Author Archive: Jeffrey Kirk
Cookies and Cream Brownies Recipe
November 12, 2014
Here's a delicious brownie recipe with the Cookies and Cream theme. It actually uses chocolate sandwich cookies within the body of the brownie as well as sprinkled on top. They look good and taste great!
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Tootsie Twist, Swirl, Twirl?
June 26, 2013
This Tootsie® Roll snack combination needs a name. What do you think it should be? Tootsie Twist, Tootsie Swirl, Tootsie Twirl?
Watch this video for a fun, quick, easy, and yummy snack.
201 Fun Chocolate Facts
October 13, 2012
Well this is exciting. The staff here at Chocolate University Online has recently released an ebook exclusively for the Amazon Kindle. It's called 201 Fun Chocolate Facts.
If you previously downloaded our ebook 101 Things You Must Know About Chocolate you've seen some of the material that went into this new book.
We greatly expanded and enhanced the content while adding a chocolate trivia quiz at the end so that you have questions you can use to stump your friends.
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Burlington Chocolate Fest
May 25, 2012
The Burlington Chocolate Festival takes place Memorial Day weekend each year at the Chocolate Festival Grounds in Burlington, Wisconsin.
Chocolate Fest is a family-oriented community festival with something for everyone. But it's not just a big party. All money generated from the event goes back to a wide variety of community charities and civic groups. For over 25 years, this volunteer-run festival has raised money for over 65 local and national charities.
Typically, more than 35,000 people attend the annual festival, dedicated to the celebration of all things chocolate. Attendees experience a weekend of fun, games, rides, cooking demonstrations, and chocolate.
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Chocolate Margarita
June 8, 2011
Over the years I've seen several recipes for chocolate margaritas. I've made one version in the past. It was OK, though certainly not fantastic.
Here's a new chocolate margarita recipe that I just found on the Food Network website. Since Summer has finally shown up in Wisconsin I'm thinking this will be a special treat this evening. But I prefer blended Margaritas so I might try a variation on this.
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Chocolate Zombie Bunny
April 15, 2011
As we're coming up fast on Easter you may be thinking about all that Easter candy you'll need to put in baskets and hide around the house. Of course some of that candy is likely to chocolate bunnies. Your children will expect the annual chance to bite off the bunny ears.
Perhaps you already know that your son or daughter is crazy about Zombies and will attack a defenseless chocolate bunny by not just eating its ears first, but by going straight for its brains. Maybe it's time to play along and consider giving the bunny that fights back - a chocolate zombie bunny!
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Chocolate Price Drop?
April 8, 2011
Good news. With the former president of Ivory Coast negotiating an exit strategy with UN authorities, it appears that chocolate prices may be headed down.
Cacao shipments from Ivory Coast had dropped to near zero after the election conflict in late 2010. That's a problem since the country supplies about a third of the world's supply. Because of the reduced supply, prices have been on pretty much a constant increase.
Now that a surrender is being negotiated, cocoa futures prices dropped immediately to the lowest point in the last three months. This is based on the speculation that the 350,000 tons of cacao held in Ivory Coast port warehouses would be released while the European Union removes its trade embargo.
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Favorite Chocolate Cheesecake
April 6, 2011
I enjoy making cheesecakes. Over the years I have picked up a few good recipes. One of my favorites is a Garlic Cheesecake! As you can imagine, this is not for dessert. It's a good appetizer though.
Well, I'm not writing for Garlic University Online so I'm not going to give you the recipe for that cheesecake. Instead, I'm going to give you the recipe for one of my absolute favorite chocolate cheesecakes.
This is a substantial cheesecake with lots of chocolate impact. It's rich and dense. It takes time to make, but the results are really worth the effort.
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Chocolate Raspberry Mousse
March 23, 2011
You know how you get a favorite recipe and then over time you seem to forget about it as new things come along? Well this is one of those.
This chocolate raspberry mousse is easy to make and quite delicious, but it's probably been a couple years since I last made it.
Valentines Day Chocolate Car?
February 4, 2011
Bryn was feeling a little pinched for time so I decided to jump in and post something interesting for today.
Friday is typically a "chocolate in the news" day so I spent a little time scouring the internet for chocolate stories that would be worth repeating.
In the past, Bryn has made several posts about large chocolate sculptures. Well, today's feature only looks like chocolate, you can't really eat it. I'm sure you wouldn't want to. But it is still chocolate art!
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