VALENTINE GIFT: Heart-Shaped Cheesecake

It’s just a few weeks until Valentine’s Day. We’ll be posting some special gift ideas that catch our eye. First up are these heart-shaped cheesecakes from Harry & David: The New York-style cheesecake sits atop a chocolate cookie crust. It’s topped with a layer of semisweet chocolate and a white chocolate drizzle. A couple can…
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THANKSGIVING OR CHRISTMAS RECIPE: Pumpkin Spice Cake

The perfect cake for Thanksgiving, Christmas and Halloween. Photo courtesy The Sugar Mommas.   The Sugar Mommas, Kimberly and Jennifer, live in California, an entire country away from us. So if we want a piece of their Thanksgiving Pumpkin Spice Cake, we’ll have to make it ourselves. Fortunately, it’s not difficult to make a cake…
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POST-VALENTINE’S DAY CONTEST: Second Chance For Happiness

You could take the cake: Just enter the contest. Photo courtesy Pepperidge Farm.   Whether or not you had a happy Valentine’s Day, here’s a second chance for happiness: Pepperidge Farm is celebrating its new newest 3-Layer Cake, Red Velvet. One NIBBLE reader will receive a ”Second Celebration Kit” consisting of: A cake serving set…
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VALENTINE’S DAY: Toast With Taittinger Champagne

If you’re headed to the wine shop to buy Champagne, there are a lot of choices. Where should you start? Take a look at Taittinger. It’s a universal favorite, described by one prominent wine reviewer as “the essence of Champagne.” One of our friends, a wine writer who could have chosen anything, served it at…
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VALENTINE’S DAY: Our Valentine Gift To You

How many different types of sugar have you had? Check them out in our Sugar Glossary.   Here’s something sweet for Valentine’s Day: THE NIBBLE’s Sugar Glossary, featuring all types of sweeteners, in a downloadable PDF. What’s the difference between demerara and turbinado sugars? Corn syrup and golden syrup? Crystallized sugar and rock candy? You’ll…
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