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Chocolate Bytes: For the Love of Chocolate

Archive for June 2007

June 15th, 2007

Chocolat

I’m sure it comes as a huge surprise that one of my favorite movies is Chocolat. It’s one of those that I can watch at any time and I’ve seen it so many times that I can be doing something else (knitting, sewing, whatever) and not really miss anything.
Now, I’m really not any good at […]

By Heather -- 3 comments

June 14th, 2007

Chocolate, eh?

I’ve often wondered why Canadian chocolate goodies aren’t readily available in the US. I haven’t been able to find any good reason for it other than “they just aren’t.” My thought on it has always been that they’ve got a hugely untapped market this side of the border, so why don’t they just give it […]

By Heather -- 9 comments

June 13th, 2007

Ogre-sized Peanut M&M’s

Shrek has infiltrated M&M’s now too. Their new “ogre-sized” green and yellow peanut M&M’s claim to be 55% bigger than regular peanut M&M’s by using larger peanuts.
After some exhaustive and grueling investigative research, however, I’ve found that that is not necessarily true.

Though I can see this being an issue for peanut connoisseurs, I really have […]

By Heather -- 4 comments

June 12th, 2007

Ganache

Ganache. Even the name sounds rich and chocolatey and decadent, doesn’t it? I gathered up my courage last year and made it for the first time for my husband’s birthday cake. I’m not sure why I had always found it a bit intimidating, maybe it was the thought of all that wasted chocolate if […]

By Heather -- 1 comment

June 11th, 2007

Utah Truffles

I was raised in Utah and the majority of my family still live there. Last fall my sister included some Utah Truffles in a package she sent down to us. These didn’t exist when I lived there and I was anxious to try them. She had only sent the mint bars, but for Christmas […]

By Heather -- 1 comment

June 8th, 2007

Elaine’s Chocolate Zucchini Cake

The kids are out of school which means it’s chocolate zucchini cake season! I know that sounds funny but to me this is a summer cake because that’s when grandma harvested the huge zucchinis from her garden and brought them over for me to “process,” as she called it.
I first had this cake about sixteen […]

By Heather -- 22 comments