HALLOWEEN: Custom Chocolate Bars

Scrumptious fun: custom-decorated Belgian chocolate bars for Halloween. Photo courtesy Chocomize.com.   Some of our favorite, affordable gifts are customized chocolate bars from Chocomize.com, a NIBBLE Top Pick Of The Week and ongoing favorite. The base chocolate bar, excellent Belgian chocolate in your choice of dark (72% cacao), milk (34% cacao) or white, is $4.50…
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FOOD HOLIDAY: International Chocolate Day

September 13th International Chocolate Day and gourmet retailer Balducci’s is celebrating with samplings and giveaways. They’ve also shared their recipe for Dark Chocolate-Chili Fondue, below. Balducci’s will have samples of the chocolates at its: New York City store in the Hearst Tower, Eight Avenue and 56th Street, September 13th and 16th. Westport, Connecticut store on…
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FOOD FUN: Ice Cream Cone Chocolates

When you can’t decide if you’d rather have chocolate or ice cream. Photo courtesy Choclatique.   For some chocolate fun, try the “Here’s the Scoop” collection from Choclatique, a Los Angeles-based artisan chocolatier. The chocolate makers turned their favorite ice cream flavors into chocolate truffles. Take a bite of Amaretto-Mocha Fudge, Buttery-Toasty Pecan, Dark Chocolate…
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PRODUCT: Lindt HELLO Chocolate Collection

Have you ever thought about chocolate with a personality? Lindt’s new HELLO Assortment actually reaches out to you: “HELLO, here I am! Nice to sweet you!…Let me sweeten your day with yummy chocolates.” “Take me. taste me. Love me!” it beckons. It’s hard to say no to an offer like that. Lindt is the world’s…
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PRODUCT: Ghiradelli Chocolate Bars

Some people are purists; but when we enjoy a chocolate bar, we have a better time when it’s combined with another flavor. Ghirardelli has an armload of options in dark, milk and white chocolate: plump melt-in-your-mouth squares variously filled with caramel, mint, orange, raspberry and other favorites. The company recently added two new flavors to…
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