Northshore magazine showcases the best that the North Shore of Boston, MA has to offer.
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248 "It started with the homemade marshmallows," says Lydia Blanchard, owner of the confectionary Sweet Lydia's. "And now we're probably just as well known—or more—for our chocolate salted caramels." The fact is, Sweet Lydia's is well known for many of its products for a reason: It creates decadent candy bars, fruit jellies, and other confections out of real ingredients, not anything artificial. And customers can taste the difference. Unlike store-bought marshmallows, the ones from Sweet Lydia's are light and fluffy, and the flavors come from ingredients like real spices, fruit purées, and homemade caramel. "Our bright-pink raspberry marshmallows are pink with raspberry, not red dye," she says. Now, Blanchard's thrilled to be bringing her sweet treats to Boston. "It seemed like the perfect opportunity," she says. sweetlydias.com Sweet Lydia's LOWELL photographs by Jared Charney (top left and bottom), by Darren Pellegrino (top right)