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Many dessert recipes call for chopped chocolate, and there's a simple way to get evenly sized bits without using a chef's knife.

Are you a recipe-creating whiz? Well here's your chance to make $5000 off of it.

Tuttiefoodie and Scharffen Berger have just announced a chocolate recipe contest that sounds positively delicious. The Chocolate Adventure Contest seems like a great way to express your creativity, in this case with Scharffen Berger chocolate and an "adventure ingredient" from their list.

There are three categories (sweet, savory, beverage) and the winner gets $5000 plus a collection of cookbooks and mentions in Saveur magazine, Tuttiefoodie, and Scharffen Berger's e-newsletter. All you need to do is create a recipe using Scharffen Berger chocolate and submit it between October 1, 2008 and January 4, 2009. Check here for rules and details. Get really adventurous and submit up to ten recipes!

The start of the Halloween season is earlier every year - the retail start of the season, that is. This year, even though the "back to school" sales seemed to start before graduations did and the first signs of pumpkins and ghosts were not far behind, I tried to put it out of my mind as long as I could. This weekend I gave in and bought some candy corn, but it's possible that I would have made the Bat S'mores Kit from Williams-Sonoma my first seasonal purchase if not for the fact that it is only available online. The kit is completely unnecessary for those who just want to make a s'more, but it would make a great holiday gift for those who really like to start celebrating in advance. It includes Scharffenberger 41% milk chocolate, bat-shaped graham crackers and homemade marshmallows (enough for eight large s'mores) packed neatly with an orange and black ribbon.

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