Blog Candy Giveaway!!
I finally finished assembling the blog candy for the giveaway!! I am so excited!! Thank you so much for all your support you girls are awesome!! To be entered in the draw all you have to do is leave a comment on this post telling me what your favorite chocolate recipe or chocolate treat is! I will draw a name on Saturday night 8 pm (pst).
I would be more then thrilled if you wanted to post this on your own blogs! Goodies include TLC Autumn Page Elements, Hero Art Note Cards, Chipboard Alphabet, Metal Rimmed Tags, Ribbon Charms, Beads, Metal Embellishments, Provo Craft Tag brads, Organza Bags, and if you haven't tried this it is the best cream for dry hands especially in the winter Dream Cream!
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posted by Kelly at 3:40 PM
68 Comments:
Ohhhh yumm! Your blog candy look delicious! My favorite chocolate recipe at the moment is the Best Ever Chocolate Brownie Cake recipe on my blog.
I have 2 favorite chocolate treats that I'm actually able to eat in moderation.
1) My home made chocolate cake with home made raspberry jam filling and home made chocolate frosting.
2) Green & Black's Organic Dark 70% I have aquired a taste for really good chocolate!! :o)
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my favorite chocolate treat is Caramel Shortbread Squares
Makes 1 9x9 inch pan
2/3 cup butter, softened
1/4 cup white sugar
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
2 tablespoons light corn syrup
1/2 cup sweetened condensed milk
1 1/4 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
Directions:
1 Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 C).
2 In a medium bowl, mix together 2/3 cup butter, 1/4 cup white sugar, and 1 1/4 cup flour until evenly crumbly. Press into 9" square baking pan. Bake for 20 minutes.
3 In a 2 quart saucepan, combine 1/2 cup butter, brown sugar, corn syrup, and sweetened condensed milk. Bring to a boil. Continue to boil for 5 minutes. Remove from heat and beat vigorously with a wooden spoon for about 3 minutes. Pour over baked crust (warm or cool). Cool until it begins to firm.
4 Melt chocolate and pour over caramel layer. Cover the layer completely. Chill. Cut into squares-doesn't get much better!
great blog!
I LOVE chocolate too! It's one of my escapes . . . stamping being another one! They combine very well! LOL I love turtles . . . the candy, not the reptile!
However, I thought it would be fun to share a recipe, so here is something I was craving yesterday!
Grandma's Hot Fudge Sauce
1/2 cup margarine
2 squares choc. or 2 Tbl cocoa
2 cups sugar
1 can evaporated milk
1 tsp vanilla
Melt margarine, add chocolate and melt. Add remaining ingredients. Cook over medium to low heat for about eight minutes. Add vanilla. Serve with your favourite ice cream!
I have great memories of my Grandma bringing this whenever we made homemade ice cream!
Thanks for the chance to enter your give-away!
DeAnna
Your blog is wonderful! I am from Vernon originally so it's cool to read to your blog!! A taste of home!
Ok, my favorite chocolate recipe is:
1 bag chocolate chips
1 bag butterscotch chips
1 cup salted peanuts
4 cups chow mein noodles ( the big thick ones that come in the bag)
Melt chocolate and butterscotch chips together, take off heat and add peanuts and noodles. Drop from spoon on cookie sheet, and put in freezer. When they are hard put in container and keep either in fridge or freezer.
These are so yummy!!!
Thanks for having a contest!!
:)
Kim
Looks like we have a lot of Choc. lovers out there. I am a Chocaholic! LOL, so your blog on the chocolate really made my mouth water.
My favorite choc is Doves Deep Dark Chocolate. It is to die for! Anyone has a recipe for that I would love ya forever and ever amen.
Kelly - this looks like a FABULOUS RAK!!!
My favourite chocolate anything is COFFEE CRISP choc. bars....but the recipe below is a close second:
Triple Chocolate Cake
¼ cup oil
1¼-cup water
2 eggs
1 chocolate cake mix
1 small package chocolate instant pudding
1 6 oz. package chocolate chips
Pour oil into 9 x 13 cake pan & swirl around to grease the pan.
Then add the rest of the ingredients right into the pan & stir until moist.
Bake at 350 degrees for 40 minutes.
Dust with powdered sugar when cooled.
WOW! That's quite the Candy!!!
My favourite chocolate treat... that's hard... if it has chocolate, I love it LOL!
But here's a favourite recipe of mine...
