Everyone who loves sugar knows that chocolate on Valentine’s Day makes for a great gift. But if you’re really trying to impress your favourite chocolate-lover on February 14, you can’t just pick up the first bar or box of sweets (or any, to be quite honest) that you find on the grocery store shelf. Instead, […]
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Hack your sub-par holiday treats
Snowballs A strange but wonderful winter-inspired candy, this spongey, coconut rolled mallow ball is a step above the marshmallow Santa, but still basically a blob of pure sugar. Treat hack: Bob one on top of your hot chocolate, slice it up and use it in lieu of tape while you’re gift wrapping or sub it […]
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Candy review: Halloween Kisses
It’s rare that you run across a “candy” so vile it has a disgusting urban myth regarding its origin. Halloween Kisses are exactly that candy. The party line was that at the end of Halloween candy season, the excess bags of Halloween Kisses would get shipped back to the manufacturer, where they’d be tossed into […]
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Sugar Shok Treat Boutique to close
After four years in the business, owner Stacey Cayea has decided to close Sugar Shok Treat Boutique in Dartmouth. “The numbers talk and you gotta listen sometimes,” Cayea says of her financial troubles. In the past few years, Cayea has had to sell personal belongings to get stock into the candy store. “This year, there’s […]
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Sweet success for Sweet Jane’s
After 12 years of tempting tastebuds and blowing bubbles from its current location at 5431 Doyle Street, Sweet Jane’s is moving. “We’ve always been here, this is the first big move for us,” says Alyssa Buchanan. “It’s definitely something we’re going into very exuberantly.” The shop will move its shop of confections, retro toys, unique […]
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Roberts Street Social Centre plans a week of fundraising events
[image-1] The Roberts Street Social Centre (5684 Roberts Street) is having a week full of fundraising that is almost too much to believe. Starting this Saturday, May 7 at 8am with a killer yard sale and wrapping up next Sunday, May 15 with an Italian dinner and movie night, the week will feature film screenings, a mother’s day brunch, an art auction, a bicycle scavenger hunt, homemade pizzas bike delivered to your home (vegan option available), live music, a social night, book making and artist trading card making workshops and possibly the best idea ever: deluxe candy grams. The order
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Best Place To Satisfy A Sweet Tooth
If you’ve never been, Freak Lunchbox is a little difficult to describe. Try to imagine Willy Wonka’s industrial space in Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory condensed into a single store. If there was any chance of finding cavity-filling caramels, edible marshmallow pillows or exploding candy for your enemies, this is where you should […]