Portable cocoa…

December 18, 2011 by · 13 Comments
hot chocolate truffle

What I am about to say will be upsetting to some…I’m not really a chocolate gal. I mean I like it but it’s not my top pick. I would much rather have something vanilla or caramel flavored. If I’m eating Neapolitan ice cream I am eating the chocolate flavor last. But I do enjoy a good cup of hot chocolate; in fact it may be my favorite beverage of all time. A few years ago my friend gave me a little gift bag and in it was a single size serving of Stephens Candy Cane Cocoa. I fell in love with it right away before even drinking if for the cute happy bear smiling while drinking his cocoa on the package (see below). And when I made the cocoa, it was nothing but pure love. I love the fact that it is a milk chocolate cocoa and that it has real bits of candy cane throughout it. See the best cocoa for me is at Christmas time when I can have my cocoa with marshmallows and a candy cane to stir, so for a cocoa to combine that for me was awesome. The first year all I could find were the … [Read more...]

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Yes, more peppermint….

December 10, 2011 by · 7 Comments

Just a quick note as I rush off to my cookie exchange…which these cookies are for. Didn’t mean to bring up religion on here…and it really was meant, again like 99% of my blog to be something amusing. Though with the emails I got, it was pretty amusing. Especially from the Rick Perry supporters, those were the best emails. If any of the people who let me know I was mocking Christianity and called me basically a heathen actually read my blog you might actually catch on to the fact that I am hanging CHRISTmas decorations and what not, celebrate Easter, sensing a theme??? I don’t worry about the hate mail…Karma will get them. :P Like I said these were made this morning for my cookie exchange today…which if I don’t hurry up I will be late too. :) They were originally made with the regular Andes Mints Baking Chips but I thought that the Peppermint Crunch Chips were way more festive and the bright pinkish red color is more fun than the dark brown. They are essentially a butter … [Read more...]

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Way Back Wednesday: Chocolate Peppermint Stick Marshmallow Fantasy Cake…

July 13, 2011 by · 23 Comments

This week’s installment of Way Back Wednesday is a bittersweet one. It comes from what I made for my housewarming party back in 2007 when I was so excited to be moving into my new home. It ties in sort of with a readers question so I thought it seemed like a good choice: Is being single after marriage scary? What advice would you give to someone who is going through a divorce for how to get through it? Getting through it? Well, I am still getting through it so to speak. When I was first was going through it I pretty much thought I was crazy. I would be happy and content thinking yes clearly this was the way to go, and literally an hour later bawling my eyes out freaking out. But with time that passes. I still randomly cry if I run across something but it helps that my ex and I still talk and see each other from time to time. There was no, I will never see this person again in my life. I think people feel like when they get divorced or they break up (especially if they are … [Read more...]

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