June Tasting Box
Posted: May 17, 2011 Filed under: announcements, Products 4 Comments »
So our fabulous new website is up (which is why this blog has gone back to it’s wordpress domain), and I must say that our in-house graphics-guy, Daniel Boccato, really outdid himself. Full disclosure: this man also happens to be my significant other, so perhaps I am biased. Please check out the new site and tell us what you think!
You will also notice that the new site has an announcement about our Tasting Box, a new monthly offer from fig + kindle. This box is stuffed full with a number of newly-invented sweets, old classics, and always something different that what we offer in our normal repertoire. The box changes each month along with its packaging; each one is put together to tell a story about the particular time of year from locally-sourced fruits, to new designer wrapping paper.
To give you a sneak peak at June: we have a kraft paper cube, wrapped with green and white hydrangea paper, filled with five sweets:
Local Strawberry Elderflower Jam
Lavender Almond Toffee
Lemon Verbena Marshmallows
Whole Wheat Sablés with Shaved Taza Chocolate, Vanilla Bean, and Maine Sea Salt
Candied Thyme Walnuts
We will be accepting orders for these boxes until June 15th, after which all will be assembled and shipped the following week. Check them out on ETSY.
Please keep a lookout for new announcements as we relaunch fig + kindle in its entirety in June!
Marshmallows!
Posted: November 29, 2010 Filed under: announcements, Products, shop Leave a comment »
Hello all. I told you we were going to have multiple surprise for you in December– so surprise again– one is ready NOW. I am so pleased to introduce to you the two newest items in the Fig & Kindle shop: Chamomile Honey Vanilla marshmallows and Rum Spiced Molasses marshmallows.
I was very hesitant about adding marshmallows to the shop for two reasons: 1) everyone seems to be trying it and 2) despite having worked with them for years, I have never been able to make decent ones without corn syrup. I am pleased to say that after much experimentation we have two marshmallows ready to go, free of corn syrup, and hopefully providing a much needed level of sophistication to the marshmallow market out there.
I must say, I usually don’t toot my own horn (too much in public), but the chamomile marshmallows are out of this world. I have been eating them for two days wondering what kind of magic fairy must have fallen into the pot with them– they taste BUTTERY — like chamomile ice cream with a delicate drizzle of honey over the top. Not at all cloyingly sweet as so many marshmallows are. I can only imagine it is the flavor balance between sweet honey, herbal chamomile, and creamy vanilla.
Check them out in the shop!
New Flavors in the Shop!
Posted: October 5, 2010 Filed under: announcements, Products Leave a comment »A few shop updates this week. First of all, as many have noticed, our caramel sauces are not currently listed on etsy. This is due to our canning equipment deciding, after the influx of orders last week, to go to the big trash dump in the sky. We’ll be updating everyone when a brand new, shiny pressure canner comes our way.
That said, now for the good news! Fall is finally hitting us in Boston with its usual mix of reds, golds, and oranges (and terribly schizophrenic weather patterns). So we are rotating out our warm weather shortbread flavors, anise and rosemary lemon, for two that are great to enjoy with a warm mug of tea or coffee.
We are now offering Cinnamon-Allspice, a deeply spiced cookie reminiscent of pumpkin pie. With cinnamon being an obligatory fall offering we decided to pair it with allspice, a sadly less popular flavor that we think deserves its moment in the spotlight. Allspice adds a deep sweetness to the cinnamon spice of this cookie.
Also in the shop is Serious Cocoa Shortbread. We worked with a few different chocolate shortbread recipes and found this one on accident. No kidding, these shortbreads taste like the last sip of a cup of hot chocolate– you know, where all the good stuff has settled on the bottom. Who knew chocolate shortbread and cocoa shortbread were two different things?
Introducing Our Brittles
Posted: June 29, 2009 Filed under: Products Leave a comment »It only seemed fitting to give you all a proper introduction to our first line of brittles available for sale on esty. We make lots of goodies here at Fig & Kindle. We chose to offer up what we call “glass brittle” first in our online shop– gotta start somewhere.
Our brittles are different from the old fashioned variety because they are so clear and delicate. We don’t dump in baking soda to make a foamy batter. After many many pots of boiled, burnt, and seized sugar we finally produced a clear sheet of sugar that we could infuse with herbs and spices and fill with nuts.
Walnut Rosemary Brittle with Sea Salt
This brittle came from the desire to have a product that could be a sophisticated candy as well as an ingredient for cooking. You can eat it right out of the box for a sweet-salty snack, but you can also smash it up and add it to savory dishes. No kidding, we took this brittle and cracked it over the top of our Christmas ham– let’s just say we won’t be buying honey baked hams from the grocery store ever again.
Toasted Almond Anise Brittle
We were dying to make a brittle with anise and decided that toasted almonds would be the perfect, warm background for this light and refreshing brittle. This also happens to be one of our prettiest candies; light reflects off the surface of sugar and flat almonds making it a very dainty treat indeed.
Salt Sweet Peanut Brittle
Of course we can’t break with tradition too much. Our peanut brittle is heavy on the peanuts which are salted (and we like it that way!) The clear sugar we use for our base really lets the peanuts shine.
Saigon Cinnamon Peanut Brittle
Warm, sweet, crunchy. This candy tastes like early September. We cook the sugar to a darker caramel to blend with the cinnamon and prevent it from tasting bitter.
Smokin’ Hot Pecan Brittle
Take a trip out west with this one. Buttery pecans suspended in a gorgeous dark amber brittle flavored with cayenne, chile, and red pepper. The molasses-like sweetness of the sugar mellows out the heat giving you a pleasant smokey-hot bite and tingly feeling on your tongue.
Wasabi Pea Brittle
Our favorite. Hands down. This quirky brittle was inspired by the many afternoons spent poking around asian markets in NYC. The sweet caramel sugar and salty-spice of wasabi make a perfect afternoon snack. midnight snack. Anytime snack. This isn’t a spicy snack– it’s amazing how the sugar lets the flavor of wasabi shine (as opposed to just the heat).
