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Smashmallow Marshmallows

Smashmallow Marshmallows
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Skip the ordinary marshmallows, and head straight for Smashmallows. These sweet treats satisfy your cravings with flavors like strawberries and cream, cookie dough, cinnamon churro, mint chocolate chip, and toasted vanilla. They’re made with organic cane sugar, and under 100 calories for four puffs. Can’t decide? Try the variety pack.

See’s Elegant Heart Box

See’s Elegant Heart Box
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Less is not more when it comes to sending Valentine’s Day love. Go big with See’s Candies’ biggest-ever heart box selection. Celebrating the legendary California chocolatier’s 100th anniversary, the huge Elegant Heart is filled with three pounds of the best milk, dark and white chocolates, and ridiculously mouth-watering truffles.

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Making a Chocolate Motorcycle

Making a Chocolate Motorcycle

Expert pastry chef Amaury Guichon shows off the creation of an absolutely amazing work of candy art. We watched in awe as he sculpted and airbrushed chocolate to build his edible motorcycle sculpture, complete with a detailed engine, a curly coil spring, intricate wheel spokes, and an amazing sugar glass headlight.

Cacao & Cardamom Valentine’s Day Heart

Cacao & Cardamom Valentine’s Day Heart
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Make Valentine’s Day extra special this year with this deluxe candy box. Award-winning chocolatier Cacao & Cardamom fills their substantial 1-pound candy box with 26 pieces of their colorful and exotic chocolate treats. They also make a smaller 13-piece version.

Pocket Latte Chocolates

Pocket Latte Chocolates
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Grab a boost of caffeine any time with Pocket Latte’s ready-to-eat coffee snacks. Each square of their caffeinated chocolate has roughly the same amount of caffeine as a cup of coffee. They come in cream and sugar, dark roast, hazelnut, and lavender-vanilla flavors. Sold in packs of 12 or 24. You can grab individual bars at Vat19.

LEGO Candy Cane Catapult

LEGO Candy Cane Catapult

To celebrate the holidays in these times of social distancing, Jason Allemann created this little machine that can fling candy canes at a recipient so they don’t have to go rummaging around his candy bowl with their grubby hands. He built the gizmo using the LEGO Mindstorms Robot Inventor Set. Full build details here.

Chocolat Luxury Hatbox

Chocolat Luxury Hatbox
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Does someone special on your shopping list have a sweet tooth? This elegant collection of chocolates comes with an assortment of delicious treats from Chicago/Pilsen chocolatier Uzma Sharif, including rich chocolate bars, caramels, sipping chocolate, marshmallows, and more. Also available in a medium size.

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Hawaiian Punch Candy Canes

Hawaiian Punch Candy Canes
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Tired of the same old peppermint candy canes? This Christmas, switch it up a bit and enjoy these sweet treats that taste like Hawaiian Punch. They come 12 to a pack and include four each of Fruit Juicy Red, Lemon Berry Squeeze, and Polar Blast flavors. Want something a bit more tangy? Try some Sweet Tarts candy canes.

Daily Dose Chocolate Pack

Daily Dose Chocolate Pack
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Get your sugar and caffeine fix every day of the month with this 30-pack of bite-sized chocolate bars from Brooklyn’s Raaka Chocolate. Choose from Pink Sea Salt, 100% Cocoa, Oat Milk, Coconut Milk, or a mixed set of all four flavors. Each bar is made from sustainably-sourced, unroasted beans for a complex, natural flavor.

Halloween Candy Care Package

Halloween Candy Care Package
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Halloween 2020 is going to be different than normal, with trick-or-treating restricted for many. Vintage Candy Co.’s care package is a great way to make the holiday special. It comes with more than 90 candies including some full-size bars, hard-to-find treats, and decorative skulls, eyeballs, pumpkins, and fangs.

