Cool Caramels

Caramels are getting a flavor makeover thanks to some new products. Happy Goat Milk Caramels ($6.99-$9.99; happygoatcaramel.com) are made with goat’s milk from free-range goats raised on small California farms. The farmers avoid all the bad stuff—sprays, insecticides and pesticides—and feed the goats grass, clover, alfalfa, legume hay, water, and salt. The animals are free to roam and are never separated from their mothers at birth. These caramels, freckled with real Madagascar bourbon vanilla bean seeds, may be proof that happy goats make better milk. An added bonus: Goat’s milk is naturally lower in fat than cow’s milk, and contains less lactose, making it easier to digest.

Another producer, Amella’s in Los Angeles, is making light and fluffy dessert-flavored caramels like Carrot Cake, made with fresh carrots, roasted pecans and cocoa butter; and the first Artisan Cocoa Butter Caramel, made from pure cocoa butter and real fruits or vegetables. They also carry Passion Fruit as well as Black Forest, a blend of real Amarelle cherries, 70 percent dark chocolate and Tahitian vanilla. No matter the flavor, each one is individually hand dipped half way in rich chocolate.—Denise Shoukas

Denise Shoukas is a regular foodspring.com contributor and is the author of foodspring’s food forager blog.

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