The Toad & The Butterfly, a Blog

Putting my mark on our bestselling flavored caramel

Putting my mark on our bestselling flavored caramel


Claire Georges

When you cook with alcohol, especially in caramel, you concentrate everything. Good flavors get better. Bad flavors get louder. With only five ingredients in our Salted Bourbon Caramel, there is nowhere for a bad bourbon to hide.

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Caramel Isn't Just For Dessert

Caramel Isn't Just For Dessert


Claire Georges

It’s just as good on a cheese board as it is as a snack at the counter while dinner’s in the oven.

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Good to the last drizzle

Good to the last drizzle


Claire Georges

Three fast ways to use every last bit of your Fat Toad Farm Caramel Sauce...plus simple jar reuses.

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Goats have a reputation

Goats have a reputation


Claire Georges

From our farms to your spoons, it matters what the goats eat.

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You get out what you put in

You get out what you put in


Claire Georges
Goats can be quite happy eating a lot of different things. But what they eat affects the flavor of their milk. And the best milk for our caramel is mild and sweet.
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Goat's milk caramel is the G.O.A.T.

Goat's milk caramel is the G.O.A.T.


Claire Georges

We start each caramel week with a trip to one of the two Vermont farms that we source our milk from. We pump mild, sweet goat's milk from their milk tanks into our transport tote and then bring it back to the milk tanks in our caramel room.

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