Types of chocolates names. Chocolate candies - origin and types; selection and storage of sweets; benefit and harm; the secret of cooking at home

Still, mostly sweet products are aimed at children, and children are more interested in looking at candy wrappers with images of animals and birds than with historical subjects (for which Abrikosov’s candy wrappers were also famous).

Caramel “Snowball” from the same manufacturer is white, crunches on the teeth, the wrapper is in white and blue “frosty” tones with painted snowflakes. Or caramel “Dream”, also from the Rot-Front. Of course, “dream” is an abstract concept, but it is clear that the creator of the name is simply not saying enough, but wanted to say: “Not candy, but a dream!” The image of a dream candy is successfully complemented by a pink and white “girly” candy wrapper. Among chocolate candies, one can remember “Golden Domes”, dome-shaped candies in gold foil.

But, alas, “Truffle” candies are also made in the shape of a dome (or mushroom), while the first real French truffle candies from a creamy “ganache” mass, consisting of chocolate and cream, were made in the shape of a not ideal ball - and They are named so precisely because of their external resemblance to the most expensive mushroom - the truffle, which for a long time was considered a dish available only to very rich people. The cap of the truffle mushroom is not at all similar to the cap of our Truffle candies!

The emergence of a number of strange and sometimes simply curious names for candies resulted from the adoption of amendments to the trademark law in 2008, as a result of which the right to use the “old” names remained only with the capital’s United Confectioners holding company. All other candy manufacturers had to either buy out licenses from the United Confectioners, or stop producing “Soviet” confectionery products, or rename them. You can read about this in the article “Naming in Russian”.

And now “Uralkonditer” produces “Umelochka” candies in the familiar “Belochka” candy wrapper.

The Kazan factory "Zarya" renames "Bird's milk" to "Bird-warbler-warbler". JSC "Primorsky Confectioner" now produces "Vasyok" sweets instead of "Vasilyok" sweets, and "Krasny Mag" instead of "Red Poppy". And “Bear Clubfoot”, performed by the Novosibirsk confectionery factory “Lyubava”, turned into candies “Brother has arrived from the North”, and on a wrapper created at one time for “Einem” by industrial artist Emmanuil Manuylov based on Ivan Shishkin’s painting “Morning in a Pine Forest” , next to the brown bears there is now a white bear...

Moreover, the “United Confectioners” apparently also divided the “old names” among themselves, otherwise it is difficult to explain why “Cockerel - the Golden Comb” “remained” with “Red October”, and the “Babaevsky” concern (Penza Confectionery Factory) produces candies of a similar recipe with the frightening pseudo-folklore name “Cockerel - Butter Head”.

The confectionery factory “AtAg” (IP Yu. A. Atomyan) (Sheksna, Vologda region) amazes with the variety of candy packaging and the unbridled imagination of the authors of their names. For example, this company produces candies in chocolate glaze with a creamy filling with the addition of halva and sunflower seeds in a cute pale yellow and brown wrapper with sunflowers on it. And these candies are called “Light of the Soul”! The name personally gives me an ambivalent feeling. On the one hand, it is sunny, of course. On the other hand, it seems to me that it should be avoided in the names of food products, i.e. objects of potential internal use, words such as “soul”, “God”, “Universe”, etc.

The range of chocolate in the USSR was truly enormous. From all the variety, one could choose products to suit every taste and material income; not a single holiday, and not just children’s, could do without this delicacy. During the Soviet era, Christmas trees were decorated with chocolates for the New Year. In Soviet times, the treasured chocolate bar was included in any gift. Do you know everything about this sweet product? For example, do you know the name of the chocolate manufacturer “Alenka” in the USSR, and how did chocolate production appear in Russia in the first place?

It seems to us now that chocolate has always been around. Well, it’s impossible to imagine that there was once no chocolate candy in this world. Meanwhile, the first chocolate bar appeared only in 1899 in Switzerland. In Russia, confectionery production until the beginning of the 19th century was, for the most part, artisanal. Foreigners were also actively exploring the Russian confectionery market. The history of the appearance of chocolate in Russia began in 1850, when Ferdinand von Einem, who came from Württenberg, Germany, to Moscow, opened a small workshop on Arbat for the production of chocolate products, including sweets.

In 1867, Einem and his partner Geis built a new factory building on Sofia Embankment. According to information from the history of chocolate in Russia, this factory was one of the first to be equipped with a steam engine, which allowed the company to quickly become one of the largest confectionery manufacturers in the country.

