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Hershey chocolate bars had their origin in Milton Hershey's first successful confectionery business, Lancaster Caramel Company, which was founded in 1886.After seeing German chocolate manufacturing machinery at the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago, Hershey decided to go into the chocolate making business. [2]
Hershey's Cookies 'n' Creme is a flat, white crème candy bar containing small, uniformly shaped chocolate cookie bits. The standard-sized bar has 12 rectangular blocks arranged in a 3X4 grid. [ 2 ] The XL variant of the bar is thicker than the original and has 16 rectangular blocks arranged in a 4X4 grid.
The Hershey Company was founded by Milton S. Hershey in 1894 as the Hershey Chocolate Company, originally established as a subsidiary of his Lancaster Caramel Company. The Hershey Trust Company owns a minority stake but retains a majority of the voting power within the company. [6] Hershey's chocolate is available in 60 countries. [7]
Hershey produces a variety of products that are chocolate or candy based, and The Hershey Company also produces gum. This list excludes licensed items such as beer, cereal, ice cream and chocolate milk, which are made by brands like Yuengling , General Mills , Breyers , Good Humor , Klondike , and Natrel .
The most famous brand using this name is Hershey's Kisses, which were first produced in the US in 1907. It is sometimes applied to confections with a hard exterior and a soft filling, such as chocolate-dipped marshmallows, or two small biscuits or cookies sandwiched together with a soft icing.
Best known as peanut blossoms, these cookies were a finalist in the 1957 Pillsbury Bake-Off. After that, Hershey printed the recipe on bags of Kisses, and peanut blossoms have been a staple of ...
Freda Strasel Smith of Gibsonburg, Ohio, created the cookie by substituting chocolate chips out for Hershey's Kisses [5] in a batch of peanut butter cookie dough. Due to the size of a Hershey's Kiss, it was placed on top in the center of the cookie after it was baked instead of mixed in the dough like a traditional chocolate chip peanut butter cookie.
A narrow strip of paper, called a plume, protrudes from the top of each Hershey's Kiss wrapper. Originally designed as a flag for the "Hershey's" brand, the printed paper plumes were added to the Kisses product wrapper in 1921 to distinguish the Hershey's Kiss from its competitors who were offering similar products. [1]