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Chocolate Easter Eggs

Sweetique Chocolate Truffle Easter Eggs are natural eggshells, emptied and sterilized and filled with a delicious blend of milk and dark chocolate with hazelnuts. These amazing eggs are then colored with brilliant designs.

You need these in your Easter baskets.Your Secret Pal, your favorite teacher or secretary, and all your kids will love them and be astonished by them.

Order Sweetique Eggs now so you'll be sure to have them in time for Easter.

Easter Countdown

Now is a good time to plan your menu for the big Easter meal. It's early enough to arrange for helpers and to watch for good prices on special ingredients. You also still have time to order your Sweetique Eggs, and what could be more special than that?

As with so many  holiday meals, Easter often has a traditional set piece: a ham or lamb for the main dish. Your family might be disappointed if that were replaced with something else, but they might be fine with a different way of preparing it. If you usually stud your ham with cloves and glaze it with marmalade, you might find that your family would enjoy a pineapple and mustard glaze instead. If you usually serve a rack of lamb, you might try a leg of lamb instead. However, the main dish is often part of the tradition, and something people look forward to.

You can get creative with your side dishes, though -- especially vegetables. Here are some of our favorite spring vegetable dishes from around the web:

• Grilled Asparagus
• Roasted Vegetables
• Grilled Leeks
• Spanish Salad (I like to add chopped black olives)
• Broccoli Salad

Have carrot sticks for children whose palates might not be ready for these more exciting tastes.

If you're doing all the cooking, it makes sense to have just one or two elaborate dishes and keep the other things simple, so choose simple rice or potatoes if you're doing a show-stopper of a green vegetable. If you're going with plain steamed broccoli or green beans, though, you might like a classic potato dish like these:

• Potatoes Anna
• Potatoes Dauphinoise
• German Potato Salad

We'll be sharing bread and dessert recipes, but these are good choices either to buy or to ask guests to bring. Go ahead now and call that cousin who makes the famous babka or your brother with the perfect tsoureki and invite them to bring their specialties -- they'll be flattered that you asked.

Once you've decided on your menu, make up a list of all the ingredients and carry it in your purse or billfold. Pick up the nonperishables along with your regular grocery shopping, and get the perishables a few days before Easter. If you need to order something -- a special cut of meat at the butcher, for example -- it's time to do that now.

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We send luscious emails, with special offers and information. You will imagine the scent of chocolate as you read, and the experience will just generally improve your day.

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The World's Oldest Writing?

Researchers in South Africa have found what they believe might be the oldest human writing, or at least the oldest attempt to convey information graphically. The writings, 60,000 year old ostrich eggs with regular patterns of scratches in geometric shapes, look very intentional and quite different from random markings.

Linguists, pointing to the fact that current residents of the area used to mark ostrich shells with geometric patterns to show ownership, suggest that the decorated eggs are in fact an extremely early evidence of human language. The speculations, reported in New Scientist, contrast with the traditional view that true language began about 50,000 years ago.

While some have always held that some sort of symbolic representation of communication must have been present among homo sapiens as part of the definition of the species, putting the origin of language at about two million years ago, writing has been thought to be a much later development.

Having seen the images, we think that they may be the forerunners of the "Picturesque" design of Sweetique Chocolate Easter Eggs, which you can see in the photo above, on the right.

Are You Too Rich to Appreciate Chocolate?

A study from the University of British Columbia finds that wealthy people don't enjoy chocolate (or other simple pleasures) as much as the rest of us do.

Researchers conclude that a sense of entitlement -- the feeling that you can have whatever you want whenever you want it -- leads to lessened enjoyment of small happy moments in life.

Even those who aren't yet rich, but are plotting to become rich and spend much of their time and energy on this goal lose a measure of their ability to delight in the simple joys.

If you are rich, we suggest that you titillate your jaded palette with a Sweetique Egg, which might be new to you. Fortunately, you don't have to be rich to get one, so the rest of us can enjoy them, too, knowing that we'll get maximum pleasure from them.

Chocolate Filled Easter Eggs

We're beginning to see instructions for how to make chocolate-filled eggshells at home.

It can be done. After all, it is a tradition in some parts of Europe to do this. Here's what you do.

You must blow the eggshells out and clean them, and then boil them in vinegar water to sterilize them. Blowing eggs involves poking a hole at each end with a pin and blowing through one of the holes to force the egg out at the other end. You'll then need to color the eggs, and arrange straight pins on foam to hold the eggshells (the ones you don't break while coloring them) without smudging the color.

Then you must temper some chocolate. Ours are a special blend of milk and dark chocolate with hazelnut praline, so you won't get quite the same effect, but you can try. Temper the chocolate, or when you crack the egg it won't look pretty at all. Each egg requires nearly two ounces of first-quality chocolate, so you'll spend as much to make quality chocolate-filled eggs at home as you would to buy them ready-made. Not counting the spilled and wasted chocolate, or what gets burnt or seizes while you're trying to temper it.

Never mind. Soldier on.

Fill the eggs with the melted chocolate through one of those pinholes. Close up the other one, or all the chocolate will run out.

Let the eggs set and then clean them up, since you will have gotten them very messy while filling them. You'll also have to do something with the egg you blew out of the shells.

Frankly, we think you probably would be wiser to buy Sweetique Eggs, Some things -- cookies, say -- are honestly better when you make them at home with love. Other things are better when they're made by experts.

