Handmade Chocolate. Ferndale, CA. Since 1976.

Sweetness and Light is an old-fashioned candy shop in the heart of Ferndale. We make our chocolates and candies right here at 554 Main Street, one batch at a time, using copper kettles, marble slabs, local cream and butter, and properly tempered Guittard chocolate.

Some of the recipes we still make today have been handed down for generations. Others we've developed here over the years. We don't use preservatives, and we're stubborn about doing things the way we think candy should be made.

Our signature Moo Bar has been a Sweetness and Light favorite for decades. We cook the caramel in a copper kettle, roast the almonds, make the vanilla marshmallow from scratch, and build the whole thing on our marble slab. After resting overnight, every bar is hand-cut, dipped in milk or dark chocolate, wrapped in foil, and labeled by hand.

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Our production kitchen has been completely gluten-free since 2012, and everything we make is gluten-free, including the cookies and pretzels we use for dipping, which are certified gluten-free by their manufacturers.

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Old Recipes. Same Little Candy Shop.

Sweetness and Light opened in Ferndale in 1976, but some of the recipes we still use are much older. Several, including our caramel, Victoria Creams, and Buttermilk Creams, are still made from recipes preserved in a family candy-making cookbook dating to the 1800s.

We've kept the classics, added plenty of our own recipes along the way, and remained stubbornly old-fashioned about how candy ought to be made.

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