This year will go down in history for any number of events, but few, I’m guessing will take note that it’s the twentieth anniversary of this special artisan candy bar! The Wowza™ was the third candy bar we created, following in the confectionery footsteps of the original Zzang!™ and Cashew Cow, the second of the now six artisan candy bars to come online.
This quietly compelling handcrafted bar from the Candy Manufactory is in fact pretty darned fabulous. You can find Wowza bars at the Candy Store, the Deli, Roadhouse, and Bakehouse, and, if you’re like a lot of candy lovers around town, at your house pretty regularly too. We’re happy to ship you some anywhere in the U.S. as well. If you’re one of the many folks who’s exceptionally fond of the combination of dark chocolate and fruit, you’ll want to find a way to work one of these Wowza bars into your day!
The bars begin with a raspberry dark chocolate ganache made with fresh local cream and also with the seedless red raspberry preserves from Clearbrook Farm out in Oregon. On the inside, you’ll find this creamy-on-the-tongue, smooth raspberry nougat that gets gently whipped by the Candy Manufactory crew into what they like to call “fluffy, gooey gloriousness.” It gets a layer of raspberry preserves and then the whole thing is enrobed with more dark chocolate.
Like all the bars from the Candy Manufactory, the Wowzas offer us a chance to experience what fresh candy is all about—when you’re eating something that wasn’t made twelve or fifteen months earlier, you really can taste the difference!!
I discovered the other morning that the Wowza is the favorite of Grace Singleton, long-time co-managing partner at the Deli. Here’s what she has to say about it:
The Wowza has that exceptional thick coating of dark chocolate that encases layers of marshmallow and raspberry. The sugar will crystallize just a little where the layers meet, providing a slightly crunchy texture, and the fruit flavor with the fluffy filling is such a great contrast with the dark chocolate shell. The raspberry flavor is bold and bright and makes me smile.
