In the last couple weeks we have worked behind the scene and updated our review system.

• Media in Reviews

You now have the ability to add pictures and even videos to your review and to rate not only our products but also our shop / company. We can not wait to see all the picture of KidsCone with happy kids around!

• Q&A for products

Also we integrated an easy way to ask question about a product: right on the detail product page you find the "Ask a question" button close to the reviews.

Our Team will answer your questions as soon as possible and send you an email with the update and we will also publish the Q&A in a separate tab right beside the reviews!

We hope this will help you find through all the delicious items we offer.

• More Candy bucks for you, if you write a review

We also want to thank you, if you are a Verified Buyer and get an email invite from us to review the products. You will get a small incentive in form of 35 Candy Bucks. Collect 500 Candy Bucks and you can request a $5 gift card!

• What our customer say?

And lastly we integrated all reviews on our What our customer say  page - go have a look, maybe you find a product you wanna try right away!

As always stay safe out there and have a sweet day!

We wish you and your family a Wonderfull, relaxing long weekend!

This move will take approximately two weeks, in that timeframe (6 - 21 July 2021) we will not be able to ship your order. Please have this in consideration when you order.

We could simply close the shop down, but it helps us if we can start right away when all is settled in the new warehouse if we have your order to fulfill!

Please let us know when you have any questions - we will regularly check mails, we are just not able to ship since we have all in trucks. :) 

Well well, while the right answer should be: nothing. We are Germans and that means we can think of something :)

Especially when you know about Iceland's love for the black gold candy and their Hot Dogs.

Iceland is different in so many ways, but today we only want to talk about these two things. Slightly touching their love for licorice. Especially licorice in combination with delicious chocolate. Sambo makes some really crazy combinations and we love them all. If you are into black licorice then you have to try. But you might say "ok, I get it - MyGermanCandy has gone international and of course, I get my cravings for Icelandic candy fulfilled with them, but what about the Hot Dog?".

Iceland’s de facto national fast-food is the hot dog. The first proof fo that is that you get a Hot Dog around every corner, and since that is not enough almost every bigger store has their Hot Dog cart.

And there is a reason for it as well: they are addictively delicious. It might be possible that a New Yorker bet to differ, but that only means he never had one in Iceland.

So, what sets Icelandic hot dogs apart?

They do it all themselves: the meat is made from Icelandic lamb, along with pork and beef from the countryside. That means organic, free-range, grass-fed, hormone-free Icelandic meat.

Iceland is one of the cleanest, most pristine environments on Earth, and that is where the lamb, cow, and sheep are living, mostly in small farms or even free. And to finish it all of the hot dogs are made with natural casings, just to make sure they have the ‘pop’ when you bit into them.

Ok, bear with me since I am coming closer to what MyGermanCandy has to do with Hot Dogs.

You order a real Icelandic hot dog "all works style" - that will be served on a warm, steamed bun topped with raw white onions and crispy fried onions, ketchup, sweet brown mustard called pylsusinnep, and remoulade, a sauce made with mayo, capers, and herbs.

And if you don't like raw onions like many Americans don't do - you have to give it a try! The combination of everything together will get you over the point.

So here is the deal: you can not get to Iceland right now?

Or are you even FROM Iceland and missing this stable food? Make it yourself! It's easy to get a good Hot Dog bun, you will find ketchup, some kind of remoulade or mayo, and most definitely raw and crispy onions.

But what is missing? Yes, two important parts: the meat sausages and the iconic mustard pylsusinnep. Well since we are not allowed (for now) to import meat due to FDA regulation, we can help you with pylsusinnep. Yes, MyGermanCandy extended our mustard line to this Icelandic delicacy!

Well, I would not recommend putting mustard onto any licorice but you will find it most delicious to try how you can use this slightly sweet mustard on anything grilled or pan-fried.

And did you find a great recipe you want to share, send us an eMail or Facebook, Twitter! We would be happy to feature it!

I want to shortly update you on how we are working in this tough time. As long as it is possible we will continue to pack and fulfill your orders. As long as you can order online these products are available and we will deliver it to you.

We are doing this with several procedures in place. As always, we continue to use one time gloves, hairnets and mouthpieces when we work with candies. Sanitizer and frequently washing hands has always been a sturdy procedure from day one of our operation in the USA. We are a small team and we make it possible that we are not working closely together, for product pickup and packaging we work one at a time to reduce the number of possible infections.

Test have shown that, even if a parcel would have been contaminated with a spore, parcels that arrive at your place wouldn't be contagious

That said with especially the one-person rule in place it will take longer to fulfill your orders slightly. We are doing it as fast as possible, if you need something urgently please consider updating the shipment - that way we will priorities orders that are in a faster shipment category.

