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Acai Mango Sorbet from Belizza

By Dessert Darling · April 1st, 2013

Belizza! Love this Acai Mango sorbet! I’m not normally a sorbet girl. I find it a bit shocking with with it’s icy cold temps and disproportionate ratio of high sugar to low fat. I need some cream and substance in there to balance it out.

In this instance though, Acai is a creamy super fruit that’s packed with both antioxidants and yumminess. Not only is Acai supposed to give you great energy and glowing skin, but also, it’s the hangover cure of choice in Brazil. Voila!

Finally, the sweet mango is the perfect mate to the mild acai for a rockin’ low cal treat.

For more info on Belizza’s Acai sorbets, click here.

Trader Joe’s Chocolate Covered Sunflower Seeds & Organic Dark Chocolate Mint by Green & Black’s

By Dessert Darling · March 17th, 2013

The other night I had the greatest catch-up with my dear, dear friend Laura. We chatted for four hours straight about everything under the sun from Sheryl Sandberg’s book Lean In to how amazing these Trader Joe’s Chocolate Sunflower Seeds are. First of all, count on Laura to have the best of the best in her pantry. The Green & Black’s Mint Dark Chocolate was exquisite. Rarely do a I find a store bought bar of dark chocolate to be that delightful. That said, it had some serious competition.

The Chocolate Sunflower Seeds were the most addictive and delicious little morsels of joy. They’re sweet, nutty, and fun to eat with their jubilant colors and varying sizes. And since I avoid artificial ingredients, I was glad to see that the bright colors were derived from natural sources like Paprika and beets.

That said, there is such a thing as eating too many (as I’m apt to do), and I ended up with an unequivocal tummy ache. Awe, yes, now I remember why I never buy Chocolate Sunflower seeds. If you can practice control around these tempting treats, they’re a totally fun indulgence to share with a friend.

Dark Chocolate Bacon Bar from Vosges Haute Chocolate

By Dessert Darling · January 28th, 2013

Bleck. I love chocolate and I love bacon, so I thought that these sinfully delicious ingredients together, in Vosges Haute Chocolat’s “Mo’s Dark Bacon Bar,” would yield a hot love fest. Oy, more like hot mess! Truly, I’m grimacing as I write, trying to disintegrate the aftertaste of bad bacon with sweet cocoa.

While the ingredients look fine enough with uncured pork seasoned with sea salt, white pepper, and celery juice (eh?), I almost think they should have just fried up some crispy strips of Oscar Mayer for a familiar and pleasing result. Ironically, the bacon in this bar tastes artificial or bad, like the shredded, unwanted bits that you find waiting around at a salad bar.

This bar’s only saving grace is the 62% cacao, high quality chocolate. But at $7.50 a pop, the Dark Bacon Bar is a complete Pass!

Peanut Butter Brownies from Dancing Deer Baking Company

By Dessert Darling · November 12th, 2012

Love free samples at Whole Foods! Without them, I’m not sure I would have discovered these beyond-delicious, all natural, Peanut Butter Brownies by the Dancing Deer Baking Company! A drizzle of peanut butter lays on top of these dark fudge, peanut packed brownies that boast the prefect combination of sweet-and-salty: they’re totally addictive and crave-worthy. An easy 5 Cherries!~~

For more info on the Dancing Deer Baking Co., click here.

XOXO

Finally! Candy with Real Ingredients!!! Yay for Unreal Candy with Real Real Food

By Dessert Darling · October 5th, 2012

Fewf- just in time for Halloween!

If you’ve been following my Darling blogs, you know that I am a huge proponent of eating real food. Consequently, I have had to give up candy since it is made with pure, chemical Crap (see my post here on the horrors of High Fructose Corn Syrup). Thankfully, Unreal Candy has come along making replications of our favorite treats with all real ingredients.

This awesome, kid friendly candy features:

NO GMOs (what are GMOs? See here)
NO Artificial Colors or Flavors
NO preservatives
Reduced Sugar by over 40% (wow)
NO growth hormones or antibiotics in the dairy

Wow. This is amazing you guys!!! My future, not-yet existent children will know of No other candy! Ha!

To learn more about all the fancy celeb people supporting this new brand of awesomeness, check out this YouTube video featuring Gisele Bundchen, Tom Brady, Matt Damon, Jennifer Garner, Dr. Hyman and more:

Are you as excited about this edible candy as I am?!

