Hot on the heels of Wednesday’s chili chocolate post (har har) is today’s review of more chili chocolate: Frey’s Hot Chilli Pepper bar. When I reviewed Frey’s Tiramisu bar, I mentioned that I’d also picked up their chili chocolate. Deb was kind enough to warn me that it packs a lot of heat, and boy…
Month: February 2009
Kit Kat Advertising
Kit Kat advertising gets a shout-out by the Copyranter for their Kit Kat Bench and their website about nothing. Nothing is nice, it seems.
Lindt Cherry and Chili and Lindt Hot Papaya
I absolutely love Lindt’s Chili Chocolate bar, so when I saw their Cherry and Chili and their Hot Papaya (a papaya and chili) bar at the Lindt 5th Avenue store in NYC, I was super excited to try them. The Cherry and Chili bar is part of their Creation line. It’s a 70% dark chocolate…
David Lebovitz at Fouquet
If you’ve never been to David Lebovitz’s blog (it’s been in my blogroll since I started this site), you’re really missing out. Check out his post about his visit to Fouquet, a Parisienne confectioner. The photos are luscious and totally drool-worthy.
Q.bel All-natural Chocolates – Wafer Bars
Last Friday, I reviewed and greatly enjoyed Q.bel’s wafer rolls. Today, I tackle the wafer bars, the wafer roll’s squatter, squarer cousin. Like the wafer rolls, the wafer bars come in three versions: milk chocolate crispy rice, dark chocolate crispy rice, and milk chocolate peanut butter. The two crispy rice wafer bars were wafer cookies…
Q.bel All-Natural Chocolates – Wafer Rolls
When reviews of Q.bel chocolates started hitting the candy blogosphere, I was intrigued. It’s not often that Cybele bestows a candy with a 10 out of 10 rating, and Q.bel managed to nab the honor.So when Q.bel asked me if I wanted free samples to review, I eagerly said yes. I’m so glad that I…
Ancient Chocolate in the Americas
Back at the beginning of the month, Live Science reported that excavators in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico found chocolate residue on shards of pottery, suggesting that ancient peoples had been drinking chocolate in the present-day U.S. as far back as ~1,000 years ago. Mmm…
GudFud Stuffed Marshmallows – Review + Giveaway!
A couple of weeks ago, the folks at Gud Fud emailed me asking me if I’d like some free samples of their stuffed marshmallows to review. Having already read about their marshmallows on CandyBlog and CandyAddict, I eagerly said yes to my chance to give them a shot, expecting a dozen or so marshmallows to…
Smuggling Immigrants in Cocoa Powder
Via Serious Eats, 15 illegal immigrants tried to stow away in a tanker truck full of cocoa powder. While it’s funny joke about being immersed in chocolate or to refer to desserts claiming “death by chocolate,” the cocoa powder was pretty dangerous and could have suffocated those men. A headline about 15 dead immigrants being…
Giant Gummy Bear on a Stick
Like Gummy Bears? Then check out what Vat19 sent me as a free sample: That, dear readers, is a Giant Gummy Bear on a Stick that’s 88 times the size of a regular gummy bear (by the way, if you can’t tell, that’s Vat19’s photo, so those aren’t my man hands. I don’t have man…