RECIPE: Red Velvet Raspberry Truffles

Surprise your Valentine with a beribboned box of homemade red velvet chocolate truffles with luscious raspberry flavor. The insides are the color of red velvet cake. McCormick, which contributed this recipe, specifies baking chocolate; but these will taste so much better if you use couverture—higher quality chocolate that chocolatiers and pastry chefs use. Look for…
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PRODUCT: “Breakfast” Chocolate Bars

If you know someone who would gladly eat chocolate for breakfast, [s]he may be able to justify it with these new chocolate bars from Chuao Chocolatier: Cinnamon Cereal Smooch, milk chocolate mixed with bits of cinnamon toast cereal. Strawberry Waffle Wild, milk chocolate mixed with tart dried strawberries and crispy waffle pieces.   They join…
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VALENTINE GIFT: Kiss A Frog Chocolates

If you know a woman who is still waiting for the frog to turn into the handsome prince, here’s an idea for Valentine’s Day: A box of Kiss A Frog chocolates, frog-shaped chocolates. The chocolates include 26 solid chocolate frogs and 6 frogs filled with peanut butter. They’re nestled in a chocolate brown, heart-shaped box…
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VALENTINE GIFT: Maggie Louise Chocolates

White chocolate Valentine delights. Photo courtesy Maggie Louise Confections.   We love this special white chocolate set for Valentine’s Day. Yes, it’s for the ladies (or girls), but chocolatier Maggie Louise has other items chocolate-loving men (and painted chocolate dinosaurs for chocolate-loving boys). The set in the photo, called the XO Make-Up Box, includes: 4…
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RECIPE: Chocolate Chocolate Chip Bacon Cookies

Make these Chocolate Chocolate Chip Bacon Cookies as a Valentine gift or for Super Bowl viewing. The recipe is from QVC’s chef David Venable. Personally, we prefer omitting the bacon bits and using only the bacon fat. The result will be a smoky, salty flavor that foodies can’t get enough of. If you want to…
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