(I like to make a mess... )

Time to rewatch the movie, Chocolat.

while no longer there; he still has 2 shops. One in Brooklyn, and one in the passageway toward Grand Central.

Anyway I was near that factory for a while. There were candies, and bon-bons, bark, cookies, powdered chocolate, big molded chocolate items usually animals, ice cream in the summer, and hot (and ?frozen hot chocolate).
It was all to swoon for !!
😄🥰🥰🥰

They also had hot chocolate plain, or with a dash of chilli powder! Pretty tasty!

In some states you can buy liqueur chocolates imported from Europe....

I'm crazy about Carmel.
Now, add chocolate?
I'd be my own hero!

Super yum!!

Private Selection caramels are better than a lot of boxed chocolates. My store sells so many they have a special display of them.

I started by doing it just to make a caramel sauce for carrots.
Then, I decided just to make caramel.
But, I've never coated them with chocolate.
I do sprinkle them with course salt, though.
I avoid the term sea salt, because 99% of all salt on earth was, at some point, sea salt.

Dark chocolate (70% - 85%), with dark chocolate ganash, with a sprinkle of teeny pistachio pieces on top!
Or teeny pieces of macadamia nuts.

...strawberry or raspberry filling.

& some days I don't!

Or dark chocolate covered toffee.
Then dark chocolate covered caramel.
And maybe dark chocolate covered krispies.
There's a theme.

... and yes, I've just described a perfect Mounds bar!

It's fairly easy to make vegan turtles.