Archive: April 2010

Purdy’s Marshmallow

Yep, that’s all it’s called is “Marshmallow” and that is what it is exactly- a giant marshmallow coated in dark chocolate. This can’t possibly go wrong, can it? My trip to the Purdy Chocolate factory in Vancouver, B.C. yielded all sorts of tasty chocolate candy treats, this just being one of the many that wasn’t [...]

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I love Trader Joe’s. I love going in and finding something new. I love going through the Fearless Flyer, circling what should be purchased and then buying it plus 6 other things that aren’t on the list that I couldn’t help myself on, including this Dark Chocolate with Raisins and Pecans bar. And it’s organic [...]

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TCHO Artisan Chocolate Candy

TCHO, a San Francisco based chocolate company/factory is “where technology meets chocolate; where Silicon Valley start-up meets San Francisco food culture.” An employee owned venture, their website goes into great depth as to their methods (where they get the cacao beans), recycling, technology and even “beta” editions of chocolate that they’re currently testing. Could this [...]

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The Tiniest Chocolate Cakes

OK, so they’re not real, that’s fine though, because a chocolate cake should be served more in a slab form than that of a piece smaller than a dime. These tiny creations are works of art by Stéphanie Kilgast of Petit Plat Handmade Miniature Food. Check out these highly detailed, tasty, yet tiny looking creations.

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The official name is a mouthful alone: New Tree Lavender Tranquility (Soothing) Fine Belgian Milk Chocolate. So can a chocolate candy with a name like that stand up to the fanciness within that it boasts on the outside? “Inner calm is just a bite away. New Tree Tranquility takes soothing milk chocolate and infuses it [...]

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Cadbury’s Easter Mallows

I saw “limited edition” that bright purple packaging, Cadbury’s and “mallows” and I was sold. Enough that I made a special trip over to Cost Plus to pick up a package of these Easter themed treats of “mallow teacakes with jaffa orange flavoured jam filling covered with milk chocolate.”

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