Once Upon A Time there was a woman who loved chocolate. She loved it totally, completely and ridiculously. She had no favorite brand or recipe or type for she was an equal opportunity lover of all things creamy and dark. Choosing one over the other would be unthinkable. Like Sophie. Painful and pointless. She adored it all. She craved it all - in every milky, dark, semi-sweet, international, domestic, creamy, crunchy, infused, drinkable, lick-able, yummygasmic variety...
[Note: it just dawned on said woman that, to be completely honest, there is one kind of chocolate that needs to be voted off the island NOW - that tasteless, waxy, stick to your teeth, coat your mouth like an old crayon, anal suppository wrapped in holiday foil they sell at the Dollar Store. Giving me that shit is like promising me Taye Diggs and showing up with a pale, toothless, mullet-sporting carny you found working an Appalachian Tilt-o-Whirl. Don't bother. I beg of you.]
I have been a chocolate lover my whole life with an admitted soft spot for Kit Kats - even better, Kit Kat Bites - and Cadbury Flakes. But, I think I have, at long last, actually found my favorite chocolate concoction. The Sweet Bricks Oreo Cookies & Creme Toffee. This stuff should be illegal - like, one should need a medical card to gain access to it. But, thank God it is available to the chocolate loving public at large.
CHECK THEM OUT. As you you heading into the holiday season and are looking for the perfect treat to put in bowls at parties and to give in bags to family, friends, neighbors, teachers, employees... Seriously - this stuff is to die for.
PLUS you are supporting a family in need. It was started by a woman named Jamie who developed MS during a pregnancy 20 years ago. The illness was managed pretty well until a couple of years ago and she is now chair bound. At the same time she started to go downhill, her husband was diagnosed with malignant melanoma that rapidly metastasized into his lungs and lymph nodes. He underwent several rounds of Interleukin (a brutal therapy I am, unfortunately, intimately acquainted with) to no avail. Miraculously, after being declared "inoperable," several of his tumors have actually vanished but others continue to regularly pop up.
During all this, Jamie continued to make several batches of her annual Christmas toffee as gifts for friends and family. Neither she nor her husband could work and with their astronomical medical bills it was all they could afford. And it was a long standing tradition that she stoically refused to give up. Several friends started encouraging her to sell it for profit and Sweet Bricks was born. The company is now being run by their children and select family members - with proceeds going to cover the medical expenses of Jamie and her husband.
This is a Holiday No Brainer. You get to taste the yummiest toffee you have ever had, or will ever have, the blessed good fortune of tasting while helping a family in need. Again, check out their OFFICIAL WEBSITE and Facebook Page, order as much as is humanly possible, taste it for yourself, scream the first name that comes into your mind (preferably mine) while holding onto the nearest piece of furniture and then spread the word.
I promise you will be Happygasmicly thrilled you did.
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