Chocolate

The Chocolate Show Turkey will be held for the first time between March 24 and 26 with a variety of booths certain to please those with a sweet tooth.

Chocolate bars, handmade boutique chocolates cakes, varieties of ice cream and chocolate sculptures prepared by experts will be offered to visitors of the fair, which will be held at the Harbiye Military Museum's AFP Halls.

Mövenpick Hotel Istanbul's Italian Executive Chef Giovanni Terracciano and TV star guest chef Danilo Zanna, who has recently taken a step onto the silver screen, will organize an exclusive chocolate- and cupcake-making course on Feb. 10 for those who want to treat their loved ones with a romantic gift on Valentine's Day.

Pistachios and chocolate: These two have an affinity for each other according to the Turkish palate. All Turkish patisseries feature a chocolate specialty with pistachios; chocolate ganache cake is almost always sparked with bright green pistachios; I bet there is not a single pastry shop in the whole country that does not have a chocolate-pistachio combo product on its shelves.

BELGRADE - Serbian company over whose chocolates started "Chocolate Balkan War" decided to advertise in Croatia.

Subotica based company "Pionir" placed several advertising billboards for "Mony", chocolates given by Croatian President Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic to children in Dubrovnik.

If you like the classic combination of orange and chocolate, you will love these little treats!

Serves: 15 pieces Preparation time: 10′ + 1 day waiting Cooks in: 30′ Ready in: 40′

Ingredients
3 navel oranges, peel on, washed, dry
250 good quality dark chocolate
1 vanilla pod, split open, seeds scraped
1 lt water
500 gr sugar

This chocolate and banana treat is enough to know it won’t stay on the serving plate for long!

Serves: 6-8 Preparation time: 45′ Cooks in: – Ready in: 45′

Are you looking to spice things up in the bedroom a bit? According to newspaper Bild, specific foods can increase blood flow throughout the body and help you make yor sex life more than worthy!

A Sydney dessert bar has introduced a saccharin equivalent of the doner kebab, complete with a rotating white and milk chocolate rotisserie, which is shaved as it spins.

Dulwich Hill’s Tella Balls Dessert Bar, which is best known for their over-the-top doughnut-topped tella ball milkshakes, is calling their new creation the “tellabab”.

Life will get even more expensive for Greeks as of next month following the government's decision to raise a number of taxes, such as the value-added tax on most commodities and the special consumption tax on fuel, tobacco and coffee, as well as hikes on landlines, Internet and pay-TV.

Bulgaria's capital Sofia is holding the second edition of its Grand Chocolate Festival over the weekend, presenting both standard and unique chocolate products in various categories.

Visitors can see handmade chocolate, chocolate candy, factory chocolate, chocolate creams and cakes, and books about chocolate.