MOTHER’S DAY: Beautiful Chocolate

Hearts and flowers: Beautiful hand-paintedchocolates from Anna Shea, available atTheNibbleGourmetMarket.com.   Mother’s Day? It isn’t even Easter yet. True, but Mother’s Day falls a scant two weeks after Easter. You need a gift strategy. As far as gourmet chocolate goes, Anna Shea creates chocolate “haute couture”: beautiful, artisan-crafted and hand-decorated chocolate designs. This may be…
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PRODUCT: Custom Chocolate Bars For Easter

Choccreate custom chocolate bars are such a fun choice for Easter gifts – you get your choice of dark, milk or white chocolate, toppings and an Easter bunny or two. The toppings make all the difference in your creation of a unique—and inexpensive—Easter gift. Start with an Easter theme: scatter your bar with candy bunnies,…
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TOP PICK OF THE WEEK: Gourmet Chocolates

Just in time for Easter and Mother’s Day, we have seven artisan chocolatiers for you to meet. Producing gourmet chocolates by hand, these dedicated artists make their chocolate into literal eye candy, as each creates distinctive looks and shapes for their bonbons. Filled with creamy chocolate ganache in many flavors—plus some salted caramels—these chocolates will…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Snack On Baking Chocolate Discs

Photo courtesy Antoine Amrani.   The fine chocolate discs used for baking and making chocolates can also be used for snacking. Also called baking wafers or couverture wafers, the discs, which are made by premium chocolate producers, come in one-pound boxes (and larger sizes for professionals). Guittard, for example, offers: 38% cacao (dark milk chocolate)…
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