Watch: "How to Make DOVE Chocolate Cupcake Cookies" Video

 I hope you like my video showing how I made these cookies with the DOVE Chocolate Discoveries Cupcake Kit, a stick of Butter and Cream Cheese.   The results...well watch the video and judge for yourself.
Want the recipe? Go to my recipe site at http://squidoo.com/dovechocolaterecipes




Fun to eat and even more fun to share at a party.
email me: freechocolate@comcast.net for this recipe.

Dove Chocolate Discoveries Segment on Martha Stewart Show Was Bittersweet

DOVE Chocolate Discoveries was featured on the Martha Stewart Show yesterday, December 16th.  While I was excited to see the products on display on the set and to see the too short introduction of  DOVE Chocolatier, Erica Christenson from Madison WI; I was very disappointed that Martha chose to make Chocolate Mousse from scratch instead of using our Mousse Mix which makes an easy and elegant Chocolate Mousse.

Yes, Martha did pipe the her dessert into the DOVE Chocolate Dessert Cups and yes, she used DOVE Dark Chocolate in the Mousse but the segment left me just a little confused.  You see, the philosophy of DOVE Chocolate Discoveries is that anyone can use our products and easily achieve Martha Stewart's made from scratch results....

While I am flattered that Martha used our Chocolate and our Dessert Cups, I am left wondering why she went to all that trouble to make a Mousse from scratch....when just two feet away was a Dove Mousse Kit on the counter?

C'mon Martha!!!  Wouldn't it have been better to have our DOVE Chocolatier demonstrate to you how anyone can make an elegant Chocolate Mousse in their own kitchen in about 4 minutes using DOVE Chocolate and the DCD Mousse Kit?  Your staff prepared 3 batches of your Mousse so that you could demonstrate the recipe.You could have done the same thing with the DOVE Mousse Mix and 2 bars of Dark DOVE chocolate with one mixing bowl and a spatula!

Or even better....you and Erica could have demonstrated both versions on camera and then held a mini tasting to compare both versions.

What I really liked yesterday was

1. seeing the giant DOVE Chocolate Discoveries logo on screen at the end of the segment
2. Martha announcing that everyone in the audience carried home a goodie package with the Mousse Mix and the Petiite Dessert Cups
3. the Dove Promises commercial after the segment
   

Publicity is publicity so I guess I will get over this....but next time Martha, please call me for advice!

Marie Richman of Iowa is a DOVE Chocolate Discoveries Chocolatier on my Team

Marie Richman, of snowy Durant, Iowa is a successful DOVE Chocolate Discoveries Chocolatier on my Team.  Click on the link "truffle" link below and you can learn more about Marie and her passion for Chocolate Truffles.  There you will find her recipe for Classic DOVE Chocolate Truffles and a video that shows how to make Chocolate Hazelnut Truffles!

Email Marie at cocoa_beans@live.com

DOVE Chocolate Fondue Recipe

Classic DOVE Chocolate Fondue

Many people wonder why chefs add whipping cream to chocolate when making fondue.  

 Q: Why can't you just use melted chocolate in a fondue pot?  

A: Chocolate will scorch when exposed to direct heat from a candle or electric burner. 

Mixing Chocolate and Whipping Cream helps prevent scorching.

 6 ounces DOVE Dark or Milk Chocolate, chopped

1/2 cup light whipping cream

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In a saucepan, gently heat cream until bubbles form around edge.

Remove pan from heat; whisk in chopped chocolate until melted and smooth.

Transfer to fondue pot and keep warm over low heat; stir occasionally 

to prevent chocolate from becoming lumpy.

More recipes can be found at my Recipe site for Dove Chocolate Discoveries.

My next recipe will be for a White Chocolate Martini...till then, Carrie Geyer.

DOVE Chocolate Discoveries Ad in December People Magazine Issues

Dove Chocolate Discoveries

"Will Work For Chocolate"

Ad Campaign Starts in December

Will Work For Chocolate is the theme of Dove Chocolate Discoveries ads this December in People Magazine.  The corporate office has received hundreds of phone calls requesting information about the business opportunity that is growing daily.

People from all walks of life and circumstance are attracted to the DOVE brand including men and women who are interested in food, baking, chocolate, entertaining at home, candy making, extra income, starting a home business or joining a company that is "branded" and developing the "direct sales" niche.  Currently there are about 1500 DOVE Chocolatiers across the nation hosting chocolate tasting parties.  

