Without the promise of sweets, mouths would never have the patience to stay open during dentist's appointments or closed during beekeeping demonstrations. Keep mouths copacetic with today's Groupon to Sweet Temptations in Grand Haven. Choose between the following options:

• For $9, you get three half-pound slabs of house-made fudge (a $19.50 value). Today’s deal is valid for the following fudge flavors:

  • Chocolate
  • Chocolate walnut
  • Peanut butter
  • Peanut-butter chocolate
  • Vanilla
  • Vanilla walnut
  • Maple
  • Maple walnut
    
    

• For $12, you get two oversized triple-dipped caramel apples (a $25 value).
  
  

Sweet Temptations, a sweet shop and ice-cream haven born on the summer boardwalk in 1985, serves homemade treats year-round. Shoppers can treat mouth caves with a dulcet triad of homemade fudge slabs, choosing from nine flavors including peanut-butter chocolate, vanilla, and maple walnut. Each sugar-laced block weighs in at half a pound, perfect for toning atrophied taste-bud muscles or constructing a 1.5-pound fudge complex.

Alternatively, confection cravers can chew on two oversized caramel apples. Each verdant Granny Smith is gilded in a thick patina of buttery caramel, bundled in a homemade chocolate-fudge onesie, and haberdashed with toppings such as Heath candy bits, pecans, and M&Ms. A ribbon of vanilla fudge encircles the decadent orb and a handy stick is inserted to enable utensil-free noshing and fingerprint-free bite stealing.