Cream Filberts - Handmade

These delightful candies are, indeed, unique. The outer shell is crisp, with a creamy sugar filling, and a crunchy filbert inside. They look like little snowballs, equally at home in a decorative bowl or straight from the bag. They’re the perfect accompaniment for a cup of tea or coffee but great as an anytime snack.

I discovered cream filberts when I was researching candies of the 18^th and 19^th centuries. There they were in a volume from the early 1800s professing to be the only world’s only food encyclopedia.  The book described cream filberts as “old-fashioned” candy, with ingredients identical to the ones used today!

Cream filberts go by other names such as “sugar plums” a style of candy dating back to the 1500s, and “mothball candy” the name it was given in the 1940s because they look like the mothballs people once used to protect their clothing from moths.

Cream filberts have been going in and out of style for centuries. Lucky fo us, we still have them today!

 *Comes in a 4 oz, heat sealed bag*