Share Your Sweets!
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We have a place here called the chocolate bar; I contemplated going today, but so far I have restrained myself...0
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From this weekend chocolate cappuccino cake
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Two kids finished it in 8 minutes. Saved one slice for me tomorrow. Banana bread.0 -
GiveMeCoffee wrote: »From this weekend chocolate cappuccino cake
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Oh my gosh guys everything looks great! As I said in other thread, I've been in Rome for work, even on Valentine's Day! Most of the meals were at the hotel and were average at best. They had amazing looking desserts but nothing was really fantastic tasting, it was kind of disappointing. I didn't take a lot of food pics because I'm pretty sure I would have gotten strange looks from work colleagues. Here were some of the non gelato items I recall:
Brownie, cookies, and Nutella with biscotti on the flight over which were actually some of the best airplane food I had!
Croissant with crema inside when I landed in Rome before we hit the Vatican.
Daily assorted pastries at breakfast were quite average.
Something that translates to "nut cream cake" with chocolate shavings that was pretty tasty, and insert immature 12 year old boy joke here...
Cannoli and cookies every day during coffee breaks, most were decent.
Ricotta cheesecake with dark cherry sauce was the best hotel dessert of the trip.
A lot of Cappucinos, Peronis, and Wine. So much wine...0 -
I ate it too fast to take a picture, but I just had one of these; co-worker's daughter had cupcakes delivered to her for her birthday.
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Cannoli cake! It was really good.
I also volunteered to finish my son's cannoli, but no picture.0 -
So my mom is here to visit and she brought me too much stuff... 4 boxes of these (half dark, half milk... 200 calories a pop)
4 bags of these
4 of these
2 bags of these
A box of these
I don't know how I'm going to resist all this. I sure didn't today.0 -
I went to the Lunar Festival today at Discovery Green! We weren't there as long as I would have liked but it was a pain for my sister to push the wheelchair with the dog we're watching for the weekend connected to it.
I had a big ol' turkey leg and this pretty little cupcake.
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We hosted a party last night and a friend brought this amazing chocolate peanut butter bark. She said it was the easiest thing ever to make.
Three ingredients: dark chocolate chips, peanut butter chips, mini Reese's cups.
Step one. Melt the dark ones in the microwave and pour on a wax sheet. Then melt the peanut butter ones and use a toothpick to swirl in. Top with Reese's.
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spacequiztime wrote: »I went to the Lunar Festival today at Discovery Green! We weren't there as long as I would have liked but it was a pain for my sister to push the wheelchair with the dog we're watching for the weekend connected to it.
I had a big ol' turkey leg and this pretty little cupcake.
Wait, are you in Houston, or are there lots of discovery greens?0 -
So I decided to try out fondant this morning. I'm not sure why but I decided to do a red panda. He turned out kinda big for cupcakes but I think it went well overall.
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I want that chocolate peanut bark!
The panda is cute! Seriously impressed my attempts with fondant have been pretty scary.0 -
GiveMeCoffee wrote: »I want that chocolate peanut bark!
The panda is cute! Seriously impressed my attempts with fondant have been pretty scary.
To be fair, I minored in ceramics. It just took a few small adjustments to manage with fondant-- it's harder than clay for sure. Much easier to get clay to stick to itself and to smooth out any imperfections.0 -
Oh wow the panda is awesome!
And that bark looks amazing.0 -
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Amber the panda is amazing!0
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That panda is super cute!0
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Great job on the panda so adorable.0
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I freaking love that Panda. So cute.ILiftHeavyAcrylics wrote: »So I decided to try out fondant this morning. I'm not sure why but I decided to do a red panda. He turned out kinda big for cupcakes but I think it went well overall.
That is freaking adorable!
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Some talk in the "Let's Discuss It All" thread sent my on a walk downtown to a local ice cream store looking for cinnamon ice cream (which I haven't had in forever). No luck; on the way back I decided to pop into Trader Joe's for some sort of treat for my valentine -- anybody had one of these?
