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Meet & Eat, Lee Zalben, The Godfather of Peanut Butter

I looveeeeeee PB&Co! My favorite is the White Chocolate Dreams flavor. It's so good!

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Cook the Book: The Essence of Chocolate

Amedei's Porcelana bar. So pure and rich in its simplicity.

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From Serious Eats: New York

Meet & Eat, Lee Zalben, The Godfather of Peanut Butter

I looveeeeeee PB&Co! My favorite is the White Chocolate Dreams flavor. It's so good!

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Cook the Book: The Essence of Chocolate

Amedei's Porcelana bar. So pure and rich in its simplicity.

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The 11th-Annual Chocolate Show

Great coverage Kathy! It was great seeing you there! :)

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To Store Chocolate or Not to Store?

Oh yeah, I'm one of those 90%! Proudly so!

Thanks for the informative article Clay. :)

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Snapshots from Chile: Café con Piernas

Mmmm, a 70s style coffee shop full of men? Sounds good to me Robyn. ;) Haha.

Although the mirrored floors sound scaarryyy....

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That's Nuts: Five Things To Do with Leftover Halloween Candy

Chop up, freeze and then add to rice krispie treats--kids love them.

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That's Nuts: Five Things To Do with Leftover Halloween Candy

I always end up with 3 blow pops and some Now & Laters. I bring mine to work and feed it to my coworkers. Maybe that's because I never have anything good and chocolatey left. Who doesn't know what to do with leftover Reese's peanut butter cups? Who HAS leftover Reese's peanut butter cups?!

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That's Nuts: Five Things To Do with Leftover Halloween Candy

If - and that's a big if - there's any chocolate Halloween candy left, I've chopped it in the food processor, then froze it in plastic bags. It makes a good addition to Christmas cookie batter, and I don't have to buy extra chocolate chips.

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That's Nuts: Five Things To Do with Leftover Halloween Candy

the oatmeal raisinet cookie idea is so great!! i'm definitely going to make that.

i have a couple of stupidly easy recipes that i've made with candy (although not leftover- like some other commenters, i know of no such thing). while i love baking from scratch, these both use mixes, and i've gotten more rave reviews from them than anything else- it hurts my wannabe ina garten pride a bit:

1- make a brownie mix per instructions. pour half of the batter into the prepared pan. break up a toffee bar (or any other type of chocolate bar, really) and layer the bar evenly over the batter. pour in the other half of batter. bake.

2. (similar to cookie suggestion above, but for cupcakes) prepare a brownie mix. fill halfway into greased muffin cups. stick a chocolate PB cup into the batter. fill cups with remaining batter. bake. (i top this with a PB frosting)


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That's Nuts: Five Things To Do with Leftover Halloween Candy

I've been fixated on that Butterfinger milkshake all freakin' day long! However, I don't have any ice cream or Butterfingers in the house. Damn you, Lee Zalben! :) I have a feeling I will be making a run to the store before the night ends.

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That's Nuts: Five Things To Do with Leftover Halloween Candy

A different tangent for your leftovers:

Ever get leftover candy that is just leftover because it's the kind you don't like? Or maybe you are trying to be healthy and want to get rid of the rest once you've taken out a few for a treat?

My local children's hospital accepts excess Halloween candy that they distribute to the kids who weren't able to go trick or treating. The only requirement is that each portion is sealed (i.e. not a big bag of M&M's or homemade treats), and that a full ingredients list is available on the packaging so they can check for allergens, etc.

Just another option to consider...

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That's Nuts: Five Things To Do with Leftover Halloween Candy


i used to trade my brother 3 Musketeers for Reese's. neither of us liked Laffy Taffy, so we tried to give it to my mother, who accepted it wreathed in smiles and then later threw in the bin. does anyone actually like and eat Laffy Taffy?

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That's Nuts: Five Things To Do with Leftover Halloween Candy

Never heard of leftover candy. I more hear of "omg the Halloween candy is all gone on the 29th!!===better get some more!!"

