Burnt Sugar Sea Salt Caramel Crumbly Fudge Full Review
Posted: 06 February 2008 by SmartPlanet
This sea salt caramel fudge slips neatly into Burnt Sugar's stylish, temptingly packaged range. Fashionable caramel confections are rarely seen without a sprinkling of sea salt these days, since sodium intensity is supposed to highlight caramel flavours. In this case it doesn't quite work -- a bolder hand is needed with the salt -- but there's still plenty to recommend it.
The tub releases a fantastic sweet-shop aroma when it's opened and the fudge is in the crumbly, rough-edged tradition -- if you prefer yours soft and malleable, look elsewhere. It's a dark, handsome colour, the rich brown of a St Tropez fake tan, and once you know there's clotted cream in there, you can taste it next to the toasty butter notes.
Burnt Sugar's production methods -- small batches beaten thoroughly in copper pans -- make for a product that's head and shoulders above the average sweet-shop fudge, but the company's ethical philosophy also marks them out. Since early 2007 it's used unrefined Fairtrade sugar from the West Kenyan WEKO co-operative, and has a 'book club' collaboration with Book Aid International, which sends books to developing countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
It also ships its sugar by sea and carbon offsets with CO2 Balance, funding an energy-efficient light bulb project in Kenya. We're not mad keen on carbon offsetting, but at least it's trying. Though the Burnt Sugar website makes mention of responsible packaging -- the tub lids are now card rather than plastic -- there's no recycling mark on the burnished tub. The company says it uses some recycled materials and a minimum of plastics in packaging, but since the lid does look like plastic it'd be nice to have some guidance when your hand's hovering uncertainly over the recycling bin.
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