Education Center

Chocolatey Minty Ice Cream Dessert

It’s summer and chilly Grasshopper Pie can be the perfect hot-day treat to cool off. See Bon Appetit Magazine’s Grasshopper tart recipe which brings crushed Oreo® cookies, Andes® mints or After Eights® mints together with mint chip ice cream for a sweet cooling delight. Store, cut and serve frozen. Enjoy!...
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How do you taste chocolate? Here’s a guide

Thank you to The Madelaine Chocolate Company in Far Rockaway, Queens, New York for this handy tasting guide for dark, milk and white chocolates. Savor, snap, texture and flavor. click to read the Chocolate 101 article and learn from this 67 year old family company....
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Allured Fund applications for 2016 courses due by July 15th

There are many fine training opportunities in our industry this year to build your skills. The Allured Fund for Confectionery Education need-based grants provide financial help for industry members who wish to expand their food-science knowledge or confectionery skills through continuing education courses. Due dates are on the 15th of...
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Sweets and Snacks Expo – Learning Center

The high quality Sweets and Snacks Expo Discovery Theater and Sweets Insights Theater programs on brands, trends, consumers and products are available now for you to read. Downloadable presentations include Winning Shoppers with Informed Choice and Responsibility with Cam Cloeter and Larry Wilson, Emerging Flavor Trends for 2016 and Beyond:...
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In their own words…

Letter to our Sweets and Snacks Expo NextGen volunteers: Thank you for giving your time and talent last Wednesday to introduce 100 student and faculty guests to our great industry. You serve to inspire, connect and strengthen our creative and dynamic industry. Without you, the Next Generation program at Sweets...
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Thank you to our 80 volunteers and 50 companies in the NextGen program

This week, NCA's The Confectionery Foundation's Next Generation program at Sweets and Snacks Expo brought together 100 college students and faculty from 18 educational institutions with 80 industry professionals to connect, inspire and strengthen. The students learned about the many career opportunities in the confectionery and snack industry as well...
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