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…
More truffles from Hedonist
I’ve previously sung the praises of Hedonist Artisan Chocolates on this blog, and today, I’m adding to the chorus. Unfortunately, because they shake up their line up so much, I’m…
Taza Open House Tour
If you were jealous of my tour of the Taza chocolate factory, here’s your chance to take your own this Saturday! It’s free and comes with free tastings! The details:…
Aequare 70% Chocolate Bar
After I fell in love with Aequare’s 55% bar, how would their (free sample) 70% bar fare? Let’s find out, shall we? Like the 55% (and all of Aequare’s bars),…
Another reason to avoid licorice
… besides the fact that I think it tastes like yuck. Via Jezebel, a new study that suggests that licorice could have harmful effects on a growing fetus. As my…