Christmas Candy

Only 37 days until Christmas! Yayyyyy. I love Christmas and all that it has to offer, especially all the homemade goodies to stuff your face with. I already finished decorating Frankies for the Holidays and boy does it look AMAZING! A must see if your in West Vancouver or have nothing else to do on a rainy day like today. From a giant cupcake nutcracker to a twinkle 3D Train Set and ofcourse all the Christmas sweets to go with. My favourite thing this year has to be the Haribo Starmix/ Selection box. A 600g box (yes 600g in one box) of all of Harbio's favourite gummies; bears, mini fried eggs, gummy rings, cola bottles, fizzy cola and dinosaurs!! The perfect gift to give and receive.
Oh ya almost forgot, marshmallows, anything marshmallow I go crazy over. Dec. 1st I am getting in homemade giant vanilla marshmallows dipped in dark chocolate! Yummy, my mouth is already watering from thinking about it. I will post a pic when they come in.

Until then,

Sweet Regards,
Frankie

Show your Grillz

Smile with your Grillz! The newest invention from Candy Planet at this years candy expo. A fun novelty candy toy that you can show off while you eat it. It's kind of like a RingPop but you leave it in your mouth to suck on and then smile to show off your Grillz. You can choose from silver or gold Grillz and apple, strawberry, peach or watermelon lollipop. The perfect candy to add to this years Halloween costume!

My top 10

1.Fred Ferkel (pig shaped) Gummies
2. Milk Duds
3. Rainbow Sour Belts
4. Minstrels
5. Serendipity Frozen Hot Chocolate
6. Runts
7. Techno Bears
8. Loacker Dark Chocolate Minis
9. Walkers Asst. Toffee
10. Alligator Poo

I love MARSHMALLOWS!

So my sister and I had a bet starting Sept. 1st that we could only have candy once a week, well the first week went alright but then it all went downhill from there. I was 1 day shy of being able to eat candy but I went ahead anyways because I needed to try some new things. So this is what I tried: Mini Mallow Pretzels, a soft & mushy marshmallow shaped pretzel covered in sugar. They come in a pack of 12 with 4 flavours mango, green apple, strawberry and banana. I tried the mango and liked that it kind of melted in my mouth but wish there was more flavour and not so much sugar coating.
From the same line they make mallow burgers, fried, hot dogs, pizzas and 2 new ones that also just came out is the mallow donut (which I will be trying very soon). The burger was pretty tasty but I could only eat half then gave the rest to my dad (I love that dads will finish off whatever you don't eat!). I liked that you could taste the vanilla, banana and chocolate in the burger instead of just eating a plain giant marshmallow. These novelty mallows are great for birthday gifts and school lunches!
One thing I need to try is roasting a mallow dog or burger in a fire and see if they toast like regular kraft marshmallow, I will let you know if my experiment works.

Happy Hippo

To show you how much I love candy this next post is from a package I ordered off the web from Germany! I have all the candy in the world at my finger tips but I couldn't resist these super cute Happy Hippo. Just look at them, there filled with hazelnut cocao cream and are coated in crunchy crisp like chocolate pieces. YUMMY! I can't get enough of them, but I have to resist some what as I only have 5 left until I re-order or fly to Europe for some more hippos.

Sarahendipity

Yesterday we took our relatives from Austria to Whistler, the home of the 2010 Olympics. It wasn't supposed to rain but we made the most of our trip and so did hundreds of other people. We happened to stumble on the annual Farmers Market held at the Blackcomb Village, from hand made chocolates, blown glass to bison burgers! There was plenty to see and buy at the market and we did buy a lot of goodies. Our first find was Sarahendipity fine chocolates & confections, locally made chocolates for market selling only. From PB&J to chocolate passion fruit caramel, she had all the best combos. We bought a box of 15 that set us back $21, which is not too bad as they're all hand made and beautifully decorated. I love anything marshmallow so I was happy to see (and love) cinnamon marshmalow with dark chocolate. The marshmallow wasn't too sweet (i dont like sweet marshmalow) and she used just the right amount of cinnamon (which I just read on msn health&fitness that cinnamon helps control blood sugar levels which is a + for diabetics). So if your heading to Whistler check out the farmers market and try some Sarahendipity chocolates.

gimme gimme candy!

Hey! My name is Frankie and I "love" candy. In september of 2006 I opened up Frankies Candy Bar, a candy lovers dream come true. Located in West Vancouver, Canada, a boutique like candy store offering candies from around the world. It's been an amazing first year, I am so blessed that the community has embraced a candy store and let me satisfy there sweet tooth. Gummies are my thing I can't get enough of them. I don't eat that much chocolate but when I do it has to be dark, atleast 70% cocao. A few of my favourites are gummi filled turtles from Spain (a combo of marshmallow and jelly gummi), Centipedes from Hungary (true to its shaped but brightly coloured) and anything SOUR! There has yet to be a candy that has made a sour pucker face on me, so if you know of one thats "super sour" please tell me.

Through out my travels I'm always sampling and searching for new candy and I want to share it with others, so with this blog you will be able to find out about fun and exciting new candy from around the world. Also if you have a candy/chocolate that you rave out please tell me about it cause I want to try it all! Gimme Gimme Candy!