Recipes as seen on A Morning
NEWTREE Appetizer
Toast slices of your favourite baguette and drizzle with olive oil. Place a piece of brie cheese on each slice and top with a sliver of RENEW (dark chocolate/blackcurrant).
Hot Chocolate two ways:
Adult: Place a piece of REFRESH (dark chocolate/mint) in the bottom of a mug and pour steamed milk over top, stirring. Top with whipped cream and REFRESH shavings.
Kids: Make your child’s favourite hot chocolate, but instead of adding an ice cube (kids seem to always want an ice cube when it’s too hot, don’t they?), drop a few frozen Junior Mints into their mug. It’ll cool their drink and make it minty.
Ice cream mix-ins:
Thaw your favourite flavour of ice cream in the fridge until it is easy to stir. Mix in most of desired candies (chopped or whole) and stir to incorporate. Place the ice cream back in the freezer until you’re ready to serve! When you’re ready to serve, top each portion with a few of the reserved candies.
Suggested combinations: Chocolate ice cream with raspberry cordials
Vanilla ice cream with mint cookie malt balls
Chocolate ice cream with mini gummi worms
Orange sorbet with blood orange cordials
The Five Minute Cheesecake Fix:
Dress up a plain, store bought cheesecake in no time flat! Select a decadent candy and chop into pieces. Sprinkle the chopped candy over slices of cheesecake and place a few whole or halved pieces of candy on top. Use a coordinating dessert sauce or whipped cream as desired.
Suggested combinations:
Classic cheesecake with espresso malt balls
Classic cheesecake with NYC espresso mix
Marbled cheesecake with ultimate malt balls
Cherry cheesecake with dark chocolate almonds
Chocolate cheesecake with pecan cinnamon buns
Labels: Maltballs, newtree, recipe
Scientifically Fun
NEWTREE has gotten some great press recently, but we're going to give it a little more! This Belgian company has been named to Oprah's O-List and was also a Snack of the Day on the Rachel Ray show, but that's just a taste of the buzz surrounding this relatively new chocolatier. Founded in 2001 by a biochemist, this company finds a balance between exacting science and fun. On the science side, NEWTREE offers GMO free products, often boasting features such as high iron content, numerous antioxidants and polyphenols. If multi-syllabic benefits aren't your forte, take comfort in knowing someone else has done a lot of research into what you're putting in your mouth!
Their claim of putting the "fun in functional food" really stands out when you survey the list of milk and dark chocolate combinations they have on
offer: Pleasure (pure dark chocolate), Vigor (dark chocolate/coffee), Renew (dark chocolate/black currant), Forgiveness (dark chocolate/lemon), Sexy (dark chocolate/ginger), Blush (dark chocolate/cherry), Refresh (dark chocolate/mint), Tranquility (milk chocolate/lavender), Rejoice (milk chocolate/bitter orange & crisped rice) and Crave (milk chocolate/apricot). The names alone make these clever gifts for those on your list! And in two sizes - one a 70g full-sized bar and the other a mini bar box (3 individually wrapped bars per box, making it easy to slip into a pocket or purse for a pick-me-up), there's a size for every gifting need.
Not to be missed is the 9 bar tasting set which includes Cocoon, a milk chocolate/cinnamon bar not available in full size! With mini versions of 9 different bars, the set is an efficient and fun way to determine your favourite flavours and the tasting set's compact packaging allows it to slip perfectly into a stocking or parcel. Just don't take the tasting set out after a holiday dinner with my family: the entire 9 bar set was gone in about 6 minutes of complete silence (not easy to come by!). That's proof of a glowing review!
Labels: Belgium, chocolate, newtree
