Category Archives: Chocolate History & News
Cheesecake Strawberry Launch Day set
We’ve set the date for the launch of our cheesecake stuffed chocolate covered strawberries:
When to temper?
One of the questions we get asked is when you need to temper and when you don’t. I’ve created the following table to help identify when chocolate needs to be tempered and when it does not.
Also posted in Chocolate How to, Recipes (all types)
Tagged bananas, brownies, cakes, Chocolate, chocolate covered strawberries, fondue, frosting, ganache, molds, pretzels, recipies, strawberries, tempering, tips, truffles, when to
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How to temper chocolate
Long before there were expensive tempering machines: people used to temper chocolate by hand, here is how I do it when I’m away from the equipment:
Also posted in Chocolate How to, Recipes (all types)
Tagged Chocolate, cocoa butter, dark chocolate, milk chocolate, recipes, tempering, white chocolate
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Prepping for a major new product.
Creating a new product takes a lot more than just coming up with the idea.
Tagged cheesecake, Chocolate, covered, new, products, strawberries, test.launch
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New Products
In the last few days we’ve added over 140 new products, one of the family of new products is our chocolate covered strawberry and truffle gift sets.
Tagged birthday, Chocolate, holiday, love, news, product, real chocolate, romance, strawberries, strawberry, truffle, truffles
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False chocolate advertising on Amazon.com?
Yep.. we found another instance of false advertising in the chocolate industry. What we found and how we found it:
How do you know if it’s real chocolate?
With so many companies fudging the truth in their advertising how do you know if they are using real chocolate or some vegetable oil based substitute?
Wrap party followup
Well now that the wrap party is over (and we’ve verified the name of the reality show from two separate external sources), we can say it was :
Patriotic Chocolate Covered Strawberries
One of the things I never thought about when I was coming up with the patterns/designs for this box is how else it would be used. Besides the obvious holidays, we actually get a lot of orders for returning service members. Yes I wrote member, not men, not women. We’ve had both men and women [...]