3 Ways to Learn More About DOVE Chocolate Discoveries:

1. Email me at freechocolate@comcast.net for an info packet 
2. http://DoveChocolateDiscoveries.com/carrie
3. http://Squidoo.com/delawaredove

 Watch for similar ads in US magazine in December, too.

Things to Consider Before Joining a Direct Sales Company Like Dove Chocolate Discoveries

A recent online article in the MedinaCountyMoms.com outlined what to look for in a work at home business. The article mentioned Dove Chocolate Discoveries as a new and unique company. An excerpt from the article follows:

“There are 15 million people in the U.S. involved in direct selling,” he said. “It is growing very rapidly. We’re looking at a major surge of people going into the business.”

About 90 percent of the direct sales force is made up of women and about 77 percent are married. More than half have attended college.

Offen said home-party type businesses are generally a safer bet when considering a direct-selling venture because a bonafide product is sold.

New trends in home party businesses include making confections with Dove Chocolate Discoveries or planning home decor with Southern Living at Home.

Upscale companies such as Swarovski crystal and Silpada, which sells sterling silver jewelry, also are on the rise. Even Jockey is getting in on the act, selling underwear and athletic wear through home parties.

The key is to thoroughly evaluate any opportunity. And if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Experts say with unemployment and foreclosures on the rise, many families are grasping at opportunities they wouldn’t consider in other financial times.

“If people weren’t so desperate to make money and pay their house note, they wouldn’t be so likely to fall for these schemes,” Breyault said.

Is it legit?

• When checking out a work-at-home business:
• Get everything in writing.
• Make sure any materials or supplies you purchase can be returned for at least 90 percent of its purchase price.
• Check references, and not just the ones they give you. Find people you know who work for the company.
• Check with your local Better Business Bureau to see if there have been any complaints.
• Make sure you are aware of any local regulations about operating a business out of your home.
• Look at where the promised compensation is coming from. Is it from the sale of products or for recruiting others?
• Look for red flags such as high start-up costs for training kits or membership fees.
• Examine the support system. It should be low pressure and helpful. If it is high-pressure to perform, this is a red flag.
• If you want to get out of the business, it should be easy.
• If you go to a meeting for the company, check to see if everyone is from the same group, such as a church or school. Sometimes scammers target groups to take advantage of social pressure.
• Stay with a company you have heard of, or check with agencies such as the Direct Selling Association, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service or the Federal Trade Commission to see if it’s a legitimate business.

Read the article to learn what makes Dove Chocolate Discoveries a "good company to join".

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New Products for the Fall and Winter Season from Dove Chocolate Discoveries Just Announced

New Products for the Fall and Winter Season from Dove Chocolate Discoveries have been unveiled at the annual conference. They are:

1. Dark chocolate gingerbread cookie mix (can make cakes, etc.)
2. Capachino biscotini - ready to eat balls - delicious!
3. Dark chocolate covered fruit collection - cranberries, blueberries, cherries - separate bags
4. Recipe cards for the recipe book
5. new chocolate molds - heart lollipops, gingerbread men, holiday theme - tree, wreath and snowman
6. Dark chocolate chips - Dominican republic origin
7. sea-salted caramel collection - 1/2 milk and 1/2 dark - handmade sea salts from around the world
8. Double chocolate caramel nut clusters gift box - it is as dark chocolate blend, rather than pure dark chocolate
9. Reusable textured transfers sheets - geometric, curl, bubble
10. mudslide chocotini - like martini but with extra flavors
11. gourmet Merlot fudge sauce

Changes

• Spice chai tea now sold separately like the chocolate
• flavor disks in small individual packets
• 7 new bundles at a discount that bundles various products for gifting
• mousse now 6 packets rather than 4

New Success System

• new recruiting postcards with details and toll free 3 to recorded message about the opportunity!!
• Treat yourself calendar - a gift for new recruits with tips to get them started
• condensed smaller training manual in kits again
• tasting party planner that walks you through the details of a party
• Fast Start redesigned - (10% bonus if sell $400; 20% bonus if sell $1000+; Signature cosmetic bag for 1 recruit tote bag for team leader promotion, laptop case for Sr. TL promotion.
• If those of us now recruit 2 in August/Sept we can win a signature makeup bag
• Recruit 4 - get the tote
• Recruit 6 get the laptop case
  

2 business kits again. Now also Master chocolatier kit with the tempering unit $449

New apron coming in Sept. "Hot Chocolatier", darker brown

New logowear -multiple shirts/jackets from Land's End - dark brown +

Multiple buttons with chocolate sayings; tote bag; cute Dove blue t-shirts

partnership with office depot - discount

New catalogs and entertaining guides are great!

