gift ideas for chocolate lovers

Chocolate Desserts to Die For! Cookbook Recipe

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As a chocoholic, my cookbook collection includes plenty of cookbooks with one thing in mind – chocolate! A received a new one recently (Chocolate Desserts to Die For!) to review and I’d love to tell you all about it.

Now that Halloween has come and gone, thoughts are turning rapidly to Thanksgiving and Christmas. I’m featuring cookbooks (such as this one and Celebrations) on the food blog recently that pull double duty:

They’ll be invaluable to you when you’re cooking your holiday meals.
They make excellent gift ideas for cooks and foodies in your life.

Chocolate Desserts to Die For! actually pulls triple duty as it adds this to its resume: This cookbook is filled with beautiful and delicious gifts you can make for people in your life – after all, gifts don’t get any better than chocolate!

{Review Continued Below the Mini Chocolate Turnover…}

Chocolate Desserts to Die For! (Mini Chocolate Turnovers)

This is not a “Gluten Free” cookbook, obviously, but its recipes are either gluten free in the first place (such as the candies) or can be made gluten free with easy substitutions.

Some of the Recipes Include:

Not My Momma’s Rice Pudding with Cranberry Compote (would make a GORGEOUS Christmas dessert!)
Chocolate Cranberry Oat Cookies (again, perfect for Christmas)
Bev’s Hot Fudge Sauce
Chocolate Cupcakes with Chocolate Frosting
Chocolate Chocolate Chipotle Fudge Milkshake
Strawberry Saute’
Warm Chocolate Raspberry Pudding Cake (when I make it, I substitute the chocolate cake with a gluten free cake mix.. can you say easy?!)
The Kid in All Adults Marshmallow Truffles
Triple-Decker Chocolate Cookies
Fudgy Goes Latin Bars
And many, many, many more chocolate recipes.

Take a closer look at Chocolate Desserts to Die For! by clicking the link.

NFL My Team M&Ms with Dispenser & 3 Bags

Each year, around this time, I start posting a lot of Christmas gift ideas. I might as well, my thoughts are geared toward my own Christmas shopping nearly 24/7.

Maybe it’s because I’m a girl, myself, but I find it easier to shop for the females in my family than I do the guys. Who could even begin to think the way their minds work?! I was actually looking for something for our wedding blog this morning when I came across the cool gift ideas for sports fans in this post.

Granted, they aren’t just for guys. I’d LOVE the Denver Broncos and St. Louis Cardinals dispensers muchly. And if they had one for College teams, I’d have to buy about five of the University of Kentucky ones.

Choose your own (or your gift recipient’s) favorite team and get customized M&M’s featuring that NFL, NBA, or MLB team’s colors and logos. Each comes with a team logo dispenser and three 7oz bags. All pro teams available.

Any sports fan would love these dispensers and personalized M&Ms. After all, we sports fanatics want our team(s) colors and logos everywhere around us and everyone (absolutely everyone) loves M&M’s.

Click through any of the pictures or links to see the teams available.

Individual team candies are also available – without the dispenser. Obviously, these would be ideal for stocking stuffers or Christmas bag “fillers” – maybe along with a sweatshirt or scarf with their team’s logo. The ideas and possibilities are endless. Below are just a few of the teams. Remember, every pro team you can think of is available (NBA, NFL, and MLB).

Not only do these gorgeous M&M’s make perfect gift ideas, they’re also GREAT for decorating cakes, cupcakes, and cookies with. You can even throw them in a big bowl of (cooled) popcorn for a fun surprise for the sports fans in your house.