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In honor of Super Bowl 50, Snickers is treating the game to an honor usually reserved for presidents and major Hollywood stars – a "happy birthday" serenade from Marilyn Monroe.

I visited the mall on behalf of Candy Industry Magazine to get the latest on Valentine's Day offerings from three confectionery stops: Lindt, Lolli and Pops, and Godiva.

The release of a new Star Wars movie seems to be affecting craft chocolate makers. Dark bars with a “force” factor above 80 percent cacao abounded at last week’s Winter Fancy Foods Show at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.

This spring the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Department of Food Science will host a course titled, "Enhanced Confections: The ‘How To’ of Functional Confections."

The 2015 European Candy Kettle Club Award recipient, Jean-Luc Grisot of Valrhona, believes that intense and personal involvement on all fronts — be it in the fields, in the lab, in the plant or with the customer — results in better chocolate and a better company.

Dulcey was discovered by Frederic Bau, the company’s executive pastry chef, as a result of leaving white chocolate in a water bath for 10 hours.

“We have all the competitors that everybody else does in the States,” say founder Robin Burnette. “We have all the grocery stores, Walmart. They’re selling chocolate bars. [But] in Canada they sell all Canadian chocolate bars. A majority of Canadians go south in the winter time, so we carry a lot of U.S. chocolate bars. We’ve got that chocolate bar that you like from the States that you found, and we also bring in the British chocolate and a lot of Dutch licorice.”

The Wonder Vault is a new introduction to the United State market, coinciding with the release of the Cinnamon Bun and Red Velvet flavors, which will join Oreo's permanent product lineup in the United States.

The two shows, run by the Retail Confectioners Association of Philadelphia (RCAP) and Urban Expositions respectively, operated independently while utilizing a single cohesive floor plan at the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center.

What's next on store shelves? Snacks made with crickets, grass-fed everything, and protein where you least expect it.