Happy Thanksgiving!

I hope you’re enjoying your Thanksgivings! And if you find yourself with chocolate cravings even after you’ve stuffed yourself full of deliciousness and really shouldn’t take in any more calories, just go for a walk!

Reese's Crunchy Peanut Butter Cups - Review

REVIEW: (Limited Edition) Reese’s Crunchy Cups!

Reese’s is awesome at churning out limited edition stuff. The newest iteration is their Limited Edition Crunchy Peanut Butter Cups, which I picked up as an impulse buy at the counter of my local Walgreen’s. Hooray marketing! My friend Steve just asked what makes it crunchy. Just like peanut butter, the peanut butter cups are…

British Boiled Sweets – Part 2

Today we continue Monday’s review of British hard candies with a lemon sherbet drop and the rosy apple. Lemon Sherbet Drop My lemon sherbet drop wasn’t exactly a hard candy anymore. I think mine had just been sitting in the bulk bin for a bit too long and suffered by softening. It tasted pretty much…

Is chocolate good for you?

As I’ve written before, I don’t buy into the “chocolate is good for you because it has flavonoids/antioxidants” hype. I eat chocolate because it tastes good and makes me happy, and I don’t try to delude myself into thinking that it’s healthy. Now I have some substance to back me up with this TimesOnline article…

British Boiled Sweets – Part I

British boiled sweets have interested me since I first read a Harry Potter book. Clearly the Fizzing Whizbees and acid pops imagined by J.K. Rowling had some root in muggle candy. Specifically British muggle candy. Today, I present part I of a two part series on British boiled sweets (aka hard candies). Acid Drops I…

Starbucks Chai Truffle

Starbucks Chai Truffle [Review]

Starbucks came out with its own line of chocolates (made by Hershey’s) to be sold in grocery stores a year or so ago. They’d actually been selling chocolates in their coffee shops for years – my first chocolate covered espresso bean was from Starbucks – so the chocolate line is less of a departure than…

Vosges – new bars and 10% off

Via Chocolate Blog, Vosges, a wonderful if pricey chocolatier that I’ve reviewed several times in the past, has new bars and chocolates out. I’ve actually seen the organic bars at my local frommagierie (yes, New Haven has one now) but didn’t buy them because they were so pricey. But if you make more money than…

Dubble

I think the Dubble bar I bought at an OxFam (secondhand charity shop) in Cambridge was the cheapest fair trade chocolate I’ve ever come across. At 49 pence (about $1.00 when I was in England, now $0.77), it’s comparably priced with mass produced bars that aren’t so kind to their cacao growers. Dubble was billed…