ECRM events bring together candy makers and retail buyers for meetings that resemble speed dating, since they have just 10 or 20 minutes at each appointment.

Located in the historic district of Jeffersonville, Indiana, visitors find a unique manufacturing confectionery, retail candy store, soda fountain, lunchroom, museum and demonstration area all rolled into one.

There are many different types and styles of caramel and just as many visions of what is the "best" caramel.

Life in the kitchen is tough, and if 17 years in the culinary industry has taught chef-turned-chocolatier Uzma Sharif anything, it’s that being even tougher is key.

For couples like then-30-year old Baci candy inventor Luisa Spagnoli and young Giovanni Buitoni, it wasn't just their love of chocolate they had in common — it was their love. Legend has it that the two shared love notes fanning forbidden flames in the early 1900s.

For Dorinda Vance, it started early on in life. As a 12 year-old girl, she learned to make craveinducing, chocolate-covered cherries.

It could be the basis for a Hallmark Channel film: Mother and daughter begin making confections and cookies for family and friends together when the daughter’s eight.The daughter continues to refine the mother's recipes, and eventually, a candy store is born. .

An inside look at the company that makes those iconic Peeps

The next big idea. That's what Frank Sheftel thought he had back in 1984 when the Summer Olympics came to town.

The cremini, a three-layer chocolate that features two delicate slabs of gianduja chocolate sandwiching an inner chocolate paste of varying flavors, beckons memories of another era.