After the revolution of 1917, all confectionery factories passed into the hands of the state - in November 1918, the Council of People's Commissars issued a decree on the nationalization of the confectionery industry. Naturally, the change of owners entailed a change of names. The Abrikosov factory was named after the worker Pyotr Akimovich Babaev, chairman of the Sokolniki District Executive Committee of Moscow. The Einem company became known as Red October, and the former factory of the Lenov merchants was renamed Rot Front. True, the ideas of Marx and Lenin, the revolutionary spirit and new names could not in any way influence the technology of confectionery production. Both under the old and new governments, sugar was needed to produce sweets, and cocoa beans were needed to make chocolate. And there were serious problems with this. The “sugar” regions of the country were under the rule of the whites for a long time, and the currency and gold, for which it was possible to buy overseas raw materials, were used to purchase bread. Only by the mid-20s was confectionery production more or less revived. The NEP helped this; entrepreneurial spirit and the growing well-being of city residents made it possible to quickly increase the production of caramel, sweets, cookies, and cakes. The planned economy that replaced the NEP left its mark on the confectionery industry. Since 1928, the production of sweets was strictly regulated, each factory was transferred to its own, separate type of product. In Moscow, for example, caramel was produced by the Babaev factory. The producer of chocolate in the USSR was the Red October factory, and the producer of cookies was Bolshevik.

During the war, many confectionery factories were evacuated from the European part of the country to the rear. Confectioners continued to work, producing, among other things, strategically important products. The “emergency supply” set necessarily included a chocolate bar, which saved the lives of more than one pilot or sailor.

After the reparation war, equipment from German confectionery enterprises arrived from Germany to the USSR, which made it possible to quickly establish the production of chocolate products. Chocolate production grew every year. For example, in 1946, the Babaev chocolate manufacturing company in the USSR processed 500 tons of cocoa beans, in 1950 - 2000 tons, and by the end of the 60s - 9000 tons annually. This impressive growth in production was indirectly facilitated by foreign policy. For many years, the Soviet Union supported various regimes in many countries of the world, including African ones. The main thing for these regimes was to swear allegiance to communist ideals, and then assistance in the form of weapons, technology, and equipment was provided. This support was practically free of charge; the only thing Africans could somehow pay back to the USSR with was raw materials and agricultural products. That is why confectionery factories were uninterruptedly supplied with raw materials from distant African expanses.

In those years, there was no competition between chocolate producers in the Soviet Union, in the traditional sense. Confectioners could compete for awards and titles, for example, “best in the industry,” for awards at exhibitions, for the love, in the end, of consumers, but not for their wallets. Very careless and “tasteless” manufacturers could have problems with the sale of candies and other sweet products. But there was no shortage, at least in large cities. Of course, from time to time the names of candies in the USSR, such as “Belochka”, “Mishka in the North” or “Karakum” disappeared from the shelves, and “Bird's Milk” rarely appeared on them, but usually Muscovites, Kyivians or Kharkovites could buy, even Not every store has its own favorite delicacies. The exception was pre-holiday days. Every pre-New Year children's theater performance or matinee ended with the distribution of sweet sets, which is why the most popular varieties of candy disappeared from store shelves at that time. Before March 8, it was difficult to find sweets in boxes, which, together with a bouquet of flowers, made up a “universal” gift for the holiday that did not require serious thought from men.

What kind of Soviet-era chocolate and candies were there in the USSR, what were they called (with photo)

The main producers of sweets in the USSR were the factories “Red October”, “Rot Front”, “Babaevskaya” and “Bolshevik”, which were located in the capital of the Soviet Union - Moscow. It was they who set the tone for other factories, both in the quality and design of sweet products.

“Red October” is the former confectionery factory “Einem” (named after its founder, the German Ferdinand von Einem). After the October Revolution of 1917, the factory was nationalized and renamed. And it continued its “sweet” history in new, socialist conditions, producing mainly chocolate and candies. What sweets were especially popular in the USSR? Of course, “Teddy Bear” (appeared in 1925), “Southern Night” (1927), “Fudge” (1928), “Kitty-Kitty” toffee (1928), “Stratosphere” (1936), “Soufflé” (1936), etc.

In 1935, A. Ptushko’s film “The New Gulliver” was released, which was a huge success among children. After this, “Gulliver” candies appeared on the shelves of Soviet stores - waffles covered with real chocolate icing. These were expensive candies, so when they became popular, their cheap counterpart appeared - Zhuravlik candies, where the same wafer was covered with soy chocolate. The price is more affordable - 20 kopecks per piece.

What was the name of the chocolate produced by this manufacturer in the USSR? Among the chocolate products of “Red October”, the “oldest” brand was “Golden Label” (1926). But Gvardeysky chocolate appeared during the war.

