Chocolate :: One of the Primary Food Groups From pure pleasure, to healthful dietary addition, chocolate truly fulfills the myth of being the "food of the gods," a myth probably generated just to give an excuse to have lots of it!
We are lensmasters who have taken our love of all things chocolate and have brought them online.
If you love chocolate and have a lens, please join us. If you'd like to make a lens about chocolate and want it to be a permanent member of the group, click 'Make a Lens' on the right!
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Newest Chocolate Lovers & Addicts
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Can you smell the chocolate.....
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Chocolate Fix
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Our love affair with chocolate dates back probably two thousand years or more! Chocolate originates from the Mayan and Aztec peoples of the Americas who developed it as a bitter drink made from the fruit of the cacao tree. The word "chocola...
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Make Your Perfect Hot Chocolate
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Hot chocolate might be anything from melted, spiced drinking chocolate to a packet of instant mix that just needs hot water. You might call it hot cocoa or hot chocolate and it may or may not have whipped cream or tiny marshmallows on top. ...
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Chocolate Therapy
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Mmmmm... Chocolate... for some there's therapy, for the rest of us there's chocolate. Yes, sometimes there is nothing like enjoying the sweet sensation of creamy, rich and delicious chocolate melting in your mouth to relieve stress, help relax, and s...
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Chocolate :: The Incredible & Extensive Gourmet Guide
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From the moment the aroma rises to your nose, to the sensual bliss of the feel and taste, fine chocolate is a gastronomic experience like no other. The focus of this lens is on the finest chocolates available. Understanding the differences between th...
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Chocoholics Anonymous
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What is Chocolate? Chocolate comes from the cacao tree (theobroma cacao) which grows 20 degrees north or south of the equator in hot, wet tropical climates. It is grown in countries such as Brazil in South America, Indonesia and Africa. Chocolate...
What we do with our chocolate....
recipes, favorites...
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Wedding Cakes
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A lens helping people find wedding cake resources. This lens is intended to be a comprehensive source for the category of wedding cakes. Anything and everything about weddings and wedding cakes will eventually be added. I intend to provid...
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Ravenous Recipes: Chocolate Chip Cookies
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Everybody's favorite cookie. Here are four classic takes on the Chocolate Chip Cookie. First we have the recipe published and made famous on the back of the package of Nestle Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels. This was based on the cookies that...
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The Ravenous Guide to Maida Heatter Dessert Recipes
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This is a page dedicated to the great dessert baker and cookbook writer extrordinaire, Maida Heatter. She is widely considered the finest author of dessert cookbooks. I know of no other cookbook author who writes recipes as clearly and as...
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Best Hot Cocoa Recipes
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Snuggling up with a good book and a hot cup of perfectly made cocoa is one of my favorite wintertime activities. Join me in the quest for the best hot cocoa recipes and share your personal favorites. Image by CathyK
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I Love Cake
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This lens is devoted to cake. Chocolate cake, lemon cake, sponge cake, fruit cake, Christmas cake, Birthday cake and any other sort of cake you can think of. Of course I may have to let the odd cookie, bun or even piece of pie in! MMMMMmmm...
Need More Chocolate???
Don't we all!
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The Tradition of the Yule Log
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This lens has links to the history of the Yule Log, lots of recipes for how to bake modern Yule Log Cakes, a video Yule Log to download for your iPod, where to find a Yule log screensaver and much more!
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Creating the Best Chocolate Chip Cookies
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This lens does one thing, but it does it well. Here you will learn what it takes to create the best chocolate chip cookies. It all starts with the recipe. A poor recipe will create poor tasting chocolate chip cookies. I struggled for years usi...
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Gourmet Chocolate
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I am definitely a chocoholic. My problem is ... I prefer really fancy gourmet chocolates rather than a standard Hershey bar. The kind with green tea ganache or even one filled with a curry-chocolate blend (don't knock it til you've tried...
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Chocolate Turtles - Slow and Delicious!
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Phillips chocolate turtles are made exactly as they were 80 years ago -all by hand, one at a time, and in small batches. Rich, smooth caramel is combines with hand roasted premium nuts and is topped with a generous dollop of luscious chocolate. No tw...
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The Chocolate Box for Chocoholics
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This lens is dedicated to all chocoholics and aims to give you all the good news that you already guessed about chocolate -- which chocolate is best for you, the history of chocolate and more.... The 12-step chocoholics program: NEVER BE MORE THAN 1...
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Triple Chocolate Brownies
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Chocolate Brownies is own of the most delicious things that you can make with Chocolate. They really do taste great. The secret is the more chocolate the better.
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Chocolate Mud Cake
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The good old Chocolate Mud Cake has to be one of my all time favourites. It is especially delicious when served warm with a little bit of Ice Cream. Yum Yum!
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Healthy Raw Chocolate
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This lens is about one of my very favorite things, CHOCOLATE!!! It is wonderful to finally be able to indulge in this delectable food without any guilt, all the while knowing it will increase your energy, reduce your weight and LDL cho...
Chocolate Longings?
