Sugar Babies (candy)
Bag of Sugar Babies. | |
| Product type | Chocolate caramel candy |
|---|---|
| Owner | Tootsie Roll Industries |
| Produced by | Tootsie Roll Industries |
| Country | Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Introduced | 1935 |
| Related brands | Sugar Daddy (candy) Sugar Mama (confectionery) |
| Markets | Worldwide |
| Previous owners | James O. Welch Company Nabisco Warner–Lambert |
| Tagline | "Let me be your sugar" |
| Website | www |
Sugar Babies are bite-sized, pan-coated, chewy milk caramel sweets in the US which are relatively soft to chew. Tootsie describes them as "slow-cooked, candy-coated milk caramels" sold as movie-theater candy.[1]
History
Sugar Babies are a confection originally developed in 1935 for the James O. Welch Co. by Charles Vaughan (1901-1995), a veteran food chemist who also invented Junior Mints for the James O. Welch Company.[2] Babies were produced in response to the success of the company’s previous Sugar Daddy caramel lollipop, and similar to Highlander Partners’ Milk Duds.[1][3]
The company was purchased by Nabisco in 1963. The Welch family of products changed hands a few more times, going from Nabisco to Warner-Lambert (in 1988) then to Tootsie Roll in 1993. Presently, packages of Sugar Babies name Charms LLC of Covington, TN, a subsidiary of Tootsie Roll, as manufacturer.[4][5] Welch produced them along with the rest of the Sugar Family (Sugar Daddy and Sugar Mama).[6]
See also
References
- ^ a b "Sugar Babies". Tootsie. Tootsie Roll Industries. nd. Retrieved 2025-06-07.
- ^ Gray, Paula (1984-10-18). "Candy creator spends retirement years sweetening his community". The Register. p. 1. Archived from the original on 2023-02-17. Retrieved 2023-02-17.
- ^ Smith, Andrew (March 2007). The Oxford Companion to American Food and Drink. New York, New York: Oxford University Press. p. 591. ISBN 978-0-19-530796-2.
- ^ "Sugar Babies". April 25, 2007. Archived from the original on August 8, 2014. Retrieved August 2, 2014.
- ^ Kimmerle, Beth (November 2003). Candy: The Sweet History. Collectors Press, Inc. p. 156. ISBN 1-888054-83-2.
- ^ "Sugar Babies". True Treats Historic Candy. Retrieved 2024-07-09.