I Want Candy

With Halloween just around the corner, I thought it would be the perfect time to post about the Confiserie Florian, an artisanal candy factory we visited during our trip to the South of France last April. The factory is tucked away in a village called Tourrettes-sur-Loup in the French Riviera’s back country and produces all sorts of sweets including candied fruit, jams, syrups, caramels...

The highlight of the factory tour was getting to watch as they made lemon-flavored hard candies. The steps we saw included pouring very hot, flavored sugar syrup out of a copper bowl and onto a cooling table.

The “candy dough” was flipped and folded several times and then cut into several large chunks.

Each of these was passed through a candy press, which resulted in what looked to me like a long, narrow sheet of yellow bubble wrap.

Each sheet was then struck lightly against the table to break apart the individual candies.

Here are some more photos, including the packaging area and the gift shop where, of course, the tour ended.

On the topic of sweets, I discovered the Candy Professor blog via a recent article about the villanization of candy -- pretty interesting blog for the candy lovers amongst us.

Comments

[Blair]

I think we all want candy now!!