Other than that we think that a little sweet might brighten your day for a few seconds and that is why we will continue through this crazy time. 

You will be able to order, but new orders between 01/30 and 02/06 will be shipped after we are back 02/06. All orders before that, will be shipped before we leave. So please stock up if you need, or be a little more patient with us then usual.

Customer service is not harmed in any way, so you still can reach us during our summer vacation - it is "just" the warehouse that is closed, and therefor we can not ship your order right away. So if you have any questions feel free to reach out to us as always using our tools here n the side or simple drop us an eMail:  here.

Thanks for your understanding!

Let us take the opportunity to thank you for 2016, we love you having as customer and are so happy that you trusted us with fulfilling your cravings. 

We will add this year a lot of new items from the old world, especially germany. Well, "new items" means not necessarily new created, we love finding the candies that we all share when we have been a child in germany  or europe. Good old memories and new "addictions". Thats what we are looking to bring into the US.

And please let the recommendations coming of what items you want to see on our site. We will try to source them for you.

Most likely in wintertime, the smell of baked apples warms our hearts. Many recalls the sweet smell of grandmother's kitchen, childhood, rattling coldness and tiled stove.

But what i find out is that the fruity treat is an old home remedy for hoarseness. Slowly eat three Bratäpfel with real honey (just add two tablespoon to every Bratapfel in our Traditional recipe - you don't need to have any desert after that :-) ). 

In doing so, enzymes are released, which do well for your vocal chords. The farmer's recipe, by the way, works much better than the well-known warm honeymilk. The mists rather.

One disadvantage is the warm enjoyment: during heating about half of the vitamin C is lost. On the other hand, there is only one means: Give yourself a second round! 

When it comes to choose an apple for this dish you want to have a semi-tart apple variety like Honeycrisp or Granny Smith. The filling will provide the sweetness. If you are interested which other apple variety you could use have a look to a great guide from the LATimes.

Since there are so many recipes out there we will highlight optional ingredients, just put in what you love and create you own family tradition. The very best is to serve the Bratapfel with a Vanilla sauce. Throughout the story you will find click2view (c2v) links to the product in our store if we carry them, that makes it easy for you to find the right item.

Traditional Bratapfel Recipe

2 apples (for two, so 1 apple / person)

2 tbsp sweet (=not salted) butter

2 tbsp sweet (=not salted) butter for greasing the baking dish

1/2 cup chopped nuts (walnuts, hazelnuts or your favorite nut)

1/4 cup light brown sugar

(optional) 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon adjust it how you like it

(optional) 2 tbsp honey 

(optional) 2 tbsp dark or yellow raisins

Preparation:

Preheat oven to 400°. You should bake the apple in ramekins or any often proved dish.  

Grease the dish with butter so that the apples won’t stick.

Mix the your ingredients together until well combined.

Now come the part where you will get better with time and training. The first time, well in my case it doesn't look that appealing. So if you host guest, try the recipe and train before! Wash the apples.  There are special apple kerner available (link) . When coring the apples, don’t go all through to the bottom! Start at the stem side and core a ¾ way down, leaving the bottom of the apple intact. This will provide that the filling won't run out of the bottom and keeps the apple and filling moist. Scoop out enough apple pulp with corer or spoon so that you have an opening in which you will place the filling. 

Now, after thanksgiving you might be trained with stuffing - so fill the apples now and make sure some of the filling is showing on top of the apple. Another way i have seen and is shown on the pictures. Cut of just cut the apples head of about 1.5inch and fill the apple and bake the head together and put it back on top. Also here make sure that the filling is always showing up!

Bake for 30 minutes at 400°. Baking time can be adjusted according to preference. If you would like apple to be more firm, reduce the baking time. If you would like a softer apple, increase baking time. In Germany it is a soft apple that we like, but with enough firmest to cut right through it. so it is not mushy.

more Variaties:

- If you like the optional raisins and like a bit of booze, then soaked them in rum a night before preparation.

- add 1/4 cup Ovomaltine Crunchy Cream (click2view) to it, or any other Nougat/chocolate/hazelnutspread you like. Ovomaltine give some malty crunch-texture to the desert. 

- add 5 Tbl marzipan with or without chocolate, we recommend the Niederegger Weissbrot (c2v) without chocolate but hey it is your recipe so you can use it with chocolate  (c2v) as well. Please cut the marzipan in small pieces and mix it in the filling. Make sure it is distributed through the mix.

Enjoy the preparing and it is fun to do this with you kids as well. (well not the rum raisin variation of course).

*The almost to good to be true pictures (who makes me want go down and look in the oven if the Bratapfel are ready) as been provided by romi@pixabay. I will say: to have your apple look like this,  you and i have to train a lot - but we have a goal, right? - Danke Rita!

