Posts by Chocolate Lover

Vegan Chocolate Frosting

Vegan Chocolate Frosting

You know that old idiom that is used to describe one great thing happening, and an additional great thing happens on top of that? Sure you do: the second great thing is called the “icing on the cake.” This saying comes from the widespread appeal of icing, or frosting, a sweet glaze used to cover or decorate baked goods, such as cakes or biscuits. Traditionally icing is made of sugar, and also contains butter, water, egg whites, milk, or flavorings. As versatile as it is delicious, frosting can be...

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Vegan Chocolate Cakes

Vegan Chocolate Cakes

The vegan chocolate cake is a relatively recent entry into the longstanding history of this famous desert. There is much debate over whether or not that decadent, notoriously bumbling and disconnected Marie Antoinette ever actually suggested “Let them eat cake,” as her solution to the bread-shortage that left thousands of peasants starving in the French streets. What is clear is that the cake, traditionally a sweet, baked desert, has been a part of countless historical special events. Cakes are often...

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Dairy Free Chocolate

Say what you want about the way the world is going and where we might end up, but there’s no denying that with every passing year, life becomes a little easier for those among us who choose to, or need to, live a dairy free lifestyle. Once the outcasts in a carnivorous world, non-dairy consumers now number well over 10 million in this country alone. And, like any other group of that size, we have begun to make our mark on society and culture. The result is a wide array of dairy free options for nearly every...

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