This Week In Candy

Candy News - It appears that the worlds chocolate supply is not certain right now.  I know this is the last thing you want to hear at Easter, but there appears to be both environmental and political uncertainties that could lead to even higher priced chocolate in the future.  Savor that chocolate bunny, you may not get too many more of them in the future.

What's Happening At Candy Critic -  While continuing on our top secret project this week, we're also posting a special series of posts about spoon sweets.  Some people know them better as preserves, but spoon sweets sounds so cool.  We hope to post a photo and a little information about 5 different spoon sweets, one each day this week.  I know that we also owe you guys another review-a-thon, but it's just been very busy with other projects and we don't want to go halfway on a review-a-thon.

Rant -  I wish Tupperware would invent a chocolate saver.  They have products to keep just about anything else in the world fresh, except chocolate.

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Buying Direct

Apparently a new trend is brewing and it could lead to changes in the way business is done in the candy world. It appears that some chocolate manufacturing companies are starting to buy their cocoa beans directly from farmers instead of going through cocoa distribution companies. It apparently gives a higher quality bean and also supports the farmers. I'm sure this won't shut down the cocoa distribution industry but it might start changing the way they do business.

Click here to read more.

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Global Lollypop Manufacturing News

This article really doesn’t have much relevance to anything Candy Critic related. It’s more about the business of candy manufacturing than anything else. The only reason I’m posting it on the blog is because it uses the words “lollipop depositors” and that makes me smile.

Click here to read the article and check out paragraph 2.

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