Trappistine Quality Candy

Specialties

Handmade Belgian chocolate candy made with love and prayers by the sisters of Mount St. Mary’s Abbey. Our gift shop features chocolate pops (rose-​shaped and other seasonal/​holiday shapes), in addition to our delicious boxed chocolates, fudge, and penuche.

The gift shop also offers books, greeting cards, religious items and other gift items.

Make a mid-​day visit to our monastery grounds in Wrentham– a place of simple, natural beauty and of great peace, and home to Trappistine Quality Candy. You’ll see the the sisters who run the abbey are committed to renewable energy, witnessed by their wind turbine and nearby solar panel fields.

Choose from milk or dark chocolate squares, plain or with almonds. Or our signature Butternut Munch: chocolate coated toffee sprinkled with chopped hazelnuts. Or, if it’s fudge you prefer, we offer plain and walnut fudge, and a yummy maple walnut penuche.

Our gift shop also offers Trappist Preserves, coffee, breads, creamed honey, and biscotti.

History

Established in 1956.

In 1955 Sisters began to consider replacing their bread making industry with something more conformable to the monastic life style. That’s when they found John Crand — a Greek candy maker, who was eager to teach the Sisters how to make candy, sharing some of his own recipes and supplies, and the help of his family members.

Preparations for the candy industry began in early 1956. Caramels were their first products followed by fudge and penuche, which they still make today. Butter Nut Munch was added in 1957, and remains their best selling recipe. Chocolates and bark (chocolate with almonds) were added over the years, completing a fine array of chocolate specialties.

The sisters completed a new factory, dedicated in October 2011. Today they sell their candies along with other Trappist products online and by mail order, as well as at their gift shop in Wrentham.

Meet the Business Owner

Cistercian Nuns C.

Business Owner

Mount Saint Mary’s Abbey is home to close to fifty nuns of the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance, more commonly known as Trappistines. The Order was founded in 1098 at Citeaux, France and is now comprised of monks and nuns who live in over one hundred and seventy monasteries throughout the world.