Yummy yummy candy.

[lezzie82]

This is a candy related thread, warning in case you need to grab a piece before reading haha.

What do you get from the minute market should you find yourself somehow wondered over to the candy aisle?

What's your all time favorite "gourmet" or even homemade candy?

If I'm in a gas station I grab sweet tarts and nerds if they have them. Sometimes a nerds rope.

My favorite gourmet is Kilwin's. It's sooooo good. There is also a cult status place on the historic Boardwalk in Daytona FL called Zenos. They have THE best saltwater taffy in the entire world. It comes in hundreds of flavored, takes up a whole wall of pick and choose taffies. And they also do an amazing fudge that comes in crazy flavored like dark chocolate raspberry.....anything fudge you cold think of. So good.

[snapdragon]

I keep thinking I should get something different, but if I'm just spontaneously picking a candy bar from the supermarket or gas station I go for the Snickers 100% of the time.

[veenie]

Gas station: hot tamales

Gourmet: I am not sure if this place is still there, but there is a shop in Old Sacramento that has the most amazing home made caramel. The caramel apples are to die for!

[lgsdesigner]

Gas station: Junior Mints or Twix Bar

Gourmet: Godiva dark chocolate truffles.

[mrstwiddy]

OMG! Gas station I usually go skittles or m&ms.....

Gourmet? Gotta have the Godiva truffles. I'm obsessed and I only get them for special occasions like Valentines or an anniversary, so I really look forward to them!!

[amelandre]

Gas station: Reese's cups

Gourmet: I make the best homemade caramels. Not to toot my own horn too loud, but they are the best ones I've ever had. I only do them at Christmas though, or I'd weigh 600 lbs.

[shmee]

Gas station - Caramellos are my favorite ever. But not everywhere has them, so I'll accept a Milky way or Rolos as a substitute. As long as there's chocolate and caramel, I'm in.

Gourmet - Gonna have to say sponge candy

[shmee]

lezzie82 where is Zeno's? I'm very familiar with Daytona but I've never heard of it and now I feel like I'm missing out!

[mpiemont]

What do you get from the minute market should you find yourself somehow wondered over to the candy aisle? 3 Musketeers or a York Peppermint Patty

What's your all time favorite "gourmet" or even homemade candy? Not sure it's "candy" but I make this Saltine toffee and it is TO DIE FOR and super easy

edit- the recipe

Saltine Toffee

Ingredients:
2 sticks of butter
1 Cup of Sugar
1 Sleeve of Saltine Crackers
1 Bag of Chocolate Chips

Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line rimmed cookie sheet with tin foil. Spray foil with non-stick spray. Spread saltines in a single layer, and crimp foil around saltines to fit.
Combine butter and sugar in a pot and bring to a boil. Boil for 3-5 minutes, WITHOUT STIRRING, or until sugar is amber in color.
Pour sugar mixture over the saltines and spread evenly with a heat-proof spatula. This stuff is HOT!
Bake for 8-10 minutes or until bubbly and crackers are lightly golden.
Sprinkle chocolate chips over hot crackers and allow to sit until melted. Spread chocolate evenly over crackers.
Refrigerate until firm then break into cookie-sized pieces and enjoy!

VARIATIONS: Switch for brown sugar, use flavored chips like mint chocolate or butterscotch, sprinkle wet chocolate with crushed candy canes or nuts etc!

[beezybaby]

Gas station- If I am driving, gummy octopus. If I am riding shotgun, fun dip. Yes, I am actually a 10 year old posing as an almost mother of 3.

Gourmet- Anything pretty. I am a sucker for fancy looking sweets

[veenie]

Feb 19, 2015 14:43:28 GMT -5 mpiemont said:

What do you get from the minute market should you find yourself somehow wondered over to the candy aisle? 3 Musketeers or a York Peppermint Patty

What's your all time favorite "gourmet" or even homemade candy? Not sure it's "candy" but I make this Saltine toffee and it is TO DIE FOR and super easy

edit- the recipe

Saltine Toffee

Ingredients:
2 sticks of butter
1 Cup of Sugar
1 Sleeve of Saltine Crackers
1 Bag of Chocolate Chips

Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line rimmed cookie sheet with tin foil. Spray foil with non-stick spray. Spread saltines in a single layer, and crimp foil around saltines to fit.
Combine butter and sugar in a pot and bring to a boil. Boil for 3-5 minutes, WITHOUT STIRRING, or until sugar is amber in color.
Pour sugar mixture over the saltines and spread evenly with a heat-proof spatula. This stuff is HOT!
Bake for 8-10 minutes or until bubbly and crackers are lightly golden.
Sprinkle chocolate chips over hot crackers and allow to sit until melted. Spread chocolate evenly over crackers.
Refrigerate until firm then break into cookie-sized pieces and enjoy!

VARIATIONS: Switch for brown sugar, use flavored chips like mint chocolate or butterscotch, sprinkle wet chocolate with crushed candy canes or nuts etc!

