February 8th, 2010
Happy Valentine’s Day! These fun L-O-V-E truffles were for a recent NYC bridal shower. The tiffany blue themed boxes were topped with a flower for that extra special touch.Each box added to the centerpiece of the table. Two boxes contained the L-O-V-E truffles (plain milk and white chocolate truffles) and the other two boxes contained an assortment of our famous truffle flavors. A sweet treat for the bride to be. Have a great Valentine’s Day everyone! 
The truffle boxes at the event
(you can also see our Bride and Groom Brownie pops in the background)
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February 1st, 2010
A sweet treat that is simple, elegant and still delicious. And they are super easy to make. Take your favorite brownies and put them in the fridge overnight. Then cut them into hearts using a cookie cutter. Cut out letters, shapes or whatnot from thick paper (like a card stock), lay on top of brownie, and then sift powdered sugar over them. Remove the paper and voila, pretty brownies! And deelicious as well!
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January 25th, 2010
New for 2010, we are happy to introduce our Valentine’s Day line! Not only do we have our famous handmade truffles and brownie pops, but we have added some fun treats for your sweetheart.
We have Red Velvet Cake Pops, Chocolate Covered Double Decker Heart Brownies (our double decker brownies, a chocolate chip blondie on the bottom, and a rich fudgy brownie on top with a dab of festive pink frosting in the middle covered completely in chocolate!) and our Valentine’s Day Gift Towers that have a little bit of everything! Only available for a limited time to be sure to place your order soon. Visit http://www.thechocolateswirl.com/vday10.htm for info on how to order these deeeelicious treats!
SPECIAL DISCOUNT: Order by Feb. 1st and get 5% off any order over $30. Use code CSVDAY2010 when ordering. Code expires 1/14/10 and cannot be combined with any additional discount
Tags: Chocolate, Double decker brownies, Red velvet, Valentine's Day
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January 20th, 2010
This was a special cake for a surprise 50th Birthday. The woman of honor’s favorite painting is Klimt’s “The Kiss” and her husband wanted a 3D version in cake, so this is what we came up with. The cake itself is chocolate cake with vanilla chip frosting, covered in fondant (lots o’ fondant, both figures, are made entirely of fondant) and shimmered with various color luster dusts. Happy 50th Linda!
Klimt’s actual painting “The Kiss”
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January 12th, 2010
This was another fun order we had right before the holiday rush. It was for a surprise 25th anniversary for two lawyers. The client (their sister/ sister in law) wanted something fun and unique, so we decided to do a cupcake tower with cupcakes that had the balance scale and their initials on them in classic vanilla and chocolate flavors. But why no picture of the tower you ask. As an added challenge, the cupcake tower had to travel to Philadelphia. Since that is out of our delivery area, we came up with an idea. Our client was willing to pick it up from us and assemble it on site. So we were able to give them the cupcakes and the decorated tower (with pretty silver ribbon, which of course i forgot to take a picture of…lol) and it was fabulous. We’re still waiting on a picture of the completed tower, but i am happy to report it was a hit!
Tags: Chocolate, Cupcakes
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January 4th, 2010
Hi all! Hope everyone had a good holiday! This was a super fun custom golf cake we did right before the craziness of the holidays. It was for a surprise 30th birthday and with lots of secret texting back and forth with his wife, we were able to match the birthday boy’s golf bag, and special golf hat! And my personal favorite is the little golfer we made to look just like him, beard and all!
This cake has a bunch of fun stuff going on. The bottom tier is chocolate cake with vanilla chocolate chip filling, the top two cake tiers are yellow cake with chocolate pudding filling, and the golf hat is actually a big ball of chocolate chip cookie then covered in fondant! Everything was frosted in tinted buttercream, and garnished with fondant and gumpaste decorations. The “water trap” is also icing, and the “sand trap” is peanut butter icing with graham cracker crumbs on it. His wife requested if possible we sneak in some peanut butter on the cake for her, mission accomplished. The only non edible thing is the pole for the flag and the trees. The base of the trees are styrofoam cones that are covered with piped buttercream. So you can lick them but can’t eat them!
I am so happy to say the cake was a hit, he absolutely loved it and was totally surprised! Happy 30th Gary!
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December 22nd, 2009
One of my favorite parts of the holiday season, of course, are CHRISTMAS COOKIES!!!! Really, who doesn’t love cookies, and christmas cookies to boot!
These are my infamous holiday chocolate chip cookies. The secret is to put both holiday m & ms and semi sweet chocolate chips in the batter. Can you tell i’m a little obsessed with the holiday M & Ms…lol. Sometimes I even throw in dark and/or milk chocolate chips as well. The different types of chocolate totally complement each other to make for a super deliciously simple holiday cookie! And the m & ms give them a festive holiday look! Ever since i’ve been 12, i am in big trouble with my fanily if i don’t make these each holiday season. Happy Holidays!
Tags: Chocolate, Christmas, Cookies
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December 21st, 2009
Festive holiday brownies for the season! Our rich fudgy brownies topped with decadent frosting and sprinkled with holiday M & Ms and colorful tree sprinkles. Also below are our candy cane brownies. The frosting is refreshingly minty and then topped with red and white mint chocolate pieces.
The Andees company just last year starting selling chips in both red and green during the holiday season in the baking aisle. They come in bags similar to chocoalte chips. So you can still get a great mint flavor, but in chocolate instead of a harsher hard candy. And they are pre chopped into cute small pieces. How great is that!? They are my favorite for holiday baking, definitely check them out! Every year i have my various relatives in multiple states check their supermarket to hoard them for me…lol. If you love mint, definitely try to find these little delicious holiday helpers!
Tags: Brownies, Chocolate, Christmas, Mint
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December 15th, 2009
Happy Hanukkah! The festival of lights! These are some of the fun Hanukkah treats we’ve made in the past. So far they’ve been yummy gifts for my husbands family, but we’re hoping to be able to incorporate more fun Hanukkah goodies into our winter line for next year! So definitely email us or leave a comment if you have any suggestions or fun Hanukkah things you’d like to see us offer.
Seen here are (from top to bottom) personalized Hanukkah sugar cookies, large Hanukkah double decker brownie, and mini Hanukkah cupcakes, And yes, the menorah above is short one candle…lol. I guess that’s what happens when you decorate cookies at 3 in the morning…lol. Happy Hanukkah!
Tags: Chocolate, Cupcakes, Double decker brownies, Hanukkah, Winter
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December 13th, 2009
My favorite time of year for fun cookies! Although i’ve been up to my elbows in truffles for the past few weeks (hence the lack of blog posts…lol, not to worry more are coming!!), i had the pleasure and fun of making these cute cookies for an office holiday party order. Just simple mittens and snowflakes. The snowflakes are decorated with royal icing then sprinkled with sugar to give them a real sparkle effect. The mittens are frosted with a softer icing (that still dries hard…love it!) and then the designs are piped in royal icing. They are just too cute to eat! Happy baking!
Tags: Christmas, Cookies, Winter
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