Here you can see photos of Soviet chocolate from various factories:

Chocolate "Cola" in the USSR and other chocolate products

In the twenties of the last century, “Red October” produced exclusively chocolate, and one brand, “Cola,” was intended for pilots. And after the war, the production of sweets was resumed.

Such candies during the USSR as “Bear in the North”, “Bird Bear”, “Red Poppy”, “Tuzik”, “Come on, take it away!”, “Karakum”, “Bird’s milk” and, of course, “ Squirrel,” were the dolce vita of the Soviet man, the quintessence of a gourmand’s chocolate happiness, the quasi-unofantasy of confectionery craftsmanship, the sweet symbols of the era... “The taste of our childhood” - these words begin almost every second television or newspaper report telling about chocolate products or the work of confectionery factories. This phrase has long since become a well-worn cliche from frequent use.

In addition to “Alenka”, there were other names of chocolate in the USSR: “Dorozhny” (1 ruble 10 kopecks), “Jolly Fellows” (25 kopecks), “Slava” (porous), “Firebird”, “Theatrical”, “ Circus", "Lux", "Tales of Pushkin", etc.

Look at photos of chocolate in the USSR and other Soviet-era chocolate products:

What is the name of the chocolate manufacturer "Alenka" in the USSR?

This section of the article is devoted to the name of the Alenka chocolate company in the USSR, and what other products were produced at this factory.

Since the second half of the 60s, the most recognizable product of Red October in the USSR has been Alenka chocolate (1 ruble 10 kopecks for a large bar and 20 kopecks for a small, 15-gram bar). And it arose under Brezhnev, although the idea was born when N. Khrushchev was the leader of the country. At the Plenum of the CPSU Central Committee in February 1964, there was a call on Soviet confectioners to come up with cheap chocolate for children. This idea was put into practice at the Red October confectionery factory for two years, until finally the Alenka milk chocolate saw the light of day. The label showed a picture of a little girl wearing a headscarf. The producers of Alenka chocolate in the USSR found this portrait on the cover of Health magazine in 1962: 8-month-old Lenochka Gerinas was photographed there (the photo was taken by her father Alexander). In 1964, Red October decided that the new Alenka chocolate needed an original wrapper with a corporate portrait. At first, the Alenka chocolate company in the USSR produced this delicacy with different images. There was an idea to use Vasnetsov’s “Alyonushka” for decoration, but the artist’s work was “overtaken” by the portrait of Elena Gerinas.

Among other products of this chocolate manufacturer in the USSR, in addition to “Alenka”, there were “Pushkin’s Tales”, “Navy”, “Slava” and many others.

Look at the photo of Soviet-era candies produced by the Red October factory:

These are “Cancer necks”, “Little Red Riding Hood”, “Kara-kum”, “Truffles”, “Deer”, “Souffle”, “Tretyakov Gallery”, “Temptation”, “Fairy Tale”, “Come on, take it away”, “Snowball”, “World”, “Humpbacked Horse”, “Zest”, “Evening”, “Chernomorochka”, “Cow”, iris “Golden Key”, etc.

Chocolate manufacturer in the USSR - Babaevskaya factory

The main competitor of Red October was the confectionery factory named after P. Babaev (“Babaevskaya”). Before the revolution, it was an enterprise of the Abrikosov merchants, but after nationalization in 1918, the prominent Bolshevik Pyotr Babaev became its leader. True, he did not lead for long - only two years (he died at the age of 37 from tuberculosis), but his name was immortalized in the new name of the factory.

Before the war, it specialized in the production of monpensier, toffee and caramel. And immediately after the war, they began producing chocolate products, and very soon chocolate became the main brand of this factory. Among its most popular products in the USSR were such chocolate names as “Inspiration” (elite chocolate), “Babaevsky”, “Osobyi”, “Gvardeysky”, “Lux”.

Here you can see a photo of Soviet-era chocolate produced by the Babaevsky factory:

Chocolate and other sweets from the times of the USSR (with photos)

Among the candies were such as “Squirrel”, “Bear in the North”, “Shuttle”, “Golden Niva”, “Orange Aroma”, “Pilot”, “Spring”, “Burevestnik”, “Sea”, “Romashka”, “Truffles” and others; in boxes – “Squirrel”, “Visit”, “Evening Aroma”, “Sweet Dreams”, etc.

“Rot Front” produced the following brands of candy: “Moscow”, “Kremlevskie”, “Rot Front” (bars), “Little Red Riding Hood”, “Grilyazh in Chocolate”, “Zolotaya Niva”, “Caravan”, “Autumn Waltz”, “Lemon” (caramel), “Peanuts in chocolate”, “Raisins in chocolate”, etc.

