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The secret to an intense melt in your mouth flavor is to heat your cream over moderate heat, use on the best chocolate possible and find some nice farm fresh butter. For this recipe, I prefer unsalted butter and heavy cream from Trickling Springs Creamery in Chambersburg, PA. They are as close to European butter […]

It was a cold and rainy day when my boyfriend and I ducked into a grocery store in New York City. We wanted to take a peek since we love exploring and looking at all the different products, and as we neared the checkout we saw these beautiful tins. Intrigued, we looked closer to find that they […]

Today’s review marks some firsts for me. Michel Cluizel, a famous french chocolate maker and chocolatier, was one of the first great chocolates I ever had the pleasure of tasting as I began my journey as a candy enthusiast. Along with that, I experienced many tasting firsts with his work: first “dark” milk chocolate, first […]

I have a big passion for retro/classic candies. I think the biggest reason, aside from the fact that they’re usually delicious, is that they’re a marriage between two of some of my favorite things: food and history. So when I heard about the very retro/regional bar, Blue Monday, hailing from Kentucky, you bet I was super […]

This isn’t the review I wanted to write. Why? Because I really wanted to love this bar. An all natural candy bar, with a great company backstory, Q.bel seemed like the perfect answer to my chocolate cravings.
The owner of Q.bel started the company as a healthy dad’s answer to his son’s desire to eat the […]

This is another classic candy that takes the form of a chocolate cup with a creamy marshmallow filling. I cannot help but compare it to its East Coast counterpart the Mallo cup, which is a candy I go ga-ga for, as Cup O Gold shares a few similar traits, like also having coconut bits in […]

Let’s check out the bars’ press release, shall we?
“Each bar combines whole-grain oats and roasted peanuts, with a chocolate coating on the bottom and a stripe on top.”
Compare that with what’s on the box and the bars’ wrappers: “Chewy Peanut Sweet & Salty Granola Bars.”

Notice the difference? The latter never mentions the chocolate (though it […]

Ladies and Gentlemen, the chocolate show is coming soon. And by soon, I mean to say that in less than two months from now, you can sample new, unusual and creative offerings involving chocolate, everyone’s favorite indulgence at the 12th Annual International Chocolate Show in New York City.
Taking place over three days (October 30-November 1), […]

This isn’t the review I wanted to write. Why? Because I really wanted to love this bar. An all natural candy bar with a great company back-story, Q.bel seemed like the perfect answer to my chocolate cravings.
The owner of Q.bel started the company as a healthy dad’s answer to his son’s desire to eat the […]