I was told that it has Pop Rocks in it, and indeed the label indicates that in addition to a little bit of chipotle and pasilla chilis and some cayenne, there is indeed "popping candy" in the bar. I will have to convince my wife to share a little bit with me.
So, turns out my wife also got me this very same bar. We were enjoying a long weekend with lots of good food and wine over the Valentine's weekend and really only had the tiniest taste of the chocolate which I don't really remember or at least don't trust my impressions (did I mention there was an interesting tequila bar in town and that was usually after some wine tasting earlier in the day?).
Had a few bits tonight -- our first impressions last weekend were "surprisingly spicy; not great chocolate; and an initial sparkle from the pop rocks that passed quickly"; my impression tonight was actually pretty consistent -- not impressed with the chocolate (waxy and less flavor than I'd like); really lingering spicy flavor (and I loooove spicy but this was a bit overpowering to other flavors, though maybe by design given the quality of the chocolate), and not much on the pop rock sparkle. Glad I tried it, and it won't go to waste, but not worth your calories compared to other options, IMHO.
Edit: Forgot to add - nice red panda, Acrylics!0 -
Some talk in the "Let's Discuss It All" thread sent my on a walk downtown to a local ice cream store looking for cinnamon ice cream (which I haven't had in forever). No luck; on the way back I decided to pop into Trader Joe's for some sort of treat for my valentine -- anybody had one of these?
I was told that it has Pop Rocks in it, and indeed the label indicates that in addition to a little bit of chipotle and pasilla chilis and some cayenne, there is indeed "popping candy" in the bar. I will have to convince my wife to share a little bit with me.
So, turns out my wife also got me this very same bar. We were enjoying a long weekend with lots of good food and wine over the Valentine's weekend and really only had the tiniest taste of the chocolate which I don't really remember or at least don't trust my impressions (did I mention there was an interesting tequila bar in town and that was usually after some wine tasting earlier in the day?).
Had a few bits tonight -- our first impressions last weekend were "surprisingly spicy; not great chocolate; and an initial sparkle from the pop rocks that passed quickly"; my impression tonight was actually pretty consistent -- not impressed with the chocolate (waxy and less flavor than I'd like); really lingering spicy flavor (and I loooove spicy but this was a bit overpowering to other flavors, though maybe by design given the quality of the chocolate), and not much on the pop rock sparkle. Glad I tried it, and it won't go to waste, but not worth your calories compared to other options, IMHO.
Edit: Forgot to add - nice red panda, Acrylics!
What I got from this is that you and your wife are soul mates. :laugh:
Sorry it was disappointing though. I hate that.0 -
I'd never tried Trader Joe's Speculoos Cookie Butter, but grabbed a tub of (new?) cookie butter cups in dark chocolate. Like little peanut butter cups, about the size of a rolo candy. Tasty! I will come down definitively on the "yes" side of cookie butter.0
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I'd never tried Trader Joe's Speculoos Cookie Butter, but grabbed a tub of (new?) cookie butter cups in dark chocolate. Like little peanut butter cups, about the size of a rolo candy. Tasty! I will come down definitively on the "yes" side of cookie butter.
Oh I had one of those a few months ago-- it was very good. Unfortunately tiny for the calories, but very good.0 -
Breakfast this morning. I had the cannoli donut (bottom left) and the black raspberry jam one. Tasty, but my favorite is still Boston Cream (middle).
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ILiftHeavyAcrylics wrote: »I'd never tried Trader Joe's Speculoos Cookie Butter, but grabbed a tub of (new?) cookie butter cups in dark chocolate. Like little peanut butter cups, about the size of a rolo candy. Tasty! I will come down definitively on the "yes" side of cookie butter.
Oh I had one of those a few months ago-- it was very good. Unfortunately tiny for the calories, but very good.
Yes - 60 cals in one little cup! And I found out my wife is not a huge fan of cookie butter so I may be on my own with this little box or - heaven forbid - have to share some with the kids.
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