Chocolate Bytes: For the Love of Chocolate

July 5th, 2008

Rocky Road Drop Candies

9 ounces (1.25 cups) dark chocolate, chopped
2 cups miniature marshmallows
1/2 cup chopped, toasted walnuts
Prepare a cookie sheet by covering it with aluminum foil or parchment. Melt the chocolate in the microwave or over a double boiler. Stir until completely smooth.
Add in the walnuts and marshmallows, stirring until they are completely covered with chocolate. Drop by […]

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June 30th, 2008

Red, White and Blue Chocolate Treat

This is a fast and easy treat to make for a Fourth of July picnic or barbecue. An added bonus is that you can get the kids to do it and keep them occupied while you finish preparing the rest of the meal!
All you need are some cleaned, fresh strawberries, blueberries and white chocolate (or […]

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June 28th, 2008

Scientists Unlocking the Chocolate Genome

Scientists are still spending time on chocolate, except this time around it’s not to tell us that it’s bad this week, good the next! Apparently they’re analyzing the more than 400 million parts of the cacao bean in an effort to help diminishing crops and possibly make chocolate taste better.
The dissection of the genome began […]

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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 24th, 2008

Chewy Chocolate Cookies

While at the store the other day I realized it had been a while since I’d bought any peanut butter chips. I grabbed a bag thinking I could add them to some homemade ice cream. That is, until I saw the recipe on the bag for cookies!

Chewy Chocolate Cookies
2 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup unsweetened baking […]

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June 20th, 2008

Peanut Butter Chocolate Bumblebees

What better way to celebrate the first day of summer than with some adorable little peanut butter chocolate bumblebees? And what’s even better is that they’re no-bake and easy for kids to help with!
Peanut Butter Chocolate Bumblebees
1/4 cup butter or margarine, softened
1 cup creamy peanut butter
1 cup powdered sugar
1 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs
1 square […]

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June 18th, 2008

Lavendar Hot Chocolate

I know it’s not really the time of year for hot chocolate, but the recipe for this one intrigued me and I wanted to share.
Rob, owner and chocolatier of Kingsbury Chocolates in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia shares his recipe for lavendar hot chocolate (complete with chopped pistachios on top!). I like that you can […]

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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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June 11th, 2008

Better Than WHAT Cake?

It’s National German Chocolate Cake Day (really!) so I dug out one of my favorite ways to play with German Chocolate Cake.
It’s called Better Than Sex Cake, and the first time I heard the name I did a double-take - did they really just say what I thought they said? Yep! And I’ll […]

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June 10th, 2008

Chocolate for Father’s Day

Father’s Day is just around the corner and dads love chocolate too! A lot of the companies below offer expedited shipping, so if you’re just now realizing too that Father’s Day is only five days away, don’t panic!
See’s has a lot of great Father’s Day stuff this year. There’s the standard Seegar that’s been around […]

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