The Bolshevik factory was popular for its cookies: oatmeal and “Yubileiny”.

In Leningrad there was a confectionery factory named after N.K. Krupskaya, which was opened in 1938. Its trademark (or brand today) for a long time was the “Mishka in the North” candies, which appeared on the shelves of Soviet stores even before the war - in 1939. This factory produced both chocolate and candies, among which the Firebird candies (praline and cream) were very popular.

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Like chocolate in the USSR, sweets were divided into cheap and expensive. The first included various types of caramels, the second - chocolate products. The overwhelming majority of Soviet children most often indulged in “caramels,” and various kinds of chocolate “sweets” passed through their hands a little less often due to their relative high cost. Naturally, chocolate sweets have always been valued much higher among children than caramel sweets. In those distant years (60-70s), the most popular caramels were “Crow’s feet”, “Crawfish necks” (both with coffee fillings), sour “Snowball”, milk toffee “Korovka”. True, the latter was a little expensive for regular use - 2 rubles 50 kopecks per kilogram, since it was made from whole condensed milk and butter.

Much more affordable were “Duchess” caramel, the same “Barberry”, “Petushki” on a stick (5 kopecks apiece), as well as “Kis-kis” and “Golden Key” toffees, which were also cheap - 5–7 kopecks for 100 grams. Unlike Montpensier caramels in a metal box, they were in short supply. Like another caramel - “Vzlyotnaya”, which almost never went on sale and was distributed to passengers traveling by air in order to relieve their attacks of nausea.

Among the expensive sweets are “Kara-kum” and “Belochka” (chocolate, with grated nuts inside), “Bird’s milk” (delicate soufflé in chocolate), “Grilyazh”, “Koltsov’s Songs”, “To the Stars”. The latter could be sold both by weight and in boxes - 25 rubles per box.

What other candies were there: “Arctic”, “Toys” (caramel), “Caravan”, “Strawberries with cream”, “Little Red Riding Hood”, “Come on, take it away”, “Night”, “Snowball” (caramel), “Terem-Teremok”, “Southern liqueur” (caramel), “Zoological”, “School”, “Zolotaya Niva”, “Milk bar”, “Pineapple”.

As you can see in the photo, chocolate candies in the USSR “with white filling” could perhaps be separated into a separate class:

There were more expensive candies - “Pilot” (the candy wrapper was so interesting, the paper had blue and white stripes, with foil in the middle), “Citron” (the filling was white and yellow, with lemon flavor, the candy wrapper was wrapped only on one side), “Swallow”. Waffle ones are cheaper - “Our Brand”, “Clubfooted Bear”, “Tuzik”, “Spartak”, “Pineapple”, “Fakel”. “Fakel” was sold by weight, without candy wrappers. He held out until the last. When the country ran out of chocolate, they started making “Torch” from soy chocolate.

During the perestroika years, the confectionery industry, like the entire economy, experienced problems. But in general, confectioners survived the collapse of the Union and the transition from plan to market quite painlessly. Some people thank for this the old traditions laid down in Soviet times, others believe that the growth in the production of sweet products was facilitated by foreign capital that came to the domestic market. Probably both are right. But most importantly, sweets, cookies and chocolate are always delicious.

For most people, candy is a favorite treat that can not only please with its taste, but also lift their spirits and add energy. These sweets of various types have been prepared for several centuries, and the name of the sweets (the list of which is presented in the article) has changed significantly during this time.

This article will tell you about what types of sweet treats are produced by confectionery companies today, how they differ and what they are called.

When did they appear?

Sweet treats, the forerunners of our beloved candies, have been loved in different countries since ancient times. Thus, the culinary specialists of Ancient Egypt created sweets from honey, lemon balm, orris roots, cane and dates, and the ancient Romans - from boiled poppy seeds, nuts, honey mass and sesame. In Rus' they loved a delicacy made from maple syrup, honey and molasses.

Candies that looked similar to modern ones began to be produced only in the 16th century in Italy. This is due to the fact that sugar was established, without which it is impossible to make sweets. Initially it was believed that this was a rather strong drug, and it was sold only in pharmacies. Over time, candied fruits in sugar, which were given the names of candies, ceased to be considered medicines, and became popular sweets.

What is it?

The word “candy” itself came into Russian from Italian, where confetto means “pill, candy.” It was originally used by Italian pharmacists to name candied fruit pieces sold as medicines. The form - “candy” - appeared somewhat later in the 19th century, when Italian carnivals became popular, in which participants threw confetti - fake plaster candies - at each other.

