Stix in the Mud are sorta like Grape Nuts, only in that neither of the food products has anything to do with it’s name. No grapes, no nuts, no sticks, no mud. Stix in the Mud is just another fun name for a candy treat, but this is no ordinary treat. The Stix are the home recipe of the ‘Funleys’, and it is their specialty product. The Funley’s are not a jack of all trades type candy-maker, The Funley’s make Stix in the Mud, take em or leave em.. Thankfully, they’re delicious, and I’ll take em. These cookie-cluster chocolate candies come in three different tantalizing ‘take em’ flavors: Original, Caramel, and Peanut Butter.Funleys Stix in the Mud

So, yes it’s candy, but the Funleys try to be slightly healthy, which is a bit funny for a candy company, but hey, every little bit helps! The Funley’s only use a preservative-free, mixture of quality dark and milk chocolates. There are zero grams of transfats in all the flavors and they’re all individually wrapped for sharing and/or portion control.

Bits of crunchy savory cookie stix are inside every chocolate clump. The Original Stix in the Mud are made from Funley’s unique blend of high quality dark and milk chocolates, combined with large, crunchy cookie bits. They are milky and creamy, but with the balanced richness of that dark chocolate as well. This particular candy eats more like a cookie in actuality. It doesn’t have the gooey crunch that the PB and caramel clusters have, but is still a great tasting chocolate, though it’s drier than your average bite of candy.

The peanut butter variety is certainly more candy-like, though it’s not quite trying to be a peanut butter cup, this is no chocolate cookie any longer either. The peanut butter is almost like an Easter treat, pillowy and light against the crunchy cookie bits. The whole thing is delightfully enveloped in the Funley’s chocolate blend, a bite-sized mouth sealer.

Though both Original and Peanut Butter are good, it’s with the Caramel Stix in the Mud where Funley’s really found a winner. This candy has a deftly struck balance of gooey and crunchy to produce an absolutely wonderful candy. The caramel takes the original chocolate cookie clusters to another level entirely. Caramel stretching out like a Caramello, sticky and sweet with the cookie clusters, this is wonderful.

-bryan

Try them all and see which is your favorite Funley. Feel good about them even more as Funley’s donates a portion of their profits to children’s educational programs around the country. Oh yes, and their website baas & moos, check it out.