No Bake Cookies
2 cups sugar
5 tablespoons cocoa
1/2 cup milk
2 1/2 cups rolled oats
1 cup flaked coconut
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
pinch salt
1/2 cup butter
1. In a medium saucepan, bring the sugar, cocoa, milk and butter to a full boil
2. Remove from heat and stir in remaining ingredients
3. Drop quickly onto waxed paper and cool
Hi Kelly,
I love love love your site. I also loved the video of your house at christmas. What a beautiful view you have. Anyway, my favorite chocolate treat is Reese Peanut Butter Cups. You can't get much better that that.
Thanks for a chance to win!
Heather B
Hi Kelly,
I've never left a comment here before but I check your blog everyday to see what you are up to. The past 2 weeks I've had a craving for DOVE (dark) chocolate hearts and I have a bag right beside my computer-where I spend most of my time!
Thanks for sharing your talent,
Erica
Hi Kelly! This is my first visit to your blog- I'll be back!
One of my favorite chocolate treats is Ritters chocolate covered marzipan. I'm a choclolate lover so, almost any chocolate is my fave!
Toni
Hi Kelly My fav if belgium chocolate dipped strawberries just the tips
Oh yippee...candy! Thank you!!!
My fave chocolate treat would have to be the delightful homemade chocolate sauce at the Outback restaurant! Almost everytime we go there, I just *gotta* get a little to-go container of the stuff. Delish heated and over ice cream. But still yummo cold and straight from the container!! hehe
Oh my gosh! That is some amazing blog candy! One of my favorite chocolates is the No Bake Cookies which has already been mentioned! Great chocolate lovers think alike.........
Thanks Kelly for such a great blog! Ever since I found it, I have been coming by to check it. Now, for my favourite chocolate... I love chocolate covered peanut butter balls...and so do my kids.
Here is the recipe, it is so quick and easy!
Peanut Butter Balls
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1 cup peanut butter (smooth or crunchy)
1 cup icing sugar
1 cup rice krispies
3 squares semi sweet chocolate (or chocolate chips work too)
1 square of paraffin wax
Mix PB, Sugar, and rice krispies together. Form into balls. Melt the chocolate and wax together, dip balls one at a time in melted chocolate, put on cookie sheet lined with wax paper and put in the fridge to set.
These are perfect size for snacking! Enjoy
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My favorite chocolate recipe is Grand Marnier Cheesecake - a base of chocolate oreo crumbs with some cinnamon mixed in, a layer of chocolate batter, a layer of white batter with orange zest and Grand Marnier, topped off with a glaze of 2tbsp Grand Marnier, 2 tbsp butter, and 2 oz chocolate, then decorated with mandarin orange segments. If you want the rest of the recipe, email me through CST.
Doris
Hi Kelly, lately my favourite chocolate treat is Lava Cakes. I buy them frozen and pop them in the oven. They are so good..but can't have them too often..cause they are so rich.
I just subcribed to your great! blog last weekend and I am totally enjoying it..Thanks for the great inspirations!
I'd have to say my favorite chocolates are Ferro Rocher & Turtles. In Feb 2004, I received a box for Valentine's day ... at 9 months pregnant, I ate the entire box in one sitting!
I love Chocolate covered cherries. I all I remeber growing up is my dad always eating them so my mom decided to make her own. They were the best :)
Tanya
I am an absolute chocolate fanatic! At Christmas time, I love Mint Hershey Kisses. I can absolutely eat a whole bag watching a movie. Now I try to leave them in the kitchen so I have to walk to the kitchen to get more ;o) I can only find them at Christmas so I suppose that is a good thing!
A favorite recipe of mine is:
Chocolate Delight
Crust: 1/2 cup butter, melted
1 cup flour
3/4 cup nuts, finely chopped
Preheat oven to 350. Grease 13x9 inch baking dish. Mix ingredients together. Press into the baking dish. Bake 10-15 minutes. Remove from oven and cool.
Filling: 1 cup powdered sugar
8 ounces cream cheese, softened
12 ounces Cool Whip
2 - 4 1/2 ounce packages instant chocolate pudding
3 cup milk
1/4 cup chopped nuts
Mix cream cheese, powdered sugar and half of the Cool Whip together. Pour over cooled crust. Make up pudding with milk and pour over cream cheese mixture. Put remaining Cool Whip on top of pudding and sprinkle nuts on top over Cool Whip.
It is delish!
Love your blog! Keep up the beautiful work!
Jennie H.
My favorite chocolate is anything from Callebaut's!! To die for!
Great blog candy and I love your article that's all about chocolate! Every chocolate lover should have that on the wall!
Debra
Great blog and love that blog candy. My favorite chocolate recipe has already been listed for the no bake cookies. But my favorite chocolate bar would be Burnt Almond.
