TIP OF THE DAY: Crushed Peppermint Magic

It’s easy to add a touch of everything sweet in your holiday kitchen. Crush a package of red spiral peppermints between sheets of waxed paper with a rolling pin. (You can also crush candy canes.) Keep them in an airtight jar. Then, use them to apply a bit of holiday flavor to ice cream, the…
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GIFTS: Inexpensive Chocolate & Caramel Delights

Indulge someone with indulge caramels. Photo by Hannah Kaminsky | THE NIBBLE. If your friends and family like chocolate, take a peek at seven of our favorite gourmet chocolate and caramel gift picks under, all $15.00. There’s something for everyone, from hot and spicy chocolate to “cocktail cups”—a chocolate Margarita rimmed with salt—to chocolate bars…
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RECIPE: Real Visions Of Sugarplums

Make sugarplums this Christmas! What exactly are sugarplums, visions of which danced in the heads of the children in Clement Moore’s famous poem, “The Night Before Christmas?” The original sugarplums were sugar-coated coriander (the seeds of cilantro). Tiny seeds coated with many layers of sugar were a popular confection known as a comfit (not confit);…
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PRODUCT: Gourmet Marshmallows

People in Vancouver are lucky; they can drive down to Butter Baked Goods and pick up their handmade marshmallows. While the store does not have online sales, we had the pleasure of tasting the marshmallows at a trade show earlier this year, and recently came across the marshmallows at Dean and DeLuca. Of course we…
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PRODUCTS: Pig Out On Bacon Popcorn, Toffee & More

Tell every bacon addict with a sweet tooth about the Pig Out! package from Roni~Sue Chocolates: an assortment of bacon candy for $30.00 that includes: Pig Candy, chocolate-covered bacon strips Bacon Buttercrunch, toffee rolled in coarse-chopped nuts mixed with chopped bacon BaCorn, caramel popcorn tossed with bits of candied bacon and chile-flavored pinon nuts Our…
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