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February 1 is National Cake Pops Day

National Cake Pop Day

Also: African Heritage & Health Week

Five Food Finds about Cake Pops

A cake pop is cake, baked in an appealing shape, hand dipped in frosting, and decorated to taste, all on a stick to be eaten as candy.

While there is no recorded date for the creation of cake pops. Most people say that Bakerella, a popular baking blog, helped make then a “pop” phenomenon. See Pinterest below

In 2011, cake pops were considered the newest and most popular confectionery food trends

Other variations of cake pops are cake balls, cakesicles, cupcake pops, and cake-on-a-stick.

Cake pops in recent years have become ubiquitous to Starbucks coffee shops.

* Bakerella celebrates National Cake Pop Day on Feb 1

Foodimentary’s cake pops pics.

On This Day in Food History…

It’s Foodimentary my dear!

1856 Auburn University is chartered as the East Alabama Male College, a primarily agricultural college.
1867 Bricklayers first started working 8-hour days
1884 The first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary is publish(including 23 recipes & cooking tips)
1913 New York City’s Grand Central Terminal opens. The world’s largest train station including several restaurants & food stalls.
1960 Four students stage the first civil rights “sit-in” at the lunch counter of the Greensboro, NC, Woolworth

Categories: February Food Holidays, Food Holidays

Tagged: African Heritage & Health Week Five Food Finds, Bakerella, Cake Pops, dark chocolate, National Cake, national dark chocolate day, National Food Holiday, original social media foodie, social media foodie

February 19 is National Chocolate Mint Day

1. In tea houses and dinner halls of the early 1900’s mint sprigs and dark chocolates served after desserts for patrons to ‘chew for good breath and aid digestion’. Soon thin mints, layered mint and dark chocolate candies appeared in many forms.

2. Thin Mints, a Girl Scout cookie first sold in 1951, accounts for over 25% of the annual Girl Scout cookie sales.

3. After Eights, introduced in 1962, were considered a classier version of the classic thin mint, with dark chocolate and rich mint center, considered at the time the perfect after dinner mint.

4. Andes chocolate mints, created in 1921, have little to do with the Andes mountains. They were once called “Andy’s Candies” but the owner ‘found that men did not like giving boxes of candies with another man’s name on them to their wives and girlfriends’ so he changed the name.

5.Frago Mints, perhaps the first chocolate mints, were first patented in 1918. They were sold in tea houses and sold frozen to emphasize the sharp mint flavor.

Daily Quote:

“A wise man knows that if someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.”~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Events of February 19

Today’s Food History

on this day in…

1764 Gottlieb Sigismund Kirchhof was born. He developed a method for refining vegetable oil, and also improved brewing & fermentation.

1855 Bread Riots in Liverpool.

1906 Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company (W.K. Kellogg Company) was founded by Will Keith Kellogg to manufacture breakfast cereals (cornflakes).

1913 Cracker Jack began to put prizes in each box.

1976 Iceland broke off diplomatic relations with Great Britain when the two couldn’t settle their disagreement on the ‘cod war’ fishing rights issue.

1985 Cherry Coke was introduced nation-wide

1999 The world’s largest strawberry shortcake was created in McCall Park, Plant City, Florida, the Winter Strawberry Capital of the World. The city holds the Guinness record for the world’s largest strawberry shortcake, over 6,000 pounds.

Categories: February Food Holidays, Food Holidays

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January 10 is National Bittersweet Chocolate Day

John-Bryan Hopkins

5 Star Recipe from MyRecipes.com

National Bittersweet Chocolate Day

Five Food Finds about Chocolate

Bittersweet chocolate is a sweetened form of dark chocolate that does NOT contain milk. It’s usually used for baking.

Dark chocolate is most popular among men.

More than twice as many women than men eat and crave chocolate.

The first chocolate bar was produced by Cadbury in England in 1842.

The word Chocolate comes from the Aztec word xocolatl, meaning, bitter water.

On This Day in Food History…

1778 Carolus Linnaeus died. He was a Swedish botanist who developed the modern system for defining and naming plants.

1839 Indian tea became available in Britain for the first time.
Until this time only tea from China had been available, and that was very expensive.
The development and import of Indian tea brought the price down so all could afford it, and it quickly became the national drink.

1919 Restaurateur Milton Parker was born. Owner of the famous Carnegie Deli in New York City from 1976 until his retirement in 2002.

1977 Ruth Graves Wakefield died. Inventor of the Toll House Cookie,
the first chocolate chip cookie, at the Toll House Inn neart Whitman, Massachusetts in the 1930s.

1984 Wendy’s ‘Where’s the Beef?’ ad campaign began. Burgers aren’t just for kids anymore.

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Categories: Food Holidays, January Food Holidays

Tagged: bittersweet chocolate, carolus linnaeus, dark chocolate, five food finds, national bittersweet chocolate day, National Bittersweet Chocolate Day Five Food Finds, national food holidays, Ruth Graves Wakefield, today in food history

National Cake Pops Day

Bakerella

February 1st

is

National Cake Pop Day

Also: National Chocolate Covered Raisins Day

Here are today’s five facts about

Cake Pops

Cake pops are crumbled cake
mixed with frosting that can be rolled into balls or formed into endless shapes. They are then placed on a lollipop stick and dipped in chocolate.
While there is no recorded date for the creation of cake pops. Most people say that Bakerella, a popular baking blog, helped make then a “pop” phenomenon. See Pinterest below
In 2011, cake pops were considered the newest and most popular confectionery food trends
Other variations of cake pops are cake balls, cakesicles, cupcake pops, and cake-on-a-stick.
Cake pops in recent years have become ubiquitous to Starbucks coffee shops.

Foodimentary’s cake pops pics.

On This Day in Food History…

1856 Auburn University is chartered as the East Alabama Male College, a primarily agricultural college.
1867 Bricklayers first started working 8-hour days
1884 The first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary is publish(including 23 recipes & cooking tips)
1913 New York City’s Grand Central Terminal opens. The world’s largest train station including several restaurants & food stalls.
1960 Four students stage the first civil rights “sit-in” at the lunch counter of the Greensboro, NC, Woolworth

Categories: February Food Holidays, Food Holidays

Tagged: dark chocolate, five food finds, foodimentary, national dark chocolate day, national food holidays, today in food history

February 1 – National Cake Pops Day

John-Bryan Hopkins

Bakerella

National Cake Pop Day

Also: African Heritage & Health Week

Five Food Finds about Cake Pops

A cake pop is cake, baked in an appealing shape, hand dipped in frosting, and decorated to taste, all on a stick to be eaten as candy.

While there is no recorded date for the creation of cake pops. Most people say that Bakerella, a popular baking blog, helped make then a “pop” phenomenon. See Pinterest below

In 2011, cake pops were considered the newest and most popular confectionery food trends

Other variations of cake pops are cake balls, cakesicles, cupcake pops, and cake-on-a-stick.

Cake pops in recent years have become ubiquitous to Starbucks coffee shops.

* Bakerella celebrates National Cake Pop Day on Feb 1

Foodimentary’s cake pops pics.

On This Day in Food History…

It’s Foodimentary my dear!

1856 Auburn University is chartered as the East Alabama Male College, a primarily agricultural college.
1867 Bricklayers first started working 8-hour days
1884 The first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary is publish(including 23 recipes & cooking tips)
1913 New York City’s Grand Central Terminal opens. The world’s largest train station including several restaurants & food stalls.
1960 Four students stage the first civil rights “sit-in” at the lunch counter of the Greensboro, NC, Woolworth