Chocolate-related gift guides (hint hint)
Rosa Serious Eats has put together a gift guide for chocolate lovers. In other gift guide news, Vosges makes another appearance in Chow’s annual Winter Gift Guide. The folks at Chow.com…
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Holiday Hiatus
Hello, dear readers! I get two precious weeks off from work to spend at home with my family, so I’m taking a two week break from reviews. Instead, you’ll get…
Hedonist Holiday Truffle Collection
Remember when I reviewed Hedonist truffles that were maybe no longer for sale? That’s because they replaced them with new truffles, their Holiday Collection, comprised of Champagne Pomegranate, Egg Nog,…
Fannie May Giveaway
As best as I can tell, Fannie May is a Chicago candy institution, and I made sure to try them out when I visited Chicago a couple of years ago…
Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Bites
I, like many people (I suspect), eat chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream solely for the cookie dough bits. Whenever I buy it, the container ends up full of gouges…
Chow and Foodzie Charity Drive
Chow and Foodzie are partnering to do good for Boston, New York, San Francisco, and LA charities. They’ve selected a bunch of local food items that, when purchased via Foodzie,…
Trader Joe’s Dark Chocolate Sea Salt Caramels
Since we don’t have Trader Joe’s in Rochester, I like to make it a point to shop there and check out their candy selection when I visit my boyfriend in…
Chocri Creations – Part III
On Monday and Wednesday, I reviewed bars of my own design. For my third and final bar, I decided to let Chocri take the lead and made one of their…
Candy as building materiel
Via Serious Eats, a neat video of Lego sculpture artist Nathan Sawaya using Ritter Sport bars to build a house. Nom nom nom.
Chocri Creations – Part II
On Monday, I introduced Chocri and one of the bars that I customized with 5 of their 90 toppings, purposefully shooting for a weird creation. Today’s review is of a…
Sporcle Food/Candy Games
Via Serious Eats, a round-up of food-related, time-wasting Sporcle games, including three candy-related ones: candy slogans Jelly Belly flavors (I got 28/50, though I knew one was grapefruit, just not…
Chocri Creations – Part I
Ever buy a chocolate bar and think, “This would be so much better with X instead of Y”, or “if only they added Z to this bar”? Well, soon you’ll…