Chocolate Bytes: For the Love of Chocolate

August 30th, 2008

What Can You Do With S’mores?

Everyone know how to make s’mores - roast a marshmallow, slap it on a graham cracker with a bit of chocolate and smoosh another graham cracker on top.
However, the variations are really pretty endless and can be tailored to fit anyone’s tastes. You can try:

S’mores bars
Ditch the graham crackers altogether
Turn it into a […]

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August 21st, 2008

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

My friend Christey and her husband Peter have a wonderful weblog full of fantastic food and pictures at Fotocuisine.com. They recently posted a recipe and pictures for peanut butter chocolate chip cookies and I immediately emailed her for permission to post both - don’t they look amazing?
Check out the entry about the cookies on their […]

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August 15th, 2008

Chocolate Peanut Butter Spread

I love dips, especially when chocolate is involved. This makes makes a nice, firm dip that doubles well as a spread (chocolate peanut butter toast!).
Chocolate Peanut Butter
1 1/2 c smooth peanut butter
1/2 c semisweet chocolate chips, melted
1/4 c butter or margarine, softened
1/4 c confectioners sugar
1 t vanilla extract
1 t instant coffee granules
1 t hot […]

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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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June 27th, 2008

Chocolate Chip Malted Ice Cream

I love playing around with my ice cream maker lately. I only wish we’d gotten one sooner! Last night I made chocolate chip malted ice cream. It tastes just like a malt - delicious!
You can chop the chocolate chips up a little bit finer but I don’t mind them frozen at their regular size.
Chocolate […]

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June 13th, 2008

Banana Walnut Chocolate Chip Ice Cream

I saw Alton Brown make the banana ice cream base for this on Good Eats last week and since I had bananas already in the freezer (being saved for banana bread) I decided to give it a shot (the banana bread cane wait for another day!). I like that it doesn’t use eggs but still […]

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