Sugar Savvy

Many of us know that eating chocolate with 70% chocolate solids does the body good, helping the body fight against heart disease and high blood pressure. The particular chocolates I have been using the most lately, unsweetened chocolate and bittersweet chocolate, have led to desserts that have been popular choices by my chocolate eating friends.  In fact, I rarely […]

Another day, another Dolfin. Now, if I lived in Monkey Mia and this was a wildlife website, that sentence would have an entirely different meaning (at least if it was heard, rather than read). However, seeing as I’m currently not anywhere near Western Australia and squirrels are about as close to wildlife as I’ve come in […]

I have been sitting on these tasting notes for ages. Like most of my notes, I guess. I bought these four Joseph Schmidt truffles last winter when I was in California. Joseph Schmidt used to be an independent truffle maker; now they, along with Dagoba and Scharffen Berger, are owned by Hershey’s Artisan Confections subsidiary. […]

I will admit that when it comes to gum, I’m fickle. It doesn’t take much to turn my head. I buy every new pack that catches my eye in the checkout lane, sometimes even against my better judgment. As was recently the case with Orbit’s new Fabulous Fruitini, one of the latest in a recent flurry of additions to Orbit’s stick-gum lineup. […]

As I’ve noted before, Choxie, Target’s house brand of chocolate, works hard to market itself. I adore their bright, retro wrappers, and I hate that they don’t capitalize anything. Check out the descriptions of these two bars that were a holiday gift from my suitemate Alisha:
Choxie milk chocolate roasted almond sea salt bar
solid milk chocolate. […]

On Tuesday May 13th, participating Haagen-Dazs Scoop Shops offered a free scoop of their Limited Edition Vanilla Honey Bee Flavor Ice Cream. This flavor will be available through December; however, the company has also recently released Vanilla Honey and Granola Frozen Yogurt as part of its permanent frozen yogurt line.
The release of these two honey-flavored ice […]

First, complete disclosure. I did not come up with the brilliant idea of vanilla sugar. Full credit goes to the domestic goddess herself, Nigella Lawson, who advocates its usage in her cookbooks, which I admittedly purchase with the devotion of a religious follower. Okay, so I exaggerate. But she is pretty cool.
A couple of weeks […]

Back in March, over my spring break, I road-tripped to Chicago with my dear friends Katie, Chris, Rita, and Steve (who needs to get a blog or something. I’m not going to be creepy and link to his facebook page). Lemme tell ya, you’ve got to really love the people you’re road-tripping with, especially when […]

I am a huge fan of giving unique and unusual gifts. While flowers are always lovely, if sending or bringing a token for special occasions, thank you’s, get wells, I want to make an impression.  In lieu of flowers, I always opt for an Edible Arrangements display. The different edible offerings cost around the same […]

Let me state right from the beginning that I am a big fan of ice-cream cake. To me, the only drawback to the typical ice-cream cake is that it is simply too big and too expensive to buy for an “anytime” dessert, and my birthday comes but once a year.
This being the case, when I heard that […]