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Chamoy peach rings

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Spicy peach rings soaked in chamoy and sprinkled with Tajín are an easy sweet and sour candy treat you can make at home.

Chamoy peach rings are just one of many variations of this popular Mexican candy. In Mexico, you can easily find them sold in street vendor stalls, grocery stores, and even high-end candy shops. It’s spicy, sweet, sour and tangy all at once—and completely addictive!

peach gummy rings soaked in chamoy and covered in tajín in a plastic container

If you love Mexican gummies with chamoy, you’ll definitely want to try my recipe for spicy mango gummies, too.

While there are plenty of mass-produced Mexican candies that fall into this same category, such as osos enchilados (chili and chamoy gummy bears) and pica fresas (a strawberry gummy with a chamoy candy coating), I prefer the homemade, small batch method so you can control exactly how sweet, sour or spicy you want your gummies to be.

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Wordless Wednesday: Sweet childhood memories

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When I was a little girl, I remember my dad used to bring me Canel’s chewing gum as a treat. Sometimes he even kept it in the glove box of his car for me. I never really knew where he got them from, but he seemed to always have them. Now, whenever I see them being sold on the street in Mexico, I have a hard time resisting buying a few little packs.

  • Are there any candies that remind you of your childhood?

Mexican Candy: Moritas

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If you haven’t noticed, I have a bit of an obsession with Mexican candies. Here’s another one of my finds, Moritas. They’re soft, sour gomitas that taste like blackberries and strawberries. They’re not the same kind of chewy consistency you’d expect from gummy bears, and they have a sort of crunchy, sweet, flavored coating of sugar dots. I haven’t had these in Mexico, but I’ve eaten something similar there and figured I’d like these too. My instincts usually don’t steer me wrong, and this was no exception–I’m headed back to the store this week to pick up another little bag.

  • Can you think of any other sweet and sour candies from Mexico?

Mexican Candy: Bubu Lubu

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Yesterday my friend Tracy from Latinaish clued me in that the maker of one of my favorite Mexican candy bars, Bubu Lubu, is on Twitter! As we were telling a mutual friend, we both use the same Bubu Lubu buying strategy: one for now and one to stick in the refrigerator for later. At one of the local supermercados where I do my grocery shopping, they have both the room-temperature candy bars and a special little display in the refrigerator case by the checkout line that are already nice and cold. Not familiar with Bubu Lubu? It’s a candy bar with marshmallow inside, topped with a strawberry-flavored jelly and covered in chocolate.

  • How do you like your Bubu Lubu?

Wordless Wednesday: Dulces

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José returned this past Sunday from his trip to Mexico City for Semana Santa. Among the presents he brought home for me… ¡Dulces! In pretty much any taquería in Mexico, you’ll get some kind of candies delivered with your check. Some of my favorites include the dulces de tamarindo (tamarind and chile-flavored candy) and the paletas picosas (spicy and sweet lollipops) pictured above from El Charco de Las Ranas, El Califa and El Fogoncito.

  • What’s your favorite candy when you visit a taquería?