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Most Brain-Like Chocolate Easter Egg Confection

When I was little, I was always disappointed by hollow chocolate Easter eggs or bunnies. Hell, I'm still disappointed in them. I don't care if I'm eating a piece of chocolate molded into a fun shape if it's mostly air. But when we got this Rocky Road Egg from See's Candies, a milk chocolate egg filled with honey marshmallows and walnuts, I was kind of scared. It was big. And heavy (9.5 ounces). I felt a surge of power flow through me as I held that 1200-calorie bomb of chocolate-mashmallow-nut goodness in my palm. And then I cut it open. And it looked like this....

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11 Comments | Posted by Robyn Lee, April 7, 2009 at 7:45 PM
Tagged: candy, chocolate, Easter, See's

See's Chocolates: Have You See-n the Light?

Growing up in New York our local boxed chocolate of choice was either Barton's or Barricini's. That was what my grandmother would have at her apartment in the Bronx. I don't know if either of them was any better than Whitman's or Russell Stover, but they were my grandmother's choice and she doted on me, so I loved those chocolates. When I moved out to Los Angeles for my senior year of high school I was crushed to find no boxed candy I recognized. There was See's right near our house, but out of loyalty to my grandmother's choices, I never went in. Fast forward almost 40 years later. A month ago I found myself searching for a reasonably priced...

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29 Comments | Posted by Ed Levine, February 12, 2008 at 7:00 AM
Tagged: candy, chocolate, chocolatiers, See's