Editor's Note: Introducing Meet Me Mondays - Candy Version! I am Britta Malsch, the Purchasing Manager at Anderson's Candy Shop. I also help the Andersons with social media duties. As I enter my 10th year at the store, another one of my goals has been to help introduce each of our delicious candies to our wonderful customers, while also providing a tool for the general public to be able to identify our candy. I hope you enjoy this series which will highlight all the Anderson's Candy that you love!
Fourteenth in our series is Pecan.
Like our Almond bars, the nuts that go into our Pecan candies have been chosen specifically for their freshness and flavor "punch." The pecans are prepared specifically to order for us and the result is an unbeatable buttery, sweet flavor - distinct and robust!
We order what is referred to as junior mammoth pecans grown in either Georgia or Mexico and purchase them through locally owned NIDA Trading in Elk Grove Village, IL.
We then take those pecans and combine them with our delicious chocolate.
When searching in a box of chocolates for a dipped pecan, hunt for two pieces together side by side in one candy cup. Each piece will be a sort of wonky oblong shape with a letter "P" on top.
These pieces are never the exact same shape as each nuts is unique. But we do our best to make them look uniform. We need to be able to identify them in the packing room to be put away properly!
Exactly like dipping the Almond bars, when the Dipping Room Associates make our Pecan bars, they lay down a nice puddle of chocolate, lay nuts on top and then cover each nut in more chocolate on top.
These bars are made 10 at a time, by eye for shape and size. Once 10 bars have been dipped on to a tin, each tin is weighed to ensure that the bars on it are the right aggregate weight. The bars are left to dry and later put away by staff in another area. The Dippers are kind though and leave a "naked" guide nut out on the tray so that there is no question as to which nut is in the candy bar.
Fun Fact: This guide nut process is only the case for the nut bars, Orange Peel and Raisin Bars.
All of our other pieces are bars have their own identifying marks on top that the packing room can "read".
Pecans are also GLUTEN FREE!
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