Making the world a little sweeter one pastry tip at at time.
Is chocolate really a healthy food? The makers of CocoPreggers would like you to think that as you eat their chocolate, you’re doing something good for you and the little one. XAN Confections has created chocolate fortified with folic acid and DHA. This is the same …read more
A customized Kit Kat chocolate bar.Source: http://www.chocollabo.com/ You’ll have to move to Japan. There, you can create your very own custom chocolate Kit Kat bar with your favorite picture or saying. The Japanese can also purchase different flavors (some fun, some very unusual): Matcha …read more
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| Sea Salt Caramel Gelato. Source: BakingBuyer.com |
I just saw this. New from Talenti Gelato e Sorbetto – Sea Salt Caramel Gelato coming to a store near you. It is a gelato with a caramel base and chocolate covered sea salt caramel truffles. They are the same makers of Hill Country Peach Champagne Sorbetto and Argentine Dulce de Leche Gelato. If you can’t find it in stores, you can purchase the Sea Salt Caramel Gelato online through Ice Cream Source.
Talenti gelatos are kosher and gluten-free. They sell retail and wholesale.
Sweet Fried Rice – Is there such a thing? There is if you find it on the Sandy Candy Factory Site. Their Sweet Fried Rice includes candy rice, candy eggs, candy peas and candy carrots. All inside a fun Chinese Take-out box. Haven’t tried it …read more
Fondarific is a brand of flavored fondant, with such flavors as chocolate, wedding white buttercream, tutti-frutti, melon and grape. The have 13 flavors in all. I tasted a sample from a local gourmet show and liked it (buttercream flavor), but the real test came in …read more
Fried beer – just what we were all waiting for. Oh, but you have to be 21 and over to try it though. It is being showcased at the Texas state fair on Sept. 26th, and will be served at two concession stands – at the East end of the Centennial building and inside the food court in the Tower Building.
The maker, Mark Zable, said on the official website it took three years and a patent pending process to deep fry the beer-filled salty pretzel-like ravioli dough. For more info visit FriedBeer.net. The same maker of the fried beer creation created the Chocolate Covered Strawberry Waffle Balls in 2008 and Sweet Jalapeno Corn Dog Shrimp in 2009. They note on their website that if you are interested in purchasing Fried Beer for your restaurant or bar, use their contact page for more info.
From JellyBelly.com: ‘It’s five o’clock somwhere.’ Rounding out their line (of magarita, pina colada and stawberry daiquiri flavored jelly beans), Jelly Belly will also have mojito, peach bellini and pomegranate cosmo flavors for their Cocktail Classics jelly bean line.
For those of you who have never used feuilles de brick or phyllo dough before, I found Marmiton.org’s comparison does a great job of explaining it. http://www.marmiton.org/Magazine/Tendances-Gourmandes_brick-filo_1.aspx The whole site is in French, and if you cannot read French, then use Google’s translate bar, it’ll give …read more
OK – this sound interesting. Wished your daily vitamins tasted like dark chocolate, or wished you could eat a piece of dark chocolate on a regular basis? UK based Health Rack has a new product to try. Their Choco Vit supplements contain dark chocolate and freeze dried acai berry powder. Availabe in the UK, 30 acai berry chocolates cost £14.99. I haven’t seen them here in the US, but the website shows they can ship worldwide (drop down list of countries).
Health Rack’s Choco Vit – website with information and ingredient/supplement content
Renee.
Upon doing research for coffee, I found out what civet coffee was: coffee made from the droppings of an animal know as the ‘civet’, a cat with a fox-like face. The beans are whole when the exit the body, are cleaned and then processed for …read more