [...]

I am a huge fan of Wether’s Original toffees, it’s one of two candies I ever will pick out from a candy dish on display. The smooth buttery texture and the sweet milky flavor leaves me sucking on the treat until the last sliver is gone. I never chew a Wether’s.

Well today I had no [...]

After having sample Frey’s White Blueberry, I felt it was a move in the right direction to another white chocolate candy confection. A trip to Target later and I am sniffing the next offering from Frey.
It smells great. It reminds me of See’s Chocolates Key Lime Truffle, which is a sweet and sour white chocolate [...]

What better way to live life than to combine two things so great in nature? Chocolate and beer.
Technically speaking, most “chocolate” beers do not actually have chocolate in them per se. What gives the beer that chocolately flavor is when the beer is brewed from a darker, more aromatic malt, commonly called chocolate malt. And [...]

Celebrities like to plaster their face or name on everything as we all know. Sometimes the endorsements work, sometimes they make sense- celebrity chefs have their lines of cookware, sauces and books, actresses have their perfume and clothing lines, sports celebrities have rackets, balls and shoes attached to their name. But sometimes the promotional thing, [...]