Candy

Pie On a Stick, Chocolate Fountain, and Old Fashioned Candy Bar at Sweet Tooth Soiree, April 12

As kiddos, our well-intentioned parents made us choke down our broccoli at dinner before we got a bite of the real evening attraction: dessert. And as grown ups, we inflict the same torture on ourselves, often without the sugary reward. After all, being an adult means swimsuit season, calorie-counti ... More >>

Beef Jerky Milk Chocolate Bar? Amazing Flavors from Wild Ophelia

Over the years, we've seen some pretty random things swirled into milk chocolate bars and dark chocolate chunks. What began with safe and acceptable pairings like fruit, nuts, candy and cookies has over the past decade graduated to bold new flavors. Now, you'll find chocolate loaded with bacon, spic ... More >>

How to Make a Candy Buffet for Your New Year's Eve Party (via Kimberly Hale of Extraordinary Sweets)

Kimberly Hale has the kind of job that every kid (and sugar-addict adult) would fantasize about. She spends her days playing with candy. Or rather, carefully arranging well thought-out, highly customized candy buffets for weddings, showers, parties, and other special events as coordinated by her Flo ... More >>

Make and Give This Easy Peppermint Bark For Christmas

Christmas is upon you and you still have to give something to the neighbors, the babysitter, the dog walker, the mail person, the hairdresser, the karate instructor, the crossing guard, your office Secret Santa, and your kid's best friend's mother (sigh). You could go to the mall and get them some t ... More >>

Candy Canes With a Side of Jingle Bells

Unwanted Halloween Treats? Candy Buyback Program Gives Them To Soldiers

You and the kids made out like bandits at Halloween. The plastic pumpkins were filled with mini chocolate bars, tootsie rolls, and little bags of Skittles. ReadaAlso:- Ten Recipes for Pumpkin Leftovers: Make Pumpkin Flan, Pumpkin Milkshakes -- Anything but Pumpkin PieOnly thing is your peanut allerg ... More >>

Killer Halloween Candy? No, Really — This Stuff Can Be Deadly

Halloween. The one time of year everyone wishes they were dead. Well...better make that undead...as in vampires, zombies, mummies, and other eternal creatures of the night.In spite of all that talk of dead people and monsters, Halloween is basically a pretty benign, family-friendly holiday. You dres ... More >>

Candy Corn Oreo Debuts on Monday: Five Other Oreo Flavors They Should Consider

Candy corn, adored only by compulsive sugar junkies and dentists looking to finance a new boat, has been cross-bred with everyone's favorite sugar-drenched cookie; the Oreo. Nabisco will debut the limited edition Candy Corn Oreo on Monday, selling it exclusively in Target stores for the 2012 fall se ... More >>

Turkish Festival in Fort Lauderdale: Food, Dance, Cooking Demos

Alibaba.comTry some simit at the Turkish Festival.​The sixth annual Turkish Festival is bringing traditional costume, dance and food to Huizenga Plaza (Bubier Park) this weekend.The event, sponsored by the Anatolia Center, is turning downtown Fort Lauderdale into a microcosm of Turkey, complete wi ... More >>

Cops: Candy-Store Creeper Caught Allegedly Taking Upskirt Pictures of Little Girls

PBSOMelvin Barber Bridgers III -- apparently not at the candy store for bubble gum and gummy bears.​Here's a tip: If you're going act like a pervert around underaged girls in a candy store, try not to creep around a cop's 15-year-old niece.According to a police report obtained by New Times, an off ... More >>

Best Edible Bacon-Infused Products

n true Clean Plate Charlie fashion, we squeeze every last bit that we could get our hands on. My previous post Five Best Inedible Uses for Bacon was popular, so here's a spinoff specifically for the bonafide bacon lovers, aka the Baconaters: the ten best EDIBLE bacon finds. While the last list left ... More >>

Dylan Lauren: Interview With the Queen of Candy

​Over the weekend, Dylan Lauren stopped by the newly opened Books & Books in the Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale to promote her first book, Dylan's Candy Bar: Unwrap Your Sweet Life, and spread her joyful motto: "Candy is a lifestyle."  Dylan's Candy Bar, which opened in NYC in 200 ... More >>

