Barry Callebaut is highlighting the potential for its recently launched Ruby chocolate ice cream coating in time for National Ice Cream Month this July.

Chocolate Inspirations, a mother-and-daughter-owned chocolatier in Roselle, Illinois, is donating 500 ruby chocolate Easter bunnies to Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago, Illinois.

Häagen-Dazs is introducing Ruby cacao in two new products and at its branded shops for a limited time.

Barry Callebaut has been granted a Temporary Marketing Permit by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, clearing the way to market Ruby as chocolate in the United States.

A year after Nestlé Japan introduced the Kit Kat Chocolatory Sublime Ruby in Japan, Barry Callebaut Group has launched a crowd-sourced website dedicated to the rosy pink chocolate.

It’s always sweet to see Chicago’s McCormick Place transform into a wonderland of candy and snacks for the annual Sweets & Snacks Expo.

This is Associate Editor Alyse Thompson's second Sweets & Snacks Expo, but it already feels like old hat. Getting around was a breeze, and she enjoyed catching up with manufacturers, suppliers, sales people and marketers she's gotten to know over the last couple years.