Sugar Savvy

I first tried Endangered Species Chocolate back in the fall.  I was impressed with the product, the informative packaging, the cocoa that is 100% ethically traded, and that a percentage of the company’s profits are donated to help endangered species.
Since then, I have bought the chocolate several times, including for some of the science teachers during […]

Do you love the holidays and all the foods that are an integral part of the celebration?  Do you miss the holiday season when it is over?  Well, did you know that it is a holiday almost every day of the year?
You can celebrate with your favorite foods almost every day thanks to National Food […]

The cupcakes from the Beverly Hills bakery Sprinkles are quite well known, and especially popular amongst the actors and actresses (like Katie Holmes) in celebrity jet set crowd.  Unfortunately not all of us in near enough the Beverly Hill location to stop in to get our sweet fix on, nor do we have the bank […]

To say I have a healthy obsession with cupcakes would be an understatement.  We frequently head off on the weekends in search of a new bakery and undiscovered cupcake territory, so when I spied cupcakes at our local Starbucks, my insides did a little flip.
They have a few different flavors available, but they’re not available […]

What happened while I was in New York City?  I entered into ecstasy.  Not the city, itself, Jacques Torres Chocolate.
I walked by Jacques Torres Chocolate’s Manhattan store a couple of times before venturing inside. I knew I would be in trouble… wonderfully delicious trouble.  And I was right. The welcoming chocolate brown interior enveloped all […]

The folks at Hershey are getting in on the NCAA March Madness action.  To celebrate the NCAA “Unwrap March Madness” promotion, offering four college basketball lovers the slam-dunk grand prize of a trip for two to the 2010 Men’s or Women’s NCAA Final Four, Hershey’s is offering Sugar Savvy readers a chance to win a […]

The Chocolate Guide: To Local Chocolatiers, Chocolate Makers, Boutiques, Patisseries and Shops - Eastern Edition is Taste TV’s latest guidebook to all things chocolate on the East Coast.  This book follows the publication of The Chocolate Guide Western Edition.
At its core, the book is a compilation of profiles of various Chocolate Makers and chocolate shops […]

Via Serious Eats, 15 illegal immigrants tried to stow away in a tanker truck full of cocoa powder. While it’s funny joke about being immersed in chocolate or to refer to desserts claiming “death by chocolate,” the cocoa powder was pretty dangerous and could have suffocated those men. A headline about 15 dead immigrants being […]

Did you manage to catch the limited edition run of Cherry 3 Musketeers that were out for Valentine’s Day? I didn’t. But I did get mailed a free sample bag of 3 Musketeers Raspberry minis, a limited edition for Easter.

Though they’re ostensibly for Easter, the bars’ packaging didn’t seem that Easter-y to me. It had […]

About a month ago, I gave two types of Dove chocolates, their Dark Chocolate Promises and their Dark Chocolate Mint Flavored Caramel Promises, a bad review. They were mailed to me as a contest prize, and they showed up bloomed and sub-par. Well, Dove saw my review and asked if I would give them a […]