Making Akita Dog Candies

Making Akita Dog Candies

Montreal’s CandyLabs shows us how they make hard candy treats featuring the face of an adorable akita dog. There’s something so satisfying about watching all that gooey hot sugar as it’s worked into shapes, then rolled smaller and smaller before being sliced.

Candy Birthday Gift Boxes

Candy Birthday Gift Boxes
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Looking for a fun and nostalgic birthday gift for a parent or grandparent? Woodstock Candy packs gift boxes with candies that were available during the year of their birth – assuming they were born in 1989 or earlier. Depending on the year, they might find Razzles, Wax Lips, Pop Rocks, Zots, or Turkish Taffy among other classic sweets.

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How Peeps Are Made

How Peeps Are Made

Easter just isn’t Easter without some Peeps. Take a 360º video tour of the Just Born candy factory with Food Network to see how these colorful marshmallow treats are born, including a part of the assembly line called the “Sugar Shower.” Did she really use the word “peepsinality” or were we just hearing things?

Skittles Giants

Skittles Giants

Jumbo the rainbow! A new version of the popular sweet and tart candy is headed into stores. The big difference? Skittles Giants are three times the size of regular Skittles. At this point, they’re only available in the UK, but we imagine that the import market will eventually start shipping these stateside.

KitKat Variety Pack

KitKat Variety Pack
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Japan loves their KitKat bars. They make them in all kinds of flavors, like green tea, melon/mascarpone, strawberry, and many more. Now taste some of these unusual variants here in the states with this pack of 21 mini bars, all imported from Japan. Amazon also has all kinds of other flavors if you’re feeling adventurous.

Handmade Candy Factory

Handmade Candy Factory

Popular Mechanics presents the best kind of factory video – one without narration or commentary. This clip will get your sweet tooth buzzing as workers at Hammond’s Candies plant make candy canes, marshmallows, and other goodies the old-fashioned way. The Denver-based company has been creating sweet treats since 1920.

Kekao Chocolate Subscription

Kekao Chocolate Subscription
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Do you or someone you care about really, really love chocolate? Kekao offers monthly subscriptions and gift boxes, each loaded with some of the most delicious craft chocolate bars from around the globe. It’s a great alternative to the ordinary Valentine’s Day heart-shaped box. They also sell individual bars starting around $4.50.

Breakfast Lollipops

Breakfast Lollipops

Enjoy a complete four-course breakfast buffet featuring two strips of bacon, a glazed strawberry/coconut doughnut, and maple waffle-flavored suckers, thanks to the guys over at Vat19. Candy. It’s part of a nutritious breakfast!

Jawbreaker Guitar

Jawbreaker Guitar

Jawbreaker candies are known for their toughness, so Burls Art decided to work with them much like any other building material, sawing and sanding them, then coating them in resin to create a truly sweet “flying V” guitar like no other.

How It’s Made: Candy Canes

How It’s Made: Candy Canes

It may not be Christmas quite yet, but it’s always a good time for candy. Sit back, relax and enjoy the fascinating process behind the creation of these colorful holiday treats, from machines that pull hot sugar, to ones that transform a 100 lb. block of candy into a thin and twisty rope.

Candy Baller Machine

Candy Baller Machine

We always thought that round candies were made using molds, but it turns out some of them are made by spin-carving spheres from a rod of sugar, like the ones shown in this video from candy machinery maker Loynds. We want to see a Bingo ball picker that works this way.

Making Gourmet Pocky Sticks

Making Gourmet Pocky Sticks

Bon Appétit pastry chef Claire Saffitz continues to expand her gourmet snack portfolio, this time taking on a tasty treat from Japan. Can she pull off the crispy and sweet combo moves required for delicious chocolate, matcha, cookies & cream, and strawberry flake Pocky?

How to Make LEGO Gummies

How to Make LEGO Gummies

The King of Random lives up to their name with this classic clip, taunting both our geeky and hungry sides with homemade gummies which look like LEGO blocks and minifigs. The video was inspired by SFHandyman’s how-to on Instructables.

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