Whole Foods' vegan vanilla cupcakes are praised for their fluffy and moist texture, making them a top choice for those seeking plant-based options. Customers enjoy the well-balanced frosting made with vegan cream cheese, which complements the cupcake perfectly.
Exploremores are sandwich cookies, similar to another Girl Scout favorite, Do-Si-Dos. Instead of crunchy oatmeal and peanut butter, these offer flavors of chocolate, marshmallow, and toasted almond-flavored crème.
The best supermarket Easter eggs include Waitrose's dark chocolate orange egg, which is Fairtrade-certified and features a sophisticated 65% dark chocolate, flavored with aromatic Valencian orange oil.
Brad Reese used to eat a Reese's product every day. Not anymore. The 70-year-old grandson of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups inventor H.B. Reese wrote a scathing open letter to Hershey accusing the candy giant of replacing milk chocolate with compound coatings and peanut butter with peanut crème in multiple products. He recently threw out a bag of Reese's Mini Hearts. "It was not edible," he told the Associated Press.
Soaked and blended, cashews become a stand-in for heavy cream, keeping stuffed shells, soups, pasta sauces, and desserts luxuriously dairy-free. Toasted and roughly chopped, they add crunch to salads, curries, stir-fries, and more. There are so many reasons to love cooking with these seeds-that's right, "cashew nut" is technically a misnomer, since they grow outside the fruit rather than inside a hard shell like true nuts.
These candied nuts have become one of the cornerstones. You can make them with whatever nuts you have on hand, they keep beautifully for over a week, and they're an easy win as part of a larger snack-y spread. They also bridge the sweet-savory gap wonderfully and I've been serving them with a range of spreads, flatbread, and other bite-sized sweet treats.
Fulfil took the top spot in Tasting Table's rankings of protein bar brands, for its chocolate-forward flavors and protein content, boasting at least 15 grams per serving. With a dessert-inspired tastes, these bars resemble a sweet treat while still delivering on the nutrients. Tasting Table's rankings highlight the triple chocolate and chocolate salted caramel flavors but other options also include chocolate hazelnut, chocolate peanut caramel, and chocolate peanut butter with Reese's flavor.
Chocolate artist Chris Ford's whimsical creations - once available exclusively online and to celebrities - are now accessible at his West Hollywood pop-up shop. The Butter, Love & Hardwork space features themed, seasonal chocolate designs inspired by holidays and special occasions, from Valentine's roses to Easter eggs. Beyond chocolates, the shop now offers pastries, coffee drinks and a chocolate vending machine, with plans for a dessert tasting menu.
The Park Street Deli Chocolate Chip Cannoli Dip is decadent and delicious, and while the dip may be intended to be spooned on top of cookies or fruit, we have found a different way to savor the creamy, chocolate chip-speckled treat. Clocking in at $3.29 for a 10-ounce package, this cream cheese-based product is ready to be introduced to your next batch of fudgy brownies.
But crunchy isn't a descriptor of chocolate cake's soft, springy crumb and thick, creamy frosting. However, adding crunch to cake brings even more depth and the perfect contrast to an otherwise soft textural profile. And you can give chocolate cake a satisfying crunch with an ingredient from the breakfast aisle. Cocoa Pebbles is the breakfast cereal that'll enhance both the texture and chocolatey flavor of your next chocolate cake recipe.
A chocolate box is not a substitute for true love. But sometimes it's close enough. The best chocolate boxes can offer all the complexity and intensity of a brief love affair, and more variety than some lives. Sometimes, only the best will do. And these days, the best chocolates in existence are a mere mouse-click away, able to be ordered online and sent to your favorite human being on earth (even if it's you).
Now, peanuts and almonds don't taste exactly alike, but if you are trying to mimic the same roasty decadence and want something that could work with a graham cracker or chocolate crust, you're in luck. Simply use an equal ratio of almond butter in your favorite peanut butter pie recipe. Stir it into the filling mix with cream cheese, sugar, and vanilla until the almond butter is well-distributed. From there, you can add it to your pre-baked pie crust, chill, and serve.
At the risk of editorializing, few things in life are better than peanut butter and the rich, comforting, gooey pleasure it brings, which needs so little in order to be enjoyed - two slices of bread will do, or if you're feeling particularly indulgent and lazy, sometimes just a spoon. This uncomplicated charm is well demonstrated by the fact that perhaps the best peanut butter cookies you will ever taste require only three ingredients, all of which you probably already have in your kitchen.