Chocolate Bytes: For the Love of Chocolate

July 31st, 2008

The Bloggy Giveaways: Win Lots of Great Stuff!

This is the week of Bloggy Giveaways! Don’t forget your chance to win ‘The Essential Chocolate Chip Cookbook’ ends tonight, as does the contest for “Hugs for Chocolate Lovers” at JLo Stalker.
Check out the rest of the giveaways happening around the Lifestyles Channel this week!
The Food Bowl: 2 copies of “Take Our Cat, Please!” A […]

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July 30th, 2008

Pimp This Snack: Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups

Remember the gigantic homemade Kit-Kat bar from last week? Well I found something else for you: This guy made a gigantic Reese’s peanut butter cup!
Using some basic ingredients (including lots of chocolate, of course) and household supplies he turned a yummy little snack into a week-long chocolate fest. Would you try making this?
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July 29th, 2008

Chocolate Heaven Cheesecake & National Cheesecake Day

All day tomorrow, Cheesecake Factory restaurants across the US will be offering up slices of their yummy cheesecake for only $1.50 each for their 30th Anniversary Celebration and for National Cheesecake Day!
In addition to that, a limited edition cheesecake, the 30th Anniversary Chocolate Cake Cheesecake, will be unveiled and $0.25 from the sale of each […]

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July 28th, 2008

Giveaway: Win ‘The Essential Chocolate Chip Cookbook’

One of the greatest pleasures of life is biting into a warm chocolate chip cookie straight from the oven!
The Essential Chocolate Chip Cookbook offers 45 recipes that cover all the dessert bases: cookies, cakes, candies, brownies, tarts, frozen treats, and more. Chocolate chips saturate these recipes inside and out. Using milk, semisweet, bittersweet, […]

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July 27th, 2008

Marbled Chocolate and Cream Cheese Brownies

We felt like some brownies yesterday but I wanted to play with them a little bit first!
I just used a box mix (I like the Ghirardelli triple chocolate brownies) because I’m out of cocoa (the horror!), but before I put it into the oven I mixed one 8oz package of softened cream cheese, 1/4 […]

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July 26th, 2008

Chocolate Pizza Pie

During the summer months I try to avoid dessert recipes that require turning the oven on, but I make an exception for this one! We like ours topped with strawberries and peaches.
Chocolate Pizza Pie
3/4 c. butter or margarine
1/2 c. powdered sugar
1 1/2 c. flour
FILLING:
10 oz. chocolate chips
1/4 c. whipping cream
8 oz. cream cheese
GLAZE:
1/4 c. sugar
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