Bittersweet news for Valentine's Day: Cocoa prices going up 02:12. ... Call it a match made in heaven: Chocolate and Valentine's Day has outlasted nearly every relationship out there.

Double chocolate muffins with cocoa and chocolate chunks are a decadent way to start the day. I'm not telling you these are ...

Embark on a global chocolate journey this World Chocolate Day, exploring eight remarkable destinations where cocoa is culture ...

Melt chocolate and 4 tablespoons butter in bowl over a pot of simmering water or on low in a nonstick pan. When there are a few unmelted pieces, remove from heat and stir. This smooths chocolate out.

Chocolate is a must-have for Valentine's Day, but it needn't be fussy. ... 7 ounces bittersweet chocolate (see headnote), finely chopped 14 tablespoons salted butter, ...

It’s probably all because of Richard Cadbury, who started marketing heart-shaped, Cupid-bedecked boxes of chocolate bonbons for Valentine’s Day back in the 1860s. The tradition stuck .

The original chocolate chips were made of semi-sweet chocolate. Today there are many other flavors, including bittersweet, dark chocolate, milk chocolate, white and dark swirl, peanut butter, mint ...

Chocolate sales topped $21 billion in the 12 months ending in mid-August last year, up 1.5% from the prior 12-month period, according to the National Confectioners Association, even as units sold ...

I’m not going to lie: I love chocolate. When you live in chocolate-obsessed Belgium, it’s hard not to. The average person here consumes eight kilograms (17.6 pounds) of the stuff a year. But I ...

Without any sweeteners, cocoa is bitter. Over the last 400 years, sugar and milk were added for flavor, and only in the last 178 years has chocolate been available in bar form. In 1828, a Dutch ...