Do you eat the chocolate off of a 3 Musketeers first, then the middle? I have seen my sister do inappropriate things to a candy bar lol!

[jil]

Gas station/grocery store: junior mints, laffy taffy or skittles

Mid-range: Justin's dark chocolate peanut butter cups

Gourmet: Sweet and Sara's s'mores or just about anything from Lagusta’s Luscious

Now I need candy!

[kj808]

Feb 19, 2015 14:07:25 GMT -5 snapdragon said:

I keep thinking I should get something different, but if I'm just spontaneously picking a candy bar from the supermarket or gas station I go for the Snickers 100% of the time.

This is me exactly!

[robotpcr]

Gas station, probably Starbursts.

Good candy, homemade truffles.

ETA:  But I will eat any and all candy these days.

[tomatopie]

CatLady loooove cadbury mini eggs!

favorite gourmet is probably almond bark or any chocolate covered almonds. but i am a cookie person. i will get a chocolate chip cookie any time of day. i consider myself a chocolate chip cookie connoseiuer. <--- i don't know how to spell that. autocorrect doesn't know what the F I'm trying to say so I'm just going to leave it.

[sarahchrismck]

M&M's or Starbursts are a must-have at my desk at work.

I also loooove making (and eating) homemade fudge. That's shit's amazing.

[jvega1]

Gas station:Rainbow sour belts
Gourmet: white chocolate

[Starbuck128]

At the gas station, I like to pick out a chocolate bar I haven't had in a long time. Something that you usually don't see miniatures of at holidays, like 100 Grand or a novelty flavor of a common candy.

Gourmet or homemade? Caramels, especially if they are chocolate covered or have sea salt. Or mint fudge.

[Starbuck128]

veenie That's how I eat 3 Musketeers and Kit Kats. The mega size Kits Kats are great for eating the chocolate first.

[Ee]

Gas station: York peppermint patty every time

Gourmet: See's Candy!! Sooooo good!!!

[lezzie82]

Feb 19, 2015 14:18:20 GMT -5 shmee said:

lezzie82 where is Zeno's? I'm very familiar with Daytona but I've never heard of it and now I feel like I'm missing out!

Old Boardwalk, A1A avenue!!! It's where Joe's Crabshack now is, along with the amusement park....the movie theater... Bubba Gunp shrimp. It's at the end where the pier starts out and the amusement park begins!

It's sooooo good. I dream about this place and the el cheapo yet amazing pizza shack next to it!

[nurserachel22]

Gas station: nerd ropes
Gourmet: I like when my mom makes that.... Peppermint bark I think it's called?

[lezzie82]

Supposedly they have changed the inside recipe for the Cadbury eggs and people are NOT happy. I'm scared. I love those damn eggs.

[lezzie82]

Weird foreign candy I like are these white coconut ball things..... They are crunchy on the outside and have a coconut cream in the middle! Can't think what they are called but made by the Ferrro Roche people!

[chemmom1]

My choice at the check out is Milky Way, dark if they have it. Gourmet is anything dark chocolate. I really don't like milk chocolate.

[Starbuck128]

Feb 19, 2015 18:18:13 GMT -5 lezzie82 said:

Supposedly they have changed the inside recipe for the Cadbury eggs and people are NOT happy. I'm scared. I love those damn eggs.

What? I heard that the UK version changed their chocolate shell recipe and there are practically riots about it over there, but I haven't heard anything about the cream filling.

Also, that might be an UO. I love Cadbury cream eggs.

[hellok2010]

Midnight milky ways are my favorite or the all reds starbursts.

For gourmet there is a local chocolate place called the Chocolate Factory that makes the best truffles. We used them as favors at our wedding and get them every once and a while as a special treat.

[Cornflakegirl]

Feb 19, 2015 14:07:25 GMT -5 snapdragon said:

I keep thinking I should get something different, but if I'm just spontaneously picking a candy bar from the supermarket or gas station I go for the Snickers 100% of the time.

Snickers is always my go to candy!

[veenie]

Feb 19, 2015 18:55:47 GMT -5 @acukel said:

Feb 19, 2015 18:45:13 GMT -5 Starbuck128 said:

What? I heard that the UK version changed their chocolate shell recipe and there are practically riots about it over there, but I haven't heard anything about the cream filling.

Also, that might be an UO. I love Cadbury cream eggs.

I think Cadbury cream eggs taste ok, but I wish they were smaller. There is just too much of the filling for me, I can eat only half before I decide it's too sweet

Have you tried the minis?

[CaptainLeela]

Gas station: Sour Patch Kids or Red Vines
Gourmet: Theo Buttered Breadcrumbs milk chocolate bar, which I can't find anywhere other than in Seattle where they're made. Or Theo Salted Apple Cider Caramels, which are seasonal and amazeballs. Or almond truffles from Godiva, which I became obsessed with when I worked for them in college, but haven't had in years.