Last Chance Chocolate Walk

Today is the LAST day you can order your tickets to join our Pilgrimage on the Nashville, Indiana, Chocolate Walk.  Tomorrow the prices go up by $5 so hurry and get online this Halloween and order your tickets before the price goes up or they sell out.



Some of our Acolytes will be going with us and your Chocolate Priestess is setting up a time and place to meet to carpool or at least head off

Chocolate Fun Giveaway

Not long ago, CSN.com connected me to do another review or giveaway.  Your Chocolate Priestess thought they might now since the last product I reviewed didn't get much praise.  However it turns out that they are an honorable company and they want fully honest reviews.  That means something to me in this period rabid lying and political or religious dogma masquerading as the truth or objectivity.

Halloween Peeps 2010

When I think of Peeps, I think of marshmallow critters for Easter.  Colored marshmallows that always seemed a bit stale to me on those rare times that I had one.  They aren't something we seek out in my household nor did I really grow up with them as even a rare treat.

The folks Just Born, Inc, the makers of Peeps have been expanding their sales by expanding the holidays you can find their

Firefox Chocolate Options

Recently, users of Firefox could chose a persona for their browsing.  In this case, the persona is the top and bottom of your viewer window that you'll see with some pattern that shouldn't interfere with anything else on your screen.  Note: the links are for the US but I'm sure if you use Firefox else where you can quickly find these.

Of course, your Chocolate Priestess had to check this out

Godiva Halloween/Fall 2010

The second "gift" your Chocolate Priestess ordered this year for Halloween was from Godiva.com.  I have a membership there so I can keep up to date on their products and if I'm ever near one of their stores, I could get samples of products to review for you.  They had an offer for Halloween so since I was feeling generous and really want to keep my family and friends from the candy for the kids

Newman Double Chocolate Cookies

With Halloween fast approaching you might wonder why I'd be reviewing cookies you can find in many large grocery stores or local food co-ops.  They were on sale and I had a coupon at our local Kroger.  We ate them a while back but as you may not know, I do pre-write some of the regular product reviews.

These are the chocolate sandwich cookies with a chocolate cream filling.  My family loves all

Mrs. Fields Halloween

Your Chocolate Priestess had used a Discover Card cash back gift card to order a product from Mrs. Fields for that holiday to review for you all and so she thought she'd do the same for Halloween.  This is the "Grinning Gourd" I ordered because in order to use the e-certificate I had to place an order of at least $40 and inconveniently the prices jumped from $39.95 to $44.95. You see it in the

Dreams for Charity

As you know, Sisters and Brothers, we are concerned about more than just taste, texture, scent, sound, and looks when it comes to chocolate.  When we hear that a chocolatier or a chocolate product might be benefiting some charity, we want to look into that.  Our old friends at Chocolate Chocolate Chocolate (guess what they sale?) who were one of the first chocolate makers to send us samples for

"Good" Halloween Candy

When you go out to buy Halloween candy something we all think about is "do we like it" as well as "is this a good buy".

Other things might matter as well.  In one of our Halloween Sacraments we mentioned how supporting some brands is a way to support charities.  We often talk about fair trade, eco-friendly packaging, and sustainable agricultural practices.

A news report caught my eye on Tuesday

Chocolate Eyeballs Halloween 2010

Of all the things we received for our Halloween Treat Challenge this year, the most creepy in terms of looks had to be from Sweet Mona's in the form of their "I only have eyes for you" Truffles.  This 7.5oz box came to your Chocolate Priestess and I was excited to open it but first I wanted to think about the other "eyeballs" I'd seen all ready in the store for this holiday.  Without exception,

Halloween Advice from The Chocolate Cult

This is, in part, a recap of the advice your Chocolate Priestess laid out last year. 

I want to know if any of you, Sisters and Brothers, have been using this advice this year.

I also want to talk about how I followed -- or haven't yet followed -- this advice myself.

1.  Buy at least two types of candy if you are welcoming trick or treaters to your home.



Above is the pile of candy we ended

Chocolate Walk 2010 Price Increase Soon

A reminder that the Pilgrimage to the Nashville, Indiana, Chocolate Walk is soon to see an increase in the price.  Currently it is $15 a person to go and visit 31 different locations in the lovely artist colony.  You can even carpool and walk with other Sisters and Brothers, Acolytes and even your Chocolate Priestess at this event if you send an email telling us you want to do that.

Saturday,

Share More than Candy On Halloween

Last year one of the entries into our annual Halloween Treat Challenge as a chocolate which also gave back to charity.  This year another chocolatier, TerraSource, also sent us their charity "Share Squares" that help with the charity Solar Cookers International which enables people to cook more safely with little damage to the planet.  Unfortunately I don't see on the website how many little

Fall Must Mean Fudge

Ah one of the things about the fall and winter that I think of is fudge.  True, you can make fudge or buy it almost any time of year any more and as you may recall from a long photo post I did last year, some towns are full to overflowing with fudge shops.  When people come to the college town I live in though they don't think fudge and yet we have fudge shops if you know where to look.

My

Cookies & Blondies for Halloween

We've revealed products from The Protein Bakery before here on The Chocolate Cult.  They had a new fall flavor in two forms that they believe could be great Halloween treats so we will reveal their new cookies and blondies to you as part of our annual challenge.  These treats come in individual plastic wrapped treats that each contain one serving so no false sense of taking care of your health by

Celebrate Fiji Day with Chocolate

Fiji Day is the end of a week long festival in Fiji that marks the islands' liberation from English rule. Why am I mentioning this at all here on The Chocolate Cult?  Your Chocolate Priestess found out that one of their official symbols is the the cocoa pod.

The Fiji islands have a a tropical South Sea maritime climate which makes it perfect for growing cacao.  As you may recall from other posts

Brazillian Chocolate Treats

Chocolate is popular world-wide and I am always delighted when someone outside the lower 48 states sends us a sample or someone uses an older tradition or non-American or European approach to our Sacred Substance.  Thus when the folks from Obrigadeiro in Minnesota told me that they create a Brazilian treat they and decorate it for Halloween, I knew we had to try it.  It came in a fairly

Two Candy Favorites Falter

The Chocolate Priestess grew up eating m&ms and Reese's products like I'm sure several of you, Sisters and Brothers, did.  While these mass produced candies rarely please me as much as the small batch or higher quality chocolates, I still try to keep up on changes and share my opinions with you all.

Thus when I had a coupon to try the new pretzel variety of m&m's I took the opportunity to buy

Tiny Bites

Intemperantia is an organic gourmet chocolatier whose products are also often vegan. The chocolate they use is from Switzerland and their websites gives great information bout how various regions in that country have their own unique chocolates which this chocolatier blends to make a synthesis all their own.  No added fats or oils, only what comes from the cocoa bean itself is used so this is a

Simple Sweets Chocolate Creme Review

A while back, your Chocolate Priestess was shopping in her local Kroger store and saw that some of the frozen desserts were on clearance.  Now sometimes clearance means the store won't carry that product any more and sometimes it means that the product is getting a face lift and so they want to move the previous designed covers out of the way.  Several of the "Simple Sweets" selections from Sara

Dark Bites

Last year a retailer entered our annual Halloween Treat Challenge and sent us some products from two different companies they work with.  This year one of those chocolatiers, Sjaak's sent us their own samples. They sent us their bags of "Halloween Bites" in dark chocolate and peanut butter as well as dark chocolate and orange.  The photo is from their website with permission since the ice pack