Monthly Archives: July 2014

Chocolate Chip and Orange Muffins

There's something funny about muffins. They can be something nourishing that you eat in the morning, and they can also be an addictive dessert.

As a kid, I often requested muffins for breakfast. My mom always just thought I was trying to practice healthy eating at a tender age, and that I never wanted to leave home with my stomach empty, failing to realize I eat one muffin too many most mornings.
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Chocolate Getting More and More Expensive

Chocolate is comfort food for many people. That fact has long been established. Comfort foods are foods we eat to…well, feel comforted. They bring out positive emotions. That’s what they do. However, they are also known to stir up feelings of guilt afterwards.

In a study of American comfort food choices, men leaned more toward warm, hearty, meal-related comfort foods like steak and soup. On the other hand, women opted for foods that were snack related, yup, like chocolate. Also, the study showed how younger people tend to like snack-related comfort foods more compared to people over 55.
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Snicker Bars

If you still don't know what my favorite candy bar is, you obviously haven’t been paying enough attention. Boohoo.

It’s Snickers®. I’m head over heels crazy about the chocolate, peanut, nougat, and caramel combo. I’ve mentioned it a million times, so I’m just gonna dive in head first and make my own homemade Snickers bars.
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Midge – The Chocolate Fly

Weird is an understatement, I tell ya. I believe anyone would agree if I said the idea of flies and chocolate being in the same sentence is rather repulsive. However, I gotta do what I gotta do.

Chocolate is derived from cacao tree (Theobroma cacao) which is abundant in South America's tropical rain forest. Such trees have flowers, why of course. And these flowers grow directly from the trunk, instead of the branches. When these white cacao flowers are pollinated, they produce the prized seed pods.
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Chocolate Rum Ice Cream

I’m gonna be honest with you right off the bat. I haven’t tried this recipe yet myself. But since I’m planning on spending some quality time in my kitchen this weekend, I thought I might as well share the recipe with you now.

I’ve come across recipes like this one before and I always see people raving about it. So I decided to hop in on the bandwagon and make a batch to see what all the fuss was about.
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Dark Chocolate Benefit for Peripheral Artery Disease

Eating dark chocolate, instead of milk chocolate, has been recommended by health experts for quite some time now. Its reputation, health-wise, is not news anymore.

According to the Journal of the American Heart Association, patients suffering from PAD (peripheral artery disease) can reap major benefits from eating chocolate. Apparently, chocolate can improve vascular health by increasing blood flow.
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Brownie Peanut Butter Bites

If you love brownies and peanut butter, this recipe will blow your hair back.

The idea is pretty simple. Just buy miniature chocolate covered peanut butter cups and you just press them into the brownie batter.

The brownie layer is fudgy and chewy, while the peanut butter layer is soft and dense. This will be a hit at any special occasions, weekend gatherings, and practically anytime you please! They will be gobbled up in a few minutes so make sure you whip up several batches.
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The History of Chocolate Bars

It’s been quite a while since the last time I shared some chocolate history. So here goes.

A form of solid chocolate came about in 1847, all credits to Joseph Fry & Sons. They came up with a way to mix cocoa butter to the defatted or "Dutched" cocoa powder and incorporated sugar that yielded a paste that’s moldable, then came the solid chocolate bar. They then displayed it for eating in Bingley Hall, Birmingham, England.
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White Chocolate Scones

You can pronounce scone in two ways, it’s either "Skon" or "Skoan". These treats are said to have its roots from Scotland and are closely related to the griddle baked flatbread called bannock. Initially, they were whipped up using oats, shaped into a large round, scored into four to six triangles, and then they are cooked on a griddle either over an open fire or on top of the stove.

How the term ‘scone’ was dubbed is as unclear as its precise origins. Some claim that the name can be traced back to where the Kings of Scotland were crowned, the Stone (Scone) of Destiny, while others say the name comes from the Dutch word "schoonbrood" ("schoon" stands for clean, while "brood" for bread), or from the German word "schonbrot", which means 'fine or beautiful bread'. And then there are those who claim it comes from the Gaelic 'sgonn', which is a shapeless mass or large mouthful.
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