Online Bake Sale For Japan LIVE

Sisters and Brothers I hope you'll recall that I announced a worldwide food blog event called "Online Bake Sale for Japan".  They've been gathering baked goods and today is the day you do your part by bidding on some of the good by going HERE.

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Adding Extras to Chocolate Recipes

This will be a new type of Saturday Sacrament, Sisters and Brothers.  Not only will I be revealing a companies products but also some of the recipes I used to incorporate non-chocolate items into chocolate dishes.  MarxFoods sent us some palm plates last year as some of you may recall -- I tried to set them on fire in my review.  After we won a Reader's Choice for our review, we received other

Online Bake Sale for Japan

Sisters and Brothers, I'm sure that many of you have heard about the earthquake and the following tsunami near Japan.  Aftershocks and damage to the infrastructure are causing serious problems with the nation. To support relief efforts via Second Harvest Japan, an online bake sale has been organized that I thought you all might want to know about.  Sabrina of The Tomato Tart is the lady in charge

Perkins Memories Better

We don't have a Perkins restaurant in the town I currently live in.  When I lived in NYC, we didn't see any near us as well.  I remember visiting them now and again when I was growing up.  I remember that I always had to have something chocolate while there and in my memory their chocolate baked goods were always great.

Recently I was in the outskirts of Cincinnati, Ohio, for a convention and I

Guittard Bars Revealed

Guittard is best known for it's baking and candy making supplies such as the 24oz slabs of baking chocolate they sent your Chocolate Priestess and which won them our 2010 Chocolate of the Year acknowledgment.  They now make candy bars that you can eat or use for your baking or candy making projects.

Unlike the mainstream candy bar you can find in almost any grocery, mass market, or pharmacy in

Size Less Important than Chocolate

Your Chocolate Priestess has reviewed Keebler products before.  Like many of you, I grew up familiar with and eating the "elf-made" treats.  After my Conversion from Chocolate as an Addiction to Chocolate as Sacrament, there have been some Keebler treats that still are good enough for me.  Sadly, today, I'm going to talk about some that just can't make the cut here on The Chocolate Cult.

I

Three Bags of Hedonistic Delight

The folks from Hedonist Artisan Chocolates sent us several Offerings and today we are looking at the final one -- three variations of their Bark.  These are the "Milk Chocolate Bark with Sesame," "Pecan Cranberry Bark," and "Pistachio Ginger Bark."  That is the order you see in the photo to the right from left to right.  The bark is broken into pieces as it should be so I can't really give you a

Easy Mint Chocolate Brownies

This is one of our rare Recipes here on The Chocolate Cult.  After the failure of trying to make grasshopper pie I wanted to try a mint chocolate again for my family.  I found these Nestle dark chocolate and mint morsels on sell and stocked up on them so I thought perhaps I could make brownies.  But I'm a busy woman, I needed something simple.

I looked in one of the three cookbooks I'm currently

Interview: Painting with Chocolate

Your Chocolate Priestess met artist, Dan Alexander, at the annual "Art of Chocolate Event" at the Indiana University Museum back on January 30, 2011.  Since I was acting as a Docent for the museum I could not take photos for you all but Dan did agree to an interview. I hope you all leave a lot of nice comments for him, Sisters and Brothers.




Photos Art of Chocolate 2011: Alycin Beklesh

Celebrate Ghana Independence with Chocolate

There is another national holiday that we can honor but using Chocolate, Sisters and Brothers, and that is to mark Ghana's independence from Great Britain on March 6.  We've reviewed single source chocolate products made from Ghana cacao but today I want to give you some more information about Ghana that shows how important chocolate is to their nation.

Ghana is in western Africa and is slightly

Wine and Chocolate Truffles

Your Chocolate Priestess has reviewed truffles with wine before and even chocolates with beer and hard liquor flavorings.  This is our first specific wine truffle collection and it comes from our friends at Cocoa Dolce Artisan Chocolates where they get cocoa from around the world.  Here we see them with two bars we will be looking at later.  Just a note: We often sample the products we are sent

Gifts of Chocolate from Three Friends

Some of my friends whether they live close to me or in another country, give me gifts of chocolate.  To thank them and also to continue our reviews here on The Chocolate Cult I tend to collect a few and then review them as a group.

The first gift was a bar from Sylvarose who has posted comments here several times.  This was for my birthday and it was a brand of chocolate I've had before but not