Save the Animals with Chocolate

Whenever a company or chocolatier uses fair trade, eco-friendly products, supports native growers or charities, we always mention that here on The Chocolate Cult.  At a huge chocolate event some months back, your Chocolate Priestess met a representative of the Endangered Species Chocolate Company.  They fulfill many of our criteria for being worthy Sacraments simply through their business

Sad Vegan Chocolate News

We here on The Chocolate Cult had the honor of revealing a good source of vegan chocolate to the world not long ago for our 2010 Halloween Treat Challenge.  We wanted to pass on this following news to you all, Sisters and Brothers, especially those who need or want vegan products.



April/May 2011 A lot has been happening in my life since the last newsletter, and here’s a snapshot of the major

Where's the Filling?

Recently I found some organic cookies on sale at our nearby Kroger grocery store.  These are from a company called Late July Organic and are "Dark Chocolate Sandwich Cookies" described on the box as "intense ad decadent".  There are 7 servings of 3 cookies each in this 8.2oz box.  I tried one serving worth so I consumed 150 calories made of 3g saturated fat, 125mg sodium, 2g fiber, 9g sugars, and

Recalls April 24, 2011

Your Chocolate Priestess is going to try and be a bit more helpful in terms of your health by passing on recalls on chocolate related products.  I can't predict how often these will be posted but no more often than once a week.

From: U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA)
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 15:46:08 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Doctor's CarbRite Diet Issues Allergy Alert

Dove Easter 2011

We love it here on The Chocolate Cult when a company not only makes great chocolate but they remember us through the year and something over the course of a couple of years.  We get to know the creators of the chocolate we write about and we get to know how their businesses work through their marketing and outreach staff.  We're pleased to add Dove Chocolate to that list of re-occurring featured

3 Easter Chocolate Singles

Easter is only a few days away and if you aren't Christian, don't worry, most of things that happen around Easter these days have almost nothing to do with religion but a lot of them can have something to do with our Sacred Substance: Chocolate.  I went out and found a few more treats in the single pack category and wanted to share them with you today, Sisters and Brothers.  As you can see I

Tiny Morsels for Easter 2011

The nice people from Divine Morsels sent us a bag of their treats for Easter and given that it is getting close, Sisters and Brothers, we needed to do this Special Sacramental Review so you can check them out and perhaps add them to your Easter baskets.  As you can see, the caramels are wrapped in brightly colored foil, I counted five colors in this one bag.


This is the bag of their chocolate

Chocolate for Passover

Recently I was looking through the Passover selection in our local Kroger. I've reviewed items which are proper for Jewish holidays before and we've had one Jewish bakery send us a lovely chocolate item for a featured review.  I was ticking off the items I've revealed to you all before when I saw something new.  Dark Chocolate Coated Matzoh!

I saw several varieties but I went with the Holiday

At Her Feet: Powering Your Femdom Relationship by Tammyjo Eckhart - Powell's Books

I do more than Chocolate and the below book was a finalist for the Geoff Mains Book Award from the NLA-I.

At Her Feet: Powering Your Femdom Relationship by Tammyjo Eckhart - Powell's Books

Chocolate Related Recalls April 2011

Sisters and Brothers, it has been some time since your Chocolate Priestess gave you a heads up for recalls of products related to chocolate.  Today I saw a recalled for a chocolate pot from Williams-Sonoma and that made me to the the FDA's official recall cite and do some checking.

Organic Food Bar Recall 

This was the only current food recall I could find related to chocolate.  Previous ones

Artisan Marshmallow for Easter 2011

 Our friends at 240 Sweet Artisan Marshmallows sent us three more flavors of marshmallows to reveal to you this Easter season. Given that we just talked about Peeps yesterday, it seems the perfect time to reveal what your Chocolate Priestess did with these fluffy treats in honor of the spring time holiday.  We'll be seeing more from 240sweet in the future since our own Chocolate Fruit Acolyte now

Milk Chocolate Peeps

Last year I heard that Peeps, the makers of marshmallow treats mostly associated with Easter but not expanded into other Holidays like Christmas and Halloween, was adding a milk chocolate covered Peep to their Easter mix.  I couldn't find one any where and my attempts to contact Peeps headquarters were ignored.  I found one finally the day after Easter in Target so I bought one.  This review you

Lindt Easter Bunny Option

If you can find this cute little "basket" with two milk chocolate bunnies this review will give you a heads up on whether or not you should spend your Easter money this 2011 season or look elsewhere for a treat.

Like with most Lindt products this is real chocolate without preservatives or too many artificial flavorings though it does have both milk and soy if those are allergy concerns for you.

Bright Easter Chocolates

Indiana has some good chocolatiers right here in the state.  There was such a lack of chocolate shops on our trip through Illinois, Iowa and South Dakota in March 2010, I was afraid I had covered all the candy and chocolate making venues in Indiana all ready. Luckily this is not the case and I found another one up in Wayne County called Ghyslain chocolate des beaux arts.  The wonderful lady there

Popcorn & Chocolate

Christmas 2010 was a quite affair at your Chocolate Priestess's house as it normally is with only 2-3 people around the day of.  But we throw parties and attend parties for weeks before so such quiet is welcome.  We got some very nice gifts and I wanted to review one of these for you.  I know, I know, it's months ago but I can't review this particular gift until we ate it.

The White Chocolate

Easter Gifts Life by Chocolate

The kind gentleman from Life by Chocolate sent The Chocolate a large offering of their Easter selections for 2011.  Easter is April 24, 2011, for non-Orthodox Christians this year so you have three weeks only to think ahead if you plan to do more than attend church services.


In total, for Easter,  they sent us two boxes and a chocolate bunny.  This is part of their rather large Easter