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Using one of my ganache recipes why not make your own delicious chocolate spread? Nothing could be much simpler – and it is delicious eaten with home-made bread.

Did you know there are a lot of advantages in eating a chocolate? We will reveal 3 benefits of eating this delicious sweet.

Cacao powder is a food that carries an abundance of Alkaloids. Alkaloids, like those found in cacao powder, were considered to be medicinal by many traditional ancestral cultures.

Most of the cacao powder on the market today is hybridized and has lost its medicinal value. Sourcing your cacao powder from natural, organic and fair trade farmers is the most optimal way to acquire your product.

Vanillin is another ingredient found in many chocolates that leaves people scratching their heads. What is it and why is it used in chocolate rather than simply using naturally occurring vanilla?

We all have this idea that chocolates are bad for your health in many ways. For one thing, chocolates contain hundreds of calories – in general, about 265 calories for every 50 grams in dry weight – that represent about a fifth of the recommended daily allowance for average individuals. For another thing, teeth do suffer from eating chocolates especially when coupled with poor oral hygiene habits.

Probably the happiest memory of childhood is looking for the Easter egg basket filled with all sorts of sweet treats from jelly beans to chocolate eggs. Each basket was supposedly left by the Easter bunny the night before, which is akin to Santa Claus leaving gifts behind under the Christmas tree.

For such a dark, bitter substance in its purest form, chocolate definitely has taken hold of our imaginations and our palates. Consider the statistics: The average Joe in the US will eat 10-12 pounds of chocolates on an annual basis while the chocoholic nation of Switzerland has seen its citizens gobble up 21 pounds a year per person. You can just imagine the billions of dollars spent on the sweet stuff. Well, that should come as no surprise as chocolate tastes good, makes you feel good and contributes to looking good!

Easter and chocolates are so closely intertwined that you have probably never celebrated the holiday without the sweetest of all confections. As a child, your Easter basket was filled with all sorts of sweet goodies – plastic eggs stuffed with pink bunnies and yellow chick marshmallows, peanut butter candies, jelly beans, speckled malted milk eggs and, of course, the chocolates eggs, all nestled in green plastic grass.

Normally I think of chocolate with child like appreciation. I dream of mouth watering treats, crunchy chocolate cookies, luscious cakes, dreamy muffins and mountains of mousse. I never think of the big business behind chocolate or the potential for corruption and conspiracy.