Allergy & Craft Notes

The Building, Honestly

The Marbletop Candy Parlor is one working confectionery, one slab, one kettle. Everything in this room shares air, counter, marble, copper, and wax paper. Our kitchen routinely handles:

• Milk and milk derivatives (sweet cream, butter, condensed milk, malted barley)
• Eggs (cordial fondants and a few marshmallow formulations)
• Peanuts and tree nuts (toasted pecan toffee, praline crunch batches)
• Soy (soy lecithin in some couverture chocolate)
• Wheat and gluten (malt, and the occasional toffee-crusted experiment)

We are not an allergen-free facility and we do not pretend otherwise. If you or someone you're gifting to lives with a severe allergy, please consult your physician before tasting, and write to us at marbletopcandyparlor@gmail.com — we'll tell you exactly what the current batches contain and how the slab was cleaned between pulls.

How to Read Our Twists & Labels

• Wax-paper twist, cherry stripe — cherry phosphate or chocolate cherry cordial family.
• Wax-paper twist, teal stripe — birch beer, root beer float, or lime rickey family.
• Cream tissue square — butter rum cream or vanilla malt, milk-forward, lowest snap.
• Gold foil dot — batch contains tree nuts (almost always pecan).
• Batch number on the tin bottom — write to us with it and we'll pull the exact batch sheet.

Ingredient Sourcing, Plainly

Cane sugar, sweet cream and butter from regional dairies, whole Valencia oranges and limes in season, real birch oil, vanilla beans, Valencia-grown cocoa, and couverture chocolate with clear origin labels. No artificial dyes — our reds come from beet and cherry, our yellows from annatto and turmeric. No high-fructose corn syrup in anything that leaves the kettle.

What Our Candy Is — and Is Not

Our candies are confections, made for pleasure and for the candy dish — not for treating, preventing, or curing anything. If you have a medical question about sugar, dyes, or specific ingredients, your physician outranks our counter every single time. We are proud candy makers, not clinicians.

Craft Variability

Small-batch means small-batch: humidity, slab temperature, and the cook's wrist all leave fingerprints on each batch. Color, sheen, and exact set will vary slightly between Batch № 1,470 and № 1,471. That is not a defect — that is the point of making candy the slow way.

Questions at the Counter

Email marbletopcandyparlor@gmail.com or call (937) 555-0164 during counter hours and ask for the wrap-station lead. We'd rather answer one careful question than wrap one careless tin.