Don't forget to thank us in your speech!

From Miette

If we weren't working on Sunday (ah, service industry!), we would definitely watch the Oscars.

Maybe I shouldn't implicate all the Miettegirls in this: I would definitely watch the Oscars!

Pretty dresses! Pretty tuxes! Trash-talking & betting! What more could you ask for?!

Oh right....cookies. Award yourself the Most Awesome Customer Oscar, and weepily bite his buttery head off- but not until your speech gets cut-off by the "that's quite enough from you, thank you" music, of course.

Oscar Cookies
Availability: Ferry Building, SOLD OUT AT OCTAVIA!
Price: $8

Snaps!

From Miette

Every year 7x7 Magazine compiles a carefully-curated, incredibly helpful, and only slightly ominous list: 100 Foods & Drinks to Try Before You Die. We are honored & flattered & jazzed to have our Gingersnaps make the list...for the second year!

From Miette

There are so many great recommendations on this list, you should totally check it out. Print it, laminate it, and have yourself a delicious time.....before you die, of course.

Gingersnaps
Availability: Ferry Building & Octavia
Price: $7/tub

No Time for Pretty Pictures!

From Miette

Your loyal candygirls have been far too busy scrubbing, painting, organizing, recycling, and restocking! Tomorrow, Thursday January 7th 2010, is the grand & great re-opening of Miette Confiserie.

From Miette

Maybe y'all won't even notice anything has changed.. but we'll know in our hearts that the tippy-top of the way-up-high moulding that nobody will ever, ever see is sparkling clean. So satisfying.

And that's not all! Free Organic Lemon Verbena Cotton Candy on Thursday! We'll be spinning it as long as the sugar holds out. We'll be sticky but jazzed to be here!

From Miette

For the last week we've had our windows covered with pink paper, and the effect has been totally dreamy. This is the how it looked from inside the shop. So pink!

A New Year

From Miette

A short while ago, we received some sad news: after nearly 3 wonderful years, our beloved Confiserie would be closing. We were the saddest candygirls in town. We stopped ordering candy (but we love ordering candy!), looked into Unemployment (wasting valuable Cakewrecks time!), and invested in waterproof mascara (there were some tears shed). We sold through our candy, and prepared to step into new roles at Miette, or elsewhere.

Tomorrow was to be our last day, but we have some surprising, amazing news! Thanks to some last-minute re-negotiations, we are keeping our darling candy shop! Instead of a day of sad good-byes, it will be a day of festive yays!

We will be taking this opportunity to close (just for a few days!) for a makeover montage, Miette-style. There will be some cleaning, some painting, some 80s Cooperation Music, and a mad dash to get as much candy back in the shop as we can! We're not doing anything crazy like changing the wallpaper (can you imagine?!), just a nice spruce & refresh as we move into our new year.

Thank you to everyone who's been so kind, and concerned, and just grand these past few weeks, and these past few years! We hope to see you soon, and for a long time to come!

Confiserie Hours
December 31st: 11am-3pm
January 1st-6th: CLOSED
January 7th & Beyond: 11am-7pm Everyday

Radio Free Miette

From Miette

An interview with the charming Brendan of Dinner Party Download, who has his doubts about candy's role in the modern democratic world. I attempt to win him over by having him taste our...oddest candy, which even I don't like, and you know I like some odd candy. I'm just going to assume it worked! *Listen Here*

Sweeter than a Sugar-Pie Pumpkin

From Miette

This is as close to a pumpkin patch as us city girls are going to get this year! No hay-rides or baby goats, unfortunately, but at least there's no chance of accidentally putting your whole hand through a rotten pumpkin that looked perfect from one side. Eeew. Plus, look how cute & smiley they are!

Milk Chocolate Jack-o-Lantern
Availability: Ferry Building, Octavia, Chestnut
Price: $5

(In the background: Fruit Sours, Mellowcreme Pumpkins, & Orange Rock Candy, all available at Octavia)

From Miette

But not as cute & smiley as these baby pumpkins! Eeeee! Get yourself a whole patch-worth!

Crispy Milk Chocolate Pumpkins
Availability: Ferry Building, Chestnut, Sold out at Octavia!
Price: 10cents each, $2.50/gift bag

From Miette

Oh my gosh, that's some sugar right there, under the spooky tree. Handmade lollipops, licorice pastels, and new variations on candy corn. You don't even need to eat them to get a sugar fix. Ask us nice & we'll let you just smell them... Instant Halloween flashback, no harm to your teeth. Wait. I'm going to put myself out of business here.

Halloween Bulk Candy
Availability: Octavia
Price: $10/lb

Halloween Orange Cream Lollipops
Availability: Ferry Building, Sold out at Octavia & Chestnut

From Miette

Nothing pumpkin-related here, just our favorite malt balls in Halloween-y hues, and the Prettiest, Sparkliest, Milk Chocolate Balls Ever. We want to make them into a necklace. Fill a jar at your house & forbid anyone to eat them.

