Chocolate in July

July is "National Ice Cream Month" in the USA.  Beyond that there are oddly several more chocolate holidays in this next month.  I saw odd because July is hot and as we know chocolate keeps best under limited temperatures and in moisture controlled situations.  I've never lived anywhere that I could just leave out some chocolate for even a half an hour and not have it melt.  But if you want to

International Chocolates Locally Found

Not far from your Chocolate Priestess's house, there is one of two branches of a local grocery store called Sahara Mart.  This particular branch opened within the past two years.  Normally we shop at our nearby Kroger or the Bloomingfoods because we are members of that coop.  However, after my birthday last year, I learned that I needed to check out Sahara Mart because several of the chocolate

More Angelic Chocolates

For our last Saturday Sacrament in May we looked at one half of the chocolates that The Chocolate Cult received from Island Angel Chocolates.  Today, one month later, we'll finish that review of the entire sample, all 24 flavors, they sent our way with the bottom 12 varieties on the bottom of the box they sent.  As with the first review these will not necessarily be covered in the order you see

National Chocolate Pudding Day is Tomorrow

Tomorrow, June 26, is "National Chocolate Pudding Day".  Since tomorrow is also our Sacred Day and no chocolatier sent me pudding in any form, today will have to be the day we address this fun food holiday, Sisters and Brothers.

I grew up with the instant and cooked variety of puddings that my mom bought in tiny boxes then finished making at home.  In your Chocolate Priestess's she's the only

Chocolate Éclairs are Difficult?

June 22, today, is "National Chocolate Éclair Day" here on the fun chocolate calendar we are creating over the years drawing upon many, many printed and online sources.  This day honoring a French creation with the addition of our Sacred Substance has an unknown history.  If you know anything at all about when this fun food holiday began or who created it, please leave a note with a link in the

E-Course to Learn Budget Cooking & Shopping

A few years ago, your Chocolate Priestess started to take more control over food in her life.  It is so easy to buy unhealthy food because it is cheap or fast but in the long run that can have much more expensive consequences for your body and mind.  As you know from reading my posts, I am concerned not just with your taste buds but also your wallet and your conscious when you purchase or use

Great Promise from New Chocolatier

Months ago, your Chocolate Priestess made a fine in a small South Dakota city called Watertown. The find was a place called Sweet Memories and I found it while looking for another store a friend of ours found online.  Sweet Memories does not currently have a website, only a Facebook account though I hope that changes soon.

The store inside was rather elegant looking and I could see their

Another Boxed Chocolate Option for Father's Day

Whitman's Samplers have been around for a long, long time.  One of the coolest things about them is that in the lid of the box they have vague shapes that represent the compartments that the candy sits in as you can see in this photo.  This lets you know what you are putting into your mouth before you do.  Your Chocolate Priestess has memories of eating these samplers with her parents and picking

Chocolate Oblivion

Your Chocolate Priestess is very lucky to live about half a mile from an amazing little bakehouse and cafe called The Scholar's Inn Bakehouse that she visits at least once a month with some female friends. Over the months she's had some great chocolate treats from them as well as some duds. This is not one of the duds.

This is a piece of the flourless cake that the Bakehouse offers called “

Daily Chocolate

TCHO may not be a name you know except in big cities but it is one you should know.  They sent The Chocolate Cult three samples to reveal to you as part of our Sacraments so today your Chocolate Priestess will look at their "TCHO-A-Day" product that came in a 14-day supply.  This review was exactly two weeks in the making so that I sampled it as it is supposed to be use, daily, to see if it

Monster Pancakes?

You're heard of monster cookies, right, Sisters and Brothers?  Nice big cookies with several types of additional ingredients often including chocolate chips, candy pieces, maybe nuts or peanuts and sometimes even some fruit.  I found this mix in our local Target and decided to give the idea of a monster pancake or waffle a try.  Here's how that turned out.

First, there were two options for

Russell Stover Truffle Gift Box

Normally we associate chocolate with gifts for women but the simple fact is as the men who follow, read and enter contests on The Chocolate Cult demonstrate our Sacred Substance has universal appeal not limited by biological sex.  Father's Day is approaching fast in the USA and your Chocolate Priestess has gifts of chocolate sent out to her two fathers.  Others of you might not have thought this

Chocolate Syrup Winner Announced

Our winner of the Santa Cruz Organic Chocolate Syrup is: Cacao-Me!

I will contact  him and let him know so I can get his address to ship this out to him later this week.

Thank you everyone who entered.

Keep spreading the word about The Chocolate Cult.

National Chocolate Ice Cream Day

Today, June 7th, is "National Chocolate Ice Cream Day".  Your Chocolate Priestess wants to review a store brand ice cream choice that is as good as the more expensive brand names available in our area of the woods -- South Central Indiana.  Kroger has a lot of brands ranging from the "Value" which tends to be poor quality at cut throat prices to the "President's Selection" that tends to be high

Chocolate Syrup for All of Us

"National Ice Cream Day" is just two days away on June 7th.  While we here in The Chocolate Cult might prefer our ice cream to have chocolate in it there are other options: Chocolate on ice cream.  One such possibility comes from Santa Cruz Organic and today your Chocolate Priestess wants to reveal their Chocolate Flavored Syrup that they sent us with you all.

Ah, but there is more.  They sent

Metaphysical Oreos

I'm sure many of my American readers will be familiar with the ice cream shop called Dairy Queen and their "Blizzard" treats.  The first was merely vanilla ice cream with crushed Oreos in it.  Now you can get a lot of different combinations and mix-in trend can be found in most ice cream stores as well as in the freezer section of your local grocery store.  Your Chocolate Priestess found a bag of

Versatile Chocolate Liquor Cups

June is the most common month for weddings in the USA.  Chocolate is making an appearance in weddings around the world.  I thought this would be a great time to reveal a special product from our friends at Astor Chocolate to you all not only for weddings but for other special events you might be considering.  We've looked at other chocolate products that they sell as edible containers before but

Chocolate In June, Mark Your Calendars

June has several chocolate "holidays" that we can celebrate here in The Chocolate Cult, Sisters and Brothers.  Some are straight forward in their use of our Sacred Substance while others we can use for our own purposes.  So you can celebrate all month long, make note of these dates.  If you know of others, please let a comment and let me know so we can add it to our collective knowledge base and