GIFT: Silverland Sugar Free Brownies & Lemon Bars

What can you give someone who adores cake but can’t have sugar? Sugar-free brownies and lemon bars from Silverland Bakery. The bakery’s sugar-free line was years in development, trying alternative noncaloric sweeteners and settling on the world’s finest, maltitol (see the different sugar substitutes). Current choices include: Sugar-Free Lemon Bar: Same great look and flavor…
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GIFT: Bien Fait Tea Cakes

Maple Pecan Teacake, dense, moist and yummy. Photo courtesy Bien Fait Cakes.   Bien Fait Tea Cakes are made with “only the finest fruits, nuts, grains and natural ingredients,” says the Greensboro, Vermont-based company, proudly. The ingredients are organic and local, from family farms. The maple syrup is tapped from trees a mile from the…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Thanksgiving Fruit Plate

Who would have thought that fresh fruit could have such a Thanksgiving theme! We found this idea in in the Dole Pinterest stream and couldn’t resist making one ourselves. In fact, it’s a great project to keep the kids busy on Thanksgiving. Ingredients Per Fruit Turkey: 6-8 apple slices 9-10 orange segments Pear half For…
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GIFT: Chocolate Peanut Butter Bar

Caviar chocolate isn’t for anyone. But here’s a bar with more universal appeal: The PMS Bar from Lucas Candies. P is for peanut butter, M is for milk chocolate and S is for salted potato chips. It’s so creamy, with a light potato chip crunch, and nifty looking with a semi-sweet chocolate drizzle. At $4.00,…
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GIFT: Caviar White Chocolate

Good things come in small packages. In the case of Petrossian’s new Caviar Chocolate, the package is small but the flavor is huge, and the memory will last a lifetime. Petrossian has partnered with the great French chocolatier Pralus to create (to our knowledge) the world’s first caviar-studded chocolate. For that select group of people…
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