Amedei Limited Edition Chuao Bar
A limited edition bar made from the cocoa of the l more...0 points
Callebaut Bittersweet Baking Chocolate (17.5 Ounce) by igourmet.com
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Scharffen Berger Bittersweet Chocolate
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How About Chocolate & Other Sweets?
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The Chocolate Box for Chocoholics
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This lens is dedicated to all chocoholics and aims to give you all the good news that you already guessed about chocolate -- which chocolate is best for you, the history of chocolate and more.... The 12-step chocoholics program: NEVER BE MORE THAN 1...
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I Want Candy...A Fan Site for Everything Candy
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If you love candy this is the site for you. Altoinds, Chocolate, Jelly Beans, Peeps, Peppermint, PEZ, Wonka, you name it, we got it. This is my Squidoo ode to Candy. Check out the cool stuff!
Working the Chocolate
Recipes & Tools
Bernard Castelain Artisan Chocolate - Chocolat Noir Extreme 85% - 85% Cacao Dark Chocolate
The richness of cocoa carefully selected among the more...1 point
Gourmet Dark Chocolate Duet
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Ruffoni Bain Marie
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Nearly One Pound of All Belgian Milk Chocolate Truffles by Telluride Truffle of Telluride, Colorado
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One Dozen Artisan Truffles
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Marieke Assortment
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Chocolate Group
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WordCustard wrote...
The Chocolate Group - perfect! I've added my lens on Austrian chocolate. I'm lucky enough to have received a selection of handmade chocolate from the Zotter Chocolate Shop, and it is truly divine!
Joseph Bodek wrote
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Hello Julia: My name is Joe Bodek and while checking out the internet I found your site. I thought your group might be interested in a tasting or further information regarding Xocia's healthy chocolate. Not only is it delicious and healthy for everyone it's diabetic friendly. As a type II diabetic I haven't had chocolate for 7 years (what a drag) but not anymore! Anyway here's some info on the product and if you would like a taste let me know. You can reach me at jbodek1@comcast.net, 610-529-5208 or my website at www.gotgreatchocolate.com. By the way we are expanding in the area and are looking for people that would like to increase their income by asking people if they like chocolate. Not what you would call rocket science. Below is a bit more info for ya. Have a great day. Best, JB
Xocai Chocolate: It's Healthy, Delicious and Good for the Planet, Too!!
What do a Main Line lawyer, doctor, and accomplished sales executive all have in common? If you ask Janet Sanders, Kim Tarnoff, and Nicki Beekman, the resounding response is chocolate-along with the very successful business that brought them together and the friendship that resulted from it. These women are not alone. Did you know that not only do nine out of ten people love chocolate, but that the average American consumes more than 12 pounds of chocolate each year? The good news is that unprocessed cacao is the highest source of antioxidants in the world and, eaten in its correct form and in moderation, chocolate offers extraordinary health benefits in practically every system in the body!
Chocolate is, of course, rich in taste, but also rich in history. Ancient Mayan cultures consumed cocoa for health in the form of "xocolatl", a raw cacao drink and a precursor of today's chocolate. Unfortunately, most of today's chocolate is both roasted and has undergone "dutching," whereby alkali-potash is added to the cocoa causing fermentation! Dr. Steve Warren, Chief Medical Advisor for MXI Corporation, notes that "sixty-seven percent of all the important flavonoids [powerful antioxidants] in chocolate are typically lost during the alkalization and fermentation process that commercial chocolate undergoes."
So what is a chocoholic to do? Enter Jeanette Brooks, a Type 2 diabetic who, with her family, started the MXI Corporation. Knowing raw cacao's benefits, Jeanette and the Brooks family created a mission: to take health to the entire world through smooth, delicious, dark Belgian chocolate! Jeanette and her family worked with scientists to develop a revolutionary, proprietary cold-processed chocolate, and then sweetened it with another super food, the exotic Amazonian acai berry. The result: Xocai, which is pronounced "show sigh", combining the "xo" from xocolatl and "cai" for acai. Because of its processing, Xocai contains the maximum antioxidant power of dark chocolate without the preservatives, fillers and high sugar content present in all other commercially available chocolate.
And Xocai is good for the planet, too! MXI uses environmentally safe, ethically traded ingredients and contracts with small family owned and operated farms in the Ivory Coast for the purchase of cacao. MXI also obtains their acai berries from co-op farms in Brazil and they guarantee that suppliers pay fair wages to employees and use no pesticides. Through the Xo-Love (pronounced "show love") Project, the company donates money, time, and products to the areas from which it obtains supplies. Additionally, rather than using Styrofoam, all Xocai packaging is certified as recyclable.
So, getting back to our 3 Main Line ladies, Nicki, Kim and Janet%u2026what do they love even more than chocolate?
They love having the opportunity to share this amazing and unique chocolate with health-minded people all over the world, and actually changing people's lives for the better. Stay tuned for personal testimonials and great health information in future segments of Chocolate Bliss and learn why Xocai Healthy Chocolate may well be the solution for anyone looking for a recession-proof opportunity in today's unpredictable business environment.
You can learn more about Xocai healthy chocolate at www.gotgreatchocolate.com
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Thanks in advance for participating!
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KarateKatGraphics wrote...
Where better focus for one's lensmaking energies than chocolate? Great group!
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