Every Christmas my son spoils me with a few hand-selected cigars from a high quality shop in Atlanta. These aren’t like my two-bit stogies, they are really good cigars. Each one is an experience to itself.
Jimmie’s friend, the Cigar Meister, carefully selects a half dozen or so of some of his finest smokes and tucks them neatly in a wooden cigar box sprinkled with a few cigar leaves and some candy. The candy, Bonart Candy to be exact, is something else. If you ever had a piece you would want to smoke cigars just to get more. They are really good.
The candy I like has a dark chocolate cover and a hard, coffee center. It is perfect for after dinner and with a glass of red wine, and while it’s chocolate and has calories, it’s not nearly as fatal as a piece of pie with ice cream. It’s a delightful finish to a fine meal or with a good cigar.
Bonart Foods is a Turkish Company with over 50 years’ experience in making candies. They offer a wide variety of candies and flavors, but the Coffee Sweeties are really, really good. I just ordered a couple bags online so I won’t have to wait until Christmas to get some more. I have never seen them in stores, but I have really never looked for them. If you ever see any, particularly the coffee flavor, try a bag. And you don’t even have to smoke a cigar to enjoy them.