Desserts

Hey everybody, with the holiday weekend coming up, we decided to switch up the nosh show schedule a bit. A you ready for our quartultimate episode? Wait, that's not a word. Episode 4 of The Nosh Show is now available! Head on over to The Nosh Show website to listen and to see a complete rundown of everything we talked about. We got a little crazy this including a neat behind the scenes

Emma here. A quick update on how you can keep up with us at Sweets & Snacks 2013! I will be live-tweeting all the deliciousness on Twitter @zomgcandy. We’ve created an Instagram account @zomgcandy, too. We think we can take real cameras into the exhibit hall, so hopefully we’ll be able to upload hi-res, wider-angle shots at the end of each day. Let us know if you have any requests via Twitter, Instagram, comments on this blog, or e-mail!

Are you guys familiar with the jewelry company, 1928? These rose cupcakes from Little Paper Cakes reminds me of some rose stud earrings that I wore in grade school.

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One of the very first blogs I started following after I began blogging was I am Baker. She loves Neapolitan desserts and is always coming up with new Neapolitan creations, like cakes, cupcakes, cookies, and bars. These Neapolitan Cupcakes are chocolate with vanilla buttercream and strawberry chocolate coating. The strawberry coating can also be adapted to almost any flavor and color! Check out the whole post here!

Gritty and dirty meet tropical something

All this week we're going to be sampling a great collection of gummy treats, brought to us from our good friends at sugarfina.com. They told us that they have one of the most original collections of gummy treats in the world, we told them to prove it, they did. So sit back, and enjoy some fun gummy reviews. Our first review might seem like a basic gummy bear review, but it's not. Why not mix your favorite drink with your favorite gummy, what could possibly go wrong.Click here to read our Champagne gummy bear review.CC

What do you get when you mix Chex Mix and cupcakes? The perfect sweet and salty dessert! Cupcake Project developed this recipe that you can use nearly any type of Chex Mix for! She does mention to keep things balanced, make sure you use a frosting close to your Chex Mix of choice to play up the flavors. You can even get the Chex Mix flavor in each cupcake by substituting the crushed snack mix for some of the flour in the recipe. Check out the recipe here!

Emma and I are flying to Chicago for the Sweets and Snacks Expo at the crack of dawn tomorrow! The Sweets and Snacks Expo is the big annual candy and snacks convention/trade show, where hundreds of companies show up to show off what they’re making and selling. Last year, I got a bazillion samples that provided much candy blogging fodder in the months following. Below is a video of what we got at Day 1 of the Expo last year: No reviews this week. Instead, Emma will be live tweeting our conference experience @zomgcandy, and I will post short updates on the site whenever I get the chance. If you’d like to get an idea of what’s in store, here’s my coverage from last year’s Expo: Media Preview (don’t think we’re getting one this year. Or I wasn’t invited…), Day 1, Days 2 and 3, House of Blues industry social, and my tips for bloggers (which I will be following!). Get excited! So much sugar coma in my future!

The times when I’m stoked about a salad are few and far between. This is one of them! Can I say stoked? I’ve probably used the word thrice in my life, the third being above. I’m trying it out for size. This salad… ugh. So good. I’ve rambled about my love for chopped salads for years on this little internet page. I don’t know what it is. The crunch of vegetables turns me off so maybe it’s just that everything is smaller and tiny and can be picked up in one spoon? I think what it really is though.. is that I can use tortilla chips to eat this salad. Now THAT is where it’s at. I’m so into it. The salad has so many of my favorite flavors going on – bacon, feta, avocado, corn – that I kept the dressing simple: just some olive oil and lime juice. Lots of salt and pepper too, but other than that, just pure flavor. Even a little arugula mixed in with my beloved butter lettuce for something extra. On top of needing the majority of my salads in chopped form, I sure as heck need as much texture (like, non-vegetable texture) that I can get. Enter bacon. And corn. And if you’re feeling frisky… maybe crumble some of those tortilla chips on top. Uh huh. Do it. BLT Chopped Salad with Corn, Feta + Avocado Yield: serves 2 Total Time: 25 minutes Ingredients: 2 cups butter lettuce, chopped 2 cups fresh arugula, chopped 1 pint grape tomatos, quartered 4 slices thick-cut bacon, fried and crumbled 1 cup sweet corn 1 avocado, chopped 4 ounces feta, crumbled 1 1/2 tablespoons olive oil 1 lime, juiced 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon pepper Directions: As a note, to chop my lettuce I like to lay it out on a big cutting board and just continuously run my knife through it (in all different directions) until it's chopped as much as I like. In a large bowl, combine lettuce, arugula, tomatoes, corn and avocado. Add in salt, pepper, olive oil and lime juice then toss well to coat. Fold in bacon and feta then divide evenly amount 2 plates. Serve! Take that Monday. ©2012 How Sweet It Is