More on baking with chocolate from Serious Eats. This time, an explanation of why unsweetened chocolate and cocoa powder can’t be subbed for each other. The former has cocoa butter; the latter…
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Dutched versus Natural cocoa powder.
From Serious Eats, a description of the difference between Natural and Dutched cocoa powder. Honestly, I never pay attention and just use whatever we’ve got in the can at home, but it…
Alcove Deep Dark
Deep dark chocolate – snappy – smooth, slow, velvet melt – intense, fudgey, like brownie batter – fruity and thick – sweet finish
Haribo Bärchen-Pärchen [Review + Meani
This is the second bag of Haribo gummies that I bought while in Switzerland. They caught my eye because I’ve never seen them in the U.S., and they had a giant Neu…
Serious Eats on how bees make honey
This is not exactly candy, but it was so cool that I had to share: Serious Eats with a long and informative write-up on how bees make honey. Spoiler alert: honey is…
Make your Magnum ice cream bar pop-up sh
If you’re not following me on Twitter, you missed this cool post on Chocablog about a pop-up shop in the UK that will let you design and make your own Magnum Ice…
Kinder Toys blog
While I was in Switzerland, I was jealous to see that Kinder Eggs were for sale there. They are illegal in the U.S. and Germany?because they mix toys with chocolate, which I…
Haribo – Orangina Pik [Review]
Today and Friday, I’ll review some Haribo gummies that I bought while in Switzerland. First up is Orangina P!k. I know Orangina is a fizzy orange drink that’s available in Europe. No…
Lindt Fioretto – Marzipan
I bought this Lindt Fioretto Marzipan on my recent trip to Switzerland. It came out of a bulk bin set-up; the only Lindt product that wasn’t a Lindor truffle. The tuft of…
M&M eating styles
The folks at CandyStore have?an extremely thorough blog post detailing all the different ways in which people eat their M&M’s. Options include melting them under a desk lamp, sorting them by color,…
Chewing gum flavored milkshake
Via Kotaku, news that you can get mint chewing gum flavored milkshakes in Japan. Sounds gross to me, but I don’t like gum, so maybe I’m biased.
Maison Kayser chocolate tart food porn
Via Serious Eats, check out this drool-worthy slideshow of how Maison Kayser bakery uses chocolate, chocolate, and more chocolate to make their scrumptious looking tarts. I’ll take two, please!