Aplets & Cotlets are soft candies made with apples or apricots and walnuts. In 1918 Armen Tertsagian and Mark Balaban, who owned an apple orchard in Cashmere, Washington, had excess fruit so they created a candy based on a treat from their native country of Armenia. The company is still family owned and has expanded its products to include fruit bars and an assortment of chocolates.
Tours are given every day April through December and on week days the rest of the year. The tour is short because there are only three rooms, the mixing and cooking room, the cooler where the candy sits in flat trays to jell, and the main area where everything else is done – cutting it into little blocks, tumbling it in powered sugar and corn starch, and carefully fitting each piece, one at a time, into a box. Several million pounds of candy are produced every year and the room is bustling with activity.
Free samples of the candy and fruit bars are available at the store. All of the other products can be purchased and there are specials every week. We tried everything and, even though both of us never pass up a sweet treat, we found them much too sweet. They seems to be an acquired taste and most of the candy is bought by Washingtonians.
The tour and store are accessible.
The parking lot is large enough for any RV. If it’s full there’s parking across the street in a public lot.
Store 47.52147, -120.46974
Sounds like fun to me!
ReplyDeleteFactory tours are always fun even when you don't like the product! :-P
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