Currently on view at The Toffee Gallery is an exhibition of handcrafted toys by Darling resident Jacqui van Staden. This is the perfect exhibition for the holiday season thanks to the playful wit of these beautifully crafted colourful creatures, all made by Jacqui herself. The incredibly talented maker of these creatures refers to them as …
During the 39thNational Productivity Awards gala dinner, held last night at the Gallagher Convention Centre in Midrand, Darling Sweet was announced as national winner in the category Emerging Sector. We are incredibly proud of this award! Productivity SA promotes employment growth and productivity in South Africa, seeing as it is such an important driver …
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The best news of the month is that our much anticipated range of soft caramels are finally on the shelves! This is the first time we\’ve added a new member to the Darling Sweet family, in time to celebrate our fourth birthday. Caramels are close relatives of toffees in the confectionery family. Both rely on …
The exhibition ‘Boundless Objects’, currently on at The Toffee Gallery, comprises artworks that are inspired by the book form, commonly referred to as ‘artists’ books’or ‘bookworks’. Stephen Bury defines the artist’s book as “a book or book-like object intended to be a work of art in itself, and over the appearance of which an …
We at Darling Sweet are proud to be associated with the relaunching this month of The Darling Trust’s Evita’s Crafters women’s craft and skills development project. The project is in fact a reincarnation of the Trust’s Craft and Skills Development Centre that was launched in 2006. The centre trained unemployed women in various crafts such …
Darling Sweet, one of South Africa\’s premier toffee manufacturers started in the Western Cape town of Darling only four years ago and has already become a household name and a firm favourite with local and international sweet-toothed fans. The company\’s rise has been fairly meteoric and we sat down with founders and confectioners Hentie van …
The term ‘clean label’ is increasingly being used in the world of consumer food products to identify products that are healthier for consumers. Currently there is however no legislation in place anywhere in the world as to the use of the term on food packaging, so it is up to manufacturers to explain their own …
Finding information on Chapelat-Humpries was not easy, as there is little information out in the public domain about this fascinating bit of confectionery manufacturing history. We finally managed to contact the family of both the firm’s founder, Frank Humphries, and its subsequent owner, Issy Blumberg, all of whom were very kind in sharing with us …
The Darling Trust Black Tie Dinner & Auction, held at Evita se Perron on Friday 4 May, was the launch of a spanking new bi-annual fundraising initiative for The Darling Trust. The event, which is the brainchild of trustee and Darling Sweet co-owner Hentie van der Merwe, was a resounding success, raising a record R158,000 …
We at Darling Sweet are thrilled with the arrival this month of our two beautifully restored Forgrove 22B twist wrapping machines dating from 1955 and built by that factory in England. Both once stood in the Humphries confectionery factory in Cape Town, producers of the once famous Sunrise Toffees, so we are proud to have a part of South African toffee manufacturing history at …
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