About keeping and storing Sponge Candy
If you have a questions about keeping and storing Sponge Candy and it’s not covered here, please contact us. We’ll get back to you, pronto.
Common questions concerning keeping and storing Sponge Candy
How long does Sponge Candy keep?
Once we ship our Sponge Candy to you, we expect the shelf life to be weeks for sure, up to two months or so. We’ve had customers tell us of having a bag of Sponge Candy forgotten in the closet for six months, into summer, and it was fine. Maybe so, but I’m sure we wouldn’t have thought so. We’ve tested our storage for up to three months during Fall, Winter and Spring and we feel confident with that time period under our optimum storage conditions. Our Sponge Candy manufacturing is planned as close to the selling date as possible in order to give you as much of that three months as we can. But really, who can
resist that long? 
What are optimum storage conditons for increased shelf life?
There’s three enviromental factors to control to give Sponge Candy and chocolate a longer time on the shelf while maintaining the highest possible quality:
“Ahhhhhhhhhhh!!! You cursed brat! Look what you’ve done!! I’m melting, melting.”
Why is there a gooey Sponge Candy center?
If you’re going to enjoy your Sponge Candy while also enjoying a hot bath, don’t leave the bag open in the steamy bathroom. Seriously, treat the bag of Sponge Candy much like you would crackers or cereal - close ‘em up to keep ‘em at their best. Humidity will penetrate the chocolate and cause the center to dissolve.
Does hard & chewy Sponge Candy mean that it’s old?
No, hard doesn’t mean old. Our Sponge Candy batch is very much like a loaf of bread and we’re very much like little kids. We just won’t eat that crust so we cut it off and throw it away. That’s the hard chewy part. The center of the loaf (batch) is the airy, melt-in-your-mouth part. We don’t enjoy getting a hard piece so we throw away almost two-thirds of the batch by weight. The good news is the light, tender part is the great majority of the volume of the batch.
Should I keep my Sponge Candy in the refrigerator?
Please, NO. Even though some people like their chocolate cold and are just fine with keeping their Sponge Candy in the refrigerator, it is not necessary for the rest of us. There are two very good reasons why you shouldn’t refrigerate Sponge Candy: For one, refrigerators are chock full of food odors and chocolate will absorb those odors in a flash even through multiple wraps or bags. I guarantee that even a pleasant odor will not make the chocolate taste any better - quite the opposite, actually. Secondly, warm moist room air will cause condensation on the surface of your cold chocolate. Not only will this degrade the appearance of the chocolate, it will also cause the sponge center to melt.
Can I freeze Sponge Candy?
We don’t recommend it but some customers have reported having great success doing so. There may be some small loss of quality but overall, it should be pretty much OK if you follow a few rules (if you really must do it):
One customer told us about how he likes to eat his Sponge Candy while still frozen. Tosses the bag of Sponge Candy into the freezer as is and pulls out a piece to eat whenever. While it’s generally accepted that chocolate is at it’s absolute best when warm (room temperature), to each his/her own.
Why did my Sponge Candy disappear?
Often an empty or nearly empty Sponge Candy box will turn up in a cupboard or next to a favorite TV chair while you know the Sponge Candy recently arrived. Boy, that was fast!
At this point, all you can do is learn from experience and anticipate this problem for the next time, now that you definitely know you’re not surrounded by those rare “eat one piece a day” people. Yes, not only do these people actually exist but, also they are very smug about their self control.
