Most of people love chocolate but do we know how it is made? Do we know how from a small cocoa bean we end up with a rich in flavor dessert or beverage? I made a small research and I am giving you in brief the transformation of a cocoa bean to chocolate. Cocoa tree...
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Cookie Cups Filled with Coconut Cream
One of the things I remember as a kid, was my mom making me chocolate pudding. I was a very picky eater as a child and my mom had a very hard time feeding me. I was thin as a leaf and she was so worried that I wouldn’t grow the way I should. For...
Argentinian Alfajores
All three previous weeks was carnival period in Greece. A remnant of the Dionysian rituals in ancient Greece, carnival is that period of time when people are dressed in costumes and wear masks. There are several carnival parades in many big cities of the country with bigger that of the city of Patras. Up to...
Twelve Months of Deliciousness
As 2017 is about to expire, I went back to all the months that preceded and tried to pick one recipe that was a hit or special from each one of them. It was hard because every time I make something I put all my energy, love and affection to it and thus everything you...
Classic Peanut Butter Cookies with Chocolate
Although there are no actual records to prove this, peanut plant probably rooted in South America and more specifically in Peru or Brazil. From pottery made some 3,500 years ago, we see that people in that area decorated them with peanut plants or made them in the shape of peanuts. Incans of Peru offered peanuts...
Three Chocolate Cookies
I love, love chocolate and although I make several sweets and I really like them, my heart belongs to chocolate. There is always chocolate in my home in many sizes and types. Although I am trying to keep my weight under control, I cannot possibly refrain from eating at least a small piece of something...
Frozen Icebox Tiramisù Style
“The “Petit Beurre”, or “Véritable Petit Beurre”, also known under the initials “VPB”, is a kind of shortbread from Nantes, that is best known in France. Le Petit Beurre LU was invented by Louis Lefèvre-Utile in 1886. A cookie cutter in the form of Petit Beurre was made on September 8, 1886. But Louis Lefèvre...
Mocha Ice Cream with Orange Cookies and Chocolate Chips
Kaldi was a shepherd in the mountains of Ethiopia. One day he observed that when his goats were eating the seeds of a bush nearby they were becoming more vivid. He picked some of them and took them to a monk. The monk boiled them and drunk the beverage. He realized that it gave him...
Vegan Chocolate Cookies with Tahini
Once upon a time in the exotic land of Far East, Ali Baba, a poor logger, discovered a cave that was filled with gold and precious stones, a treasure that was stolen and gathered there by the 40 thieves. All he had to do was to shout at the cave’s door: “Open Sesame”. And just...
Kopaniá of Santorini
Santorini island is basically what has remained after a massive volcanic eruption that destroyed all previous settlements, and created the current geological caldera. This enormous volcanic eruption has become the most famous single event in the Aegean before the fall of Troy. It may have been one of the largest volcanic eruptions on Earth in...