Oh no...somebody already posted my recipe for chocolate cake (well, not mine...but the one I make almost everytime I need a dessert for company)! Hmm...that shouldn't stop me. My husband liked the fudge I made for him this year which was right out of the Kraft What's Cooking magazine: http://www.kraftcanada.com/EN/Recipes/RecipeTemplate?recipe_id=97924
In fact, such I am such a good wife, I will make it for him today!
Love your blog, Love chocolate. This is my favorite chocolate recipe altho it may not fit your idea...but it's been my favorite since I was a teen.
Take one regular size Hershey Bar (only Hershey), one bowl Lay's Potato Chips, and large glass cold milk. Eat alternately and have a great night of sleep.
Susan in Ohio
My favorite chocolate treat is a no bake cookie. I could eat the entire recipe--well maybe I would save a few for my hubby!!! This is an awesome giveaway. Thank you. But I feel that every post you make to your blog is a giveaway as it is a gift to all of us. Thank you for your time.
Cheryl Sims
My favorite chocolate recipe is chocolate chip cookies...based on the NESTLE TOLLHOUSE recipe:
MIX:
1 cup butter flavored Crisco
3/4 c. sugar
3/4 c. brown sugar
2 eggs
2 tsp. water
1 tsp. vanilla
Add:
2 c. flour
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. baking powder
Thow in a ton of chocolate chips...
Bake 370 for 9 mins...eat as soon as they come out of the oven. You know they will be stale the next day! Fresh is best!! Of course, you have to make these every 4 or 5 days too!
Dawn
TFS this awesome giveaway. My favorite chocolate treat is Terry's dark chocolate orange and my favorite recipe is old fashioned chocolate chip oatmeals cookies, a recipe from my great grandmother :)
Great blog.
My favourite chocolate recipe has to come from the Death by Chocolate cookbook by Marcel Desaulniers. Also any recipe from the book. I have adapted a few of them buy one of the layered cakes with a nut or mousse filling and then covered in ganache is to die for.
My favorite is to dip fruit in chocolate. You get the benefit of the fruit and it cancels out the chocolate. lol rofl
My favorite chocolate craving currently is the carmel chocolate kisses by Hersey - so yum yum while you are stamping and no messy fingers LOL
Your Blog Candy looks awesome.
I am a real Chocolate Addict so it is hard to choose just one favorite.
I would have to say Death by Chocolate cake. This is what my husband and I shared during our 1st date.
Your blog candy looks absolutely FABULOUS!! My all-time favorite chocolate is still chocolate covered strawberries. You can go to SAM'S Club and buy enormous strawberries right now. Bring them home, wash them up. All you need to do is purchase Choco-Dip. You throw it in the microwave for about 1 minute. Dip your strawberries in them and set them on wax paper until set. You have such a suculent desert for your and your husband or significant other to share. Or you can keep them all to yourself. There is nothing better than the taste of chocoloate with sweet strawberries!! YUM YUM YUM
I love Almond Rocca... or anything chocolatey for that fact. Baskin Robbins makes chocolate mousse royale ice cream. YUM... Janet :)
OMG! that's easy...I love Lindt chocolate and another type of Belgium chocolate. Who doesn't like chocolate?? :)
Diana
Kelly,
I am going to sound really boring, but my favorite chocolate treat is a king size Hershey bar. Yummy, yummy!
I must say that chocolate is better than almost anything. My honey is still best!!!!
Shelley
My favorite chocolate treat is the Cherry Cordial Hershey's Kisses! Whenever I found them in the stores at Christmas I stocked up and should have enough to last until next year.
Love your blog, btw!
Kelly, I love your blog and look fwd to it every day. Wonderful job...keep up the great work! Now, for the blog *chocolate*wink* my fav treat would be Reeces Pieces!!mmmmmmm
~Lana~
Hi Kelly! What a great giveaway. I don't bake, so I would have to say my favorite "Chocolate Treat" is warm chocolate chip cookies or brownies right out of the oven with a glass of milk....YUM!!!! Hope you have a great weekend.
My favourite easiest recipe is Tiger Butter. I'm more a white choc. fan.
It's super easy, melt 1 lb. wh. choc. mix with about 1 cup pb. spread on a wax paper. Melt a couple ounces dr. choc. and drizzle and swirl on the white, making it look all stripy. Cool. Break into pieces, eating small, ugly pieces while you do it. Freezes well too, if there is any left. Did I mention I do it in the microwave?
My favorite chocolate recipe would be my mom's chocolate Texas sheet cake. It is made with buttermilk in a jellyroll pan. Soooo good! Especially with milk!
Gail
I make the bestest of best Bailey's Irish Cream fudge. It has a total of 3 bags of chips - 2 milk chocolate and one semi sweet. It is sooooo yummy.
