MarketBasket: Tasty home sodas
Step up your home soda game with one of these vivid handmade syrups from Foam Floaterie, the Queen Village ice cream artisan that shares space with Cookie Confidential. Owner Tish Smith uses organic cane sugar syrup (and no extracts) for the base of a wide range of intriguing flavors.
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Float-tastic flavors
Step up your home soda game with one of these vivid handmade syrups from Foam Floaterie, the Queen Village ice cream artisan that shares space with Cookie Confidential. Owner Tish Smith uses organic cane sugar syrup (and no extracts) for the base of a wide range of intriguing flavors. Some are take-out only, like the Moroccan Mint Tea and Gingerbread. But three are available in bottles, including cocoa nib, hibiscus, and a cream soda syrup so lush with Bourbon vanilla beans they practically made my float crunch.
- Craig LaBan
Cream soda syrup, $12.50 a 12oz. bottle, Foam Floaterie, 517 S. 5th St., 207-229-4013. Soon available at Tela's Market in Fairmount, too.
Loca-roons
Claudia Baudo, a retail consultant and longtime coconut nut, has been making her trademark dark-chocolate-dipped macaroons for friends for years. In October, though, she began packaging the fluffy, made-in-Philly treats for sale. The all-natural, flourless Smackaroons also have purported antioxidant benefits - helpful in counteracting all that sugar.
-Samantha Melamed
Smackaroons, $12.99 for eight at Valley Forge Flowers, 503 W. Lancaster Ave., Wayne, 610-687-5566; Green Aisle, 1618 E. Passyunk Ave., Philadelphia, 215-465-1411; or smackaroons.com.