Sugar Editorial Picks
Dec 23, 2007 -
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Would You Rather Drink Hot Chocolate or Apple Cider?
Hot chocolate
Hot apple cider
I love both, please don't make me decide!
Neither, I prefer _____ (fill in the blank below).
- 49 Comments
Dec 15, 2007 -
Usually I try and stay away from uni-tasking kitchen gadgets but when I saw this hot chocolate pot in an email from Williams Sonoma, I suddenly found myself lusting for one. The pot promises an alluring aroma and a delicious homemade treat in minutes. It has an automatic frother that whips hot milk and is microwave and dishwasher safe.
- 31 Comments
Dec 13, 2007 -
Today is National Cocoa Day! To celebrate, you could whip yourself up a glass of hot cocoa, nibble on some cocoa beans, or take a quiz to see how much you know about cocoa. FitSugar would recommend taking the quiz because it's 100 percent fat and calorie free!
- 27 Comments
Feb 14, 2007 -
I'll be honest with you, I'm actually not really into romantic movies. So when I set out to find the perfect "TV Dinner" for Valentine's Day, I hit a wall immediately. Then suddenly, in a moment of clarity, I remembered the film Chocolat.
- 6 Comments
Dec 26, 2006 -
Sometimes the day after Christmas can be such a letdown. After all the hype, it's a little sad to think that you have to wait another 365 days before you can go crazy making cookies in the kitchen or silly spending money shopping.
Well, here's something that will cheer you up, today is National Candy Cane day.
- 0 Comments
Dec 21, 2006 -
This morning FitSugar let us know about the benefit of drinking hot cocoa. I must admit, my hot cocoa intake is usually limited to special occasions and visits to the snow. However, in honor of this great news, I've decided to whip up a batch of hot cocoa mix to keep on hand.
- 3 Comments
Aug 06, 2009 -
"The best food doesn't have to be challenging in its preparation, but should recall our fondest food memories," Melissa Murphy writes in The Sweet Melissa Baking Book. That pretty much sums up the philosophy of this cookbook ($17.82), penned by the brainchild of Brooklyn's popular Sweet Melissa Patisseries. Here, the French Culinary Institute-trained pastry chef reveals the secrets behind the refined, yet homespun, baked treats that the bakery's known for.
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Mar 06, 2009 -
Party recently polled you about dessert preferences, and it came as no surprise that most of you love dessert in any form. Many of you, however, singled out gooey, sticky sweets as your preference. Naturally, I had this in mind when I came across Sticky, Chewy, Messy, Gooey: Desserts for the Serious Sweet Tooth ($15.61) by pastry chef Jill O'Connor.
- 7 Comments
Jan 29, 2008 -
This weekend I was perusing the Valentine's Day section of my local Target when I noticed a bag of charcoal chocolate marshmallows. At first I only noticed the NEW! banner across the top — I'm a marketer's dream — and then I noticed that it was sitting on top of a bag of strawberry-flavored marshmallows.
- 26 Comments