MACAROONS GALORE!

Ever since my family trip to Europe in 2006, all four of us have been OBSESSED with French macaroons. Like we spend our days hunting for places to find them in Chicago, spend our weekends trying to translate recipes from French and then perfectly recreate them in our kitchen. We've searched high and low and haven't really been able to find any that matched the amazing deliciousness of the ones we tried in Paris.....

UNTIL RIGHT NOW!


It was like Macaroon heavennnnnnnn! First I went with Jenny into Fortnum & Mason just so that our eyes would dazzle and our mouths would water because it is like a candy chocolate tea masterpiece work of art inside that place....and I saw in the window display that they had macaroons! SOoooooooo we both decided to splurge (or as K.B. would say "splurt") on something and I just had to get myself a "jolly".... the giant macaroon that was blood orange flavored! IT EVEN HAD TWO SLICES OF BLOOD ORANGE IN IT! Ooohhh it was pretty delicious! But I will be honest, it was maybe TOO gooey/liquid-y. Delicious, but just a little too sloppy on the inside. 4!

THEN, as we were on a hunt for smoothies we came across this place called "cilantro cafe" which had smoothies and looked adorable so we went in, only to find THEY ALSO HAD GIANT MACAROONS! Completely in awe of my new found fortune, I could not say no. Jenny and I split the giant chocolate macaroon and it even came with cream on the side. And let me tell you, THIS DID NOT DISAPPOINT! It was absolutely PERFECT, just like I remember macaroons being... really crispy thin outside with chewey inside and gooey chocolate stickyness and creamy chocolate filling inside.... PERFECT I TELL YOU!! 5++++++++++

MEGA UPDATE PART 1

So I have severely neglected this blog even though I have definitely not neglected eating chocolate. At all. So here is part 1 or a 2 part mega update! Enjoy.



First the Cadbury Freddo bar. How cute is it that it's even shaped like a frog for real! It's basically a milk chocolate frog shaped thing with nice delicious caramel inside. And it's the gooey kind, not the super thick chewy kind of caramel. Yummm. These are super good and I'm definitely going to get more.... lucky they're cheap because they;re kinda tiny! 4 for the Freddo bar! Cadbury can probably do no wrong.



Ok I SOOOOOO wanted this to be amazingly delicious. I love chocolate and caramel together even though I don't really like caramel all that much. But I was really let down by this :( Tragic, I know. It was still GOOD, but the caramel wasn't gooey it was kinda thick and.... more dry? If that makes sense? I don't know. I'll definitely go for the Freddo's over this any day. 3.



FRUIT AND NUT BARS. ARE. MY NEW. OBSESSION. I'm not going to lie... I've had them with my breakfast like 4 times already. I crave them all the time! I can't stop eating them! I buy them in bulk! Not really but I would if I could. They are amazinggggg and I don't know why, it's not like they're anything too special. They're just regular dairy milk with raisins and almonds in it but for some reason it is like..... unbelievably addictingly delicious. I can't get enough. These things will clog my arteries and drain my wallet and I won't even care. 5!!!



I saw this at ASDA and basically I think I wanted to buy it because 1, I recognized it was Polish and I was proud of myself, and 2 I was hoping maybe the creamy looking stuff would be like the Kinder milky stuff. WRONG. This was disappointing. The creamy middle stuff reminded me of something I can't place, probably some Polish candy I used to eat when I was little, I don't know. But I didn't really like the taste of it and I didn't even finish eating it--shocking, I know. 1.

Cadbury Dairy Milk

THIS CHOCOLATE IS THE BEST CHOCOLATE EVER! Hershey's has NOTHING on Dairy Milk. Nothingggggggg. Just when I thought maybe I was getting sick of plain old milk chocolate, these amazing gifts from heaven come along. Thank you, Cadbury, for making dairy milk. It's like Hershey's but ten thousand times better, it doesn't taste like chemicals at all, it just tastes chocolate-y and deeeeeeelicious. Amazing!

5/5!

Choccy Woccy Doo Dah Cakes!

WOWIE! A billion thanks to Ally for taking Jenny and I to the amazing place known as Choccy woccy doodah!

Where do I even begin? Ok well so we ordered two between the three of us, a lemon cake which chocolate ganache between the layers, and a chocolate truffle cake also with chocolate ganash between layers. And they came with ice cream and some strawberries on the side. All of that, those hugeeeee pieces of cake, ALL FOR 8 POUNDS. Seriously you can't tell from the photo but the pieces of cake are gigantic! Totally 100% worth it, I say!

The cakes are covered in chocolate instead of frosting, which is a crazy cool idea. And they have little delicious gummy hearts sprinkled on them, it is too cute. Ok so the Lemon one is the one I tried first, it is DELICIOUS. Incredibly moist and rich but the lemon isn't too overpowering or strong, and the chocolate ganache is deeeeeeee-licious. And there is chocolate and strawberry sauce drizzled around on the plate which is just amazingly scrumptious for dipping the cake into.

The chocolate truffle cake was also delicious but was a little bit dry and i just get sad when cakes are dry. But it was still sooooo wonderful! And both came with some vanilla ice cream that was equally tasty!

The little shop is great, tiny and crazily colorful. When we got there the windows were all fogged up, I would have never noticed it or bothered to go in but I am sooooo glad Ally knew about it to take us there! After we filled up our tummies and were conquered by the cake, we took a stroll over to their storefront where you can actually buy their cakes and other chocolatey delights, and it is AMAZING INSIDE!!! Oh it was like Heaven! It kind of reminds me of what Madame Puddifoots would be like in Harry Potter.... except that you don't sit and eat there it's just a store front. But it is incredible! Oh also they played Four Tet and Sigur Ros, how lovely!

They get a 5 for the experience alone, TOTALLY GREAT EVERYONE NEEDS TO GO!
http://www.choccywoccydoodah.com/