Category Archives: Caramel

Nips Peanut Butter Parfait

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Nips, a brand purchased by international chocolatier Nestle in 1989, have been around since the 1920s. These milk-infused caramels are long-lasting and absolutely delicious, in flavors like butter rum, coffee, mocha, and dulce de leche. Chocolate Parfait and Peanut Butter Parfait have a silky “parfait?? center that melts in your mouth, making the treat truly irresistible. It’s easy to eat one after another, after another. The round, individually wrapped caramels are easy to toss in a candy jar or in your bag.

Peanut Butter Parfait Nips have an interesting consistency—if a Werther’s hard candy and a soft caramel chew produced offspring, this would be it. Nips have a smooth caramel shell that is harder than a chewy candy, but not as soft as the caramels you’d use to melt over caramel apples. Inject a dose of creamy peanut-butter flavor into the center, and you’ll discover all the peanut-buttery goodness after the candy dissolves in your mouth. A 5.5-ounce box of Nips provides a few dozen of these premium candies at a discount-store price. Variety bags are also tempting for candy lovers who can’t make up their minds. Also available in sugar free, Nips are enjoyable to a variety of candy lovers.

I had a middle school teacher who always kept Nips on hand and would occasionally reward her students occasionally with one of these candies. This only happened semi-regularly—my theory is that she just really didn’t want to let them go. Now that my middle school days are long gone and I’ve graduated to adulthood, I can buy my own bag of Nips and chomp on them all day long. But, they always tasted better coming from Mrs. Price’s candy jar. If you try any kind of Nips, try the Peanut Butter Parfait. They are by far the most fulfilling variety that’s just so creamy and different from what other candy brands bring to the table. Pop one in and let it dissolve your cares away.

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Cadbury Caramel Egg

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I used to be anxious about Easter time because I was waiting for the Cadbury Easter Egg to be sold at the corner store. But nowadays, I don’t get excited about that. Now, I get excited about Easter because of the Cadbury Caramel Egg. The Cadbury Caramel Egg took the rich milk chocolate from the regular Cadbury Egg and put a big gob of gooey caramel in the center. The best way to enjoy one of these is to bite off half of the egg to expose the creamy caramel nougat on the inside. Once exposed, you can either put rest of the candy in your mouth or you can do as I like to do – scoop the delicious nougat out of the bottom half of the egg with your tongue. This way, you can savor the creamy nougat taste and still have the rest of the milk chocolate egg to satisfy your sweet tooth. I like the Cadbury Caramel Egg much better than the original because the egg yolk-looking center in the original always seemed weird to me.

The wrapping for the Cadbury Caramel Egg was the first thing I noticed about the candy. The shiny gold foil wrapping automatically draws your attention to the potential goodness once you unwrap it. With spring flowers on the package, it also helps to get your in the mood for the warming spring season.

Another great thing about the Cadbury company, besides its amazing candy, is that they have an awesome interactive website for their customers or potential customers. Visitors to the site can take part in a virtual factory where you can make virtual chocolate and other deserts. Their website also offers a podcast competition that is open to the public. You might also enjoy the wide-variety of e-cards that you can send to friends or the Cadbury themes for desktops and screen savers, including ones where you can splat Cadbury eggs on your screen. Not only is their product fun to eat, but they also give their customers other great resources to have a good time.

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Nestle Grand Turtles White Fudge

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What have we here? The Nestle Grand white Fudge Turtle, a Nestle Signatures treat. I opened up the package to see what looked like a white-chocolate covered Oreo cookie, so I figured we were off to a good start. (That type of Oreo may be one of my favorite things about the Christmas season, so much that I’ve started dipping them myself.) One bite into the turtle, and I was overwhelmed by the flavor of white chocolate. White chocolate is a good taste most of the time, but the thickness of the “white fudge??? as they call it, was overwhelming the rest of the flavors of this candy. And it was really a bit too sweet, if you ask me.

The white chocolate layer surrounds another level of milk chocolate containing caramel, pecans, and cashews all tucked into this 2-inch disc. Because so much chocolate covers the turtle, you can’t see its traditional little legs, made of nuts. Which shouldn’t really matter all that much to chocolate fans. Of this turtle, I’d have to say I’m not that much of a fan. I mean, Nestle does okay on this one, though less white fudge would have made for a better premium candy. I think there was just too much confusion among the many competing tastes or flavors, shooting it’s overall score down a few notches.

Nestle, a Switzerland-based chocolatier, first came to us in 1866. For over a century, they’ve been serving up the goods, but the company today does so much more. Bottled water (Mmm, chocolate water might be nice), milk, coffee, seasonings and pet food make up its diverse product lines. But remarkably, the company got its start in baby foods. The Nestle Grand White Fudge Turtle isn’t for kids—that’s for sure. They would be prone to a sugar rush that could last for days on end. Keep this far from your children, or they are liable to suffer a tummy ache from the sickly sweetness.

