Pe de moleque means street kids foot or rascals foot in Portuguese. One explanation for the name is that the candys irregular surface resembles the cobblestone pavement of colonial Brazilian streets. However, a more popular folk legend suggests the name comes from street vendors who, when children tried to steal the candy, would tell them […]

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Hokey pokey is honeycomb toffee — sugar and golden syrup cooked to hard crack stage, then baking soda stirred in at the last moment. The baking soda reacts with the hot sugar syrup, releasing carbon dioxide that aerates the mixture instantly, creating thousands of small bubbles that set as the candy cools into a rigid, […]

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