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That's Nuts: Five Things To Do with Leftover Halloween Candy

Chik o stik milkshakes are amazing! I am so sad I can't buy chik o stiks anywhere around here. You can also bake a fun-sized candy bar or chocolate cup into the middle of a cookie. I've never done this, but my mother raves about this, eh, technique. And frying's always an option for the "suicide by food" crowd.

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That's Nuts: Five Things To Do with Leftover Halloween Candy

I put a few each in ziplock bags and freeze them to take to the movies later in the year.

Somehow, I've got six bags of Halloween candy in my house and I live on a street that gets no trick-or-treaters!

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That's Nuts: Five Things To Do with Leftover Halloween Candy

poo on your local kids-i love me some raisinettes-and i really like the idea of putting them into oatmeal cookies!

speaking of raisins-number 5 up there is something we used to do as a kid, but we did raisins in lieu of peanut m&ms. i actually prefer them plain-with a little salt. that's my fave thanksgiving side...spreading the cream cheese onto the celery was one of my first kitchen duties as a wee one.

as for extra candy-i just eat it. and eat it. and eat it.

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How to Make Moffles, Mochi + Waffles

I love mochi, but this is probably the weirdest thing I've seen in awhile.

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How to Make Moffles, Mochi + Waffles

I did this today at our waffle brunch. Totally easy, just plopped a few mochi squares as shown above on an oiled waffle iron. Everyone agreed that it was interesting and had potential with different toppings (especially the Bi-Rite lavender honey ice cream we had), but no one LOVED them except for me - but then again, I adore glutenous rice products. :D

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How to Make Moffles, Mochi + Waffles

@dmarina: Waffle makers aren't necessarily 'unitaskers'. I have an old Sunbeam waffle maker that I got as a wedding present...OVER 25 years ago...and it has 'revolving' plates, which turn from waffle to flat sides. It still works just like new. I've been making 'pannini' longer than they've been popular, LOL! Anyway, I use this iron for SO MANY things. I reckon I've used it at LEAST twice a week since I've owned it. I doubt it was very expensive to start with, but wow, nothing made these days would still be working after all this time. (In fact, when my kids were going through their respective 'I don't want anything but grilled cheese' phases, I must have used it 4 times a day for about 2 years) So, this will be its next test. It sure sounds good, I have loved mochi since I first tasted it in Japan over 15 years ago. In fact, I spent 3 months there, and nearly cried when it was time to come home, as I knew I wasn't going to be able to find the ingredients I would need once I was back home. This was before the 'sushi' craze hit the US. I would gladly eat Japanese food 3X a day every day of the year, though I can't, cos even though I CAN find most of the ingredients now, I can't afford them every day. I 'settle' for once or twice a week. (But, I DO use Japanese 'techniques' for many of the foods I cook.)
Anyway, I intend to try this tomorrow.

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Cook the Book: The Essence of Chocolate

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Cook the Book: The Essence of Chocolate

A chocolate mousse with shaved chocolate swirls in a small Parisian brasserie. The mousse was the most delicious thing I've ever tasted, and that was definitely helped by the fact that it was my first night in Paris.

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Cook the Book: The Essence of Chocolate

this chocolate hazelnut thing at the suisse chalet restaurant in aruba

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Cook the Book: The Essence of Chocolate

I went to the Borders book store and wrote down this recipe for 'That Chocolate Cake' from the book and its the most simple yet decadent cake me and my family ever had. I made it for my father's 75th birthday!!!

I would really really love to have a copy of the 'Essence of Chocolate' book as I need not write down recipes sitting in the book store anymore :)

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Cook the Book: The Essence of Chocolate

When I was in high school my Mom worked in the cafeteria and her best freind was the baker. She made the BEST brownies I've ever had. My Mom got the recipe and I still make them for my son today. They're still the best brownies I've ever had.

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Website: http://www.thecandyenthusiast.com

Location: New Jersey

About: A lover of all things sweet. :)

Favorite foods: CANDY! More specifically? Chocolate in all forms, retro candies (love Big Hunk!) and almost anything made with sugar. I also adore pumpkin to pieces.

Last bite on earth: Kabocha no Nimono....with some chocolate. And then maybe a Zero bar.