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Yummy chocolate cherry treats don’t last long and if I keep buying them, then they are no longer treats!
Only eight in the box, everyone tasty and sweet. With that sharp cherry tang.
I’d buy them every week, but they are not good for me. I swore not to eat as much sugar, but I think I’m addicted to it!
Only savoury treats now? I don’t know, the temptation is too great. Definitely wrapped in red for danger.
If you get to have a treat, enjoy.
I decided to make myself a treat. Take a glass, add one shot of Irish coffee liqueur and add a mini dark chocolate and vanilla ice-cream on a stick. Plus a teaspoon.
Let the ice-cream melt so the centre is soft but the dark chocolate is still crunchy. Break off into the Irish coffee liqueur…..remove the stick.. Spoon out the tasty treat to enjoy.
When I promised to cut down
On sugary foods
I didn’t notice this cheese cake
Lingering just
Out of sight
The chocolate dot
Sat on the counter
Looking for a companion
To contrast with the cherry swirls
Give me strength
Never to return
To this cafe
On pain
Of chilli sauce
Poured on my dessert!
My friend had keylime pie for afters this evening. It looks delicious and she let me taste it. Very zesty and tasty. I had a slightly uninspired chocolate and vanilla ice cream sundae for my pud. Naughty but nice is the expression I would use. I’m going to have to stop eating ice creams but this hot weather we’ve been having has tempted me. By the way the colour is too yellow in this photo, it was almost fluo green! Or that might be my eyes?
Jot down the first thing that comes to your mind.
It’s Easter and my sister just asked me if I have had an easter egg as a treat. I haven’t, I had a rice crispy easter cake with a couple of mini eggs on it. I’m trying to lose weight and improve my diet.
But high percentage chocolate is supposed to be good for you so I sometimes buy 85 % dark chocolate. I recently found out that it’s good for your magnesium levels. I will only eat one square a day so I don’t increase my sugar levels.
I try and buy fair trade chocolate to make sure the cocoa farmers get a fair price for their crops, but I really ought to research it more to check this is correct.
I went to my art group for mental wellbeing this morning and decided on the way home because the weather is sunny and burning hot. So I went shopping to save having to go out again later. While I was in the supermarket I treated myself to a chocolate frappachino? Is that what it’s called (milkshake) it was so cold I got real brain freeze! (drawn in Artrage app).
It’s about 30°C outside and I was in the car which was incredibly hot. No air conditioner so I had the windows wide open. I was so tired and overheated when I got home I’ve just come in and kicked my shoes off. Now for a rest!
Have a happy Easter. I realise it’s not just about chocolate eggs and bunnies, it is about faith and resurrection. It is the centre of the meaning of being a Christian, like everything else it has become a reason to market chocolate and other treats like hot cross buns.
But I enjoyed doing this scraper board drawing on holographic card. It’s decorated with flowers like tulips and daffodils plus eggs and rabbits.
I hope that however you celebrate this time of year you have some peace and loving kindness. Take care of yourselves.
What’s your favorite candy?
I can’t find a photo of one, but I really enjoy chocolate seahorses and seashells. I think they are my favourite chocolates. They are moulded shapes with stripey surfaces and have chocolate truffle centres. I can’t remember the name of the company that makes them Guylian? I think. Very sweet and tasty, hence the reason I don’t have them often. They come in flat boxes of twelve or more chocolates. There are seahorses (I tried to draw), seashells, starfish possibly? It’s a while since I had any. X
Made a birthday trifle, raspberrysugar free jelly with blackberries and port, strawberry blancmange with a bit of sweetner, whipped cream with chopped strawberries and grated dark chocolate.
Now that’s what I call a trifle!
Eggcellent Easter wishes!
My sister bought me a mini egg Easter egg. It’s been years since I’ve had one. I opened the foil wrapping and made a small hole in the chocolate eggs side. I tipped a few of these pretty patterned chocs out, took a picture and slowly ate them (very sweet!) then rewrapped the treat in its covering, there was still a gap so I’ve turned it so the front looks untouched. I have fastened the box up. Put it back on top of the fridge. Hope hubby doesn’t notice or he might snaffle the rest if it!
Mallaband-Brown