This towering stack contains chocolate-covered pretzels, s'mores popcorn, chocolate-covered sandwich cookies, and dark chocolate nonpareils.
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Nonpareils, tiny round candies that are a European relative of our sprinkles, are also popular in rainbow colors.
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There's also a coordinating Vanilla Belle cake, which shares the same decorations but adds sweet white nonpareils that recall the embroidery on Belle's gown.
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The pot belly pig races made me laugh; the square slice slung by "Famous Boston Garden Pizza" made my mouth water; the chance to win ten pounds of nonpareils and malted milk balls from Dan the Candy Man—whose game involved throwing a dart at a grid of numbers—scratched an early itch for gambling.
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Best line: "He waxed rhapsodic about the dark-chocolate nonpareils ("you don't find these just anywhere") in a northern New Hampshire candy store ... He marveled that moose could keep their heads up with antlers so big, and expressed joy at the most mundane parts of campaigning, like the discovery that he was on C-SPAN." http://bit.
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Match was protested by Nonpareils, but the protest was dismissed.
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There are many different ways to flavour them, but the traditional way is to mix them in honey with diavulilli (nonpareils sprinkles), cinnamon, and bits of orange rind. Naming varies by region: in Calabria they are also known as scalilli, and in Abruzzo cicerchiata. They are often served at Christmas and are sometimes served warm.
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Sno-Caps Sno-Caps topping a cupcake Sno-Caps is a brand of candy consisting of small pieces of semi-sweet chocolate candy covered with white nonpareils. The candy was introduced in the late 1920s by the Blumenthal Chocolate Company. Ward Foods acquired Blumenthal in 1969. The brand was later purchased by the Chicago-based Terson Company in 1981.
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Wockenfuss candies has a variety of confectioneries such as caramel apples, fudge, and lollipops. Some of their specialties include fruit shaped marzipan, crystallized ginger, and mint nonpareils. Kids have a special selection of candy necklaces, gold coins, and cow tails to choose from. The family makes a variety chocolate covered nuts such as cashews, Brazil nuts, almonds, and pecans.
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Confetti candy, also known as confetti sprinkles is also a confectionery that consists of flat or disc-shaped candy sprinklesSweets on a Stick: More Than 150 Kid-Friendly Recipes for Cakes, Candies ... - Linda Vandermeer. (2011-11-18). Retrieved on 2014-03-25. These are similar to round nonpareils, but are prepared in disc form. It is often used to decorate confectioneries and other sweets.
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Items sold vary by location and encompass a wide range of flavors from both East Asian, Japanese and American cuisines, including beef jerky, dried apricots, Skittles, chocolates, nonpareils, spicy dried fish, plum tablets, chili olives, fried and shredded squid, shrimp crackers, hot dog and hamburger shaped gummy candies, wasabi peas, etc.Lee, Jennifer 8. (2006-01-27), "In Chinatowns, All Sojourners Can Feel Hua". The New York Times, .
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Nonpareils date back at least to the late 18th-century, if not earlier. They were used as decoration for pièces montées and desserts. The candy company Just Born cites its founder, Sam Born, as inventing the "chocolate" sprinkles called "jimmies" (which may never have contained any chocolate) in Brooklyn, New York. However, advertisements for chocolate sprinkles as a confection exist as far back as 1921, predating Just Born by two years.
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These countries also use vruchtenhagel and anijshagel (made of sugar and fruit/anise-flavour respectively) on sandwiches (mainly at breakfast). In Indonesia, it is commonly known as meses or meises, presumably derived from the Dutch muisjes, which are also similar. In Belgium it is often called muizenstrontjes (mouse excrement) due to the resemblance with mouse excrement. Fairy bread is the name given to the children's treat of sprinkles or nonpareils on buttered white bread.
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A chocolate cake decorated with icing, strawberries, and silver metallic dragées Another form of dragée is a small sphere of sugar, in the Commonwealth often called a cachou, used primarily in the decoration of cookies, cakes, and other forms of bakery. These are produced in various sizes, typically in diameter. This is larger than nonpareils and smaller than large pearl tapioca. Silver dragées have long been used for both wedding and holiday food decoration.
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In the Northeastern United States, sprinkles are often referred to as jimmies. "Jimmies", in this sense, are usually considered to be used as an ice cream topping, while sprinkles are for decorating baked goods, but the term can be used for both.The Capital Times – August 1, 2006 The sprinkles known as nonpareils in French are tiny opaque spheres that were traditionally white, but that now come in many colors. The sprinkle-type of dragée is like a large nonpareil with a metallic coating of silver, gold, copper, or bronze.
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A pink cupcake with colored sprinkles Sprinkles, chocolate syrup and whipped cream on top of ice cream. Popular terminology for this confection tends to overlap, while manufacturers are more precise with their labeling. What consumers often call "sprinkles" covers several types of candy decorations that are sprinkled randomly over a surface, as opposed to decorations that are placed in specific spots. Nonpareils, confetti, silver, gold, and pearl dragées – not to be confused with pearl sugar (which is also sprinkled on baked goods) – and hundreds-and-thousands are all used this way, along with a newer product called "sugar shapes" or "sequins".
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