Malt Balls
Varieties: Milk, Dark, & White Chocolate
Availability: Ferry Building, Octavia, Chestnut
Price: $10/lb, gift bags from $3-$7.50

Halloween Sparkly Balls
Availability: Ferry Building, Octavia
Price: 10cents each, $2.50/gift bag

Not a good enough reason to have a baby.... but almost.

From Miette

The onesies are back. I knew we sold onesies a few years ago, and figured they were pretty cute, but...can you see a onesie & not squeal? I cannot. These are especially cute, and I will probably buy one for every sweet little crumb I know.

From Miette

Luckily, babies don't read blogs, so this won't spoil the surprise.

Onesies
Availability: Ferry Building, Octavia, Chestnut
Price: $20
Information: Size 12-18months

Pride & Buttercream

From Miette

The Ferry Building shopgirls 'stached up in honor of San Francisco's LGBT Pride Celebration! Gorgeous, don't you think? You make us proud, girls!

Oh My Freaking Goodness.

Here at Miette, we find candy very exciting. But this is almost too much. To express our enthusiasm, we'll need italics & pom pons & a whole new form of punctuation...

From Miette

...an exclamation point covered in sprinkles.

The Go-Max-Go bars have arrived! These are brilliant, delicious, all-natural, veganized versions of classic candy bars. Eeeeee!

The Twilight, above, contains caramel & nougat, covered in rice-milk chocolate. This was the first bar we were able to try, and we flipped out. But there was so much fun to follow...

From Miette

Jokerz! Chock-full of nougat, caramel, & peanuts, and covered in creamy rice-milk chocolate. We love the saltiness & roastiness of the peanuts, and how perfectly they contrast with the sweet elements. One (of a million) great thing about these bars is that they are nice & sweet like you want a candy bar to be, but not too sweet! The elusive perfect point of sweetness!

From Miette

None of us expected to fall for the Buccaneer. Nougat? Meh. In candy bars it's usually spongey & eggy & mysterious. But today we understand nougat. It's gooey & sweet & simply lovely.

From Miette

And oh, the Mahalo. I've been eating two a day. And a sensible dinner! Creamy, gorgeous coconut center topped with three roasted almonds, wrapped in rice-milk chocolate. I was eating a Mahalo while I took this photo. How can you resist that pretty pretty wrapper?

In conclusion! Be very, very excited. Our expert non-vegan testers verified that these are better than the traditional versions, and they are certainly better than the way I remember the candy bars of my youth! We love love love that they're vegan, but the fact that they don't contain any artificial ingredients!!!! Artificially-flavored treats always leave you feeling like, "Um, did I eat that? I think I tasted it, & maybe I enjoyed it...". But when you eat one of these bars, you feel like, "Yeah! I just ate a candy bar! Let's ride our bikes to the pool! Yay for fun!"

Go, Max, Go Vegan Candy Bars
Price: $3/each
Availability: Only at Octavia (for now!)

*Update 8.6.09 We are SOLD OUT of Go Max Go bars, but there are more on the way! We will let y'all know when we have more!

*Update 8.20.09 They are back in! (Um, except for the Mahalo which is already sold out!)

Who Wouldn't Make Passes at Girls with Moustaches?

From Miette

Our delivery of handmade chocolate moustaches arrived from Portland yesterday, and the shopgirls have been looking particularly lovely ever since.

From Miette

So sweet & angelic, though we might need to commission a white-chocolate moustache for her.

From Miette

Dark chocolate moustaches & vintage dresses: what more could we ask for?

From Miette

Oh, yeah.

Price: $12
Availability: Ferry Building, Octavia, Chestnut
Notes: Milk or Dark Chocolate, Made by Dane of Pink, White, Brown

Don't get too excited...

...it's just a wrapper. However! We have reason to believe that Mast Brothers bars will soon be making their way to us from Brooklyn. Oh, we've missed them so!
The bars, of course.
We are professionals.

The Miettegirl & the Sea

Here at the Confiserie, we entertain ourselves by setting up little vignettes, dreaming up complicated surroundings & circumstances for our candy. Candy nerds we are, one & all.

Our favorite spot in the shop right now is nicknamed The Captain's Table. We imagine a taciturn, bearded Captain who's off at sea, but we're keeping his table just the way he left it for the day he returns.* It holds his salt water taffy, chocolate sardines, and gold bullion (has he a bit of pirating in his past, or does he just enjoy milk chocolate Gianduja?). Weather-worn maps, a sextant (whatever that is), an hour-glass, everything a captain could need. Still, it seems like something's missing....





Ah, of course: a licorice pipe. Much better.



*Does that make us Brand-ay?

Licorice Pipes
Availability: Ferry Building, Octavia, Chestnut
Price: $1-$1.50

Gianduja
Availability: Octavia
Price: $1

Salt Water Taffy
Availability: Ferry Building, Octavia, Chestnut
Price: 25cents/peice, $20/tin