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PRODUCT: Custom Chocolate Bars For Easter

April 15, 2011 at 7:35 am · Filed under Chocolate, 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, chicks, ducklings or lambs.
  • For Easter colors, add jelly beans, M&Ms or Sunbeams.
  • Want to add some dried fruit? There are 22 choices, from banana chips to tart cherries.
  • There are 30 choices of cereals, nuts and seeds, from cornflakes (which are terrific in chocolate bars) to wasabi peanuts.
  • Want something pretty? There are 8 dried flower petal choices, plus gold and silver flakes.
  • Finish your bar with spices, from chipotle and cinnamon to mixed peppercorns and Hawaiian red sea salt.

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    If you don’t have the time or inclination to design chocolate bars, send an e-gift certificate and let the recipients have the fun.

    		 
    Release your inner chocolatier. We combined
    sugar bunnies, eggs and carrots with Jelly
    Beans and Sunbeams. Photo by River Soma | THE NIBBLE.
     
    The base price of the 3.5-ounce chocolate bar is $3.95. Toppings start at 45¢ each, with many at 65¢ or 75¢. Each bar comes in a gift box.

    If you’re still looking for Easter candy, do something different this year. Click on over to Choccreate.com and start creating!

    Want something more elaborate? Here’s our favorite artisan Easter chocolate.

      

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    NEWS: Krups Names The Best Coffee Shops

    April 14, 2011 at 10:29 am · Filed under Beverages

    Krups, makers of some of our favorite coffee and espresso machines and other kitchen appliances, has announced the 16 winners of its Cup O’ Joe Awards.

    The awards, highlighting the best coffee shops in cities nationwide, go to:

  • Atlanta: Dancing Goats Café
  • Boston: Barismo
  • Chicago: Metropolis Coffee Co.
  • Dallas: White Rock Coffee
  • Los Angeles: Groundwork Coffee Co.
  • Miami: News Café
  • New York City: The Bronx, Beans and Berries; Brooklyn, Gimme! Coffee; Manhattan, MUDTruck; Queens, Sweetleaf; Staten Island, Java Den
  • Philadelphia: Spruce Street Espresso
  • San Francisco: Blue Bottle Coffee Co.
  • Seattle: Monorail Espresso
  • Washington, D.C.: M.E. Swing Co.
  • Noteworthy National Retailer: Peet’s Coffee & Tea
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    Souvenir of Chicago: A bag of Metropolis
    Coffee’s Redline Espresso. Photo courtesy
    Metropolitan Coffee Co.
     
    Now, a trip to Philadelphia means more than the Liberty Bell, a Duck Tour and a cheeesteak. First thing each morning: Spruce Street Espresso.

      

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    PRODUCT: Skinny Cookies

    April 14, 2011 at 8:22 am · Filed under Cookies-Cake-Pastry, Diet Nibbles


    Take a bite: richer flavor, smaller size, fewer
    calories. Photo by River Soma | THE NIBBLE.

    		   Where do skinny L.A. ladies and gents go when they need a sweet treat?

    To Skinny Batches, the creation of actress Emme Tyler. Skinny Batches’ oatmeal cookies, gingerbread loaf and “Crumbies” snacks focus on low calories, high taste and zero guilt (as long as you don’t eat the whole box). Everything is 45 calories per piece.

    We ordered a shipment and found the sweet treats to be a great help in portion control. Anyone who’s been to Weight Watchers knows that this is the secret to enjoying anything you want.

    Emme makes sure that the portion sizes are just right. Her snacks and desserts are so flavorful that you don’t miss a larger portion.

    Coffee-cake-like Crumbies are the size of petit fours. Yet the dense cake, deep flavors and vibrant seasonings provide all the satisfaction of a much larger portion. Flavors include Chocolate Banana, Coffee, Pear and White Chocolate Berry.

     
    Satisfying oatmeal cookies are made skinny by less sugar (very welcome!) and a flatter shape (benefit: crispier!). We didn’t try the gingerbread loaf or the Salty Janets (a sugar cookie with fleur de sel), but look forward to it.

    The all-natural products are available from SkinnyBatches.com. You can also vote for the next flavor of Crumbies. (We picked PB&J.)

    Find more of our favorite lower-calorie foods in our Diet Nibbles Section.

      

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