The history of this confectioner family dates back to 1919, when Chester K. “Chet” Enstrom got his start in the candy business. At 17 years old, Chet went to work in the ice cream factory at Barthel’s Confectionery in Colorado Springs. Often, when his shift ended, he would help out across the street in the adjacent candy factory and he quietly began learning the candy maker’s art.
In 1929, Chet and his bride, Vernie, packed up their Model T and drove the rut-filled roads to Grand Junction, Colorado to begin a new life. There Chet and a partner, Harry Jones, launched the Jones-Enstrom Ice Cream Company, a business he pursued for the next thirty years.
Meanwhile, Chet also pursued his favorite hobby: handcrafting various confections. His specialty was almond toffee, and he experimented at night and on weekends, brewing up small batches of this hard-to-make treat as a gift for family and friends. By 1960, his almond toffee had begun to develop a reputation and, at the urging of those early gift recipients, Chet founded Enstrom Candies.
Chet and Vernie planned to make their new “Candy Kitchen” a mom and pop operation, but the orders kept flooding in. By 1965, Enstrom’s was shipping almond toffee worldwide and Chet sold the business to his son and daughter-in-law, Emil and Mary Enstrom so that he could pursue a political career in the Colorado State Senate.
Under the direction of Emil and Mary, Enstrom Candies thrived. In 1979 their daughter Jamee and her husband Doug Simons joined the company. In 1990Chet’s grandson Rick and his wife Linda opened a retail store in Denver’s Cherry Creek North. In 1993, Jamee and Doug purchased the business and continued building the company.
Today, Enstrom Candies remains a family business; Jamee and Doug oversee the operation of the “Candy Kitchen” and retail stores in Grand Junction, Colorado, where every batch of traditional almond toffee is still made by hand with only the finest, freshest ingredients. Rick and Linda manage the Denver area retail stores. Jamee and Doug are also very proud that their sons Doug Jr. and Jim, have joined the company to become the fourth generation of the family business and are learning the art of what it takes to make world class confections.
Throughout the last 50 years, Enstrom Candies has expanded their product line to include toffee popcorn, truffles, and delicious gourmet chocolates. Thanks to Granddad Chet, they are celebrating over fifty years of a treasured family business. Over fifty years of watching eyes light up and smiles appear when people taste the world’s finest almond toffee and most importantly; more then fifty years of honoring Granddad’s philosophy that “we’re just making a little almond toffee for a few of our friends.”
Our all-natural, World Famous Almond Toffee is crafted from a perfect blend…fresh California almonds, sweet cream butter and pure cane sugar, covered in a generous layer of rich chocolate and sprinkled with crushed almonds.
OUR REVIEW.
I WAS SO EXCITE AND HAPPY TO BE ABLE TO REVIEW THE ENSTROMS TOFFEE. I LOVE TOFFEE. IT IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE CANDIES.I WANTED THE GIRLS TO TRY THE TOFFEE WITH ME.I KNEW MY GIRLS WOULD LOVE IT JUST AS MUCH AS I DO. I LET MEME TRY THE TOFFEE FIRST SONCE SHE WAS HOME WITH ME WHEN IT GOT HERE. WE OPENED IT AND MEME SAID MOMMY THATS REALLY BIG. I CANT EAT A BIG PEICE SO I BROKE HER OFF A PEICE AND SHE TASTED IT RIGHT AWAY. SHE REPLIED I LOVE IT MOMMY. THEN ASKED IF SHE COULD HAVE ANOTHER PIECE SO I TOLD HER ONLY ONE MORE FOR RIGHT NOW TILL BREA GETS HOME.SHE REMINDED ME AS SOON AS WE GOT HOME TO GET THE TOFFEE. SHE COULDNT WAIT TO HAVE SOME MORE. BREA TRIED THE TOFFEE AND SHE REALLY LIKED IT TOO. I REALLY LIKE THE TOFFEE TOO. IT WAS SO GOOD.IT IS MADE PERFECT. YOU CAN FIND SOME GREAT TOFFEE RIGHT HERE. BELOW IS A FEW PICTURES AND ALSO A GREAT GIVEAWAY.
LOOK AT THE PRETTY BOX THE TOFFEE COMES IN.
THE TOFFEE WE GOT TO TRY.LOOKS YUMMY RIGHT?
ME'ANA TRYING THE TOFFEE. LOOK AT THE SMILE SHE HAD.SORRY BOUT THE BAD PICTURE. SHE MOVED AND I DIDNT RELIEZE I HAD CHOPPED OFF THE TOPE OF HER HEAD IN THE PICTURE.
NOW LETS ENTER THAT AWESOME GIVEAWAY BELOW. ONE LUCKY PERSON WILL RECIEVE THERE OWN BOX OF TOFFEE.
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5 comments:
Caramel cream yummy! Learned what truffles actually are. My sister loves them.
i'd love to try the 'mint meltaways' and i learned they also offer sugar free chocolates!
annae07@aol.com
Caramel EVERYTHING!! The cream sounds delicious!
Char~
I also learned that they have gift boxes, which is awesome for my family members!
Char~
Definitely the truffles, they are my favorite candies ever
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