Category: Chocolate

PRODUCT: Callebaut Belgian Chocolate For Baking

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For superior chocolate flavor, try Callebaut. Barry Callebaut, the world’s largest manufacturer of high-quality chocolate and cocoa products and maker of some of the best Belgian chocolate, has made gourmet chocolate products previously available only to professional pastry chefs and chocolatiers. Now, the company’s renowned milk, dark and marbled chocolate products are available at specialty…
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EASTER: Hand-Rolled Marzipan Eggs

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The Easter bunny was hard at work on these marzipan eggs (with help from Martine’s Chocolates). Aren’t these lovely? Hand rolled to create a rainbow of colors, these marzipan eggs from Martine’s Chocolates will delight marzipan lovers. Martine also makes lovely hand-colored solid chocolate eggs with a similar sensibility (the colored design is “inlaid” into…
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EASTER: Gourmet Chocolate Easter Eggs

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You wake up the day after St. Patrick’s Day and what’s on the agenda? Easter! A series of favorite Easter candy begins today. In our youth, we were satisfied with Cadbury’s chocolate buttercream Easter eggs. But today, we’re more demanding. We want those eggs to sizzle. So, we’re starting with Bacon and Eggs, one of…
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CHINESE NEW YEAR: Special Chocolates For The Year Of The Tiger

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If you forgot to send Valentine’s Day chocolate to someone special, or need a reciprocal gift, you’ve got an “out.” You can still celebrate 4708, the Chinese Lunar New Year (February 14 to 28th). It’s the Year of the Tiger. Moon cakes are traditional, but few people would choose them over Burdick Chocolate’s exquisite chocolates…
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VALENTINE’S DAY: Chocolate Vodka Cocktails

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Chocolate cocktails range from sweet to spicy to sizzling, like “Hot Lips,” above. Photo courtesy Van Gogh Vodka. Chocolate has been called the “fruit of love,” so it’s no wonder that it’s the favorite gift for Valentine’s Day. Long thought of as an aphrodisiac, there’s a scientific basis to the claim. Chocolate contains phenylethylamine, the…
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