Tweet Join food blogger Hillary Davis on a fantastic trip to the largest chocolate show in the world – Salon du Chocolate which is held in Paris every year. Hillary sure look like she enjoyed the Salon du Chocolat! Follow Hillary’s blog Marche Dimanche! You may also follow Hillary on Facebook and Twitter. Professor Chocolate…
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Millions of Chocolate Bars Labeled Fairtrade Contain None of the Ethical Chocolate
Tweet This is a short post on the Rococo Chocolates Blog today. I really enjoyed it. It’s interesting and upsetting at the same time. MILLIONS of sweet bars labeled Fairtrade contain none of the ethical chocolate, The Sun can reveal. Britain’s most popular snacks, Nestlé’s and KitKat Cadbury’s Dairy Milk, both have the Fairtrade stamp.…
Swiss Handcrafted Chocolate: Bern
Tweet The Swiss are known for their chocolate. Most every chocolate lover around the world knows the names of Cailler, Toblerone and Lindt. I thought I would bring you some of the chocolate shops on my list of places to visit in the near future so that you can enjoy and plan too! Today we…
Chocolate News and Chocolate Mint Squares
Tweet I have added a job on top of all of the writing I do, so please bear with me this week until I get on a schedule. I’ll either be posting early in the morning or after dinner. I’ve got some news for you in the world of chocolate! First, the world of the…
Guest Blogger: Chocri Chocolate on How to Make Your Own Chocolate Bars
Tweet How to Make Your Own Chocolate Bars Making your own chocolate at home has obvious attractions – the smell of melted chocolate, the power over your creation, and not at last the left over chocolate in the forms and on the spoons that just begs to be licked off. But what others like just…
Laduree Macaroons and the Recipe
Tweet French macaroons have become popular over the last few years in the United States. In Europe, they have been fabulously popular since the 1800s. A French macaroon is different from a regular macaroon in that the French macaroons are two small, extremely moist almond cookies with crusty edges that are sandwiched around a filling…
Chocolate 101: Types of Chocolate, Storing Chocolate and Olive & Sinclair Bean to Bar Makers
Tweet Today we continue Chocolate 101! On the agenda today are Types of Chocolate which include information about dark, milk and white chocolate and Storing Chocolate – She is a sensitive one! We will also be looking at a video of another bean to bar maker in the United States called Olive and Sinclair Chocolate. …
The First Chocolate Confections
Tweet In the late 17th century, you could enjoy drinking chocolate either in your own home or partake of the hot beverage in a chocolate house which compares to the coffeehouses of today. All of the processing of the cocoa bean into chocolate was all done by hand at this time. The use of the…
The Chocolate Truffle
Tweet Not too long ago, I received a huge assortment of chocolates from a confectionery shop called The Chocolate Truffle to see what I thought. It was a big box! Let me see…what did I receive? I received a lovely assortment of truffles, a CB Stuffer Gourmet Peanut Butter Cup, Choco Wings, two chocolate bars…
Martine’s Chocolates, New York City
Tweet The next time you go to New York City, make sure you make a visit to Martine’s Chocolates at either their store on East 82nd Street or at their shop in Bloomingdale’s on Third Avenue. Martine’s Chocolates are gourmet chocolates, handmade fresh daily, right in front of customers, by owner Martine Leventer’s own chefs…
