I love caramels so much that I started to make my own. But of course this was only an excuse to make a candy wrapper for them. At first I was going to call them Nakamels. I devised a flat long wrapper design to house a single 2 x 4 x 3/16th of an inch piece of caramel. I wrapped a few this way, but then I started to think more upscale and cryptic, ancient and Egyptian. I had already had the Kamels lettering on this first design for no particular reason except that I always come up with options while designing something and even with this first design I obviously did not decide which name to use or I just wanted to misspell caramel so that I could use the letter K from my Nak name.
So with the name Kamels came a whole rethinking of the package. They would be individual squares of caramel which is equivelent to 2 regular pieces that you would get with Reisens or Wherthiers. I weighed a number of these squares and on average they happened to weigh about 13 grams each - a nice cryptic number.
Of course with the word Kamel you get the association of a camel (I'm imagining some commercials already) and also the association of the middle east or Egypt, hence the pyramid. Now this is interesting, in Egyptian metaphysics, KA is the spirit. If you look at the ingredients on my wrapper, you will see that the last ingredient is........
But then I often will get the reaction, "Ewww......what is Ka?".
It's a lot of work hand cutting the caramel, the wax paper, and tin foil to size and wrapping all the pieces. Oh but the joy, the joy of giving these away to friends is immense. And they are awsome caramels or should I say Kamels™
This is a wrapper that would house 4 individual squares.
