Coming soon...

Four Hallmark stores in the Fort Wayne area will soon be carrying not only our 2 oz. and 6 oz. pretzels, but also our pretzel bark and the caramel marshmallows.

I'm very excited about this and can't wait to see how they do. It will be strange to walk into the stores and see all of my product, and I'm curious as to how they are going to merchandise them.

If you're in the area, stop by the Hallmark locations at Dupont Village, St. Joe Village, Northcrest Shopping Center and Apple Glen for a peak.

Of course now this means my holiday weekend will be more like a working weekend, but that's okay. Working with chocolate isn't really work, is it?

Good Reviews

The new hang tags have officially begun their entrance into the retail marketplace!

We dropped several turtle pretzels with the new hang tags at a few select Hallmark stores a few weeks ago, and the reviews have been great!

Customers are commenting on the nice, upscale look, as are the mangers of the stores. What a compliment, and very encouraging. It's not much fun to go to the trouble to create something new only for it to be received poorly. So, it's nice indeed to get such a positive response.

Next I will be sending some samples of our marshmallows and pretzel bark to the owner of the 6 Hallmark stores we are in in hopes of them picking up the whole line for mothers day!

I've also been including sample marshmallows in my shipments lately, and have been getting very encouraging feedback on those as well!

Looking forward to what comes next!!!

New hang tags make their debut!

First let me say that I don't really like that photo of all the items to the left. It looks like a big crazy mess...we're still learning how to set up shots, but hopefully this will give you an idea of what our hang tags are going to accomplish.

If you click on the picture, it will take you to a larger image. You should be able to see that each item has it's own color coded hang tag. Caramel apples are a green, to indicate the green from the Granny Smith's we use.

The marshmallow color is sort of a smooth yellow, orange cream color. The pretzel bark will be a warm caramel brown, and all the pretzels (the 4", the 8", and the dippity do dahs) will be a lighter shade of our logo red.

We have switched to the brown raffia and ribbon as well, which really gives the items a higher end appeal.

You also can now see clearly what is in the package. We will be delivering a small sample of these to Dupont and Apple Glen Hallmark stores this week, to see how they do. I'm hoping they increase impulse buys, but you just never know what consumers will do.

What do you think of the new look? Is it an improvement? Make suggestions in the comment section, I'd love to hear from you.

New items popping up at DipSticks!

We're blooming with ideas here at DipSticks Gourmet Pretzels!

We introduced you to the Caramel Apple (see new photos on the left), and then the Dippity Do Dahs, now we're launching a few new ideas.

Chocolate covered caramel marshmallows! We take jumbo marshmallows-the freshest we can find-drench them with our

trademark caramel

(sometimes the caramel is even flavored...my fave is the buttered rum!), place this in a bed of finely crushed pretzels, then we drench all of this in chocolate, and sprinkle with love.

We're going to offer two kinds of caramel chocolate marshmallows. One will be 4 marshmallows on a stick, it weighs about 6 ounces!

The other option will be 3 marsmallows in one cellophane bag.

Also, around Christmas time we started making some fantastic gourmet chocolate pretzel bark, too. We've taken traditional bark up a notch and added some DipStick touches to it.

My favorite flavor is one layer of butterscotch chocolate that has bits of pretzel pieces and toffee, with a second layer of white chocolate that has corn flakes in it. Yummm-ola.

We also have the traditional milk chocolate with toffee, white chocolate with peppermint, and dark chocolate with mint oreos and andes mints. Each of our barks though have a unique, salty twist (pardon the pun) with the addition of crunched up pretzels.

It's very exciting to now have a whole "line" of products. And with the addition of the new color coded hang tags, we hope to make ourselves a little more competitive, which should get us in the door of some larger chain stores.

It's time to have fun with pretzels!

OMG! (Oh! Marshmallows Good!)

Wow! I've been playing around with these new product ideas, and I definitely got a doozey with this one.


I dipped some jumbo marshmallows into caramel, and then sat them on some crunched up pretzels, and dipped them in milk, dark and white chocolates. I just ate a white one, and yum.


I think these will be a big hit! They look ridiculously cute in their bag, and the new hang tags/ribbon combo is coming along smashingly.


I can't wait to post a photo of them...