Category: Donna Does Desserts

Sep 24 2008

When caramel is enveloped with chocolate…

eat it or shut up

"Chocolate happens, dear." you've got my full attention. The Drawing I've done cartoons on chocolate from the very beginning of my cartoon career, even before chocolate became acceptable and not shameful! So I had a nice little stash of them before I signed a contract for my book on chocolate, but once I added them up, it was ...

Sep 08 2008

Milk and Chocolate. A good way to start the morning?

I found this in one of my favorite stores....the 99 Cents Store! Okay, the lineup of boxes in the window looks 20 years old and yucky, but inside, their produce is ok, so I took a chance the cereal would be, too. (Coincidentally, on very cool  open-air bus tour of Los Angeles, I met ...

Aug 19 2008

Two things you may not want to eat.

Kim and Scotts Pretzels

Severe no for Trader Joe's Chocolate Chunk Cookies. The cookies are dry and the chocolate is not satisfying and tastes cheap. I'm Yankee thrifty, but I'm tempted to throw the rest out! Ingredients look fine (ie, no corn syrup, which I won't eat anymore), and there's a bit of honey, which will usually raise the ...

Jul 13 2008

Best ice cream of the year.

Heads up, and it's on sale right now at Gelson's! I warn you, this is still very pricey, at an outrageous $4.99 a pint! Normal people shouldn't have to pay this much. But I decided to splurge one evening, and now that I know it's the best, I keep watching for sales, and hope they'll get ...

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