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Filed under: Wine, Dessert, Artificial Sugars, Candy, Champagne, High-fructose corn syrup, Holidays, Halloween, Fall If you're anything like me come October, you buy a big bag of Halloween candy, oh, three weeks before the actual holiday with the idea of ''getting ahead''--only to have the entire bag mysteriously disappear, leaving you to explain ...

Ah, summer. The season of street fairs, carnivals, state fairs and circuses. Even at your computer screen right now, can't you just about catch the whiff of machine oil from rigged shooting galleries, the pond-like pungency of a hundred goldfish in a grid of glass bowls, the elephant poop? And there's got to be something about the smell of ...

Filed under: Snacks, Dessert, Recipes, Candy, Spirit of Christmas, America, Sugar, Liquor CabinetI come from a long-line of Irish alcoholics. And although I myself hold my liquor like a ten-year-old, I have a special place in my heart for alcohol-flavored sweet things. Indeed, I have had a torrid love affair with the bourbon ball ever since my mom ...

Filed under: Snacks, Dessert, Dairy, Chocolate, Candy, Eggs, America, Comfort FoodIf there's heat wave where you are like there's a heat wave where I am, (it was over 90 degrees in some parts of southern California), then you'll appreciate the perfect timing of Ben & Jerry's annual Free Cone Day, which takes place tomorrow, Tuesday April 29, ...

Filed under: Dessert, Recipes, Candy, Baking, Raves & Reviews, Sugar I'm a big fan of recipes that combine at least four or more ingredients that they are decadent enough to begin with, but combined, create this magical, sugar coma-inducing masterpiece, much like the one you see above. They're the kind of treats that are so sugary, so ...

Filed under: Dessert, Candy, On the Blogs, Sugar I have always been a sucker for butterscotch. When I was a kid, I would always choose one of those hard, orange butterscotch candies over a piece of chocolate. One those rare occasions when my family went out for ice cream sundaes, I would choose vanilla ice cream with hot butterscotch syrup ...

Filed under: Dessert, Candy, Raves & Reviews, On the BlogsCybele over at Candy Blog just had an all-egg week, eating and rating candy Easter eggs for your benefit. Read her opinions on Melster Marshmallow Eggs, Reese's Peanut Butter Eggs, Wonka Golden Creme Eggs and more, with a 1-10 rating and a chart of prices and calories per ounce. There ...

Filed under: Dessert, Chocolate, Candy, Baking, On the Blogs, Sugar, Slashfood TalksA former Slashfoodie herself, Nicole is the extraordinary baker behind Baking Bites -- a recipe blog for anyone with flour on their sleeves and a taste for the divine. She stepped away from the kitchen (actually, the horse stable) to chat with us a bit about life ...

Filed under: Dessert, Chocolate, Candy, Stores & Shopping, New Products, Valentine's DayValentine's Day is just around the corner. It seems like every baking site is posting about heart shaped cake pans, or some other heart shaped dessert maker. And I appreciate that to no end. I have no problem admitting the level of my baking geeky-ness. But ...

Filed under: Dessert, Chocolate, Midwest Rural, Midwest Cities, Recipes, Candy, How To, Condiments, America, Comfort Food, Super Bowl XLII In case you haven't figured it out by now, I am a football fan. However, I have to admit that at least one third of my interest in football is not about the game. Sure, I can follow the game, thanks to four ...