Brandini Toffee Giveaway
Monday, February 22, 2010
Brandini Toffee Bites and Poppers
Brandini Toffee tastes like it was made by your sweet little grandma-ma…buttery, comforting, and chock full of love. All true, except for the grandma-ma part. Quite the opposite in fact, the company was started by (then) high school freshmen, Brandon Weimer and Leah Post, in order to raise money for a school trip to Italy.
Leah Post and Brandon Weimer, co-founders of Brandini Toffee, Spring 2007
As you can tell from this photo of the young entrepreneurs at the Trevi Fountain in Rome, they reached their goal! One bite of their decadent confections and you’ll understand why.
Generously thick toffee that crumbles into the perfect texture, a smooth layer of rich dark chocolate, and a sprinkling of roasted almonds…
The final contribution to the recipe was from Don Calendar of Marie Calendar’s fame after trying an early version. “This is what took our toffee to the next level,” explains Leah Post, “but we can’t tell you what that is.”
Within six weeks Brandon and Leah sold enough toffee to family, friends and their community to pay for their tickets and spending money.
Their unexpected success prompted them to enlist their parents to help build the company. The two families contribute to the business. Leah’s father designs the packaging and manages the website. Her mother is in charge of public relations and oversees events. Brandon’s father manages sales and production. His mother is in charge of shipping, accounting and staffing.
And now that Brandon and Leah (who, by the way, have been best friends since preschool – I know, could this story get any friggin cuter?), are in college, their younger sisters are holding down the fort and saving some money of their own for college.
Brandini Bites
One of the things I love about toffee is how so few ingredients (butter, sugar, a touch of vanilla) can be utterly transformed into something so delicious!
Today, we’re giving away Brandini Bites, half a pound of the Toffee Kids’ famous toffee, in bite-sized pieces, and Brandini Poppers, their newest product – fluffy popped corn, gently tossed in their signature buttery toffee, drizzled with a little dark chocolate, and sprinkled with roasted almonds.
To win Brandini Toffee’s Bites & Poppers…
Simply leave a comment here telling me: What was your favorite sweet treat growing up?
Giveaway deadline is Wednesday 2/24, 11:59 pm PST.
Disclosure: This giveaway was made possible via free sample and giveaway donation by Brandini Toffee.
Update: Congrats to Dana R, winner of Lick My Spoon’s Brandini Toffee Giveaway!
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my favorite sweet treats growing up were my mom’s blondies. chunks of toffee, dark and white chocolate, they were irresistible!
Every Christmas I would get together with a friend and her grandma and we would make chocolates for the season. Her carmel chocolate covered pretzels were the best.
While I don’t necessarily care for marshmallow I do love frozen Charleston Chews. I dtill really enjoy those.
Rice Krispy treats…they still are
My mother would labor for hours to make M&M chocolate “chip” cookies with only my high school’s colors (green and yellow M&M’s). She would pick through two entire bags to isolate the necessary colors and kept up the trend whenever she visited in college (though then with red and browns).
Peanut M&Ms. As a child and to this day. My mom and I would buy a bag while we were at the store and then eat them and giggle about them melting all over our hands on the ride home.
Rice Krispy Treats!! especially the rice krispy treats cereal!! always a classic
I grew up in the Philippines, so my favorite sweet treat was something they had there called peanut kisses. Like Hershey’s kisses except made out of a soft, crunchy, peanut-flavored candy. Yum.
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I really liked jelly beans, and-hey!- I still have a soft spot for them.
My favourite sweet treat when I was growing up was crescents, which are cookies that we only ate at Christmas.
my favorite sweet treat growing up was those gosh-awful zebra cakes. dry and flaky in the middle, waxy and sweet on the outside. Mmmmm… I’m sure glad tastes change.
I love bread pudding, and still do, but I do not like it with raisins. My mom would make it when she had enough bread saved up and made a creamy vanilla sauce. I make it occationally, but should make it more because it is so darn easy; I add chocolate chips, dried cranberries, apples, whatever is on hand.
My favorite treat were Kit Kats!
My favorite sweet treat as a child –they were called “pacers” and they were like starburst only they were mint—weird but I loved them–I Liked Rothchilds too remember those– and I loved marathon bars–but when you pulled the caramel all the chocolate fell off—thanks for the trip down memory lane.
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Growing up, I loved a sort of cringe-inducing duo to satisfy my sweet tooth: a strawberry Icee and a pack of Sixlets chocolate candy. My tastes have changed, but that snack is still a sweet memory!
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My favorite sweet treat growing up were called “warheads”. They were a small hard candy that was INTENSELY sour at first and then got sweeter the more you sucked on it. They were so addictive and I grew quite a taste for sour things as I grew up!
I loved (and still do) Mary Janes–a chewy bite w/ peanut butter hidden in the center. The yellow & red wrapper is the same as it was when it was first introduced. It’s a “penny candy” favorite.
Growing up, my sisters and I would stay at my grandparents country home, in the back country of Maine. We’d walk down the 1/4 mile wooded path to the neighboring town’s village and go to the “penny” candy store as a special treat. It was really an old-time general store with a candy case. Everything in the candy case cost 1, 5, or 10 cents. We’d each get $1 to spend. It was glorious! I am not sure what my favorite candy was, as the whole experience is what made it so sweet!!!
i loved peanut brittle. i tried to make it once, but it never hardened. instead i came home to sticky caramel spread out over the entire counter with candy icicles hanging from the edges.
As a kid my favorite thing my grandmother would make was if you want to call it a candy maybe just a sweat treat. She only made it once a year if that mainly because the main ingredient only came once a year…. Growing up in North Ga. we didn’t get a ton of snow but when we did my grandmother would make us snow cream…I’m not talking about the stuff you can buy in a carton now. She would go outside take the first layer of clean snow add some condensed milk a lot of sugar and some vanilla extract. (If my memory serves me right) It became a concoction of epic goodness….Now grown and living were it NEVER snows (Florida) I think back to that treat and wonder if my kids will ever experience something like that.
My favorite treat growing up….homemade chocolate chip cookies – fresh from the oven…still warmed with a glass of ice cold milk. It was such a treat and even now, you just can’t beat it!
My favorite sweet treat growing up was no-bake chocolate oatmeal cookies. Yum!
I was a sucker for runts as a kid. My affinity for simple sugar has totally transformed now, though, into a deep love of all things chocolate and caramel, toffee among them!
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