Aussies! Why didn't you tell me about Candy Honeycomb?!

We call it sponge toffee here. So delicious!

eta...a pic of one of my favourite chocolate bars. 

So funny to see this post -- I just read a blog post about honeycomb candy, and I'd never heard that term before. I only knew it as sponge toffee.

Like Valincal, we love Crunchie bars. They are among the first to disappear out of the Hallowe'en bags!

The candy shops here sell it in big, thick chunks. I'd never seen it before moving to CA, but it's so, so good! Powell's Sweet Shop is where I buy it usually. I'm not sure if they have an online store, but they carry both milk and dark chocolate in-store. 

I would be happy to send you some if you ever get a craving and can't find any. I think the Cadbury Crumble bar will be hard to find now that Cadbury (not Nestle labeled Cadbury, like the Easter candy) has been blocked from exporting to the US.

Yeah, just found out the hard way. We have a World Market right across the street. My husband just checked and they no longer carry it. But he's getting the Australian kind that elaine got.

Ok, you know the rules. Since we can't get it here, How do you make this? Please share the recipe.

Oh, dear lord, I love Violet Crumble. But for some reason, they stopped being imported here in any normal quantity a couple years ago. They are very difficult to find anymore. There's one shop around here that has them on occasion - but they are $7/ea!!! They used to be more like $1.50 before they stopped importing regularly.

This is the recipe that I use. It doesn't turn out like the Violet Crumble honeycomb, but it's still good. Sometimes I make up a batch and mix it through vanilla icecream to make honeycomb icecream.


Honeycomb


This site (which uses the same recipe) explains how to tell when the toffee is cooked to the correct temperature if you don't have a candy thermometer:


It's the shatter that matters

Just a good to know.....Cadburys Crunchie comes as an ice cream too

I want to try one though 

It was Hersey that brought the law suit not Nestle. Nestle has nothing to do with Cadburys or Hershey.
The law suit stopped one particular importer...." Lets Buy British" importing certain Cadburys chocolate that had a similar product ( and that is debatable) to what Hershey historically had a licence from Cadburys to produce in the US. They held the licence before Craft Foods bought out Cadburys a couple of years ago.
There isn't a lawful ban on actually importing all of British Cadburys chocolate into the USA,it has just made it more difficult for businesses to stock it as their main importer was the " Lets Buy British" company.

The lawsuit is only against L.B.B., or Let's Buy British Imports, to stop importing chocolate products that closely resemble alternatives from the American company. This includes Cadbury chocolates.
If you look at some of the products they've compared, you'd ask your self how would they even think that the American public would be so stupid not to know the difference between the British products and the Hershey products. I think they're clutching at straws if that is the best they can come up with.

Oh dear.......

Stop it!! I don't need any enabling thank you!

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