Today, candy refers to sweet confectionery products that vary in shape, taste and structure.

What are they?

The modern assortment of sweets is so large that confectioners have come up with many classifications. We are interested in what types of candies we can buy in the store, the names of which may differ subtly from different manufacturers. The most popular and in demand by Russian buyers are:

Caramel. Consists of molasses and sugar.
Lollipops. One of the easiest to produce, obtained by boiling molasses, sugar or the resulting composition is flavored and poured into special molds. The name of the candies is listed below.

Candy on a stick;

Lollipops in paper wrapper;

Soft lollipops - monpasier;

Liquorice or salty candies;

An elongated or oblong-shaped candy. The names and photos of such “pencils” and “sticks” are presented below.

Soufflé, for example, “Bird's milk”, which can also be called “Wonderful bird”, “Bogorodskaya bird”, “Zimolyubka” and others;

A roast made from crushed nuts drenched in sugar, fruit or honey syrup. These are such candies as “Grillage in chocolate”, “Grillage fairy tale”, “Strawberry grillage” and others;

Praline - chocolate candies filled with nuts ground with sugar and cocoa mixed with cognac or some other flavoring: “Bud”, “Babaevskie”, “Shokonatka”, “Juliet”;

Liqueur candies contain inside a filling of liqueur or sugar syrup with cognac: “Cream liqueur”, “Liquor in chocolate”, “Blue velvet”;

In candies with jelly filling, under a layer of chocolate there is a thick berry or fruit jelly: “Lel”, “Southern Night”, “Lebedushka”, “Zaliv” and others;

- “Fudge” or candies with fondant filling made from milk, molasses, cream, sugar, fruit fillings and other components: “Miya”, “Rakhat”, “Spanish Night” and others;

Truffles are elite round-shaped chocolates filled with a special French cream - ganache. It is made from butter, cream, chocolate and various flavorings. The outer surface may be coated with crushed or ground nuts, wafer crumbs or cocoa powder.

Chocolate stories

Chocolate candies, beloved by many, appeared thanks to the famous navigator Hernando Cortez, who discovered the American continent. It was he and his associates who brought cocoa beans to Europe and introduced Europeans to chocolate. Monk Benzoni contributed to the fact that the Spanish monarch, and after him his courtiers, began to regularly consume chocolates to maintain health. Subsequently, the fashion for chocolates spread to other countries, where influential people used them as medicine. Until the 17th century, only confectioners in Spain made chocolate and sweets from it, and sent sweets to many royal courts. Over time, the secret of making chocolate sweets became known to other countries, but until the end of the 17th century they were made only by hand.

How did sweets appear in Russia?

The first confectionery factory for the production of chocolates was opened at the end of the 17th century by the French confectioner David Shelley. Until the 19th century, Russia did not have its own candy production, and the delicacy was brought from abroad, or was prepared by special cooks in the kitchens of wealthy nobles. The first Russian confectionery factory was opened in St. Petersburg only in the middle of the 19th century.

What were the candies called before?

As already mentioned, until the 19th century, sweets were either imported into our country from abroad or produced at home in the estates and palaces of nobles. For sweets made at home, the names were given descriptively, taking into account the shape, method of preparation, size, and the fruits and fruits used. The book “The New Perfect Russian Confectioner, or a Detailed Confectionery Dictionary”, published at the end of the 18th century in St. Petersburg, gives such funny names for sweets as Strawberry scones and Green Apricots in caramel, Jasmine lollipops and Aniseed sugar snacks, Cherry marzipans and Apricots in lollipops.

Industrial names

The opening of the first Russian confectionery factory led to the emergence of many different types of sweets at the beginning of the 20th century. At first, French recipes and names of sweets predominated, the list of which was not very large:

"Baton de Gralier";
"Finchampagne";
"Creme de Risien";
"Boule de gom";
"Creme de noison";
"Maron Praline" and others.

Over time, the French name for chocolates began to be translated into Russian, and “Creamy Venus”, “Cat’s Tongue”, “Girl’s Skin”, “Salon” appeared on sale, designed in accordance with Russian grammar. However, in some cases, bilingual names of candies were also used, for example, “Studded with pearls, or Coriandor perle.” Russian confectioners called the new sweets they created themselves in Russian and often used names associated with images of the fair sex: “Sophie”, “Marianna”, “Merry Widow”, “Fisherman”, “Marsala”. Educational series were also produced, for example “The Riddle”. On the candy wrapper of such sweets there was a simple riddle. Before the revolutionary events of 1917, chocolate series “Sport”, “Geographical Atlas”, “Peoples of Siberia” and others were produced.

