I came across a very fun project a few weeks ago called Tuesdays With Dorie. A very large group of people basically make the same thing once a week and post their results in their blogs, with all the recipes coming from the (very awesome) cookbook “Baking” by Dorie Greenspan.
I’m not going to be able to participate in all of them every week because I’m going to stick with the ones that have chocolate in them (or that can have chocolate added to them!) so I can post them here, but I can’t post the recipes anyway – you’ll need …read more

To kick off the Bloggy Giveaways here at Chocolate Bytes, I’ve got something that’s perfect for this time of year: 8 copies of Great Party Fondues, a new book by Peggy Fallon filled with 70 fondue recipes, both savory and sweet, including classics and new twists!
The ones that look the most interesting to me are the chocolate ones (of course!), including:
~ Chocolate Midnight Fondue (below, left)
~ Black Forest Fondue
~ Almost Instant Chocolate Butterscotch Fondue
~ Chocolate Cheesecake Fondue
~ Mexican Hot Chocolate Fondue
~ Chocolate-Coconut Fondue
~ Toblerone Swiss Chocolate Fondue
~ Minted Milk Chocolate Fondue (below, right)

Don’t those look amazing? I don’t know …read more

One of the greatest pleasures of life is biting into a warm chocolate chip cookie straight from the oven!
The Essential Chocolate Chip Cookbook offers 45 recipes that cover all the dessert bases: cookies, cakes, candies, brownies, tarts, frozen treats, and more. Chocolate chips saturate these recipes inside and out. Using milk, semisweet, bittersweet, and white chocolate, author Elinor Klivans encourages readers to discover their favorite chocolate chip recipes.
Now you have a chance to win a copy!
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To Enter:
Leave a comment in this blog entry and tell me what your favorite chocolate treat is. That’s it!
The Rules:
~ One entry …read more