Ben & Jerry’s New CLUSTERFLUFF Ice-Cream

By Dessert Darling · August 22nd, 2012

Ok, I just got the joke of the ice-cream’s name as I was writing it in Caps. Ha ha. Wow, a little slow today. Perhaps it’s all that Clusterfluff clouding my mind!!!

So Yay- New flavor!

Peanut Butter Ice Cream, with Caramel Cluster Pieces, Marshmallow and Peanut Buttery Swirls.

Looks Promising….minus those nutrition facts :-6

All in all, super tasty, as you’d expect from my Vermontster boys. That said, a little too salty and heavy on the PB for a solid 5-cherry review.

I’m completely on a Sugar High now..@#*D!J#(UI!E@!(@#!$*A(!

XOXO

Happy Birthday Dad! Delicious Draeger’s Cake Chocolate Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

By Dessert Darling · August 16th, 2012

Last weekend my family gathered to celebrate my Dad’s birthday with this delicious cake from Draeger’s in the Bay Area.

My Dad recruited some help from his grandchildren to blow out the candles.

The delicious cake had chocolate buttercream layered inside and tasty cream cheese frosting on top.

And I don’t think you need to be related to this little one to see how cute he is. In this photo my nephew (with his dad/my brother) is triumphantly waving his arms and declaring “All done! All done!” It was his 2nd ever taste of ice cream, and needless to say, the little man was hooked. Ohlord, it all begins!

Happy Birthday Daddy-oh!

100 Calorie Ice Cream Sandwich by Julie’s Organic Ice-Cream

By Dessert Darling · May 11th, 2012

It’s hard to find an actual ice-cream sandwich, you know, made with real ice-cream, that comes in a 100 Calorie serving size. I scoured the shelves at Whole Foods, my eyes cruising by the soy, coconut milk, yogurt, and even goat-milk options before I landed on on Julie’s Organic Ice-Cream sandwiches.

The “Juliette” has thin chocolate wafers that neatly contain a bar of delicious vanilla ice-cream. Made with natural and organic ingredients, Julie’s Organic “Juliette’s” won my heart.

For more info on Julie’s Organic Ice-Cream, click here.

Click here to see ice creams that I won’t eat anymore, delicious or not!

Trader Joe’s Almondictive Bits- Caramelized Almond Morsles covered in Dark Chocolate

By Dessert Darling · May 4th, 2012

At one of the birthdays I attended this weekend I encountered Trader Joe’s Almondictive Bits, a TJ’s treat that I had strategically been avoiding. I mean, come on! They tell you right there on the tub that you are going to eat the whole thing at once and wallow in misery over your lack of self control and growing love handles! Or something like that. So alas, there they were, right in front of me.. and since they’re Almonds (healthy) and Dark Chocolate (healthy too!), I dove right into these tempting treats. One thing I applaud TJ’s for- they don’t have false advertising. These delicious, caramelized almond morsels covered in chocolate were indeed, addicting.

However, these Cookies & Cream Almonds that were also at the party were sweet, chalky rubbish.. even if they were made in California.

For more info on Trader Joe’s, click here.

Mini Chocolate Creme Eggs by Lindt and “Cadbury” (er, Kraft)

By Dessert Darling · April 4th, 2012

First off, I must give a very enthusiastic 5-cherries to Lindt Lindor Truffles’ White Chocolate Eggs. They could not be more creamy, dreamy, melty delicious. White chocolate can be incredibly difficult to pull off, but Lindt does a supreme job here. Like the larger Lindt truffle balls, these little eggs have liquid goodness inside, but their smaller, egg shaped proportions make for a more delicious experience.

But Boo- the Mini Creme Eggs were complete rubbish. When I was a kid, having a Creme Egg in your lunch-box was the equivalent to being King of the World! I loved them more than life itself. Alas, the shells on these minis don’t even taste like real chocolate and the inside is just thick, pasty, sweet blah-ness. Boo. I can blame old age or Kraft, now that they took over dear old British Cadbury.

I blame Kraft.

How many Yummies can you spot above!?

Answer: 12- remember, the Creme Eggs were total rubbish.

What’s your favorite Easter treat?!?

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