Until the October Revolution of 1917, you could buy Tsar Raspberry or Tsar Fyodor Mikhailovich caramel. After him, the names of the candies changed dramatically. Caramels “Krestyanskaya” and “Krasnoarmeyskaya”, “Sickle and Hammer” and “Our Industry” appeared on sale.

However, the majority of chocolates retain their French names: “Dernier Cree”, “Miniature”, “Chartreuse”, “Bergamot”, “Pepperment” and others. Such neutral names as “Squirrels”, “Tomboys” and “Bunnies” did not undergo ideological rethinking. Soviet names for new candies reflected current events and achievements. So in the 30s of the last century they produced: “Fight for Technology”, “Be Prepared”, “Sabantuy”, “Milkmaid”, “Chelyuskinites”, “Heroes of the Arctic”, “Conqueror of the Ice”.

Man's conquest of space in the 60s of the 20th century was reflected in the appearance of the “Space” and “Cosmos” candies.

Around the same time, it became popular to include literary characters in the names of chocolates: “Snow Maiden”, “La Bayadère”, “Blue Bird”, “Sadko”, “Little Red Riding Hood” and others.

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The most delicious sweets in Russia

Residents of any country can boast of delicious delicacies. In Japan, chestnut quintons are considered the best dessert, in Turkey - baklava, in Britain - pudding, in Italy - tiramisu.

In Russia, sweets occupy the first place among delicacies. One can only be amazed at their diversity: each region produces countless delicious sweets with a wide variety of fillings. It is incredibly difficult to choose the best examples from them. Our Top 10 includes the most delicious candies in Russia (photos and names), which consumers most often buy not only for themselves, but also as a delicious gift for friends and family. The list is compiled based on reviews from users of major Internet resources and is subjective.

10. Bars with chocolate and creamy flavor

They open a list of the most delicious Russian sweets from the Rot Front factory. The bars are made from praline with the addition of grated peanuts and crispy crushed wafers. The harmonious nutty, chocolate and creamy taste is well felt. The bar is quite sweet, but not at all cloying.

The estimated cost of 1 kg of sweets is 319 rubles.

9. Delicate dessert with cream filling

One of the most delicious Russian candies - a delicate dessert with a creamy filling. "Roulade" from the Akkond factory. The manufacturer has been pleasing consumers with excellent products for many years. The most famous candies of the factory are “Rulada”. They are three times the size of regular candies. The sweetness is covered with chocolate glaze, under which there is a delicate cream filling, dressed in a wafer layer.

“Rulada” is a delicious, aromatic, crispy dessert with a melting filling. Due to the large size, it is difficult to eat more than 2-3 candies at a time. Moderately sweet, this dessert has a harmonious taste, despite the abundance of ingredients in its composition.

The approximate price of dessert is from 300 to 450 rubles per kilogram.

8. Set of milk chocolate with whole hazelnuts and light nut filling

Among the most delicious sweets in Russia is the brand “A. Korkunov."

The candies have a beautiful shape, they are made of milk chocolate, inside there is a whole hazelnut, and a light creamy nut filling. The dessert is not cloying and has a delicate chocolate taste.

Stylish, elegant packaging allows you to use a set of chocolates as a delicious gift.

The approximate cost of a set weighing 190 grams is from 300 to 380 rubles.

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From the Rot Front factory - some of the most famous and delicious sweets in Russia. They have been produced for sixty years and are loved by more than one generation.

The candies are rectangular in shape. Delicious praline covered with chocolate glaze. The candy has a pleasant chocolate-nut taste without any sweet cloying. “Mask” is available in bags, by weight and in a gift box. The last option is good because you can buy your favorite sweets not only for tea, but also as a tasty gift.

Among the disadvantages of the dessert, one can note that the composition is not the best: the sweets contain palm oil.

The average cost of sweets for 250 grams is 120 rubles.

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The Red October factories are familiar to more than one generation and are among the most delicious Russian sweets. Their taste has remained virtually unchanged since Soviet times. The classic wrapper of the delicacy has remained almost unchanged - it still depicts camels wandering through the desert. The wrapper is high quality and thick.

The inner layer of the dessert is a soft praline with pieces of waffles and nuts. The delicious filling is covered with delicate chocolate glaze. The candies are not cloying, there is nothing extra or artificial in the taste.

One of the advantages of the dessert is that it is made according to GOST.

The estimated cost of sweets is 600 rubles per 1 kg.

