1. How did Tweet Toffee start?
Tweet Toffee started in southern California in July 2009 with a $30.00 investment and the reminder of Sarah’s childhood favorite during family time. Our family had suffered a sudden job loss and needed a new, fresh idea for earning income. Although Sarah hardly met a candy she didn’t like, her friends’ mothers English Toffee recipe was her absolute favorite.

She recently learned how to make the famous toffee and had been making it for special events & gifts for a few years. She never let go the fact that the feedback she received was almost 100% amazement; this from a girl who never really “took” to the kitchen. After the reminder during family time, Sarah decided to post on FACEBOOK that she was making her famous toffee and asked for any takers. She quickly had people interested and Tweet Toffee was born!

2. What type of things do you make?
We handcraft a DOZEN different varieties of English Toffee (although some are seasonal); most toffee companies have two, maybe three. Our Classic Milk with Almonds and Dark Chocolate with Pecans are delightful, but we longed for more creative toffee expressions. We had some ideas of our own but also loved the idea of including our FACEBOOK fans in the process. We reached out for toffee ideas, naming ideas; making them contests for free toffee.

Most of our ingredients can be found at Trader Joe’s including our Milk and Dark Chocolate; we are crazy TJ fans! We get our White Chocolate from a Seattle company, Dilletante. We have recently been talking with Theo Chocolate, also in Seattle (Organic, Fair Trade Certified Chocolate) about featuring some of their chocolate with our toffee and this fall, we’ll have some VERY delicious announcements about Tweet Toffee and Theo!

3. What is your inspiration?
The answer to this question is: you HAVE to see the movie Chocolat. The joy that we see on people’s faces as they enjoy our toffee is SO wonderful. We grew up in dreary Seattle, lived in Nashville for over 2 years and southern California for a year before coming back to Seattle again and we can say that we haven’t been anywhere that people have too much joy.

Everywhere we’ve been would benefit from more joy, more enjoyment of life and relationships. We offer a confection for connecting with friends, family; for sharing love by giving a handcrafted delicious gift for people you appreciate far and near. We are grateful for our great marriage and three amazing children and are fortunate to possess a reservoir of joy in our hearts. Tweet Toffee gives us a opportunity to share that joy with the world.

4. Where can we find your stuff (other than at our market)?
You can find us delivering to friends in the Puget Sound area and at various markets through the year. We have just started to talk with retailers, so hopefully we’ll have some announcements very soon! The best way to keep up with us in on FACEBOOK. It’s how we started and still the best way for us to connect with new friends.

5. What are your social media properties and where can we find them?

Facebook: Facebook.com/TweetToffee
Twitter: Twitter.com/TweetToffee

6. Any other question you can think of that people might want to know about.
You can find out a LOT more about us at www.TweetToffee.com.

Stay Sweet!
Sarah & Ben