I have a favorite kind of candy for almost every holiday. And when the stores get in the next holiday's candy, I get very excited. My 2 favorite holidays that have my favorite candy: Halloween and Easter.
Halloween brings out the best and only kind of candy corns I eat...Brachs. It makes my mouth water just writing about it. They're soft and fresh and just plain yummy.
So the purpose of this post is to talk about my love of Easter candy. It's actually evolved and changed over time.
Growing up Easter candy to me was the regular types of candy and jelly beans. But the Easter Bunny used to always leave a chocolate Sees egg (you know with the pastel flower on top of it) and some Sees sucker sticks (my favorite was the yellow ones...I need to go get one of those, I haven't had one in years!)
Then the last few years, my favorite candy has been the Mini Robin Eggs, Whoppers with a cool, cruncy, shell. Ask Brigitte, she knows...I ate bags and bags of those while we were roommates. I still like them, in fact I think I have 2 bags sitting on my counter right now.
Then a couple years ago I started eating the Cadbury chocolate eggs. Pure, delicious, milk chocolate with the same fun, crunchy shell as Robin Eggs. Just finished my bag of those yesterday. I might need one more bag before Sunday.
However, the last 2 years I have been completely and totally addicted to Sweettart Jelly Beans. Not just jelly beans, the Sweettart jelly beans. You can't find them at every store (try Smiths and K-Mart around here) and you can only get them at Easter time. I can't even begin to tell you the amount of Sweettart jelly beans I have had since February 15 (the day they put out the Easter candy after Valentines.) In fact it would be embarrassing to tell you how many bags I have bought. They are soooo good. My favorite flavors are the green and purple ones and I eat all those out of the bag first.
Some people think I'm weird and crazy...which I realize I kind of am. The good news is Shane likes all the candy I like so he helps me eat it too, and he lets me have all the green ones to myself (what a guy!)
I need to go to the store now and stock up...in 3 days time, all the Sweettart jelly beans will be gone for a whole year (well 10 1/2 months.)
So let me hear from you...What is your favorite kind of candy?
7 comments:
Cute post! I'm a candyholic too. I like anything but sour candy. I watched a show on The Food Network one time and they showed how Cherry Mash Bars are made. I was so excited to find them in Kansas. They are so dang good. Wish I had one right now and sure wish they were sold here. It's definitely one of my very favorites. Tyson and I love the Starburst jellybeans, which we can only find at Easter. Guess we better stock up too.
Candy corns definitely remind me of you! Ha ha! I don't think there is a certain holiday candy I look forward to. But my favorite candy is Toblerone. Anything chocolate but I am addicted to Toblerone!!
I wish I could post a video on here of how Sheri acts out her love of the "crunchy shell" candy. Imagine smiling really big and trying to crunch little tiny bites with just your back teeth. Not sure that is a great description...but I'm doing it as I type. Sheri can demonstrate. Just ask her!
My favorite candy...for Easter, I do love the Mini Robin Eggs and Cadbury Mini Eggs. It's really a toss up.
As for other candy that I love...Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. Hands down! Who got their chocolate in my peanut butter?? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJLDF6qZUX0
I don't really have a favorite, but frozen reese's peanut butter cups are the best and frozen mini snickers are good too.
Those Reese's Peanut Butter Eggs are the best. And I, too, love the See's eggs. So pretty, yet so yummy!
The Reese's Peanut butter eggs are the best!!! Always had those as a kid...and still love them! =) I love dark chocolate and this year I found dark chocolate mini reese's cup...very yummy! =)
You can still get the Sweetart jelly beans at the walmart in Cedar Hills. In fact they are only a dollar a bag right now.
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