Just a quick snap in a badly-lit room before everyone arrives - Chocolate and Smoked Peanut Butter Brownies topped with Smoked Peanut Brittle.
My friend Peabody makes the most ridiculously wonderful things. Candy, cakes, pies, you name it.
(She also has a soft spot for Funfetti.)
Tonight, she went with my Kryptonite: cheesecake.
But not just any cheesecake. Peanut Butter Cup Cheesecake.
If you’re weak, too, you can find the recipe here.
The 14 best chocolates in America:
{ 1, 7 } Xocolatl de David; Portland, OR
{ 2, 4 } Cacao Atlanta Chocolate Co.; Atlanta
{ 3 } Eclat Chocolate; West Chester, PA
{ 5, 8 } Askinosie; Springfield, MO
{ 6, 11, 14 } Ococoa; Los Angeles
{ 9, 13 } Nunu Chocolates; Brooklyn, NY
{ 10 } Cocanu; Portland, OR
{ 12 } Cacao Prieto; Brooklyn, NY
(shot by Stephen Lewis)
This creamy chocolate mousse is the only recipe you’ll need to woo your Valentine.
(shot by Jamie Chung, Bon Appétit, February 2013)
Do you think you could eat an entire car made of chocolate? Philadelphia-based food sculpting duo Jim Victor and Marie Pelton made this awesome life-size chocolate replica of the No. 18 Toyota Camry M&M’s racing car. They layered melted chocolate, cocoa, and cocoa butter onto a frame to form the exterior of the race car. Yum!
[via Designboom]
These beautiful creatures, a European Eel, slug and a Great Crested Newt are completely edible. They’re delicious creepy crawlies made of solid chocolate and painted with pigmented cocoa butter. They were created by Chris Verrae, owner and operator of Cake for Breakfast, an awesome chocolate and cake shop in London.
Chris made these edible creatures for a project entitled Robyn’s Chocolate Museum of Natural History:
“New addition to chocolate ‘Pond Life – British Icons’: European Eel and the Great Crested Newt… Together with earthworm, snails, leech, toad and slug (coming soon) they were the main characters in a diorama mimicking their natural habitat, including pond ofcourse. Unfortunately the show was cancelled but I’m hopeful I’ll get a chance in the near future to put it all together. The exhibit would have been accompanied by a museum shop, serving as a buffet…”
It sounds like it would have been an awesome (and delicious) display. We hope Chris gets another opportunity to see it through.
[via That’s Nerdalicious!]
Liz, of the food/cooking blog Girl Meets Bowl, concocted an awesome recipe for Golden Snitch Truffles. They’re easier to catch and decidedly tastier than the sort Harry Potter chased after. Click here for the recipe and step-by-step instructions.
[via Neatorama]
