A Buffalo specialty confection: golden honeycomb toffee aerated with baking soda, then dipped in dark or milk chocolate. The honeycomb is brittle, melts on the tongue and has a hollow lattice inside.

Buffalo sponge candy traces to Fowler's Chocolates, which has made it since 1910, with Watson's Chocolates (1946) and Parkside Candy (1927) the other canonical makers. The chocolate-covered honeycomb toffee is a Buffalo-Niagara regional confection that rarely shows up outside Western New York, anchoring the city's gift-shop and holiday-confection trade.

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