As I write this post, it is finally a beautiful Spring day in Western Wisconsin (Coon Valley to be exact). Everyone is smiling- it’s been a VERY long winter! So…. our thoughts are turning to all things summer, and for me, to summer candy things, especially! One candy that just screams summer to me is […]
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After hundreds and hundreds of hours of fudge-making over the past couple of years, I decided maybe it was time to try my hand at another yummy, old-fashioned treat- marshmallows! Most of us have eaten plenty of boughten marshmallows, but I never really gave much thought to how they are made, or what they really […]
There are folks who stop in our store and want only chocolate fudge. Fudge, in their opinion can only BE chocolate! Anything else is, well, something else! And then there are those of us, including myself, who are attracted to all the non-chocolate possibilities! Maybe that’s why I started experimenting with fudge in the first […]
My husband, the baker, always says that cooking is an art, while baking is a science. And, many times it seems that people either love to cook OR they love to bake, for that very reason. The art of cooking is many times, a pinch of this with a dash of something else. Sometimes, we […]
By Linda Schulte, Coon Valley Candy Company — When the folks at L.I.N.K. Magazine approached me to share some facts about fudge, I was seriously concerned! Was there enough to say about my favorite confection to fill up an entire magazine article? Many of you know the story of why I started making fudge. I so […]