• caramel apple cider cake bars;

    November 1, 2024bestwithchocolate@gmail.com

    These chewy caramel apple cider cake bars smell like fall, with apple cider and cinnamon flavors and topped with caramel chips!

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  • Hand unwrapping a cider caramel

    apple cider caramels;

    November 17, 2023bestwithchocolate@gmail.com

    Take a bite of fall flavor in these delicious, chewy apple cider caramels. Everything you know and love about caramel, but now with an apple cinnamon finish!

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  • apple cider slush;

    October 1, 2021bestwithchocolate@gmail.com

    I said brrr, it’s cold in here. In the morning maybe, but then it’s hot again by the afternoon. This apple cider slush is cool and refreshing and has all the fall flavors you could want in an icy drink.

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  • apple cider doughnut with a bite taken out of it

    punchy apple cider doughnuts;

    December 11, 2020bestwithchocolate@gmail.com

    Apple cider doughnuts soaked in a punch of apple cider flavor and dusted with cinnamon sugar.

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  • Five colorful halloween cocktails in varying potion bottles

    witch potion halloween cocktails;

    October 30, 2020bestwithchocolate@gmail.com

    Dress up your Halloween party with these witchy brew Halloween cocktails. Served in potion bottles, you’re sure to find alcoholic and mocktail suggestions for your Halloween party.

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  • Round potion bottle of swirling gold felix felicis, a Harry Potter inspired Halloween cocktail, and apples in the background

    liquid luck halloween cocktail;

    September 4, 2020bestwithchocolate@gmail.com

    A glorious golden Harry Potter-inspired elixer: this swirling felix felicis potion, also known as liquid luck will make you lucky—lucky you’re the life of the party with a good cider drink in your hand!

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  • Caramel Apple Sangria @ bestwithchocolate.com

    apple cider sangria;

    February 2, 2018bestwithchocolate@gmail.com

    Delicious caramel apple cider sangria, festive for fall, but delicious all year round! – – Who doesn’t love apples?  Who doesn’t love wine?  Who doesn’t love putting the two together?  If the answer is you, I’m not entirely sure why you’re reading this, but who am I to judge? First things first, chop some apples!  I really liked having the mix of red and green apples for some extra color, so for this recipe I used red delicious and granny smith.  If I had to pick one though, I’d go with the granny smith.  I like the little bit sour…

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  • Ciderworks tasting glasses, read the review @ bestwithchocolate.com

    winery review: ciderworks cidery

    January 13, 2017bestwithchocolate@gmail.com

    While most of the wineries we typically go to are out toward western Virginia, occasionally we’ll make the trek up to Maryland!  There’s some nice places up there too, and specifically some unique places. The Orchid Cellar Meadery is one (post to come!) and Ciderworks is another!  It makes the Antietam Wine Trail perfect to do a little tasting of all your favorite alcoholic beverages!  I’ll save the mead and wine for other times, but Ciderworks is one of my favorites because it’s so unique.  It reminds me a little of Great Shoals actually (read the review), because it’s not made…

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  • Apple Pie Moonshine @ bestwithchocolate.com

    apple pie moonshine;

    December 9, 2016bestwithchocolate@gmail.com

    Yup, I said it.  Apple. Pie. Moonshine.  I’m putting this warning up-front and center: BE CAREFUL.  THIS STUFF DOES NOT TASTE LIKE ALCOHOL.  In the best way possible.  It’s made with spyritus vodka, which is about the most alcoholic thing you can buy.  Like period.  It’s so alcoholic in fact, that you can’t buy it in VA, MD, or DC, but we had to travel up to NJ/NY area to find it. This recipe actually came from my sister’s friend Jesse, whose parents host of all of us crazy folk when we go to the PA bloomsburg fair (event review) every year!  Which was perfect,…

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  • Event Review: PA Bloomsburg Fair @ bestwithchocolate.com

    event review: PA bloomsburg fair;

    October 7, 2016bestwithchocolate@gmail.com

    This past weekend was our annual trip to Bloomsburg Fair!  For those of you wondering what’s so cool about the Bloomsburg fair and why it’s an annual trip, let me explain. My sister went to Lafayette college in PA, and I went to Bucknell university, also in PA. One of her friends grew up in Bloomsburg, and so they started going every year with their group of college friends. Once I got to college, they invited me along, and so I try to join them every year now!  It’s a blast. I don’t know that it’s the biggest fair, or…

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