Although made in Chicago, Eli's cheesecake, made with a butter cookie crust, has made many New Yorkers converts. Eli's has been making 200 varieties of cheesecake since 1980, including a Turtle Cheesecake and a Blood Orange Champagne Cheesecake, available as part of the Couture Sampler.
Host of Food Network's Kid in a Candy Store, Adam Gertler is on the hunt for the coolest twists on cake and a trip to Kickass Cupcakes, a cupcake shop in Somerville, MA, leads to a decadent deep fried cupcake sundae.
Typical round truffles need not apply here. At Copper Cauldron Candy Co., owner Jim Martin has been serving truffles in a triangular truffle bar. It's perfect for slicing, and even better for layering creamy ganache over ingredients like candied ginger, pineapple and macadamia nut praline.
As an absolute expert of edible drink straws and caramel marshmallows, Hammond's Candies is also home to the "heavyweight champion" of lollipops. They've been perfecting lollipops since 1920 and the giant Birthday Cake Lollipop beats them all — it's roughly 800 lollipops rolled into one.
These marshmallows aren't your typical s'more stuffer. At Plush Puffs, they've re-engineered the humble mallow into an artisan confection with flavors like caramel swirl, lemony meringue and chocolate chipetta. For big marshmallow fanatics, order "The Big One," a whopping 2-pound marshmallow.
The chocolates at Eclipse Chocolate not only come in elegant designs and flavors, but they're a sustainable confection too. Eclipse uses only Guillard Chocolate for its signature Rocky Mountain chocolate bar, made with all-natural vanilla bean marshmallows and gray sea salt sprinkled on top.
Host of Food Network's Kid in a Candy Store, Adam Gertler visits the Dippin' Dots Store, in Metropolis, IL, where they scoop out of their famous ice cream beads in the planet's largest Dippin' Dots store.
Adam Gertler had his hands full when visiting Popcorn Girl for Kid in a Candy Store. The Las Vegas shop carries an above-average amount of popcorn and popcorn flavors. As the Popcorn Girl suggests, try the Confetti bag that comes with grape, banana, blueberry, blackberry and more.
On Food Network's Kid in a Candy Store, host Adam Gertler braves the extremely sour Warheads at Impact Confections, Inc. in Roswell, NM.
On Food Network's Kid in a Candy Store, host Adam Gertler discovers a tradition of candy making at Sconza Candies in Oakdale, CA, where a third generation of the Italian Sconza family now makes Lemoncello Almonds.
The chocolatiers at Generations of Lee Gelfond Chocolate pack more than 15,000 chocolate molds into their bag of tricks -- one of the largest collections in the world. On Kid in a Candy Store, Adam Gertler didn't come for their tricks, but instead the giant white and dark chocolate haunted house.
Adam Gertler, host of Food Network's Kid in a Candy Store, discovers Bleeding Heart Bakery, a bakery in Chicago, IL, where the radically colorful cakes look like they were decorated in a tattoo parlor.
The Chocolate Bar in Houston serves up sweet spins on classic pub snacks like Chocolate-Covered Popcorn and Fritos Brittle. The signature dessert pizza replaces pepperoni and cheese with candied ginger root and white chocolate. On Kid in a Candy Store, Adam Gertler gave it his stamp of approval.
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