Alain Ducasse Bean to Bar Chocolate
As a candy blogger/candy lover, I’ve had the privilege of visiting a few bean to bar chocolate factories to check out how chocolate gets from the raw beans to the…
Hidden Snickers Price Changes
The Billfold had a nice piece about how companies?surreptitiously?save money by downsizing their products, using the Snickers bar as an example. Apparently they’ve been slowly increasing the price and changing…
Trader Joe’s Chocolate Covered Sea Salt Butterscotch Caramels
These chocolate covered sea salt butterscotch caramels are the last of my weekend Trader Joe’s candy finds. They came in a stand-up bag with a resealable zipper top. The description…
Dark Chocolate Camembert Truffles
Hedonist Artisan Chocolates made a goat cheese collection that I really enjoyed. The tangy creaminess of goat cheese worked really well mixed with chocolate in truffles. The funky stank of…
Trader Joe’s Dark Chocolate Covered Marshmallows
I had been eyeing these trapezoid-shaped boxed of chocolate-covered marshmallows at Whole Foods, but I’d never pulled the trigger. When I spotted a similarly shaped box of dark chocolate covered…
Make Your Own Mints
Via Lifehacker, the blog One Good Thing has instructions for how to make your own mints out of gum paste and essential oils. It looks like a fun project that…
Trader Joe’s PB&J Milk Chocolate Bar
I made a Trader Joe’s run over the weekend, so this week will be all about some new candies I spotted there. We’ll start with the PB&J Milk Chocolate Bar,…
Hi-Chew Fanta Flavors: Don’t You Wanta?
These Hi-Chew Fanta flavors were found and purchased at an Asian grocery store in my hometown. I think this is the first time that Hi-Chew has partnered with another brand…
Cookie Colosseum
Via Serious Eats, check out this post from an Australian who made a?Colosseum?replica entirely out of Tim Tam cookies. It looks epically delicious. Every toga party should have one.
Moonstruck Chocolate Bar – Dark Chocolate Chile Variado
On Monday, I reviewed Moonstruck’s Milk Chocolate Sea Salt Toffee bar. Today, I’m covering the Dark Chocolate Chile Variado, which is the other bar that I nabbed at the movie…
Delicious Belgian Stamps
While the U.S. Postal Service is having a rough time, Belgium’s post office has decided to get whimsical. They’ve launched a line of stamps with images of chocolate that smell…