Making the world a little sweeter one pastry tip at at time.
Luo Han Guo – Monk fruitSource: Wikimedia Commons through a creative commons license. Monk fruit, or ‘luo han guo’ is up to 100 to 300 times sweeter than sugar. It is well known and used in China, and has been used as a sugar substitute there …
Source: Barry Callebaut Barry Callebaut is helping food manufacturers with the demand for healthier products, which includes confectionery and chocolate items. Callebaut’s new dark chocolate is made with Stevia, which has replaced the sugar entirely. The new chocolate product contains zero calories/serving, but with the …
Sweet Chai Latte Limited EditionSource: Haagen-Dazs Looking for something sweet and cold this summer? Try new flavors from Haagen-Dazs introduced in 2011. Some may not be available where you are, so search with their product or shop locator to find a retailer or Haagen-Dazs shop nearest you …
Is chocolate really a healthy food? The makers of CocoPreggers would like you to think that as you eat their chocolate, you’re doing something good for you and the little one. XAN Confections has created chocolate fortified with folic acid and DHA. This is the same …
A customized Kit Kat chocolate bar.Source: http://www.chocollabo.com/ You’ll have to move to Japan. There, you can create your very own custom chocolate Kit Kat bar with your favorite picture or saying. The Japanese can also purchase different flavors (some fun, some very unusual): Matcha …
Sea Salt Caramel Gelato. Source: BakingBuyer.com I just saw this. New from Talenti Gelato e Sorbetto – Sea Salt Caramel Gelato coming to a store near you. It is a gelato with a caramel base and chocolate covered sea salt caramel truffles. They are the same makers of Hill …
Sweet Fried Rice – Is there such a thing? There is if you find it on the Sandy Candy Factory Site. Their Sweet Fried Rice includes candy rice, candy eggs, candy peas and candy carrots. All inside a fun Chinese Take-out box. Haven’t tried it …
Fondarific is a brand of flavored fondant, with such flavors as chocolate, wedding white buttercream, tutti-frutti, melon and grape. The have 13 flavors in all. I tasted a sample from a local gourmet show and liked it (buttercream flavor), but the real test came in …
Fried beer – just what we were all waiting for. Oh, but you have to be 21 and over to try it though. It is being showcased at the Texas state fair on Sept. 26th, and will be served at two concession stands – at …
From JellyBelly.com: ‘It’s five o’clock somwhere.’ Rounding out their line (of magarita, pina colada and stawberry daiquiri flavored jelly beans), Jelly Belly will also have mojito, peach bellini and pomegranate cosmo flavors for their Cocktail Classics jelly bean line.
For those of you who have never used feuilles de brick or phyllo dough before, I found Marmiton.org’s comparison does a great job of explaining it. http://www.marmiton.org/Magazine/Tendances-Gourmandes_brick-filo_1.aspx The whole site is in French, and if you cannot read French, then use Google’s translate bar, it’ll give …
OK – this sound interesting. Wished your daily vitamins tasted like dark chocolate, or wished you could eat a piece of dark chocolate on a regular basis? UK based Health Rack has a new product to try. Their Choco Vit supplements contain dark chocolate and freeze …
Upon doing research for coffee, I found out what civet coffee was: coffee made from the droppings of an animal know as the ‘civet’, a cat with a fox-like face. The beans are whole when the exit the body, are cleaned and then processed for …
Back in May I wrote about Red Band Flour and that it was being discontinued.The original blog is here. In response to the dismay in everyone’s voice from comments and emails, I contacted a person who I knew could give me more information and hopefully …
Clabber Girl (brand of baking powder) is joining with Innophos Inc to make InnoveFree Baking Powder. This baking powder is aluminum free AND sodium free. Here is a pdf file about the new product from the manufacturer directly.http://www.innophos.com/__documents/I-6%20InnovaFree%20LR.pdf
The Great American Cookie Company will debut its Apple Harvest Cookie on 31 August. Perfect for fall and all those school lunch boxes?? Here is their facebook page on the cookie, along with close-up pics on the cookie itself.:http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=124715252491&ref=mf