Chocolate Easter Eggs

True, some of us still need to observe Mardi Gras and Lent before we celebrate Easter. But all of us can celebrate the fact that Sweetique Chocolate Easter Eggs are in stock and ready to ship!

Sweetique Eggs are natural eggshells filled with a special blend of milk and dark chocolates with hazelnuts. You crack the egg as you would a hardboiled egg, peel it, and there you have a delectable solid chocolate truffle egg. Sweetique Eggs come in a variety of bright colors and festive designs, so they make the perfect Easter basket fillers. They also make very nice gifts for Easter -- they're available in several different packaging options, for everything from gifts for children to corporate gifts.

Visit our catalog to make your selection of Sweetique eggs, and we'll ship them to you in our special padded mailing boxes, for safe arrival before Easter.

Sweetique Eggs for Fundraising

As you get ready for the new year, you're probably thinking about fundraising goals for your school, community organization, or cause.

Sweetique Eggs make great promotional items. It's easy to arrange for Sweetique Eggs with your organization's logo or message, too.

Here's all you need to do:

• Decide on the image you want: your logo, your organization’s message, the catchphrase for your marketing campaign – the possibilities are endless.
  

• Email your digital artwork to us in Adobe Illustrator EPS vector format. Size matters: your image needs to be no more than 1 7/16"tall and 1 3/16"wide. If you need assistance with this step, in either technical or artistic aspects, Sweetique can help.

• Estimate your quantities and costs using the pricing charts. There is a one-time set-up fee, the price of the chocolate specialties themselves, and the imprint fee. Since Sweetique Eggs have a shelf life of six months, you can save by planning for more than one fundraising campaign. Sweetique can help you with the calculations -- just call 888 4LOGO EGG (888 456 4634).

• Call to place your order. This is also a good time to discuss any special packaging needs.

Whether you're planning Easter fundraisers, or would like to take advantage of the perfect shape and novelty of the Sweetique Egg, this item makes a unique, memorable choice for your organization.

You Want Chocolate-Filled Eggs?

Today is the last day for wholesale orders of Sweetique's natural eggshells filled with delicious chocolate truffle. If you're a retailer wanting these for Easter, put down that Santa hat right now and call (888) 4LOGO-EGG to get your order in.



Private label chocolate eggs are custom orders and are available all year round -- call (888) 4LOGO-EGG to arrange custom Easter eggs for your company or organization.



Retail customers can relax. Get back to your winter holiday preparations, secure in the knowledge that we'll have those wonderful eggs for you in the spring when you want them.

The Nest Egg

Sweetique's custom imprinted chocolate eggs are great for all kinds of organizations.

We like the idea of a Nest Egg -- a golden egg imprinted with your logo or message -- for banks and other financial institutions, CPAs and financial planners, and even for casinos! Of course, they're also great for fundraising -- doesn't your nonprofit need its own nest egg?

The process of getting your own custom Nest Egg is simple:

• Decide what you want to say on your egg. And image or slogan will work, in a solid color or full color -- it's entirely up to you.
  
• Email your digital artwork to us. See the specifications at our Private Label page.
• Let us know the quantities you need. You can call us at (888) 4LOGO-EGG to discuss your specific needs in detail, or use our pricing chart to estimate your costs.

Get ready for the next trade show, for corporate giving, or for ongoing promotional item needs.

Plan a Wine and Chocolate Party

We often think of pairing wine and cheese for a party, but you can kick it up a notch with a wine and chocolate party. For a girls' night out or a sophisticated couples' evening, the wine and chocolate party is new, luxurious -- and simple to carry off.

Here are a few pointers for a successful wine and chocolate party:

• Display wines and chocolates in order from the lightest to the darkest. Numbered cards or labels for wines and chocolates allow easy discussion later. Include Sweetique Eggs, which have a blend of milk and dark chocolates, midway along the continuum.
  
• Pair sweeter wines with sweeter chocolates to avoid taste conflict. In general, the wine should be sweeter than the chocolate it is paired with.
• Consider including filled chocolates, spiced chocolates, and other variations on the theme.
• A plate of water crackers will help refresh palates between tastings. A small knife or two on the tables lets guests slice off a bit of chocolate, or you can cut chocolates into small pieces ahead of time.
  
• Set out paper and pencils for note-taking. Serious wine-tasters like a flavor wheel to help organize their thoughts, and there's one for chocolate, too.
  
• Taste wines by swirling a bit in the glass to release the aroma, and then sipping. A breath while tasting the wine will allow the fullest appreciation of the flavors.
• Taste chocolate by allowing a bit to melt on the tongue.
• Have an object or conclusion for the tastings. Score pairings, vote for favorites, or have everyone suggest new pairings of wines and chocolates.
• Once the serious tasting part of the evening is finished, encourage guests to enjoy a bit more of their favorites with conversation
  

The Sweetique Egg

Sweetique Eggs are real, natural eggshells, carefully sterilized to the most stringent standards and filled with our special blend of dark and milk chocolate with hazelnuts. You can crack and peel them just as you would a hard-boiled egg -- but the wonderful chocolate experience waiting for you inside is much more exciting than a hardboiled egg.

We make these eggs in bright colors and patterns for holidays. But you can also have them custom-printed with your company logo or your organization's message. The result is a very memorable -- and surprisingly affordable -- promotional or fundraising item. Call us at 888.4LOGO.EGG to discuss your organization's needs.