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dark chocolate bark

Dark Chocolate Bark With Peanut Butter

Thanksgiving is almost here! Are your treats ready? If you are looking for a quick and easy treat this holiday season, then this recipe is for you! This dark chocolate bark is very easy to make and you only need 3 ingredients. What’s perfect is you can choose the type of ingredients that you want and make it sugar free. Healthy and easy!

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Pumpkin Spice White Hot Chocolate

Homemade Pumpkin Spice White Hot Chocolate

It’s pumpkin season and as temperatures drop this time of year, it’s definitely time for a pumpkin spice white hot chocolate. Since we’ve shared a couple of recipes for a hot chocolate drink using dark chocolate already, I couldn’t wait to try using white chocolate this time and spice it up to taste just like pumpkin pie!

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Chocolate Turkey Thanksgiving Pretzels

Chocolate Turkey Thanksgiving Pretzels

Having turkey in Thanksgiving is always a good idea. And these cute chocolate turkey Thanksgiving pretzels will surely make both the kids and kids at heart fall in love. Not only are they fun to make, they also require less time to prepare!

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Chocolate Pumpkin Pie

Pumpkin pie is described as a traditional sweet dessert, usually served during the fall and early winter, particularly for Thanksgiving and Christmas in America and Canada. The pumpkin symbolizes harvest time and also has a starring role at Halloween.

A lot of people swear by pumpkin pie. When they think of a certain pie, they get pumpkin pie off the top of their heads. Many variations have been done with pumpkin pie, be it the filling or the crust. Ginger snap or vanilla wafers can be worked into the recipe, and in this case chocolate!

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Giving Thanks

By the time American Pilgrims celebrated their first Thanksgiving, cacao was largely unknown outside of Meso-America.  The unfortunate side-effect of this timing is that chocolate would not have been present at that original Thanksgiving dinner.  thanksgiving meal - no chocolateTherefore, it's not part of the American traditional Thanksgiving meal. 🙁

Well, I guess it doesn't really matter.  In the grand scheme, today is a day to stop and give thanks for the many blessings we have received.  Chocolate is still one of those blessings.  And so are you! 
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Chocolate Pecan Pie

Wow, it's November already.  As we're beginning the approach on the upcoming holiday season it's time to start thinking about great holiday recipes to share with guests.

Pecan pie is one of those desserts that is popularly served at Thanksgiving and Christmas meals.  It is also considered a specialty of Southern U.S. cuisine. 

Pecan pie is typically made of corn syrup and pecan nuts, but you're on my website and that means you expect chocolate.  So here's a chocolate pecan pie recipe for you to enjoy.  And, this one is quite simple to make.
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