Sugar Babies (candy)

Sugar Babies
	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; 90 years ago
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.tootsie.com/candy/sugar-babies/

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 and one of the pioneers of pan chocolate, who invented both Junior Mints and Sugar Babies 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] Sugar Babies were named after a song called "Let Me Be Your Sugar Baby".^[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]

References

^ ^a ^b "Tootsie Roll Inc". tootsie.com. Retrieved 2024-07-09.
^ 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.

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[:1-1] "Tootsie Roll Inc". tootsie.com. Retrieved 2024-07-09.

[2] 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.

[3] 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.

[:0-4] "Sugar Babies". April 25, 2007. Archived from the original on August 8, 2014. Retrieved August 2, 2014.

[5] Kimmerle, Beth (November 2003). Candy: The Sweet History. Collectors Press, Inc. p. 156. ISBN 1-888054-83-2.

[6] "Sugar Babies". True Treats Historic Candy. Retrieved 2024-07-09.

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