Four Foods (Other than Fishsticks) Kanye West Could Use to Choke a South Park Writer

photo by david_shankbone via flickr​Add assaulting animators with battered whitefish to the list of things you'll find in Kanye West's beautiful dark twisted fantasy.  Back in April 2009, "South Park," an animated series known for its relentless attacks on all things self-important, roasted ... More >>

Gluten-Free Halloween Candy

Reese's are safe for Celiacs!As we've written in previous posts, people who can't eat gluten (AKA celiacs) are forced to carefully read every label to make sure to avoid gluten -- which seems to be in just about everything.Reading labels can make it difficult for gluten-free children come candy time ... More >>

Verbal Nosh With Chef Allen Susser, Taste Gastropub, Delray Beach

Chef Allen Susser, one of the original Miami Mango Gang of chefs, so named because of their commitment to using Florida foods, opens in Delray Beach tomorrow with Taste. It's a gastropub, and we chatted with him about this new venture -- far from Aventura's more formal sitdown, Chef Allen's, he's ru ... More >>

I'm Eating What?! Idaho Spud Chocolate Bar

John LinnWeird, old-timey candy? I have to try it.​When I first saw an Idaho Spud bar in a convenience store in Grand Junction, Colorado, I had to try one. The concept was just so old-timey, so quirky and kitschy-cute that I had to have one. On the side of the brown wrapper a tag line was written ... More >>

Women in Music

Florida to Sex Offenders: Hold the Reese's

This Halloween, it's lights out for sex offenders​Sex offenders in Florida are off the hook this year: They won't have to spend a fortune at Target on plastic pumpkins, corn-sheaves, and fake spiderwebs. They can keep all the Reese's Pieces for themselves. The Florida Department of Corrections sa ... More >>

This Gum Is Turning Me Japanese!

I'm Eating What?!

An innocuous looking chocolate bar wrapped in silver foil and a paper Whole Foods bag sat on the table in front of me with a note reading "Try this for the food blog and don't open the bag until you've tasted the chocolate." I was confused as to how this would qualify for this blog, but it's hard t ... More >>

Girls in Bands

¿Que Pasa, M.I.A.? ¡Feliz Navidad from Jose El Rey!

¡Feliz Navidad, Miami! As I sit by my Christmas tree and look upon the disco ball ornaments as they glitter and shine, I stroll through my holiday memory lane.This is the time of year that I eat tons of lechon, yuca, and arroz con frijoles. I have no idea what that gelatinous cylinder (that only ex ... More >>

Cupcakes And Chocolates For Christmas

Four women, two web-based companies, and innumerable sweet holiday gifts that you needn't leave your house to purchase. , Eileen Sanchez and Evelyn Dieppa are the "cupcake catering duo" of 2 Girls and a Cupcake, and they're serving up sweet gift ideas for purchase online. The Miami natives descr ... More >>

UPDATED - Orthodox Candy is a Kashrut Cow!

We get some strange things in the mail from companies looking to pump their products: care packages from popcorn advocacy groups and breath mints designed to help you fake your way out of alcohol-related trouble come to mind immediately. But this candy has to take the unleavened cake. Orthodox Chew ... More >>

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Fair Ball

The Other White Meat

Bump and grind all weekend long

Best Teahouse

Belle & Maxwell's

Best Value on Las Olas

Free Buckets at Kilwin's Chocolate's

Rogue Wave

Out of the Shadow (Sub Pop)

Popscene's Anniversary

Best Chocolate

Hoffman's Chocolates

Pop In, Pop-Up

Paper, paper everywhere

Haute Chocolate

Enrapture your Valentine with distinctive sweets

Best Middle Eastern Restaurant

Ferdos Grill

Best Band Name

The Nougat Fiasco

Best Restaurant When Someone Else Is Paying

3030 Ocean

Foodstuff

Euro Bread & Cafe

Best Used Bookstore

Archives Bookcafe

Best Gourmet Gas Station

Boca Teeca Mobil

Foodstuff

Bone Appetit

Best Chocolate

Chocolates by Mr. Roberts

Best Ice Cream

Jaxson's Ice Cream Parlor Restaurant

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