You may be more familiar with the
Sugar Daddy.
(Kind of a funny side note... some interesting things came up when I googled "sugar daddy"!) The Sugar Daddy originated in 1925 as a caramel lollipop that was dubbed the "big daddy" of all lollipops. The Sugar Daddy got a
Sugar Mama in 1935 and Sugar Babies followed the same year. The babies are like little caramel-filled, chewy jelly beans.
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When you add them to a molasses cookie batter, they melt inside the cookies to create a chewy, caramelly texture. As I rolled the dough into little balls with those jellybean-like babies prominent in every spoonful, I was a little skeptical how well they would incorporate into the dough.