It’s no longer news that chocolate is good for your heart. In reasonable amounts dark chocolate can help with high blood pressure and even heart disease. So, as one of the most stressful yearly duties passes (taxes!!), what better way to treat yourself than with some decadent chocolate!
Check out my list of 50 Easy Chocolate Snacks to Make, which includes quick and easy brownies, chocolate covered potato chips, and chocolate and peanut butter dipped apples.
There are also some old stand-bys that we’ve gone into before – chocolate body paint, cocoa therapy, or take a bath.
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Don’t forget, today is the last day to enter the T-shirt giveaway! You have until midnight tonight and the drawing will take place tomorrow.
Now, in case you missed them the first time around, check out a few previous posts that are still bringing in the hits and comments:

The Hershey’s Move to Mexico post is still getting hit quite often, several months after I wrote about it. If you missed it the first time, go check it out and let us know what you think.
50 Easy Chocolate Snacks to Make
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies recipe
Chocolate Cake Mix Cookies

I love to make treats and snacks but don’t like having to wait a long time for them to be ready (and neither do the kids). So I’ve put together a list of some easy (and mostly quick) chocolate snack recipes and ideas:

Muddy Buddies
S’more pops
Chocolate nut chews
Chocolate cake mix cookies
Hot chocolate
Chocolate and cinnamon popcorn
Chocolate crispy snack balls
Easy chocolate snack cakes
Chocolate walnut rum balls
Frozen chocolate bananas
Chocolate no-bake cookies
Chocolate dipped strawberries
Double chocolate cereal treats
Quick and Easy Brownies
Chocolate rice pudding
Chocolate chip shake
White chocolate snack mix
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Perfectly acceptable use of leftover ganache, am I right?
We went camping over the weekend and I didn’t think to take pictures of the s’mores we made. We did have a lot of leftover graham crackers, though (can’t imagine why there was no leftover chocolate bars), which tasted fantastic with leftover ganache.
The ganache has been in the fridge so it’s about the consistency of frosting. Perfect!