We have to thank you all for a busy season and we hope to be your source for all things sweet and savory from europe and especially germany. Please let your feedbacks coming about what article you would like to see.

But again: take a deep breath and smile! 

Thank you and happy holidays - merry Christmas - frohes Fest!

Und guten Rutsch!

(Updated 12/26/16 8:07pm)

That is surely the most important question right now when you order gifts or items to enjoy on the Christmas evening.

And until now the answer is yes but only if you order it today and tomorrow (12/21 5:00pm PT) and choose USPS Priority Mail, Mail Express or Fedex 2Day. 

As a courtesy to all our customer we will upgrade every Ship by weight order to USPS Priority Mail until 12/22!

We will keep this Entry updated every time something chances here.

Yes for continental  USA, with USPS  Priority, Priority Express and Shipment by Weight - FedEx 2 Day Service

No, not guaranteed for island deliveries, it is most likely to work, but as said we can not give a guarante

No for Canada,

Yes for Germany

No for UK, France and all other States in the EU

There are so many family recipes, and every family claims to be "the original". Truth is german potato salad always are different and all of them taste great. I will put some of the ones that i collect from my family up here, so that you can enjoy the different kind of salads all by your self. The recipes are also different from what german region the salad comes. Given that Germany is only as big as California, it is pretty impressive how many different recipes they have conducted over the last couple hundert years. 

Today I start with one from Martins Grandma. But first i have to explain a very interesting way to prepare Potatoes it is called "Pellkartoffel" (peeled potatoes). It is a very common way in germany. You have Pellkartoffeln as a own dish. Prepare the Potates the way i describe and just ad some dips to them and you have a meal. If you like just send us a mail  Contact@myGermanCandy.com and let us know if we give some recipes for those dips as well.

Ok back to the Pellkartoffeln:

1. Best for Pellkartoffeln (as always of course) use as equal in size as possible potatoes so all potatoes cook evenly.
2. Clean the potatoes with a vegetable brush thoroughly under running water. Rinse & remove any soil residues. 
3. You now just boil the potatoes with their skin. Put the potatoes in a saucepan, add cold water until the potatoes are barely covered. Give the water a hint of salt. Boil potatoes for about 20-30 minutes. Make the test if the Potatoes are done: You sting one potatae with a sharp knife. The potatoes are done when they slide like butter off the knife. When ready cooked, drain the  potatoes.
4. While the potatoes are still warm (not hot): grip the potatoes with a special potatoes fork (yae we have such a thing in good old germany :-) ), but a conventional fork or your fingers will work too. Pull off the skin with a small kitchen knife.

Ok, thats it, we are done now with the Pellkartoffeln. Now, here are the shopping list (it should fit 6 portions, make it 4 if Martin is one of them):

It is the best if you cook the potatoes the day before, peel them as mentioned before, but don´t cut them, after peeling just covered it  with a clean cloth on a dark and cold site.

• You can start to prepare the "mise on place" ( a braggart word for "have everything ready before you start" and is used in professional kitchen - of course it is not german its french :-) ). That means dice all the boiled eggs, the gherkins ( we really recommend original german gherkins, if you don't have those, try more sweet gherkins like butter or sandwich gherkins instead of sour american ones ) i recommend to cut the ingredient in little cubes - all the same size of course. The onions should be very finely chopped - we german love raw onions - most americans like that not to be as big as we do.

• For the garnish you will cut the Tomatoes in quarters, and just slice the Gherkin thin, the parsley into small bits. After we are done with the preparing of the ingredients, we can come back to the Pellkartoffeln.

• Cut the potatoes into very thin slices (just about 0.2 in) and mix it with the chopped onions. The broth goes along with the vinegar, the Löwensenf hot mustard, salt, pepper and sugar in a small saucepan, boil it for 2 minutes until it is one consistent sauce. Taste it - it should not to be to sour. If it is to sour, you can always add a tablespoon of water. 

• Allow to cool slightly and then pour it all over the potatoes, now let it all soak in well, after a few minutes add the eggs and gherkins. Wait another minute and let it rest again to soak all the flavors in, before you carefully fold in the mayonnaise. 

** The mayonnaise is very important ! So do yourself (it is soo simple - wanna have a recipe? just mail us!)  or buy the best. Not suitable for diets !**

• Garnish with the egg, tomatoes, gherkins and parsley as you like it.

You always can store it in the fridge or serve it right away! Enjoy, and we would love to hear how you like our recipe!

PS: As i said before there are literally millions of receipts, based on this particular receipt you can add the following into the mix:

- 1 red / 1 yellow Paprika diced into cubes

- panfried Bacon, Turkey or Ham 

- instead of Gherkins you can use Cucumber 

- Tomatoes (Cubes but do not add the watery part of the tomatoes)

- or what ever you can think of, it is a very good base