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Sweet Dreams Traditional Sweet Shop
It seems that the days of the corner shop are fading into obscurity. Supermarkets can supply the time-pushed shopper with everything, all under one roof. However, is this a smart way to shop? The days...
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Chocolate Brownie Cake
So I’m cooking lunch for my mum and, at 10.30am the same morning she asks me what we’re having: Mum: “Meat?” Me: “No.” Mum: {pleading voice} “Not vegetarian?!” Me: “No.” Mum: “So…it must be fish?” Me:...
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Chocolate of the World – Finland
Finland - Surprising Contender for World's Best Tasting Milk Chocolate For most of us, chocolate is a comforting food. We turn to it when we’re feeling low, we eat it during periods of celebration. A...
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Our First Award!
We must be doing something right! Foong over at The Food Site has awarded the Cocoa Lounge with the Arte y Pico award for our Chocolate Brownie Cake! Thanks Foong! Now, according to Foong’s post, we...
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Healthy Chocolate Truffles?
To make chocolate healthy pretty much means to lose what we love most about it: cream, full fat milk, sugar. What this loosely translates as is chocolate in its most natural form: pods, nibs, cocoa...
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And Is There Such a Thing as a Healthy Chocolate Cake?
“What’s that? A healthy Chocolate Cake?” I hear you gasp. Well, yes and no. It has no butter in it, so you’re already losing the fat element. It has banana, of course, which we all know is really good...
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Our First Meme!
We have been tagged for our first Meme, entitled The Commenters Meme. Gemma at Dressing for Dinner tagged us, being one of her last 10 commenters. This is a great idea for a Meme as it connects us to...
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Cocoa Pasta – Experimental Recipe No.1
Cocoa (Pasta) Nibs Paul and I went Christmas shopping at the weekend to our local shopping “mall”. We figured it would be sensible to go early and avoid large crowds but we forgot that there’s one...
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Stomach Pleasing Cookies!
There is nothing that aggrieves me more than being out of biscuits (or cookies, if you will), particularly on a holiday. Instead of having my usual tea and biscuits for breakfast, I have to revert to...
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A Cocoa Carrot Cake
Firstly, sorry for the woeful lack of posts this past week. I have an excuse though: some sort of throat virus that attacks anonymously but leaves its trace for several long, protracted days. Moving...
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