Dippers Starting Their Day

Starting off the beginning of the day with some dipped nuts!

Here is the chocolate bin for one of our dipper girls in the dipping room. The dipping room itself is quite cool to keep the candies from melting, although the chocolate itself is kept heated!

Prepping the Candy

In the morning after the candy is cooked and poured, it is ready to move on to the next step!

Here is essentially a mesh "cage" that sifts all the corn starch off the tray of candy and leaves just the candies behind, leaving the cornstarch to be used for the next batch.

Here, Sally is brushing off the additional cornstarch from the candies.

The candies are separated because some will be dipped in milk chocolate, some in dark chocolate. Sandy dips milk chocolate and Judy dips dark. Milk chocolate is typically a bigger seller so a larger portion of the candies are designated for milk!

Delightful Day Visits Brandt's

This last week, the Delightful Day preschool class from St. Bede's Church in Mentor came to pay us a visit (the classes visited Wednesday and Thursday). This includes our very own Layla Stanek, great-grandaughter of the current owners of Brandt's (Dr. & Mrs. James Phillips)!

Here, Tom (one of our cooks) gives the kids a little lesson about our marble countertops. They are always nice and cool and help to cool the candy consistently after it is poured.

The kids are taking a look at the cool alligator and guitar molds!

I can't resist continuously posting pictures of the melted chocolate. I just think it looks so delicious.

Here, Tom is showing the kids how we use our molds to make impressions in the cornstarch, where we then pour the candy.

Here, Margaret shows off the gigantic marshmallow mixing bowl. The bowl is almost as tall as these 4 year olds!

Everyone excitedly waits in line to dip their very own animal crackers in melted milk chocolate.

PS-I ate about 4 of them. ;)

Brandt's Candies Specialties

When you stop in, don't forget to pick up a yummy chocolate guitar or chocolate baseball set to celebrate your Cleveland pride!

If you are looking for a unique way to thank your employees or clients during the holidays, look no further than our Brandt's chocolate thank-you bars. We can even create bars using your very own company logo!

In addition to our large assortment of gift boxes, we also have edible gift baskets filled with delicious chocolates. So yes, you can actually EAT the basket!

Brandt's also has dozens of holiday-specific items as well. Here are just a few of them: Chocolate Christmas trees, chocolate crosses and chocolate Easter bunnies.

The Story of Brandt's Candies Inc

George and Agnes Brandt founded Brandt's Open Kitchen Candy in 1948 in Willoughby, Ohio, a small thriving community east of Cleveland.

The years have gone by, but the location has remained the same!

Customers were able to watch the candy being made in the open kitchen behind the showroom. Brandt's was known throughout the community for the high-quality chocolate produced at the site.

Brandt's Candies Inc. is still doing business the same way today as a family-owned, family-run store. We are proud to carry on the Brandt's tradition at the same location, in order to provide you with the same timeless treats you remember from your childhood.

Our candy is hand-made, following the original recipes and using only the finest ingredients. This gives our candies the fresh and delicious taste that makes our candies so unique.

We hand-dip our delicious creams, jellies, caramels, and marshmallow in fine chocolate. We also hand-dip coconut, dried fruit, and of course our mouth-watering cherry cordials.

Our candy is then displayed in the original showcases, ready for you to take home and enjoy.

Easter Prep

Here is just a small behind-the-scenes glance into our ongoing Easter prep. As you can imagine, Easter is one of our most unbelievably busy times of year. We make a very large amount of molded items (solid chocolate) for Easter, from crosses to bunnies, from small to large. The lovely Barb painstakingly has labeled every single box so we know exactly "who is who" when it comes to each little chocolate animal too. :)

Above, you see our sitting rabbit with clover. Our "dippers", Sandy and Judy, hand pour the chocolate into each metal mold and then apply the extras (such as the flower above) by hand, using chocolate as the "glue" to hold it all together.


As you see here, each item is also hand-wrapped and hand-decorated too. Here, Sandy is curling the ribbon to wrap around the bunny!

Maple Walnut Cream Eggs

These are the same as our maple cream eggs, but with a little extra surprise inside! Above, we see the eggs after they have cooled overnight in the cornstarch mold.


Here are several trays of our delicious eggs, ready to go to the dipping room and be enrobed in delicious chocolate!