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Snickers Cruncher

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I must say that I was somewhat skeptical about trying this new Snickers Cruncher (it’s not really new, but it’s new to me). Seeing as I’m not a big fan of Snickers in general (I’m not a big fan of peanuts or caramel) you can understand my uncertainty. But as soon as I took my first bite, I found myself quickly taking another… and another… and another… Before I knew it, I was down to my last two bites. This incredibly interesting creation has grabbed my attention. Allow me to break it down for you.

The inside contains a most satisfying mixture of crispy rice, not-too-chewy caramel (it’s a perfect consistency that doesn’t cling to your teeth like other kinds), and crunchy peanut chunks.  Though the taste of the peanuts was very distinct, I can’t quite say there was a plethora of peanuts. This is great for me, since I don’t exactly fall head-over-heels for peanut anything; so for all you peanut lovers (I know you’re out there somewhere), your best bet is to stick to the regular Snickers bar.

Alas, don’t turn your back on the Cruncher yet! One thing that really caught my attention about the Cruncher is the texture and consistency of the caramel that holds together the two stars of the show—I’ve gotta give credit to the supporting actor! Because what’s a Snickers without its caramel? The caramel is smooth and creamy, but not so sticky that when you take a bite, the caramel sticks to your teeth (or your dentures). Then there is the chocolate that’s signature of Mars candy bars.

Snickers is currently celebrating over “75 years of Hunger Satisfaction,?? according to their website. And I must say, it’s about time they changed up the recipe. Its new-found crunchiness adds a fresh new twist to the age-old original, and it brings the Snickers name into the picture for the not-quite peanut lovers, like me. By the way, did you know that every day, over 99 tons of roasted peanuts go into making Snickers bars, and each bar contains approximately 16 peanuts!  (www.candydirect.com)

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Sugar Mama Caramels

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Sugar Mama Caramels are small pieces of delicious candy entirely for the caramel lover. This candy doesn’t mess around with fancy mixtures or combinations of flavors, but it just pleases the candy lover with its simplicity and pure caramel taste. One of the great things about these caramels is their softness, which makes it easy to chew without getting a lot of the candy stuck in your teeth. Everybody knows how annoying this can be. Part of its softness is because they use milk caramel rather than straight caramel, which is the same reason milk chocolate is much smoother and easier to chew, too. Being bite-sized is another advantage. You can easily unwrap a Sugar Mama Caramel and put it in your mouth and enjoy the caramel taste explosion for the next 10 minutes or so, depending on if you’re a chewer or a if you prefer to let it dissolve in your mouth so you can savor it longer.

The Sugar Mama Caramels come from a family of already existing caramel favorites that include Sugar Babies and, you guessed it, Sugar Daddy caramels. The Sugar Babies product began being manufactured in 1935 as a smaller and easier version of the popular Sugar Daddy candy, which was basically a caramel lollipop on a stick. The Sugar Daddy was created by a confectioner named James Welch in 1925 when it was originally referred to as the Papa. It began being manufactured a few years later and this idea gave birth (so to speak) to the Sugar Babies a few years after that. Now, the candy is distributed by the Tootsie Rolls Industries and it has been a favorite of candy lovers for a long time.

You can go to your favorite candy store and buy these tasty treats. You might be able to find them individually and buy just a few of them, but if it was me, I’d want to buy an entire bag that contains about 60 pieces. Heck, I might even want to buy a few bags. I’m a caramel lover, though. And Sugar Mama Caramels cater to my caramel loving taste buds. You can even go online to your favorite candy website and buy Sugar Mama Caramels there. 

 

100 Hundred Grand Bar

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I can think of 100 reasons to eat this candy bar, but will only list five: 1) Those great crisped rice “crunchies.??? 2) Chewy caramel. 3) Every pack comes with two, like Reese’s cups. 4) They used to be called $100,000 bars. 5) The taste is worth every penny. If you disagree, talk to Nestle, makers of the candy bar since 1966. I love these chocolate candy bars, mostly for the fact that when you’ve eaten one, you can save the other for later. Or, you can indulge in a second bar without guilt, since they are half the size of a normal candy bar and come two in a pack. The 100 Grand is so much more than a Nestle Crunch bar. In fact, it’s like a Crunch bar wrapped around a delicious caramel center, chopped in two, and packaged in a little red wrapped that screams “buy me.???

According to many sources, pranksters nationwide delight in the 100 Grand bar and its name, which has gotten people into all kinds of trouble. Picture yourself as a radio station contest winner. You scream, drop the phone, and start to dance and sway in some strange version of an NFL victory dance. You prize package is a hundred grand. You’ve already made a spastic fool of yourself on the air, and in front of loved ones, colleagues, and strangers. Some time later, you find out that your prize is nothing more than a candy bar. It’s risky enough to pull this trick on a child, but try it on an adult, and you’re likely to get a law suit slapped on you. Yes, this really happened when a radio contest winner sued a Kentucky DJ in 2005 for leading her to believe she would win her reward in cash, not candy. It was all in the name of fun and chocolate.

