PROUCT: Sweetly Demented Chocolate

Does chocolate have a sinister side? For sure! At Sweetly Demented Chocolate, it’s creepy and it’s kooky, mysterious and spooky. There are white chocolate skulls filled with chocolate ganache, with brains that are filled with raspberry ganache. There are standalone brains, red-colored white chocolate filled with chocolate ganache. Sink your teeth into some eerie Bye…
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STOCKING STUFFER & YEAR-ROUND TREAT: Sun Cups

If you love peanut butter, you may have the same reaction we do when we hear of someone with a peanut allergy: “I’m so sorry.” Those who know the joys of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich or peanut butter cups empathize with those who can’t have them. But everyone can have sunflower butter! Sunflower…
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COOKING VIDEO: A Recipe For Butternut Squash Mac & Cheese

  Now that she’s a mom, says the cook in the video, she’s become “notorious for sneaking vegetables into everything.” But we don’t think butternut squash needs to be “sneaked” into the recipe. We love the idea of this seasonal mac and cheese. For added flourishes to the recipe in the video, how about: A…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Garnish With Decorative Gourds

Use a decorative gourd as a food garnish. Photo by FunWithFood | IST.   We enjoy decorating with gourds in the fall-to-winter months. From still lifes on tables to place settings for dinner, these colorful ornamental varieties of squash and pumpkins perk up their surroundings. Take them one step further: Use them to decorate your…
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COOKING VIDEO: How Is Candy Corn Made

October 30th is National Candy Corn Day. According to the National Confectioners Association, more than 20 million pounds of candy corn are sold during the Halloween season. The iconic Halloween confection was created in the late 1880s by George Roniger of the Wunderlee Candy Company, in Philadelphia. The first three-layer candy, it was made laboriously,…
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