A Dove Chocolate Valentine's Day

Here on The Chocolate Cult we appreciate every offering that is sent our way and we treat each with identical respect in terms of our sampling and review process.  Acolytes follow my guidelines and know that we need to use and then describe what all five of our senses experienced so you, the reader, can learn more and determine what you might want to try.  However, I must confess that when a big

Winner Video -- Chocolate Cake Day

The winner of the King Arthur Giveaway we had back in December 2010, sent me a link to a video he made to celebrate "National Chocolate Cake Day".

Please check it out and leave him some comments either here or on YouTube.

HELP! It's National Chocolate Cake Day

Your Chocolate Priestess had a 2011 plan.  Do you remember me talking about it at the start of the year?  I want to make something for every "Chocolate on the Calendar" day that I can.

"Can" is the key word. 

Today is "National Chocolate Cake Day" and I did make a cake last week, trying the second of the three recipes I've dictated I must at least try from any cookbook before I review it.  It

Dagoba Hot Chocolate #1

It's Wednesday and it's cold so that means another hot cocoa review here on The Chocolate Cult.  Today we are going to look at Dagoba Organic Chocolate in their Unsweetened Hot Chocolate cylinder.  I found this at SaharaMart which isn't too far from my house. I had a coupon for another variety of this same brand but not only was this the only variety they had in the store, it was the only hot

Chocolate Oatmeal Cookie Pie

Today, Sisters and Brothers, is "National Pie Day" which means for us here in The Chocolate Cult it must be chocolate.  Originally my plan was to try something from one of the two cookbooks I have on my reviews shelf but my assistant, our own Chocolate Fruit Acolyte, was ill so I tried something I had all the necessary ingredients on hand for.  I used one of my older cookbooks, "Nestle Recipe

Kara's Assorted Truffles

Today, Sisters & Brothers, we return to Kara Chocolates for our Sacrament.  You can find a previous review of their truffles around Easter last year since some of them had an Easter theme.  Chocolatiers and companies know that we get many products here and we like to mix things up.  It may be months and months between reviews of their products even if they need to be consumed fairly quickly.  We

Trio of Milka

Originally, Sisters & Brothers, I wanted to do this post as a review of three types of Milka brand chocolate bars which I found on sale at our local co-op, Bloomingfoods.   However the condition of one of the bars prevents an honest review of anything other than the store itself so with that in mind, please keep reading.

The first bar we tried was the "Alpine Milk" which is milk chocolate.  This

Chocolate Lovers Need to Care about The Ivory Coast

I hope you've all seen in the various news outlets that the Ivory Coast is going through some political problems revolving around their last national elections but certainly not limited to them.



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The Ivory Coast or the Republic of the Cote D'Ivoire is a West African coastal country.  Here's a map of the general area if you aren't

Cocoa & Nuts in Vancouver

Sisters and Brothers, today we will look at the final offering from CocoaNymph, a Vancouver chocolatier.  Previously we looked at their Sea Nymph bar and 8 flavors of their bons.  Today we're going to look at two types of flavored tree nuts, only one of which has chocolate so that is the only one that will get a full sensory review.


The "Bee Stings" are a 200g tub of chocolate, really cocoa

TCHO Drinking Chocolate Revealed

With a new year and winter, it is time again for our Wednesday series of hot chocolate drink reviews. Some of these will be regular reviews, products your Chocolate Priestess purchased, some of these will be Sacramental Reviews, products that a company or chocolatier sent to us to review.  2011 starts with a a product we were sent from TCHO and which we waited many months of hot, humid weather

DOVE Chocolate Discoveries Party

In 2010, your Chocoolate Priestess made a connection via LinkedIn with a woman who worked with the DOVE Chocolate Discoveries network.  Think of them as a sort of Avon or Tupperware party/sells pitch but with chocolate.  I reviewed the samples she sent me and then I sent out a call for another DOVE independent chocolatier nearer to my home.  I also visited and sent a message via the main DOVE

Fairytale Start to 2011

Your Chocolate Priestess and her team of Acolytes have revealed candy bars, ice cream, cookies, cake, fancy and mainstream chocolates to you for the past 21 months.  But rarely have we discussed brownies.  Today that changes as we look at a huge sample we were sent by Fairytale Brownies. We learned that not only do they make generous brownies but they support the development of playgrounds for

January Chocolate Holidays

Happy New Year's, Sisters and Brothers!

If yesterday had not been so busy, I would told you that it was the Feast Day for St. Macarius the Younger, 4th century patron of confections.  However he would NOT have used chocolate because that was a Mesoamerica product and which the early Christians knew nothing about.  I wonder if anyone out there used chocolate as part of his Feast Day

Celebrate New Year's with Colonial Chocolate

For our American Sisters and Brothers and I'm sure a decent number of English speakers out there, you've heard of the American Revolution, the war of Independence as it is called here in the States.  You may have heard of the uprising over tea taxes but what you may not have heard about in your basic history classes or seen in re-enactments is just how important chocolate became during that time.