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Chocolate Bytes: For the Love of Chocolate

Archive for October 2006

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October 31st, 2006

M&M’s are Passionately Pink

Have you picked up enough goodies for the ghosts and goblins who will show up at your door Hallowe’en night? If you’re anything like me, you buy about three times as much as you need, and you always make sure you get something you like to eat!
Now those selfish ways can actually do some good […]

By Cathy -- 3 comments

October 30th, 2006

Chewy Double Chocolate Cookies

There’s not much better than chocolate, unless of course its double chocolate. This is an easy but yummy recipe.
Ingredients:
1-1/4 cups butter
2 cups sugar
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla
2 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup cocoa powder
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips (or substitute M&M’s)
Preheat oven to 350F. Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. […]

By Cathy -- 1 comment

October 25th, 2006

Chocolate Phone

Ring… ring… Its your chocolate ringing. Sure enough, earlier this year LG came out with a Chocolate cell phone. Don’t get too excited about the chocolate part though. While it is a very cool little phone, the name is the only chocolate thing about it.
I’ll have to admit it is a good marketing ploy. I […]

By Cathy -- 1 comment

October 25th, 2006

Melting Chocolate

A few days ago my neighbour stopped me out of the blue to tell me how to melt chocolate.  It didn’t seem that strange at the time, but looking back I have to wonder.  Do I look like I need to know how to melt chocolate?  I mean, aside from the constant chocolate smudges on […]

By Cathy -- 4 comments

October 19th, 2006

A Chocolate Shortage?

Say it isn’t so!  Start hording your chocolate now because there could be a shortage of chocolate in the world coming soon.  Cocoa farmers in the Ivory Coast went on strike on October 16th. 
So what, you say?  Let’s take a closer look at this.  The Ivory Coast (or Cote d’Ivoire for you linguistic types) is a tiny […]

By Cathy -- 0 comments

October 17th, 2006

Virtual Chocolate

I can’t say this is as good as the real thing, because it just is not.  But nonetheless it is a good idea.  There is a company called Virtual Chocolate that, among other things, has some gorgeous chocolate postcards you can send, free of charge, via email.  Looks to me like there are about 200+ […]

By Cathy -- 0 comments

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