Milk Duds

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Milk Duds have been around since 1928. The candy got the silly name because the original idea was to have perfectly round milk chocolate covered caramel pieces. Soon realizing that this was impossible, the confectionery company began calling the project a “dud???. The little caramel candies were soon eaten by employees, relatives and friends and jokingly they would say that these were the best “duds??? they’d ever had. It caught on and before they knew it, “Milk Duds??? were flying off the candy store shelves. They are also called “milk??? duds due to the large amount of milk used to make both the caramel and chocolate portions of the candy.

Duds or not, these little babies are tasty! I love the combination of caramel and chocolate and the makers of Milk Duds have perfected it. They still use a similar version of the original recipe, too, which calls for lots of fresh milk, sugar and the best milk chocolate. This is another nostalgic candy that will probably outlive me and outside of new recipes for improving freshness and shelf-life, I’m happy that they have not altered the recipe I have come to know and love since childhood. Milk Duds are a chewy, creamy, chocolaty treat that are fun to suck on and chew. They were said to pull out fillings if you are not careful, but personally, I think that is an old wives’ tale. Plus, I don’t have any fillings, so I’m not concerned! Milk Duds are a simple, classic candy that will never go out of style – combining two great flavors, the sweetness of the chocolate mixed with the smooth, creamy caramel, make for a taste sensation. I’ll eat these little “duds??? anyday!

Kit Kat Caramel

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Give me a break, give me a break, break me off a piece of that-GET YOUR OWN! THIS IS A ONCE IN A LIFETIME EXPERIENCE! Kit Kat has lost their minds! They have done something I never could have seen coming! Not only have they gigantasized their already infallible Kit Kat bar, but they have surgically implanted a creamy, gooey, tasty layer of caramel that flows through the bar like blood coursing through your veins. Pumping and pumping as if your heart is about to explode like a gladiator match inside the Colosseum fighting for your life, with wild Bengal tigers nipping at your heals. Spears of iron being thrown at your head. In the blazing hot summer sun at the height of the Roman Empire. It’s as though this bar has come to life, with one mission. To seek you out and destroy you!

This is nothing like I have tasted before. Expecting the usual dried up, pay less money for more bars assembly line taste that most other candy bars sell out for. The Kit Kat says nay, I have come for a much more prized possession, your soul! Besting all other so-called “caramel??? candy chocolate bars, the Kit Kat stands far above the competition with it’s true to name “caramel??? filling. But here’s the rub. That’s the only thing that they have done. Simply injected a layer of caramel. That’s it. There’s really nothing else to the Kit Kat Caramel bar. But that’s why it’s so brilliant. Because they have done what no other could. They have mastered the art of caramel. So forget everything else you know about caramel chocolate bars, and go pick up the new Kit Kat Caramel.

SUGAR DADDY CARAMEL POPS

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Sugar Daddy caramel pops are the fun-to-eat treat on a stick. They are known for their long-lasting flavor and chewy texture. They are an oldie but goodie, created in 1925 by the James O. Welch candy company it was then called the “Papa???. The product was designed as a rich, long-lasting milk caramel bar, served on a stick for easy handling. In 1932, the name was changed to “Sugar Daddy??? to suggest that the candy would give you a “wealth of sweetness???. Since then, the Sugar Daddy has become well known to kids and adults of all generations, making it a nostalgic and beloved candy and to this day, Sugar Daddy pops continue to deliver their long-lasting caramel enjoyment.

Sugar Daddy caramel pops remind me of summertime and my youth. When I was young, I used to visit my aunt in Ohio. She bought Sugar Daddy’s and other nostalgic treats of her youth at a nearby drugstore and kept them on hand for us kids and if I remember correctly, herself as well! We used to run around her backyard in our bathing suits, jumping through the sprinklers, climbing trees and playing freeze tag. She’d always bring out her jar of treats and let us choose one from the mix. I, being the smart cookie that I am, always chose the Sugar Daddy’s. They were creamy, delicious, sticky and lasted for FOREVER. I could run around all day with that one bar and barely make a dent in it. My hands were sticky for hours afterwards and I’m sure I was the target of every ant and bee within twenty miles of the place, but man oh man, was it worth it!o. and c

 

Rolos

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“Do you love someone enough to give them your last Rolo???? This is the slogan that has graced Rolo packages for years. So I come to you, candy kids, to ask you the very same question. Do you love someone enough to give them your last Rolo? Now for me, the answer is simple, I love the Good Doctor with all my heart, so I would gladly give him my last Rolo. And chances are he’d half it with me. But anyone else? No way, Jose! Rolos are chewy, chocolaty little morsels that I like to eat one by one. Gulp…gone!

Rolos are chocolate covered caramels. When you bite into them, the gooey golden center stares at you like a great, golden eye. You feel like you have been given a rare gift. In fact, each little Rolo is like a little treasure. A cylindrical wheel of chocolaty treasure chest goodness that is filled to the brim with rich, caramel-y sweetness. Rolos are a great candy for sharing, as they come seven to a tube. An odd number, yes, but a good one nonetheless. They are individually wrapped in gold foil which just further enhances my “treasure chest??? analogy. The milk chocolate is sweet and soft while the caramel center is chewy and just plain delicious. Rolos are truly a taste treat, if you don’t believe me, try them for yourself. But save me one, would ya?