Curtiss Candy Company made their first Butterfinger Candy Bar in 1923, two years after the Baby Ruth candy bar was introduced. No, they are not named for the famous baseball player.

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Giving Back Donate to help build water wells in Africa. A small donation of just $1.00 or $2.00 Pop into your local drugstore and you'll find no shortage of chocolate. This ad is from 1965. Baby Ruth Cookies is an old fashioned cookie recipe from the 1920, made by adding chopped Candy Bars made of caramel, chocolate, and roasted peanuts to the batter. The candy bars have a taste similar to peanut butter and include crispy caramel in the center. Heck, there are about 29 different kinds of M&Ms these days. I acquired this Baby Ruth Cookies recipe in the late 1940s or early 1950s from the wrapper on a Baby Ruth Candy Bar. Baby Ruth Bars The classic Baby Ruth bar was first made by Curtiss Candy Company in 1921, and the origin of the name has been debated for decades. What a drag because I think it’s a nice lil treat when you get tired of all your favorite candy bars. Baby Ruth is a candy bar bursting with peanuts, rich caramel and chewy nougat. The Mars Bar still has a following around the world, but here in the U.S. we've been relegated to eating Twix and Snickers as the milk-chocolate bar was stripped from store shelves in 2002. The company argued for years that the candy was NOT named after famous baseball player Babe Ruth.

You can pick up multiple varieties of Twix, chomp on umpteen iterations of Kit Kats, or go nutty with Snickers of all sorts. Well, they've got it in a candy bar.Still… In the 1960s Baby Ruth print advertising encouraged people to give BOXES of Baby Ruth candy bars as Christmas presents. I don’t think Baby Ruth Crisp is better than OG Baby Ruth but it’s still a respectable candy bar when you get the munchies. This ad is from 1965. Changes to the formulations of several chocolate candy bars has got chocolate lovers buzzing, and not in a good way. Or, if you preferred the Butterfinger Candy Bar, you could buy boxes of them for those you loved and cared for.