Chocolate for All Occasions Easter is a time of year associated with chocolate eggs and gifts. The tradition of gift giving dates back to Pagan times when the Spring Equinox festival held every year celebrated new life and new beginnings. Types of celebrations held at Easter have since changed and developed but the exchanging of gifts at this time of year has remained a tradition. The way Easter is celebrated today is a...more
The Joys of Chocolate The Web Candy Shop is for sweet toothed and candy lovers. Anything that may indulge your sweet craving, you may find at their site from wholesale candy to wholesale chocolate, and wholesale gum. Opting for web based suppliers can save you a huge amount of money and time. Bulk candy, bulk gum, and bulk chocolate will be priced at discounted terms and will allow you to resell it leaving enough markups. With the...more
The History of Chocolates Chocolate is one of the world's favourite foodstuffs. Enjoyed as a drink, in cakes, in delicate assortments and solid bars, chocolate comes in a myriad of forms and its universal appeal has allowed the treat to spread to all corners of the globe. But despite often being associated with the countries of Northern and Central Europe - Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, France and Britain - chocolate has a long history and actually originates from much, much further afield. Unknown to Europeans until Spanish and Portuguese conquistadors arrived in Central and South America around the sixteenth century AD, chocolate had been of enormous cultural significance to the ancient civilisations of the New World for millennia. It played an important role in the religious rites of the Mayan and Aztec cultures of modern-day Mexico and, indeed, the modern English language word ‘chocolate' is believed to have derived from a Nahuatl - the language of the Aztecs - world ‘xocolatl', meaning ‘bitter water'. This term gives us a clue how chocolate was consumed at this time. Beans from the cocoa tree were roasted and ground into a paste before being mixed with...more
Sweeten the Memories of your Clients with Top Flavour Chocolates People just can't ignore the extensive influence of chocolates not only in children but adult too as everyone is found crazy about chocolates. Thus, capitalizing on this fact many business houses and entrepreneurs have come with cost-effective promotional strategies...more
Dark Chocolate Covered Pretzels Pretzels can be covered by a number of frosting or topping assortments. For example, nuts, jelly, nonpareils, icing, dried fruits, jelly, caramel and of course chocolate are frequently used to cover pretzels. Dark chocolate covered pretzels, however, are considered as specialties. Dark chocolate itself...more
About Sugarless Chocolate Chocolates can be of many types, flavors and variations but one thing that they all have in common is the sweet taste, yes, chocolate is sweet. They can be bittersweet like the dark chocolates, alluringly sweet like the assorted ones or anything in the between. Now, chocolates are made from cocoa plant and the pure chocolate extracted from the plant are not sweet, they are somewhat bitter in taste. To enhance the taste to raw chocolate, the inventors of chocolate from different centuries experimented with different recipes and came up with the idea to add sugar to make it sweet. Then in recent times, we discovered different problems and complications associated with sugar. For example, people with diabetes cannot process the main product of sugar, the sucrose. Sugar or sucrose can affect the processing of carbohydrate therefore people who are in a low carbohydrate diet cannot take them either. Sugar have a considerable amount of calorie, which are called as the "empty calories" by the nutrition specialists, that is, these calories are not very good for the body and they suggest that people who are trying to lose weight should avoid sugar as...more
Chocolate Museum Barcelona Barcelona offers its visitors the possibility of knowing much more about the cocoa temptation!Are you a sweet-toothed person? If so, the Chocolate Museum Barcelona - Museu de la Xocolata in Catalan - is the...more
Italian Amaretti Chocolate Cake Fragrant, easy-to-make Italian amaretti chocolate cake (torta facile amaretti e cioccolato) combines bittersweet almond and rich chocolate flavors.Great for every occasion.INGREDIENTS:200 g (7 oz)...more
A Dieter's Buddy - Sugarless Chocolate Bar A sugarless chocolate bar has come to be one of the foremost chosen snack foods of several individuals throughout the world. This became an impressive solution for slimming down, health...more
Chocolate Candy Molds - Should You Buy Them Wholesale? There are different kinds of candy supplies available out there. And candy supplies for hard candies, truffles or bonbons are widely available. But chocolates happen to be all time...more
Gift for Men-Try Chocolate Making Classes Everybody loves and indulge to chocolates. There is no doubt that chocolates makes us happy and gives us sweetness. However, if you are looking for gift for men, then try going to chocolate...more
Chocolate Chip Cookies – Short Recipe It is said that your favorite chocolate chip cookies were first discovered through a happy accident by Ruth Wakefield in the 1930s.Health Care tips Beauty Tips OnlineEasy Make MoneyWakefield...more