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 to go pick up the book yourself!

This week’s project was Rugelach, which I’ve never made before but I’ll definitely be making again:

I love working with pastry and had fun with this one because it uses cream cheese with the butter, which made for an amazingly tasty, flaky pastry.

There were several options for the filling but I went with raspberry jam, chopped walnuts, currants, and mini chocolate chips (maybe a little more chocolate chips than what was called for!).

My two eight-year-olds had a blast helping me sprinkle the fillings on and my almost-ten-year-old enjoyed helping roll them up. It made a lot of perfectly bite-sized treats that the kids and grown-ups all loved!

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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 about you but I’m digging out my fondue pot!

To Enter:
Leave a comment telling me what kind of fondue you like best – savory? Sweet? Chocolatey? Cheesy? What’s your favorite dipper?

* Contest closes at 5:00pm PDT on Friday, October 31. Winners will be notified by email and will have 24 hours to respond with mailing information before new winners are chosen.

* All current Bloggy Giveaways at Chocolate Bytes may be entered one time each. Good luck!

* Eight books will be given away (eight winners, one book each).

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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 per household. I do check!

~ Make sure you leave a valid email address with your comment (will not be displayed) so I can contact you in a timely manner if you win.

~ The contest will run until Thursday, July 31 at 11:59pm Pacific. One entry will then be drawn randomly from the eligible submissions on Friday, August 1, and the winner will be notified by email and announced here on the site.

~ This is open to residents of the U.S.

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Also, be sure to check out another chocolate contest over at JLoStalker.com to win a copy of “Hugs for Chocolate Lovers”!

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