Your answer may be Fudgemail. For as little as $12.95, which includes shipping, this sweet service allows you to send a gift card—actually a 5″x7” card-box—filled with your choice of dozens of sweet options.

There are 10 flavors of fudge, 8 flavors of chocolate bark, 3 varieties of chocolate-covered Oreos and most of what you’d hanker for in a quality candy store. There are also sugar-free confections.

The four candies we tried were excellent (fudge, chocolate-covered Oreos, bark and caramel-chocolate pretzel sticks). We’d gladly eat more.

Read the full review and be sure to save the information. You’re sure to have an occasion to send some Fudgemail.

Say it with Fudgemail. Your message is
inserted into the box. Photo by
Katharine Pollak | THE NIBBLE.

• Find more of our favorite candies in our Gourmet Candy Section.

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These chocolate-dipped varieties are ready
to party! Photo courtesy Be-Bop Biscotti.

Be-Bop Biscotti bakes gourmet, hand-crafted biscotti. One lucky winner will receive a box of 12 individually wrapped Hazelnut Zebra Biscotti, along with two gift boxes of Grasshopper Mint Biscotti.

Be-Bop’s best-selling biscotti, Hazelnut Zebra, are made with fresh-roasted Oregon hazelnuts, then dipped in solid white chocolate and finished with a decorative dark chocolate zebra design.

Grasshopper Mint Biscotti are made by dipping biscotti into a blend of dark chocolate, peppermint and chocolate chips, followed by a dipping of mint green chocolate and dark chocolate crisscross design.

• THE PRIZE: One winner will enjoy a variety of individually wrapped biscotti dipped in white and dark chocolate. Pair them with your morning coffee, grab one for an afternoon snack or enjoy them as dessert after dinner. Approximate retail value: $28.00.

• To Enter This Gourmet Giveaway: Go to the box at the bottom of our Cookies, Brownies & Bars Section and click to enter your email address for the prize drawing. This contest closes on Monday, August 16th at noon, Eastern Time. Good luck!
• Learn more about Be-Bop Biscotti. 

All you need is fruit, yogurt and sweetener. Take advantage of the summer peach and nectarine crops or use other favorite fruits—strawberries and raspberries, for example. Or try high-antioxidant blueberry-yogurt ice pops.

You can make coffee-flavored pops or any of your favorite flavors.

• Get the recipe.
• Find more frozen delight recipes and product reviews in our Ice Cream & Frozen Yogurt Section.

Keep homemade yogurt pops in the fridge
for an instant, healthy sweet treat. Photo courtesy Tovolo.

Innocent or guilty? One of the well-known extra-virgin olive oils alleged to be not exactly extra-virgin.

The follow-up news may shock lay people, but it’s just more olive oil “business as usual.”

A group of prominent California restaurateurs and chefs has filed a class-action lawsuit against olive oil distributors and retailers.

The lawsuit, which seeks class action status, targets 10 major olive oil brands: Bertolli, Carapelli, Colavita, Filippo Berio, Mazola, Mezzetta, Pompeian, Rachael Ray, Safeway Select and Star. It also names 10 major supermarket chains and big box stores that allegedly sold substandard oil as “extra-virgin.” This includes olive oil mixed with cheaper types of oil, lower quality olive oil and olive oil degraded by heat or age.

An olive oil labeled “extra-virgin” should assure consumers that the oil was extracted without the use of heat or chemicals, that it is pure, that it satisfies a taste test and that it falls within chemical parameters established by the International Olive Council (IOC).

• Take a look at our Olive Oil Section to learn more, and to discover artisan brands that don’t monkey around with their product.

 
 


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