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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 ...

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: Dessert, Candy, On the Blogs, Sugar I have always been a sucker for butterscotch. When I was a kid, I would always choose one of those hard, orange butterscotch candies over a piece of chocolate. One those rare occasions when my family went out for ice cream sundaes, I would choose vanilla ice cream with hot butterscotch syrup ...

Filed under: Candy, Newspapers, Sugar I always thought there was such a thing as a sweet tooth. You know, that love of the taste of sugary foods. Most of us have probably heard about that tooth from the very beginning. Some scientists are working on changing that perception, though. They've been researching this topic, and they think that people ...

Filed under: Dessert, Chocolate, Candy, Baking, On the Blogs, Sugar, Slashfood TalksA former Slashfoodie herself, Nicole is the extraordinary baker behind Baking Bites -- a recipe blog for anyone with flour on their sleeves and a taste for the divine. She stepped away from the kitchen (actually, the horse stable) to chat with us a bit about life ...

Filed under: East Coast, Grains, Vegetables, Candy, America, Sugar, Super Bowl XLII Desserts are the least of your worries if you're entertaining for the Super Bowl. Let's face it, most of your guests will be focused first on the game, and second on whatever meaty, cheesy foods you've put out. Just keep desserts to the simple stuff, like caramel ...

Filed under: Dessert, Dairy, Chocolate, Fruit, Candy, Rum, How To, America, Spirits, Sugar, Christmas If you're heading out on the town for New Year's Eve, well go ahead, get dolled up and ignore this post. This one is for those of us who will be doing the razzling and dazzling at home (in the kitchen, of course). All you need is a little ...

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 ...