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Among the most delicious Russian sweets is one from the Yashkino factory. They have amazing taste. Externally, the dessert looks like an ordinary candy bar. The filling is combined and consists of chocolate, cookies and caramel. It is covered with chocolate glaze. The candies have an unusual, refined taste. Separately, it is worth noting the design of the dessert wrapper, inspired by Japanese motifs.

The advantages of these incredibly tasty sweets include their low price - 47 rubles per package weighing 180 g.

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Sweets from the Red October factory are a taste familiar to many from childhood. The delicacy is rightfully one of the most delicious and popular Russian sweets.

The candies are delicious - chocolate glaze, filling and waffles create a harmonious combination.

The only disadvantages of the delicacy are the excessively thick layer of chocolate glaze and the rather high price of the candy.

The average cost of sweets is 640-700 rubles per 1 kg.

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It is one of the most delicious sweets in Russia. This is a set that includes 15 candies with three fillings: milk chocolate, creamy caramel, hazelnuts and almonds. Miniature chocolate bars are wrapped in foil. Inside there is a small message with pleasant words.

Advantages of the treat:

natural milk chocolate;
sweets do not contain vegetable fats;
delicate rich taste.

The cost of a set weighing 118 grams is from 219 to 326 rubles.

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From the Red October factory - not only some of the most delicious, but also the oldest candies in Russia. The composition of the delicacy, as well as the packaging, have reached our time practically unchanged. They began producing sweets even before the revolution (presumably in the 1880-1890s) in the Einem workshop, which is now called Red October. The candy wrapper was created by the artist Emmanuil Andreev, who took Shishkin’s painting “Morning in a Pine Forest” as a basis.

The composition of the oldest candies from the Red October factory has remained virtually unchanged: a delicate praline between two wafers is covered with chocolate glaze.

The price of the legendary delicacy ranges from 700 to 800 rubles per kg.

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With delicate almond cream and whole almonds - one of the most delicious sweets in Russia.

The almond kernel is encased in a nut cream, topped with a crispy wafer and dipped in a fresh chocolate glaze. The waffle is sprinkled with pleasantly crunchy small nuts. Almond cream is extremely delicate. The manufacturer managed to achieve a harmonious combination of delicate filling, crispy whole nuts and hard chocolate glaze.

The average price of sweets is 257 rubles per package weighing 240 g.

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Quite recently we were figuring out how it could happen that . But many people know that this is not the strangest name. You can also recall “Crow’s Feet”, “Cancer Cervix”, “Kara-Kum” and “Bird’s Milk” for example. Well, how could people have enough imagination to call sweet products like candy?

Ekaterina Bushmarinova will tell us about this now:

You don’t need to be a naming specialist to understand what a potential buyer expects from the name and appearance of a candy. Ideally, they should non-verbally convey to the buyer at least some information about the product. At the same time, the wrapper should attract attention, and the name should be positive and memorable.

Unfortunately, the last two characteristics (positivity and memorability) sometimes come into serious conflict. For example, “Kara-Kum” is literally translated as “black sand” (Turkic) and reminds of the harsh and joyless climate of the desert, while the petrel, as we all know from the work of the same name by M. Gorky, foreshadows a storm (perhaps in the stomach). “Paws”, “necks” and “bird’s milk” are too physiological, and it is not very clear what they do in candies.

Almost all of these names appeared a long time ago and are overgrown with legends.

With “Bird's Milk” everything is most obvious: the candies of the same name (filled with marshmallows, an analogue of our marshmallows, but without eggs) in the 1930s. were popular in Poland. Thirty years later, our confectioners created their own version of “Bird's Milk”, subsequently starting to use agar-agar as a gelling agent. The name was retained. For some reason, it is believed that it is connected with Aristophanes’ play “The Birds,” in which happiness is promised in the form of “milk,” “not heifers, but birds.” I read the play and had doubts. This is actually a satirical work; it is unlikely that the Poles wanted to name their candies “Supposedly Happiness.” I think that everything is simple here: the phrase “bird's milk” is a synonym for something magical, beautiful, unattainable, there is a Russian proverb: “Everything is there, except for bird’s milk.” Probably, the authors of the name of the candy wanted it to be associated with a fairy tale, with abundance, a “full cup”, the acquisition of a certain wonder, the final touch that was not enough for the fullness of life.

The Kara-Kum sweets contain wafer crumbs; they crunch on your teeth (like sand). On all the Kara-Kum candy wrappers you can see camels and the desert, but for some reason there are also palm trees on some, and before, they say, there were pyramids.

