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Chocolate Bytes: For the Love of Chocolate

July 18th, 2008

Do-It-Yourself Gigantic Kit Kat Bar

This is fantastic: these guys decided that if you’re going to take a break, take a BIG break and while you’re at it, make it yourself!
They gathered 30 packages of Saisbury’s Luxury Belgian Milk Chocolate, 3 ScotBlok Chocolate Flavour Cake Coverings and 6 packages Loacker Quadratini chocolate wafers, and with the help of a wallpaper […]

By Heather -- 3 comments

July 15th, 2008

Chocolate Cake in Five Minutes

I found an awesome link over the weekend with instructions on how to make a single-serve chocolate cake in only five minutes using your microwave!
Five Minute Chocolate Cake
You’ll need:
4 Tablespoons cake flour
4 Tablespoons sugar
2 Tablespoons cocoa
1 Egg
3 Tablespoons milk
3 Tablespoons oil
1 Mug
Instructions:
Mix flour, sugar and cocoa. Spoon in 1 egg and pour in milk […]

By Heather -- 2 comments

July 1st, 2008

Candy Bar Identification Quiz

How well do you know your candy bars? Well enough that you can identify them without a wrapper and from their insides only?
Check out the Candy Bar Identification Quiz to see how well you can do!
I scored 18 out of 20 - apparently it’s been too long since I’ve had an Oh! Henry, and […]

By Heather -- 2 comments

June 12th, 2008

The Views from our Windows

This month, the writers around the Lifestyles channel were asked to show everyone the views from our windows. Some took a creative approach and painted a portrait with words and others share actual images of what we see on a day-to-day basis:
Mary Emma Allen at One Book Two Book shares a view from her window […]

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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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June 3rd, 2008

It’s National Candy Month

My favorite month of the year! Ok, not really - but any month that you get to celebrate with candy is a good one.
Emily’s Chocolates, which I’ve written about before, are also celebrating candy month and the start of summer with their yummy dark chocolate-covered berries - strawberry, blueberry, and cherry.
The strawberries - […]

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