Jackie
wackiewavis
What a treat! But it doesn't include chocolate? LOL! My favorite chocolate indulgence would be a treat a "DEATH BY CHOCOLATE". Just thinking of it makes lick my lips!
wow....my fav. chocolate is chocolate haupia(coconut)pie....YUMM-O....
SORRY...I'M LIANN (ALOHANO)
I love Purdys Dark chocolate Marzipan sticks I'm on a diet right now, but would do anything to have one.
What a fun blog, glad I found you!!! I guess my favorite choc. treat is Doves Chocolate candy! Especially the milk choc. with caramel inside.....ahhhhh, just the thought of it!!!!
Thanks and have a wonderful weekend!
Liz K
Wow!! Your blog candy looks awesome!!
One of my favorites is this one:
White Chocolate Mix
*Golden Grahams Cereal
*Cranraisins
*Any mixure of nuts - I like to use the no name trail mix(peanuts, pine nuts, cashews, raisins, ets) from Superstore as it does not have any salt in it, but you can use whatever mixture you like
*White Chocolate - again I like to use the bulk chunks from Superstore as it is pretty cheap
*mix the first three together...melt the chocolate in the microwave and pour it over the mixture...mix it all together until it is covered completely...place it onto a baking sheet and place it into the freezer to let it set...crumble and put into a serving dish or place it into a freezer safe container and save it for a later date(ya right!!)
***Warning: it is highly addictive***
My Oh My! Just reading these comments makes me want some CHOCOLATE!!!!!!
One of my favorite recipes is so easy:
Chocolate Crinkle Cookies
1 box Chocolate cake mix (with pudding or extra moist)
1 egg
2 C. Cool Whip
Powdered Sugar
Preheat oven to 350. Mix cake mix, egg & Cool Whip. Spray the palm of your hand with Pam Cooking Spray. Take a heaping teaspoon of dough, place in your hand & roll into a ball; then roll in powdered sugar. Place on cookie sheet sprayed with Pam & bake 8-10 minutes. The bottom should be lightly browned & the cookie still soft. When cool they will be chewy. (A good recipe for kids to make!)
Wow...love your blog and I love chocolate...all kinds of chocolate but one of my favorites is chocolate covered pretzels. Keep up the beautiful work!!! TFS
Cindy Coffman
Wow... I'm dying for chocolate now! My favorite chocolate treat is chocolate candy of any shape or form.... Milky Way, Three Muskateers, Doves - oh gosh Doves are the best, Snickers, M&M's, etc.... you get the idea. I guess I'm one for instant gratification :-)
Fun contest... Thanks Kelly for doing this!
Hugs,
Renee
I am watching my weight, so I have been having the new Hershey's sticks. I love the mint one and they are only 60 calories each. They come in a pack of 9, so they last a long time.
Ahhhhhhhh, chocolate--a woman's best friend. Hard to choose a favorite, porbably Hershey's Skor candy bars.
Lois H
Ohhhhh, chocolate, yes, my favorite food group :) My favorite chocolate bar has to be a Wunderbar . . . or a Crunchie bar . . . or, heck, I pretty much like them all hummmmmm . . .
Cathy A.
It would be hard to only pick one favorite. I haven't tasted anything with chocolate in it that I have not liked. Here is a special brownie recipe that is soooo good you will be making batch after batch for family and friends.
The secret is in the hammer action BG!!
Nettie's Best Brownie Ever Recipe
1 cup butter
2 cups sugar
2 teaspoon vanilla
4 eggs slightly beaten
1/2 cup cocoa unsweetened
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup flour
1- 8 oz . semi-sweet chocolate (coarsely ground)*
1 cup nuts optional
Heat oven to 350...butter a 9x13 pan. In med saucepan over low heat,melt sugar and butter. Add vanilla and eggs, Blend well. Mix dry ingredients together...slowly add to above mixing well after each addition.Add chocolate mix till just melted. Pour into prepared pan bake for 30 to 40 min or until set. cool pop out of tray and cut
I place squares in a ziploc making sure they lie flat...and on flat surface pound with a hammer.careful to make sure to keep hammer flat so it doesn't puncture bag
Also, its best to use a throw away pan, chill them in the freezer for a bit ,pop them out and cut them.
kelly,
i just found your blog!! you've left several comments on mine--thanks! wow--my favorite chocolate treat? what could be harder to choose? i can't eat a lot of chocolate because i can "overdose" and get a terrible migraine. however, when i just need a "fix", my old standby is a fresh piece of plain old duncan hines box devil's food cake with chocolate icing! you are making me think i need to make one right now!!
My favorite chocolate recipe....
