Beyond the burgundy-striped awning and the display window are tiered glass cases with cremes, fruit centers, caramels, nut clusters, truffles, butter crunch and nonpareils.

Now we can savor such tender and pleasing ones as oak leaf, deer tongue, butter crunch and crisp head, all cultivated by Connecticut growers.

Almond Roca is a brand of chocolate-covered, almond butter crunch, hard toffee with a coating of ground almonds.

"He's not all that interested in the candy business," Dylan says of her father, "but his favorites are butter crunch and chocolate Twizzlers."

It hums, and so is a constant reminder that I should be interacting with it rather than reading about Heather Locklear's wedding and eating butter crunch.

Chocolates start at $30 a pound; butter crunch and brittle, $16 to $20 a pound.

Searching for something different, Mr. Strohecker decided on triangular pieces of butter crunch dipped in dark chocolate.

First, the French variety, then red leaf, salad bowl and butter crunch.

Munson's best sellers are almond butter crunch, pecan caramel patties (turtles) and chocolate nut bark.

Champagne truffles, bars of butter crunch, hot cocoa.