chocolate Archives

Kickstarter Alert: ChocolateConstruction

August 10, 2017Will James

Make your own chocolate 3D dinosaur puzzle with this cool mold from ChocolateConstruction!

Valentine’s Day Alternative: International Book Giving Day

February 14, 2017Evil Genius Mum

Don’t like Valentine’s Day? Let me introduce you to International Book Giving Day. It brings a love that lasts so much longer than cheap chocolate and saccharine-sweet Hallmark cards.

GeekDad Review: Real Cooking Chocolate Pen Kit

February 11, 2017Tony Sims

My daughter is a chocolate fiend. Any given day, we can expect to find candy wrappers stashed in her room. So, naturally, when I saw the Real Cooking Chocolate Pen Kit, I thought right away about what a great gift it would be for her.

The Bom: About More Than Chocolate

February 10, 2017Nivi Engineer1

Valentine’s Day is coming and we’re talking to Carolina Martin, founder of The Bom, a chocolate business that does good.

Happy Valentine… er Wolf-entines Day?

February 9, 2017Natalie Zaman

Every year the same thing happens: the evergreens come down, the hearts go up. Time to party with the wolves!

DIY: Solar Oven S’mores

September 9, 2016Evil Genius Mum

10-year-old Sinister’s latest science project is to re-design a household item for solar power. Of course, he made it all about chocolate. All Hail, Sinister’s Solar Oven S’mores!

Pizzalympics and Chocolate War: A Competitive Birthday Party

August 25, 2016Nivi Engineer

I’ve got a competitive kid who just turned ten. Maybe it’s because he’s the youngest of three, or because he’s the shortest of three, or maybe it’s something altogether different. But four years back, his family birthday party took on a creative–and competitive–new format, and we’ve never turned back. My son shares a birthday with […]

Recipe: Cherry Ripe Slice

July 15, 2016Evil Genius Mum1

Crappy days need comfort food, and you can’t go wrong with EG Mum’s version of the Cherry Ripe Slice.

My Top 10 Chocolate Products for Mother’s Day

May 3, 2016Jenny Bristol

Let’s face it; most moms like chocolate. And, since chocolate is one of the traditional Mother’s Day gifts, I have listed ten of my favorite chocolate treats for Mother’s Day week. If you’re too busy to make something chocolate from scratch, give these a go.

The Evil Genius Easter Bunny

March 25, 2016Evil Genius Mum

For us, Easter is a four-day-long Festival of Chocolate. A long-weekend of sleep and chocolate.

Kitchen Witchin’: Magic Shell

February 25, 2016Shiri Sondheimer

You ready for Shiri to lay the science down about Magic Shell?

PAX Australia 2015 (Part 1): The Geek Social Hub

November 6, 2015December 13, 2017Evil Genius Mum

If the “geek shall inherit the Earth” then PAX is where they divvy up the loot. As an expo, it is a huge opportunity to try new games, find new talent, and “mingle with your people.”

Chocolate Bark That Makes a Great Snack

February 16, 2015Tony Sims1

It was shortly before Valentine’s Day that I discovered a particularly tasty chocolate treat. Better yet, it is not even a dessert, but a “snacking chocolate.”

Cakes Cove Giveaway: Win a Chocolate Millennium Falcon, X-Wings, and Star Wars Cookies!

May 29, 2014Nicole Wakelin

Star Wars Episode VII can’t get here fast enough, so to pass the time, we’ve got some fantastic Star Wars chocolate treats to give away to one lucky reader!

Craft Your "Gingerbread" House From Chocolate With Lakeland Molds

December 21, 2013Sophie Brown

Who wants the same old gingerbread house? Not GeekMom Sophie.

The Hardest Level of Candy Crush

September 25, 2013November 23, 2017Melissa Ford186

The geek in me can’t just play Candy Crush. Instead of merely wasting my evening, lining up pieces of brightly colored candy on the iPad, I also spend an inordinate amount of time thinking through the construction of the different levels. What makes a level frustrating vs. challenging? Which is more dreaded: multiplying chocolate pieces or multi-layered jellies? I threw these questions out there to the vast Internet, trying to figure out what was the hardest level of Candy Crush.

