"CandyShops" news and stories

On a walk through New York last week, I stumbled upon Papabubble, an intriguing candy shop based in Barcelona with an outpost in Manhattan.

The shop is truly a candy paradise. Not only do you get to watch candy in-the-making, but you can also sample several different flavors, such as caramel filled apple, soda, fruit mix, and their current Easter mix. They even have candy molded into enormous lollipop rings.

Here, all the candy is made in the store before your eyes. Papabubble handcrafts their unique candy from sugar and natural essential oils, such as oil of clove.

Papabubble makes custom-made candies molded into specific shapes and with written statements or designs. While I was there, they were making "It's a Boy!" candy for a woman who had just given birth. Their turnaround for bespoke candy is about two weeks.

It's no wonder why Gadling got excited about the opening of Papabubble's New York store. It's located in between the Lower East Side, Little Italy, and SoHo on Broome Street between Mott and Mulberry.

CyberCandy is one of those online businesses that has found a niche and prospered since the very start of the Internet boom. They now have a couple of retail shops I believe in London and Brighton but still trade extensively on the Internet. Their niche? Importing sweets, chocolates and drinks from around the world - items that you never see in the UK usually.

Lately they have added such delights as Diet Coke Sango (blood orange flavour) which is only available in Belgium and Luxembourg, and Pocket Coffee which is described as "Like a liqueur chocolate, but with strong expresso in the middle instead of liqueur. It's a coffee in your pocket". They are also one of the few places (outside hideously expensive Harrods) that ex-pats can stock up on A&W Root Beer and Black Cherry Vanilla Coke and Dr Pepper Cherry Vanilla.

They have a huge list of KitKat variants ranging from Chocolate and Maple and Tiramasiu through to Caramel Fudge and Strawberry and Yoghurt.

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