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Chocolate Bytes: For the Love of Chocolate

Archive for September 2007

September 17th, 2007

50 Ways Chocolate Can Keep You Warm This Autumn

Living in Vegas, we really don’t get a whole lot of autumn here. Seriously, it lasts about a week and then it’s just brown and a bit chilly. So for this month’s Home & Dining channel theme, we decided to focus on things to keep you warm during the autumn months — or weeks, in [...]

By Heather -- 15 comments

September 17th, 2007

Sweet Sweet Confections Contest

I got an email this morning about a contest over at Sweet Sweet Confections:
Win: Free chocolate and $50!
The challenge: To eat the most Sweet Sweet Smores Bars in 3 minutes
Winning entry will receive:
1.) Reimbursement for all Sweet Sweet Smores Bars consumed during the 3 minutes.
2.) $25 in Sweet Sweet Confections product.
3.) $50 in cash.
4.) [...]

By Heather -- 2 comments

September 13th, 2007

The Rules of Chocolate

1. If you’ve got melted chocolate all over your hands, you’re eating it too slowly.
2. Chocolate covered raisins, cherries, orange slices and strawberries all count as fruit, so eat as many as you want.
3. The problem: How to get two pounds of chocolate home from the store in a hot car. The solution: Eat it [...]

By Heather -- 3 comments

September 12th, 2007

Happy Chocolate Milkshake Day!

Happy Chocolate Milkshake Day! To celebrate, you can:
~ Read up on the history of the milkshake:
“When the term ‘milkshake’ was first used in print in 1885, milkshakes were an alcoholic whiskey drink that has been described as a ‘…sturdy, healthful eggnog type of drink, with eggs, whiskey, etc., served as a tonic as well as [...]

By Heather -- 3 comments

September 11th, 2007

Spicy Cookies

My husband isn’t a huge cookie fan but when we saw SparX Spicy Cookies mentioned on TV I was commissioned to either find recipes or just order them. I’m interested in the Chipotle Double Fudge, and there’s also Chipotle Chocolate Chip, Ancho Oatmeal Raisin, Cayenne Toffee Pecan, and Jalapeño Peanut Butter. Would you try [...]

By Heather -- 3 comments

September 10th, 2007

Chocolate Recipe Links

This past week was an excellent one for chocolate recipes:
~ Marye posted a lot of chocolate recipes last week: Chocolate Truffle Brownies, Espresso and Cream Brownies, a make-ahead Christmas cookie recipe, Rocky Road Brownies, and Cookie Dough Brownies.
~ Check out the sushi bento box that isn’t, found at The Chocolate Nerd.
~ David Lebovitz made Clotilde’s [...]

By Heather -- 1 comment