My creations using the Doctor Who range from Lakeland

Product Review: Doctor Who Bakeware Range From Lakeland

September 7, 2013Sophie Brown1

One type of product certain to send my geeky heart a-flutter is bakeware. When Lakeland announced their exclusive range of Doctor Who products, I may have danced for joy.

Eat Like a Geek: Peppermint Toads

April 29, 2013Cathé Post2

My daughter recently had a Harry Potter themed birthday party. The festivities of the day are for another article, but part of the Honeydukes gift bags were homemade Peppermint Toads.

Chocolate Gamer Dice

December 14, 2011December 13, 2017Ruth Suehle3

Pardon the cliches flying here, but what does a lady geek want more than her dice recreated in chocolate? For $15 towards this Kickstarter project, you get a complete set–D4, D6, D8, D10, D12, and D20 recreated in Ghirardelli 60% cacao. I bet they’d go really well with a bite of chocolate space invader.

My Ren Faire-Themed Wedding

June 7, 2011GeekMom

There are many geeky themes you could have for your wedding. Ren Faire was the theme my husband and I chose for our wedding, which was nearly 5 years ago. My husband, Todd, and I had been dating for nearly two years when he proposed to me on my birthday. Once the euphoria of being […]

Make it a Chocolate Dipped Valentine’s Day

February 13, 2011GeekMom3

If you’re looking for a fun Valentine’s Day activity to do with your kids, consider a little dip through chocolate. Everything‘s good dipped in chocolate, right? My 15 year old, ever aware of a chance to eat chocolate, volunteered to help with this project. He could easily have done it all by himself, but in […]

Banana Chocolate Chip Pancake Hearts

February 11, 2011GeekMom

Sunday is the only morning of the week that our family doesn’t have to get up early. If I am going to fix breakfast that is usually they day I do it. One of my family’s favorite things that I make is banana chocolate chip pancakes. I made these up one day when I was […]

Sweets For Your Sweetie: Homemade Truffles

February 10, 2011GeekMom

While living in California, one of my friends would hold an annual truffle party every year in early December. She would invite several friends over, provide the chocolate truffle base, and have us bring various toppings such as almonds or cocoa. We all had a wonderful time making and rolling truffles over a glass of […]

‘Tis the Season: Advent Calendars

November 28, 2010Jenny Bristol

If you’re like me and try to decorate the house for Christmas on the weekend after Thanksgiving, perhaps one of your many festive decorations is one or a slew of Advent calendars. Advent obviously has religious origins, but for me, …

It’s Not All About the Chocolate–Celebrate Father’s Day with Milton Hershey’s Legacy

June 14, 2010Corrina Lawson

When I was growing up, I read a story about the town of Hershey, Pennsylvania in Dynamite magazine. What kid could resist? A whole town dedicated to chocolate. Alas, my pleas for a Hershey vacation weren’t fulfilled until I was …

The Great Bacon Odyssey: Does It Really Make Everything Better?

June 8, 2010Matt Blum

Ah, bacon: the world’s greatest guilty pleasure, at least where food is concerned. I do so very much love bacon, in all things in which I’ve tried it. I’ve had it with eggs, on a burger, crumbled up in pancakes, …

10 Steps to an Awesomely Geeky Kids Birthday Party

March 1, 2010Nathan Barry

Birthday season is upon us here. Seven weekends in a row we have parties to attend, with our little girl’s right in the middle. At the end of last year, around the time that Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox came …

Leftover Valentine’s Chocolate? Use It to Measure the Speed of Light

February 15, 2010Admin

If you’re a long-time reader, you may remember the great leftover Easter Peeps microwave experiment. Well, today we’re going to be nuking leftover Valentine’s Day chocolate to demonstrate one of the constants of physics, the speed of light. Chocolate makes …

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