Life Savers Fruiteria [Review]
This bag of Life Savers Fruiteria caught my attention with its splashy NEW! sign. It kept my attention with an adventurous selection of flavors that included passion fruit and papaya.…
Another Take on Tempering
Serious Eats has a step-by-step guide to how to temper chocolate over the stove. Like with Mark Bittman’s piece, I appreciate the instructions, but I still find microwaving chocolate (small…
Chocomize Bar II
I wrote about my purposefully strange Chocomized bar on Monday. Today, I’m writing about the free sample bar that I Chocomized with the hopes that it would taste good: dark…
Candy Apps for your iProducts
Candy Dish Blog has a round-up of five candy-related iProduct apps. Any volunteers out there who’d teach me how to turn my blog into an app? It would be neat…
Chocomize Bar I
Chocomize is a U.S. based candy company that lets you make personalized chocolate bars that “are handmade to order”. They’re the second customized chocolate company I’ve gotten to try free…
Kinder Bueno White: Better Than The Normal? [Review]
My friend Neil just got back from a trip to the Netherlands and was kind and awesome enough to bring me back a bunch of Dutch chocolates. When he handed…
Nestle’s PR Woes
About a month ago, Nestle found itself the target (note: sort of graphic photo near the bottom of the linked page) of a guerilla campaign. Greenpeace decided to take Nestle…
Life Savers Gummies – Sweet Strings N Sour Rings
The candy blogger in me is hyper-attuned to candy packaging that indicates that its contents are a new product. The pseudo-grammar nazi in me is hyper-attuned to instances of annoyingly…
Giant Jawbreaker Saga
I’ve often seen giant jawbreakers in candy stores, but I didn’t think anyone actually bought them, much less ate them. Well, I was wrong. Via Serious Eats, a blogger that…
Alter Eco Dark Chocolate Quinoa – Midnight Crunch
When I met my sweetie in Saratoga Springs*, our wanderings about that cute little town took us into a natural food store. This Alter Eco Dark Chocolate Quinoa (aka Midnight…
Chocolate tasting with the NCA
Candy Dish Blog, the blog of the NCA (National Confectioners Association had a couple of posts up about chocolate tasting and how chocolate is made with Jacques Torres (aka Mr.…
Hachez Cocoa D’Arriba Blackberry and Cocoa Nibs
Like many random chocolate bars that I wind up buying for review, this Blackberry and Cocoa Nibs bar from Hachez wound up in my cart because it was on sale…