Happy Leap Day! If you cry, Leap Day William might bring you some candy… This bag of Soft Peanut Brittle was yet another Trader Joe’s impulse buy for me. I think its…
Month: February 2012
Boozy Caramel Bonbons
This Serious Eats recipe for boozy vanilla caramels sounds absolutely decadent. Unfortunately, it also seems pretty complicated and requires a candy mold and candy thermometer, two tools that I don’t own. If…
Trader Joe’s Dark Chocolate Rocky
When I was checking out, my Trader Joe’s cashier commented on this tub of their Dark Chocolate Rocky Road Squares. She said it was one of her favorites. The tub contained 9.5…
Women and Chocolate Stereotypes
Slate has a fun piece and accompanying slide show about how chocolate has been marketed towards women over the years. Kind of the opposite tack that Nestle Yorkie‘s taken. Best line? “Though…
Boozy Hot Chocolate
Serious Eats has a list of seven ways to spike your hot chocolate. Try them all before it gets too warm! That salted butterscotch sounds great – way classier than the peppermint…
King-Sized No More
I’ve been battling a cold for a while and ran out of stored tasting notes. I won’t be able to write more reviews until I get my sense of taste back –…
Chow Chocolate-Maker Series
Chow recently had a couple of great profiles of American chocolate makers. Check out their pieces on Colin Gasko, who’s making chocolate from wild cacao, and Scott Winthrow of Nashville’s Olive and Sinclair.
Sweetly Demented Chocolate/Raspberry Bra
It’s always fun when candy has some personality. Sweetly Demented is a homegrown candy shop that sells an assortment of creepy and freaky candies. I recently received some free samples of their…
Choco Roll – Pudding
The last time I tried Choco Roll in their Taro flavor, it just didn’t work for me. Though my palate grew up eating lots of Chinese food, I couldn’t stand the Asian…
Candy Meets Brain Science!
Via Dan Ariely’s blog, a new study has found that “Relative visual saliency differences induce sizeable bias in consumer choice [pdf]”. Why am I featuring a marketing study on this blog? Because…
Trader Joe’s Dark Chocolate Covere
After I reviewed Brookside’s Dark Chocolate Goji with Raspberry, Joanne noted that Trader Joe’s had a candy called Powerberries that was similar. I saw a bag on my latest Trader Joe’s trip…
Chocolate and Wine Pairings
It’s not too late to pick up a bottle of wine for tonight. The Kitchn has tips on how to pair wine with whatever chocolates that you got from/for your Valentine –…