Trifle bowls now open to all customers to buy in a bundle with products

Hostess exclusives - Can buy dessert kit or candy making kit 50% off

Contact me for more info: Carrie Geyer, freechocolate@comcast.net or

http://www.dovechocolatediscoverie.com/carrie

Five Ways to Make Cash Fast - ABC News Report on GMA

Dove Chocolate Discoveries was featured in a report about direct sales on Good Morning America. Several well known companies are mentioned including DCD. Click on Five Ways to Make Cash Fast - ABC News

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Ready for a Delicious Career in Chocolate??

^$99 BUSINESS KIT

Regular price $149 (Retail Value $300)

Our chocolate business kit has everything you need to start earning money with DOVE CHOCOLATE DISCOVERIES™ Tasting Parties. Talk about low start-up costs! Our Chocolate Business Kit (Regular price $149. NOW $99) gives you enough products and printed materials to hold your first four to six Tasting Parties. Keep the sales momentum going for 90 days and you can earn our fabulous Candy-Making Supplement free! Of if you can't wait, you can buy it today for just $249*. Click here to get started.

So, What is in the Business Kit?

PRODUCTS
½ Pound of White Chocolate
1 ½ Pounds of Milk Chocolate
1 ½ Pounds of Dark Chocolate
4 Chocolate Mousse Packets
1 Chocolate Martini Mix Bottle
12 Chai Tea Packets
6 Smoothie Mix Packets
1 Truffle Fudge Brownie Mix
1 Cupcake Kit
1 Pastry Bag
1 Box of Chocolate-Covered Pretzels
1 Box of Almonds
1 Blue Heart Fondue Set
2 Silicone Spatulas
1 DCD Duffle Bag
1 DCD Logo Apron

PRINTED MATERIAL
1 "Open Me First" Envelope
50 Blank Business Cards
50 Spring Catalogs
50 Order Forms
1 NEW Tasting Party DVD
50 Invitations
25 Spring/Summer Entertaining Guides
Click here to get started!

Till the next time, Carrie Geyer

Dove Chocolate Discoveries Business Concept Reviewed

I recently ran across a short article about DCD Chocolate Tasting Parties on the "Crunchy Marketing Nuggets" wordpress blog. The author Lisa Fritts has done an excellent job of summarizing the Dove Chocolate Discoveries concept into a few short paragraphs.

"...it’s all together interesting, different, yet logical to see an in-home party business centered around the sale of chocolates. Dove Discoveries program is much like a Pampered Chef or a Tupperware. You can choose to become a “Chocolatier” (sales rep) or host a party. And enjoy tasting - and buying - different chocolate based products right in your own home."

Lisa is an excellent writer and has lots of interesting postings about the world of business, advertising, marketing and consumers on her wordpress blog. Check her fine work out at http://www.crunchymarketingnuggets.wordpress.com/2009/02/17/wom-sweet.

Contact me by email at freechocolate@comcast.net for more information about making money as a DOVE Chocolate Discoveries Chocolatier....a great business model for anyone who is looking for a chance to improve their cash flow and earnings.

Till the next time: Carrie Geyer

Posted in: The Chocoholics Diary.com: dark chocolate a day helped lower blood pressure

As posted in The Chocoholics Diary: "According to German researchers - a nibble of dark chocolate a day helped lower blood pressure without packing on the pounds.

Just a 30-calorie bite of dark chocolate can lower blood pressure without weight gain or other side effects according to the study which appears in the Journal of the American Medical Association." 

The rest of the post can be found by clicking below:


The Chocoholics Diary.com: dark chocolate a day helped lower blood pressure

You will love this blog!!!  Great Chocolate Recipes and articles about chocolate.

Look for the Chocolate Sheet Cake recipe I found on a Blog later this week.

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Dove Dessert Creations featured on Philadelphia Fox TV News

Dove Chocolatier Lisa Pflaumer shows on this Video Clip how to make entertaining easy with Dove Chocolate. Lisa demonstrates Chocolate Fondue, Reindeer Truffle Cupcakes, Chocolate Mousse Parfait, etc. on Philadelphia Fox TV 29. Click on this link: Dove Dessert Ideas Video.

5 More Ideas for Using Dove White Chocolate

5 More Delicious White Chocolate Ideas:

1. Dip Marshmallows in White Chocolate, put 3 on a skewer to create a White Chocolate Snowman, and decorate with gel icing, perfect for an indoor winter activity with the kids!