The version about the Ukrainian origin of the name of the candies “Radiy” (“happy”) does not stand up to criticism, the atom is drawn there! So, most likely, this name is from the conventional series “Scientific and Technical Progress”, which also includes the “Cosmic” and “Stratosphere” candies.

“Crow’s feet” and “Cancer necks” began to be produced back in the days of the “Partnership A.I. Abrikosov and Sons”, established in 1880, and in 1899 awarded the honorary title “Supplier of the Court of His Imperial Majesty” (since 1922 - Babaev Confectionery Factory, since 1998 - Babaevsky Confectionery Concern). They say that both names were invented by Alexey Abrikosov himself. The cephalothorax is the most delicious and fleshy part of the crayfish, a delicacy. Sometimes it is called the neck, sometimes the tail. Abrikosov discovered the external resemblance of the new candy to boiled crayfish neck and suggested this name. As for Houndstooth, opinions differ. There is a version that when making this delicacy, confectioners used goose fat as a thickener. But, even if this is so, the desire to immortalize this experiment in such an unusual name is questionable. Moreover, at first this same caramel was not called “Crow’s Feet” at all, but “Duck Noses”.

It is known that Alexey Abrikosov, the head of the confectionery dynasty, paid a lot of attention to promoting products, often using non-standard methods for this. Let's say, one day a newspaper "duck" appeared - a message that in one of the stores of the Abrikosov Partnership, only blondes worked as sellers, and in another - only brunettes. Everyone went to watch! And, of course, we bought a lot of sweets. Abrikosov also attached great importance to product packaging. To create candy wrappers, Abrikosov invited professional painters; the packaging workshop, where 30 people worked, was headed by the famous artist Fyodor Shemyakin. It was Abrikosov’s candy wrappers and advertising posters that were among the first to be designed in the Art Nouveau style, using floral and animalistic motifs. For example, an advertisement for Liliput marmalade (also not a very pleasant name, by the way) used an image of white hares, and a poster advertising Tsarsky marmalade featured three herons standing “knee-deep” in the water and carefully examining river water lilies.

Abrikosov came up with a way to make caramel with filling - a tube of caramel was blown out, filled with filling and cut into small pieces with a hot knife, which were sealed on both sides. Maybe the first caramels produced in this way seemed to Abrikosov to look like duck noses? Or maybe he gave the candies such a name to continue the animalistic theme in advertising and packaging.

There is an intuitive design for candy packaging. For example, caramel “Limonchiki” (confectionery factory “Rot-Front”) resembles the fruit of the same name in shape, color and intensity; it contains a citrus preserve and a flavoring identical to natural “Lemon”. A logical name, a yellow candy wrapper with green letters (yellow and green colors, combined together, evoke associations with a sour taste). Caramel “Snowball” from the same manufacturer is white, crunches on the teeth, the wrapper is in white and blue “frosty” tones with painted snowflakes. Or caramel “Dream”, also from the Rot-Front. Of course, “dream” is an abstract concept, but it is clear that the creator of the name is simply not saying enough, but wanted to say: “Not candy, but a dream!” The image of a dream candy is successfully complemented by a pink and white “girly” candy wrapper. Among chocolate candies, one can remember “Golden Domes”, dome-shaped candies in gold foil.

But, alas, “Truffle” candies are also made in the shape of a dome (or mushroom), while the first real French truffle candies from a creamy “ganache” mass, consisting of chocolate and cream, were made in the shape of a not ideal ball - and so named precisely because of their external resemblance to the most expensive mushroom - the truffle, which for a long time was considered a dish available only to very rich people. The cap of the truffle mushroom is not at all similar to the cap of our Truffle candies!

And now “Uralkonditer” produces “Umelochka” candies in the familiar “Belochka” candy wrapper.

Moreover, the “United Confectioners” apparently also divided the “old names” among themselves, otherwise it is difficult to explain why “Cockerel - the Golden Comb” “remained” with “Red October”, and the “Babaevsky” concern (Penza Confectionery Factory) produces candies of a similar recipe with a frightening pseudo-folklore name “Cockerel - butter head”.

However, the same AtAg factory also has completely unexpected names for candies - “Mama Zhenya”, “Stoker Petya” (in shiny candy wrappers that vary in color depending on the taste of the candy, and they come in coconut, sesame, orange flavors, etc.) chocolate, etc.) and the shocking “Bite of a Woman.” Of course, it is difficult to consider the word “Force Majeure” to be a good name for sweets (force majeure means force majeure circumstances, for example, natural disasters that prevent the parties from fulfilling contractual obligations). However, AtAg produces a line of such sweets. What does it sound like: “Force majeure with the taste of “Custard”!”