That's A Big Bunny

Why not tell your neighbours how much you love Easter with this giant inflatable Easter bunny.

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Candy In The Media - Cake Or Not

These cakes are so convincing, I'm not convinced they're cakes.

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It's Our Christmas Candy Review - Mint Candy Canes

It's amazing to think that I've been writing candy reviews for so many years, yet I have yet to write a full on review for candy canes. I spent a good part of last week wondering why I don't eat these more over the holidays, and why it's taken me so long to write a review. Then I realized that not very many people actually eat candy canes anymore. I'm not sure if people ate them more in the past, but my experience is that people really don't eat them that often. I think they function more as a decoration than an actually candy treat.

Click here to find out what I think of candy canes, as a candy.

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Halloween Candy In The Media - A Warning From Snickers

This commercial goes from being a Christmas advertisement, to being a strange Halloween commercial, to being a warning to all you people out there giving out cheap candy on Halloween. They pack a lot into thirty seconds.

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Candy In The Media - Zoetrope Cake

There is nothing that I don't love about this cake.

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10 Second Kitchen - Aeon Bakery

I could seriously watch people ice cakes forever.

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Candy In The Media - Spinning Cake

This sweet creation combines two of my favourite things, animation and cake.

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Candy In The Media

This cake just blew my mind.

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Christmas Themed Gummy Ideas

Merry Christmas Everyone!

During this holiday season I've been snacking on all kinds of amazing holiday treats.  From fruit cakes, cookies, and a huge variety of chocolates, I've been stuffing my tummy full of all kinds of sweets.  There is one sweet however that's been noticeably absent from my holiday munching menu, gummies.  It seems like gummies, the most versatile of all candies, has been left out of the holiday selection.  There are a few out there, but not that much.  I believe that there's plenty of room for gummies during the holidays, and so I've decided to design a few fun gummy holiday treats myself.  These gummies aren't just guimmies shaped like elves, Santa, or any other Christmas themed tchotchke.  These treats use the gummy texture to their benefit.

As always, I invite any candy maker out there to use my ideas for free. All I ask is that if you make any of these, please be kind enough to send me some to try.

The first gummy treat on this list I'm surprised no one has thought of yet, gummy Christmas ornaments. Hanging candy on a Christmas tree is already a thing with candy canes, so why not go further.  With gummy ornaments you also don't have to worry about broken glass.  If one of these hits the floor you'll just get a subtle splat sound.  Sure you might not eat any of the ornaments that have hit the ground, but you don't eat most of your candy canes either, so it's no big deal.

The next gummy idea for the holidays is gummy ribbons.  Tearing open a gift on Christmas morning is one of the best feelings ever.  The only thing that really gets in the way is the ribbon.  You can't gracefully remove a ribbon from a Christmas gift.  In fact I'd say that the ribbon is more of a frustrating challenge, and who wants that on this day that should be full of happiness.  Gummy ribbons would be much easier to break through, and it would give you some sugar energy as you're opening all of your other gifts.

The last holiday gummy ideas is not gummy gingerbread men, it's gummy gingerbread men icing.  Recently I tried to bake some gingerbread cookies, and it all went pretty well, until I had to ice the cookies.  As it turns out, icing things with any kind of accuracy is not an easy task.  Gummy gingerbread decorations would simplify this task greatly.  You simply bake your cookies, and lay on the decorations.  If the cookies are a little bit warm the gummy should melt just a bit and stick to the cookie.  You could use all kinds of flavours and colours of gummy to make so many different designs.

So there you have it, gummies for Christmas.  Maybe you'll see it in a store near you next holiday season. If you do see any of these, let me know.

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A Classic Candy Fashion Thing

All this month we're featuring some of the cool jewelry from our friends at KanDi Jewelry.  Any of these would make the perfect Christmas gift for any candy lover in your family! Do you have hair (if you don't then you can stop reading)? Do you like your hair to stay in place (if you're an 80s rock star you can stop reading)? Then this is the perfect gift for you for the holidays.

Check out their whole store right here!

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A Blingy Candy Decorating Thing

How would you like a bright gold chocolate cake?  It seems like the worst and best idea ever.  There's something inherently wrong about eating a shinny piece of cake, but it also sounds like something I'd really like to try.  And who says you have to limit your gold edible spray to baked goods, why not cover your dinner in gold, or maybe your bacon and eggs.  There really is no limit to the things you can brighten up with this strange product.

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A Sucker of a Candy Thing

It pains me to say this, but I've always found the "Lollipop Guild" to be the creepiest of all of the characters in the Wizard of Oz.  I can't really give you one solid reason why they creep me out, it's really the whole package.  While it's really nice that these fine three fellows wanted to send Dorothy off with a sweet treat, I just think that three grown men giving a girl candy is a little creepy.  Having said that, I regularly give out candy to everybody around me.  So does this mean that I'm creepy?

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A Cool Candy Thing

I know that this is more of a Christmas time type of Cool Candy Thing, but it's never too early to think about Christmas gifts.  I also think that you could use this to decorate your tacky basement almost any time of year.

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Stuff I Want To Try

Linkydoodles - Kencraft - I'm always a sucker for new candy cane designs. - Click here to learn more about this treat.

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Candy Art - Can You Eat It?

The Huffington Post has a great article about a candy maker/cake decorator called Andie's Specialty Sweets, who make that most beautiful realistic treats I've ever seen.

I don't know if I'd have the heart to even take a bite of these creations.

Unless they taste as good as they look.

Click here to see more of these creations.

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