2. Shave the White Chocolate in our Dessert Decorator or with a Grater and decorate cakes and chocolate mousse or top our hot drinks with it

3. Top our Truffle Fudge Brownies with White Chocolate Ganache

4. Bake our Double Chocolate Chip Cookies in a mini muffin pan to create thumbprint cookies. When you remove the cookies from the oven, take a spoon and press down on the center of the cookie, and pour the melted White Chocolate in the “thumbprint” and serve when cooled.

5. Create White Chocolate Chunk Double Chocolate Chip Cookies – cut the White Chocolate into chunks and stir into the cookie mix with the DOVE® Dark Chocolate Chips and bake as instructed.

Is your mouth watering yet?

About.com Review of Dove Chocolate Discoveries: Cupcakes, Grahams and White Chocolate Drink Mix

A contributing writer on About.com recently tried some of our products. Here is my review of her report:

User Reviews

Overall Rating: 5 out of 5 I love Dove Chocolate..., December 18, 2008 By carriegeyer "in fact I love it so much that I am a Dove Chocolatier, who holds several Chocolate Tastings each month to introduce these and other Dove products not sold in stores. The Graham Crackers are everything the author says they are however we differ on one point...I prefer the milk chocolate grahams. But that is a matter of personal taste...I have been known to eat all the dark chocolate grahams after the milk chocolate ones are gone. They make an excellent snack at midnite or as a pick me up in the afternoon. I love them too much. The white chocolate smoothie mix is at it's best as a hot drink I think. Another use for the drink mix is to put it in a blender with milk, ice, pineapple or other fruit and coconut rum to taste...it becomes a pina colada. The cupcakes are phenomenol with the melted chocolate in the middle. Another trick is to scoop a plug out of the bottom and fill the cupcake with Dove's Chocolate or Raspberry Mousse. Then replace the plug and you have a gourmet Cupcake. Dove has products in 3 major categories: 1) box mixes such as Cupcakes and Brownies, 2) Ready to Eat Snacks such as the Grahams and Cinnamon Dusted Chocolate Almonds and 3)Gadgets, tools and tempering machines for candy makers. All products are sold from the catalog or at home parties. It is a fun business that is profitable. I must tell you that my own personal favorite product is the Mousse Mix. In 5 minutes I can have restaurant quality French style Mousse made in my kitchen. Let me tell you how easy it is: 1. Melt 4 ounces of Dove Dark or Milk Chocolate slowly in the microwave. 2. Whip 1 cup of heavy cream and contents of Mousse Mix Packet until medium peaks are formed. Add the melted Chocolate while still hot to the Mousse and blend. Serve in parfait dish or chocolate cups, on cake or with fruit. Makes 4-5 servings. Very elegant and rich! My family loves it. Can be frozen although we never have had any left over to freeze." So there it is: my review of the about.com review...see the original review by Los Angeles based pastry chef Elizabeth Labau at about.com

How to Make Reindeer Truffle Cookies for Christmas

Short how to article that will show you how to make whimsical Reindeer cookies. The antlers are Dove Dark Chocolate Leaves. Contact me if you want some for your reindeer cookies. To see the recipe click on.... A Touch Of Rosemary - NY Daily News

Have a Wonderful Christmas! Carrie Geyer

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New Dove Factory Opens Within 10 Miles of Hershey, Pennsylvannia in Sept. '08

Mars tries to eclipse Hershey's in rural Pa. | APP.com | Asbury Park Press Read all about the new Dove Chocolate Factory just down the road from Hershey's. While Hershey's has changed their recipe to save money, Dove continues to use pure cocoa butter and watch their sales grow. Hershey's meanwhile is losing market share and cutting jobs world wide.

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Half Price Dove Chocolate in January!

Dove Chocolate Discoveries is rolling out new packaging for all of our products in January. So what will they do with all the chocolate in the old packaging? Sell it at half price, of course!!

While supplies last, these specials can be bought at Dove Tasting Parties...details will follow later today.

For a list of the Half Price Items go to my Squidoo Lens: http://www.squidoo.com/dovechocolatenews

The photo is from a vendor fair I did recently...you can see the new packaging with the orange striped chocolate bars. After the New Year, all the packaging will feature the turquoise blue circle and bright colored stripe. I can't wait to see it!!!

Crave More Chocolate...Eat More Dove Chocolate! Carrie Geyer

Welcome to the Dove Chocolate Update!!

I will strive to provide you with up to date information and advice about Dove Chocolate Discoveries, the Dove Products and my life as a Dove Chocolatier. See you tomorrow...Carrie