Idle Isle Candy is a food and drink brand founded in Brigham City, Utah, in 1921.
Idle Isle's almond creme toffee started out as a peanut candy. Around 1935 David Call began reworking the Melba, a vanilla center dipped in chocolate and rolled in chopped peanuts, into a cream toffee rolled in almonds. It is still the flagship at the Brigham City candy company.
Percy and Verabel Knudson opened the Idle Isle in May 1921 as an ice cream and candy store, with the candy equipment in the basement. Percy had first spent two years at the Bluebird in Logan learning the trade. Verabel's brother David and his wife LaRita became partners in 1929, and David made the candy.
The cafe and the candy company later split. Richard VanDyke, the Knudsons' grandson, sold the restaurant in 1994 to focus on candy. The candy shop moved across the street in 2004, so the Idle Isle Cafe is a different business now. In 2019 VanDyke sold his share to Julie Gailey, sister of his wife, Shari, and the two sisters own it today. Not everything on the shelf is theirs, and the shop says plainly that its Boden candy is made elsewhere. Their own pieces are still hand-dipped across the street from that first basement.
A 1921 naming contest paid Mrs. Walderman Call $10 for suggesting Idle Isle, and some say she meant Idle Aisle.
