Sponge Candy appears as a signature dish in 1 United States cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Sponge candy · Buffalo
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.
Where to eat in Buffalo:
- Watson's Chocolates (Elmwood)
- Fowler's Chocolates
- Parkside Candy