Homemade Truffle Recipe Round-up
Rosa If yesterday’s homemade chocolate-covered cherry cordial post wasn’t your thing, I have another homemade holiday/hostess gift idea for you. Actually, I have 10, thanks to The Kitchn’s round-up of 10…
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Homemade Chocolate-Covered Cherry Cordials
I’ve never been one for chocolate-covered cherry cordials. I just don’t find their syrupy sweetness appealing (though I do find Maraschino cherries delightful on their own). If you have a…
Holiday Reviewing Break
I’m home in Texas for the holidays and taking a reviewing break until the new year. I’ll have a few more news posts to close out the year, and I’ll…
No such thing as sugar rushes; only sugar crashes
Via Lifehacker, a Wired piece by Jonah Lehrer?that explains why sugar makes you tired. I swear I do get sugar rushes after extensive candy tasting sessions though… By the way,…
Choward’s Guava
I once had the terrible misfortune of once trying a Choward’s Violet Mint. Do you like eating soap? I don’t either. The violet mint was like eating a mouthful of…
Harbor Sweets Perennial Sweets
On Wednesday, I reviewed my free sample?Harbor Sweets’s Sand Castle Dark Chocolate and Caramel Bar. Today, I’m reviewing their Perennial Sweets, another free sample that I received. The Perennial Sweets…
Candy Soaps
For me, Etsy is a black hole of internet shopping. It’s so easy to get lost in the endless parade of homemade goodies. (By the way, there’s a website called?Heartsy?that…
Harbor Sweets Sand Castle Dark Chocolate and Caramel Bar
Harbor Sweets is a Massachusetts based handmade chocolatier that makes cute molded chocolates, sometimes with various add-ins. They claim to “ outdoor living embrace the coast, gardening, and equestrian-sports”, hence…
Ceramic Candy Necklaces
Did you ever wear and eat candy necklaces or bracelets as a kid? I remember them leaving little artificial coloring stains on my wrists and neck when they got wet…
Trader Joe’s Brandy Beans
For me, Trader Joe’s is a mecca for impulse shopping. These Brandy Beans, or “brandy filled chocolates”, ?were the result of my most recent pilgrimage. The back of the box…
Sweetriot – Pure 70% and 85% Chocolate Bars!
Today I’m reviewing the rest of my free samples of Sweetriot’s new riotBar line: the pure 70% and pure 85% dark chocolate bars. I covered the 60% dark chocolate with…
Balinese Chocolate Factory
Via my friend Neil, a prettily photographed NY Times T Magazine piece about a new chocolate factory in Bali. The neat twist? The factory is built almost entirely out of…