(Featured Recipe: Dark Mocha Truffles Made With Coconut Cream & Date Syrup) If you’re often in the mood for trying new and amazing desserts, then you’re going to love making and gifting these sophisticated, simply-made gourmet treats. I start with a velvety Mocha Ganache then I scoop the mixture to make individual rounded truffles that…
FILL YOUR HOLIDAY GOBLETS WITH COOKIES AND COOKIE POPS
(Featured Recipe: Thin Mini Chewy Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies) Making delightful desserts with your children and serving them up in a creative way can be a fun and entertaining activity, especially around the holidays. My mother inspired me throughout my childhood with all the amazing meals and desserts she would make, and she would have me…
YOU HAD ME AT FUDGE!
(Featured Recipes: Peanut Butter Honey Crumb Fudge/ Crunchy Peanut Butter Fudge) I can never get enough of chocolate and peanut butter. On their own, they are incredibly satisfying to eat and peanut butter is very filling so consuming it can help prevent overeating. But, when you pair the two together, it takes satisfaction to…
PUMPKIN THIS AND PUMPKIN THAT
(Featured Recipe: Gluten-Free Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Pancakes with Dark Chocolate Sauce and Pumpkin Seeds) There’s something spectacular and amazing that happens every fall- A Pumpkin CRAZE! Many of us buy pumpkin this and pumpkin that…such as pumpkins for indoor and outdoor home decor; pumpkin spice lattes, teas and other beverages; and pumpkin-themed clothing and jewelry….
CHOCOLATE MEDALLIONS: QUICK AND EASY CONFECTIONS TO CREATE JUST THE WAY YOU LIKE
(Featured Recipe: Chocolate Medallions with Dried Cherries, Toasted Coconut and Walnuts) When it comes to making fun, quick and easy sweet confections, I actually don’t think it gets much simpler than chocolate medallions. Many of us are familiar with the beautiful gold foil wrapped and coin-shaped milk chocolate medallions that you can find in many…
SUPER SIMPLE-TO-MAKE EDIBLE COOKIE DOUGH FOR FROZEN SUMMER TREATS AND MORE
(Featured Recipe: Edible Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough) If you’re looking for ways to fix up and add more flavor to some of your favorite summer treats, then you’ll love the Edible Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough as a topping for or incorporated into delicious cold or frozen dessert treats. The cookie dough is…
SOME SIMPLE WAYS I ‘HEALTHIFY’ MY FOODS
(Featured Recipes: 3-Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies and 4-Ingredient Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies) I absolutely do believe you can Have Your Chocolate And Eat It Too– but I also believe it’s important to ‘healthify’ (or adapt a particular dish or food item in order to improve the health value) our foods as much as we possibly can in…
HAVE FUN IN THE KITCHEN ON VALENTINE’S OR ANY TIME
(Featured Recipe: Chocolate-Chocolate Chip Cookie Sandwiches with Ganache) Whether you’re planning something special with your significant other on Valentine’s Day or if you’re single and treating yourself to something special like a day to relax and pamper yourself– then why not make the day all the more interesting and exciting by heading into the kitchen…and to make…
‘TIS THE SEASON FOR GOOD CHEER AND EDIBLE GIFTS
(Featured Recipes: Extra-Chocolaty Nutty Pretzel Rods, Dark Chocolate Truffle Petit Fours, Truffle Pops, & More) ‘Tis the season to be jolly…so let’s spread some jolly good cheer this Christmas. And, of course, spreading good cheer isn’t something to do only during the Christmas season, it’s something we can do all year long. Whenever we have the…
FALL CHOCOLATE DESTINATIONS AND MORE!
In the Fall Trips And Fall Comfort Food post, I wrote about some places I would like to visit this fall. One of those places I hoped to visit was French Broad Chocolate Lounge. Well, not only did I visit one bean to bar chocolate shop- I visited two. The other was Black Mountain Chocolate. I…
WHO’S ON BOARD FOR DELISH GOURMET APPLES?
(Featured Recipe: Gourmet Caramel Chocolate-Dipped Apples) Who can resist gourmet apples during the fall, or any time of the year for that matter? I certainly can’t. When the fall arrives, I’m always on board for making gourmet apples or doing a caramel and candy apple bar with friends- but, I have to say, I do…
FALL TRIPS AND FALL COMFORT FOOD
(Featured Recipe: Mini Coconut Pie Delights) This time of the year when the fall season has just made its arrival but has not yet yielded its full spectacular vibrant hues- I begin to feel a bit nostalgic. I yearn to be outdoors and to take in the beauty of the changing leaf colors and…
The Simple Chocolatier 