Lollipop · 3.4 in · birch stick
Midnight Orchard
Black currant wrapped around a core of burnt honey. Dark at the edge, glowing in the middle.
Flavour notes are on the candies page — we would rather you taste it first.
Handmade in Minneapolis
Sweets with an unexpected twist you won't find in an ordinary supermarket.
Can you guess the flavour at first bite?
We cook hard candy in batches of forty on Huntington Avenue: dark fruit next to burnt honey, clear sugar with copper spirals inside, amber slabs broken by hand. Six flavours a season, no filler ones.
Batches of 40, never more
Pulled, folded and cut by hand
Order requests answered in two working days
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Small batches, on purpose
Forty pieces at a time, sometimes thirty. It is slower than a machine and it is the only way we can watch the sugar closely enough to keep the colour clean and the flavour where we meant it to be.
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Flavours that take a second
Honey with toasted fennel. Lemon cream with star anise. The first bite is familiar and the second one is not, which is roughly the point of the whole shop.
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You order from a person
There is no cart here. You send us a note about what you would like, we write back with what is in the works, the price and a date. Usually it is me answering.
This season's counter
Six candies. Three of them are below.
Every piece is made in the same kitchen, on the same three marble slabs. What changes is the colour work and the flavour, which is why regulars tend to have one they defend.
Lollipop · clear candy · hand-pulled spiral
Copper Comet
Blood orange and smoked vanilla, pulled through clear sugar in a spiral that never repeats.
Flavour notes are on the candies page — we would rather you taste it first.
Faceted candy · no stick · boxed
Glass Garden
Clear sugar pressed into low pyramids and shards, tinted pear and violet.
Flavour notes are on the candies page — we would rather you taste it first.
Ordering
How a request becomes a box of candy.
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You send a request
Use the form or call. Name, email, which candies, roughly how many. A sentence about the occasion helps more than you would think.
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We reply within two working days
With what is in the works, what needs a new cook, the price and the earliest date. If we cannot make your date, we say so.
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You confirm, we cook
Nothing is charged through this website. Once you confirm by email, we put your batch on the schedule and cook it fresh rather than pulling from stock.
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Pick up or shipping
Collection from the workshop on Huntington Ave, or we ship within the United States when the weather allows hard candy to travel well.
“A lollipop should be a small argument with yourself: you know what it is, and then you are not so sure.”
Mara Whitlock, who cooks hereFrom the journal
Notes from the marble slab.
Occasional writing on craft, storage and how to actually taste candy without getting a headache in the first four minutes.
Next batch
Tell us what you would like us to make.
We take requests by email rather than through a shopping cart, because every batch is planned by hand. Send us a note and we will confirm flavours, quantity, price and a pick-up or shipping date.