Archive for the ‘sweets’ Category

Chocomize!

Chocomize—I love this idea!

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S’more Pie!

My sister Jen is arguably one of the best bakers in Dallas. I’m biased, but I’m also the boss of this blog so that ruling stands. We were really happy and excited when she agreed to do a guest post, mostly because we got to eat what she baked: S’mores Pie…

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M&Ms Get Desperate

This week the top ten American Idol finalists (including this season’s kinda dreamy winner, Lee Dewyze) performed in New York… inside of a giant pretzel M&M.

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Mast Brothers Chocolate

Hailing from Brooklyn, it’s the world’s prettiest bar of chocolate made by Mast Brothers Chocolate. Brothers Rick & Michael Mast personally handcraft the artisan chocolate in small batches using cacao sourced from family farms in Ecuador, Madagascar, and Venezuela.

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Summer Treat

Yesterday I read that the average pina colada has over 600 calories—and that’s a conservative estimate. So while I’m scratching that off the “Summer-Treats-Worth-The-Splurge” list, I’m adding a new one…

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Yoplait Light: A Careful Assessment

A quick contemplation on office food & yummy yogurt.

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Lunch @ NM Fashion Cafe

If you want to dine at The Zodiac downtown, you’ll to have to wait until January rolls around to get a reservation. However, that doesn’t mean you have to rule out a lovely lunch at Neiman Marcus. Across the street there’s the NM Fashion Cafe, which definitely deserves your consideration next time you’re downtown. I [...]

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Cupcakes @ Outta The Oven

Once upon a time there was a Celebrity Café in Las Colinas. It was pretty much ignored by me because on the three occasions I visited there, I was underwhelmed with a too-sweet cake, a dry cookie, and a sandwich that was just ok. Nothing there was bad per se, but nothing was worth coming [...]

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5 Flavors @ The Cupcakery

It’s Saturday and you know what that means? It means I get to do as I please! And when I said on Thursday that I was going to go to The Cupcakery on Saturday, I meant it! So I headed over there today after my bang trim with my guy Taury @ Pompeo. (He’s great [...]

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Macha Exotic Candy Bar From Vosges

Vosges Haut Chocolate Macha Green Tea Exotic Candy Bar

Chocolate + Macha Green Tea = ?

After the first Vosges chocolate bar I reviewed generated such dubious responses, I thought it would be nice to pick one of their less-controversial flavors to try. I decided to go with the Macha Exotic Candy Bar because well, you’ve already seen that I like mixing tea with all kinds of things. According to its official description, “grassy and bamboo undertones of Japanese macha green tea gently rise around deep milk chocolate.”

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