Chocolate-Stuffed Soft Pretzels Recipe For National Soft Pretzel Month

[1] A treat for National Soft Pretzel Month, with an extra “twist” (that’s a pun): chocolate filling. Bake a batch (photos #1 and #2 © Beyond Good). [2] One of the nine different bars from Beyond Good. The company specializes in ethically sourced, single origin dark choccolate bars. [3] Brown sugar is added to the…
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Artisan Chocolate Lambs For Easter

How can you resist these tiny chocolate lambs for Easter? New this year from one of our favorite chocolatiers, L.A. Burdick, these works of chocolate art are individually handcrafted. That means that no molds are used to create the chocolates. Burdick’s skilled chocolate artisans create them entirely by hand. Burdick is famed for its chocolate…
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Gourmet Easter Chocolate: Ukranian Easter Egg Designs

[1] Chocolate Easter eggs with traditional Ukranian Easter egg designs (all photos © Chocolat Moderne). [2] A close-up of the Easter egg designs. [3] Other options include speckled, hand-painted Easter eggs. [4] Bright red eggs, a tradition in the Eastern Orthodox church. The red represents the blood and sacrifice of Christ on the cross, and…
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Gourmet Chocolate Easter Eggs For Your Easter Basket

[1] These shimmering Easter eggs are filled with chocolate ganache. They are currently available online (photo © Markham + Fitz). [2] Your local artisan chocolatier may sell beautiful rabbits like this one from Woodhouse Chocolate. This style is no longer available, but check out this rabbit couple on a motorcycle and this white rabbit with…
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Easter Treat: Omnom’s Milk Chocolate Almonds & Chocolate Bars

[1] Mr. Carrots’ Mango-Passion Milk Chocolate Almonds (all photos © Omnom). [2] Mr. Bunny’s friend from the farm, the sheep, delivers a salted-almond chocolate bar. [3] Introduce the Easter bunny to a unicorn, who brings a caramel chocolate bar.   Instead of a chocolate bunny rabbit, how about something crunchier? Mr. Carrots’ Mango-Passion Milk Chocolate…
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