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I'm a purist. I like my apples to taste like apples. I like my peanut butter smooth. I like my men manly.

I like my chocolate bitter. Stop adding other weird stuff to it - cinnamon, basil, lavender, whatever - give me a peice of 60% cacao and I'm a happy girl.

Ed Levine over at Yahoo! did a taste test of milk chocolate. I despise milk chocolate. Maybe it's the reminder of that Cadbury Egg at Easter or the mini Hersey bars in my sack at Halloween - but the milky stuff just doesn't do it for me. I don't think of it as real chocolate. Chocolate, by nature, has no real "fat" in it. Sure, there's cocoa butter...but it's not really butter. I promise. Real fats like butter, cream and milk coat the mouth, covering your taste buds so that everything tastes more mild, different. (That's why a big glass of milk works so well to cool the buds when you're eating something spicy.) Why on earth would you want to spoil a perfectly delicious peice of chocolate with something like milk?

However - if a customer wants it, I'll use it. Because the customer is always right.

Dough!!!

There's a good way and a bad way to try and get your point across. Apparently, this doctors balls aren't rolled in cinnamon sugar.

48 Reasons to Try Something New...

Iron Cupcake Chicago has been a huge success, and the competition is moving full steam ahead!

June's secret ingredient was citrus, followed by tropical fruit in July. It was only a few days ago that the theme for August was announced - and low and behold, they are looking for savory cupcakes!!!

Savory cupcakes are becoming more of a trend these days. I've seen bakeries selling everything from BLT cupcakes to curry cupcakes - even recipes online for a corned beef and cabbage cupcake! Whew!

So, I'll be out at Veranda again on August 3 at 6pm introducing two brand new flavors from the Pastries Not Potatoes kitchen. Hope to see you there!

Sweets!
Melissa

Hot Dog!!!

They are never going to hear the end of this.

Sweets!
Melissa

Just Eat It.

Good grief. 

Capitalizing on just about anything these days, a local Chicago bakery has gone to great lengths to temporarily preserve the legend of Michael Jackson.  From the sounds of it, these things change just about as often as MJ's apperance did.

Sweets!
Melissa