Making Candy

It’s the holiday season and that’s when many head to their kitchens to make something special. There are many chocolate candy-maker hobbyists that over-reach and find themselves with a lot of expensive ingredients and confounding results. That’s when our phone rings or the emails come.
The most common question this time of year usually has to […]

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I’ll try to keep up with defining those words I’ve used in various posts and link them to definitions below. If I’m not making something understandable or if there’s any questions, please feel free to comment.

candymaker
A confectioner: someone who makes candies and other sweets.
cassia
A spice made from the bark of an evergreen tree native to […]

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At Ko-Ed Candies, we call them candy apples these days but when I was a kid almost everyone called them apple suckers. Still, from time to time, someone will come in looking for an apple sucker. No matter what you might call them, they are definitely a treat from time past that gets little respect […]

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