#sweets

#sweets

Candy making is deeply rooted in human history, with early sweet treats providing not just pleasure but energy and potential healing benefits, appealing especially to children.

Germany's long candy-making history includes pioneering popular treats like gummy bears and is a leading exporter of sweets, accounting for 12.9% of global exports.

While you can use holidays and seasonal recipes to inform your culinary compilations, there are no hard rules here.

In recent years, the rise of the posh, extra-chocolatey biscuit has delighted me. An ideal fancy biscuit should feel heavy in the hand, need a good bite to break through the chocolatey shell, and it should come in a packet with at least one breathlessly outlandish claim along the lines of most chocolatey yet or thickest coating ever.