This week's so packed to the brim with festivals nationwide, you couldn't avoid one if you tried. There are food and wine classics all across the East Coast, and here in the West, we're planning on dropping by the
chocolate festival in our neck of the woods. If we've left anything out, please chime in below.
When I suggested that
chocolate-flavored calcium supplements make a good substitute for dessert, many of you weren't so into the high-fructose corn syrup that comes with most calcium chews. But I'm still concerned about
my daily calcium intake, and I still like a sweet bite after meals, so I was excited to discover
Adora Calcium Supplements ($6 for a 30-piece bag).
These dark-chocolate supplements are free of corn syrup, as well as gluten, artificial sweeteners, and other weird stuff. In fact, the only thing on the ingredient list that wasn't all natural or a vitamin was
soy lecithin.
The individually wrapped candies are sizable and tasty enough to satisfy chocoholics.
Recently we brainstormed the ultimate
Popsicle. In my ideal Popsicle, the pesky wooden stick would be replaced with something deliciously edible. I decided to experiment with
Pepperidge Farm Pirouettes, a rolled, wafer cookie with cream filling, using the cookie as the stick.
After drooling over PartySugar’s
mojito cakes, I wanted to experiment with my own freezer pie. When searching for a recipe, I remembered one of my favorite frozen dessert cookbooks,
Icebox Pies by Lauren Chattman. Since I'm crazy for
Nutella, I decided to make her Gianduia Pie.
Hoping to jump on the premium chocolate bandwagon,
Mars has launched a brand-new line of M&M's candies called M&M's Premium. These newfangled M&M's are made from an entirely different chocolate recipe and have no candy shell. The chocolates are significantly larger in size and more irregular in shape than milk chocolate M&M's, and are filled on the inside with various flavorings that include white chocolate and mint.
Although we will be splashing around in
bathing suits, I want to offer my friends one decadent treat at my
waterpark party. A chocolatey brownie — kept cold in a cooler — is deliciously rich.
This wonderful recipe, from our friends at
MyRecipes.com, is simple and straightforward.
A little while back the Internet went
crazy for chocolate-covered bacon. Like every bacon lover, I fantasized about tasting the ultimate salty-sweet combination of bacon and chocolate. Instead of hopping in a car and heading to the
Santa Cruz store that makes the pork-chocolate treat, I decided to experiment with my own variation.
For the second time in two years, best-selling candybar, Snickers, has found itself in the middle of a controversy surrounding their latest ad campaign. Candy company
Mars has
yanked the ad from UK airwaves, where it received backlash from gay-rights activists for being homophobic. The commercial featured surly '80s icon, Mr.
Although there a tons of different equally delicious desserts out there, for a child's birthday, let them eat cake. Ask the birthday honoree what type of cake they would like to celebrate their big day.
Kenny is a huge fan of Butterfinger candy bars, so this milk chocolate-peanut butter layer cake is perfect for him.
Cupcakes are one of my favorite things, so I thought I'd died and gone to heaven when I saw
Renees3's recipe. She starts with chocolate cupcakes, stuffs them with a white chocolate filling, ices them with a cream cheese frosting, and tops them off with a drizzling of seedless raspberry sauce. When Renees3 couldn't find an adequate cupcake recipe, she decided to adapt a bunch of different recipes to make her own customized cupcakes.