CHOCOLATE BALLS!!!!!
2 cups white sugar
1/2 cup butter or marg.
1/2 cup milk.....
BRING TO BOIL
3 cups oatmeal
1 cup long coconut
6 tablespoons cocoa or 1 square unsweeted chocolate
mix all together add syrup from above, blend thoroughly. Drop by spoon on wax paper or cookie sheets. LET COOL if you can...LOL ENJOY ENJOY ENJOY!!!!
This was a receipe my grandmother used, most of you have probably got a rececipe similar to this but if not try this it's SOOOOOOOO GOOD.
I've actually got 2 favourite chocolate recipes. The first one is easy-peasy!
Chocalote Bark
Melt a bag of chocolate chipits.
Add some stuff to it - like crushed up candy cane or walnuts or pecans.
Then pour it onto wax paper lined cookie sheet.
Put it in the fridge to cool and then break it up and eat it!
The second one is a little more work but it's a CROWD pleaser - great for family picnics or soccer and baseball wrap up parties.
Texas Sheet Cake
Sift:
2 cups flour
2 cups sugar
1/2 tsp salt
Bring to a boil, then add cocoa:
1 cup water
2 sticks butter
4 tbsp Fry's cocoa powder
Beat in small bowl:
2 eggs
1 tsp Baking Soda
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup milk
1 tbsp vinegar
Combine (when butter mixture coolish) and pour into deep greased cookie sheet. Bake at 400 for 20 min.
Icing:
1 stick butter
6 tbsp milk
3 cups icing sugar
1 tbsp vanilla
1/2 cup chopped pecans (I use a little more)
4 tbsp Fry's cocoa (I use a little more)
Boil the butter and milk, then add cocoa. Remove from heat and add the rest. Pour over cake. ENJOY!
Kelly I just noticed that you are in BC. I am too and recently heard of a Belgian chocolatier in Abbotsford named Wim Tas. You really should check out his website http://chocolatas.com/
He's got a ladies shoe made out of chocolate for Valentine's!
Apparently it is REAL HIGH GRADE chocolate made without preservatives. He's very picky about where he sells it since it needs to be kept in a chocolate COOLER or it will spoil (do you have a chocolate cooler in your home?). The only retail place that sells it is Family Gourmet in the Royal Centre downtown.
How about that for chocolate snobbery!
I love your blog! So much inspiration!!
My favorite chocolate recipes are ... my mother's "$100 Chocolate Cake" with my grandmother's "Chocolate Filling" that she developed in ... 1921!!
My next favorite chocolate recipes are .... EVERYTHING ELSE MADE WITH/FOR CHOCOLATE!!!
My name is Karen and I'm a CHOCOLATEHOLIC!!!
Hi Again! I just found out that Chocolatas will be at Granville Market for anyone in the downtown Vancouver area that wants to check it out.
Granville Island - Public Market
9:00 am - 7:00 pm
February
Friday 2nd, Saturday 3rd and Sunday 4th of February.
Friday 9th until Wednesday 14th of February.
March
Friday 2nd, Saturday 3rd and Sunday 4th of March.
Friday 16th, Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th of March.
I'm going to try see some and see what all the fuss is about!
My favorite chocolate is the Hershey Symphony with almonds and toffee.
Wow! Look at that blog candy! I've enjoyed reading all of the yummy chocolate recipes from your readers .... they all sound soooo delish! I love anything chocolate however my favorite chocolate treat is truffles ....any kind!!!!! Just love them.
How creative you are and what a great collection of 'blog candy'!!
I love anything and everything made with chocolate!! My favorite chocolate as of today is Ghirardella Dark Chocolate with Mint filling chocolate squares! Wonderful!!!!
Lynda
Hi Kelly, I really am enjoying your blog and your DH's. My all time favorite dessert is Saucy Fudge pudding. Just saying the name makes my mouth water. It is a homeade cake with the sauce on the bottom. Add some icecream when it is hot and away we go!!! Thaks for all the information!
Denise Bennett
My favorite chocolate recipe is Jamaica Banana Bars. SO chocolaty and SO good! You have a very nice blog, I'm enjoying your posts!
My favorite chocolate is orange milk chocolate but I sure wouldn't turn up my nose at any milk chocolate tho. I quit baking because hubby is a diabetic and has a sweet tooth bigger than a house so it is better not to have it around. Love your blog. Great recipes being posted too.
My favourite chocolate recipe is...wait have to pick a favourite? That's like trying to pick a favourite child! All right if I must...It's called the "texas brownie." It's a combination of a sheet cake and brownie. Really simple make and serves a large number!
Thanks for the offer of blog candy!
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