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Filed under: Recipes, Candy, Slashfood Ate, Sugar, Halloween When I think of Halloween, I think about candied apples, candy corn, and chocolates. This holiday drives my sweet tooth crazy! One of my favorite activities during every holiday is discovering the many festive ways to celebrate using food. With all the candy you can want at your ...

If you’ve always wanted to learn how to work with chocolate, you’re in luck. Chuck Siegel of Charles Chocolates will be giving chocolate classes. Head into the Charles Chocolates factory kitchen to learn the basics of working with chocolate through an entirely hands-on, intensive class led by Siegel himself. Starting with the basics ...

Making great looking letters and numbers with candy has been a problem in the past, but not so any more. Here is a product called Letter Ice (and the numbers are called, appropriately, Number Ice). They are silicone letter and number molds. They are great for ice, jello, butter, chocolate, shortbread cookies, muffins, [...]

Filed under: Snacks, Dessert, Recipes, Candy, Spirit of Christmas, America, Sugar, Liquor CabinetI come from a long-line of Irish alcoholics. And although I myself hold my liquor like a ten-year-old, I have a special place in my heart for alcohol-flavored sweet things. Indeed, I have had a torrid love affair with the bourbon ball ever since my mom ...

Filed under: Dessert, Recipes, Candy, Baking, Raves & Reviews, Sugar I'm a big fan of recipes that combine at least four or more ingredients that they are decadent enough to begin with, but combined, create this magical, sugar coma-inducing masterpiece, much like the one you see above. They're the kind of treats that are so sugary, so ...

Filed under: Recipes, Candy, Holidays When I was a kid, I remember people saying the phrase ''oh, goody goody gumdrops.'' If I remember correctly, it was used sarcastically, when you had to do something you didn't want to do or you heard news you didn't want to hear, you'd said ''oh, goody goody gumdrops.'' It was even a song in the 1960s. I ...

Filed under: Chocolate, Recipes, Candy, Holidays It's February 14, and you know what that means. That's right, today's special day is National Creme-Filled Chocolate Day. OK, it's also something called Valentine's Day, but what's a better day for a candy holiday than Valentine's Day? (Answer: Halloween). Here's a recipe for Cream-Filled ...

Filed under: Dessert, Chocolate, Midwest Rural, Midwest Cities, Recipes, Candy, How To, Condiments, America, Comfort Food, Super Bowl XLII In case you haven't figured it out by now, I am a football fan. However, I have to admit that at least one third of my interest in football is not about the game. Sure, I can follow the game, thanks to four ...

Filed under: Dessert, Grains, Nuts/seeds, Recipes, Candy, Baking, How To, Spices, Sugar, Christmas We're a little behind on our a Cookie-a-Day, but we'll try to catch up before the end of the year. We have to! Starting on January 1, all of us will be forgoing cookies, candy, doughnuts, and cake, as per our New Year's Resolutions, ...

Filed under: Recipes, Candy, Sugar, Holidays, ChristmasFor the next two weeks I'm in Portland, Oregon, hanging out with my parents for the holidays. One of the first things I did when I got here was pull down my mom's old recipe notebook and start flipping through. She's had this collection of recipes since before I was born, although she ...