Since childhood, you've been seeing candy canes everywhere- from churches given away by ministers, to candy shop windows at the corner, at school dangling by the nurse's office, and at home on your Christmas tree each year. These sweets are not merely ordinary candies. Although they are always included in presents, personalized sweets and decors, they have in them that sacredness and timelessness that cannot compare to anything else.
Candy canes today exist around the world in a plethora of flavors, stripes and colors. But did you know that the first years of their existence revolved only in one color which is white? And did you know that their sole flavor was sugar? If you see the varieties of these candies today in personalized sweets, you must be thankful that they're not limited to that white color and sugar flavor alone.
The origin of the candies is said to be in the 17th century when European Christians started to adopt the use of foods such as cookies and sugar stick candies for their Christmas tree decors. Its first recorded account of the existence however was in 1670 when a choirmaster in Cologne Germany started to bend sugar stick candies to replicate the staff of the shepherds. It was a clever idea for without it, Christmas trees and personalized sweets today would not look as interesting.
During that time, these treats were given to children at every nativity service of the church. It became a Christmas custom for clergymen to hand out white candy canes every Christmas and this custom spread all throughout Europe and America. Today, even outside of church, Christmas personalized sweets are not complete without them.
Candy canes reached the US in 1847 through a German immigrant who introduced the tradition and the candy by decorating his whole house in Ohio with it one Christmas. Fifty years later, stripes in candy canes emerged but no one really knows who first made it. Shortly thereafter, candy makers introduced the flavors peppermint and wintergreen and since then they became traditional favorites especially in Christmas personalized sweets.
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