#Choctoberfest

I’m super excited because it’s finally October 5, which marks the start of #Choctoberfest! :D

#Choctoberfest is a virtual event put together by The PinterTest Kitchen. Bloggers from around the world will be posting their favorite chocolate recipes, and you’ll get a chance to win some awesome prizes. What’s not to love?

#Choctoberfest would not be possible without our sponsors, starting with our 2015 Gold Sponsor, Imperial Sugar. Imperial Sugar has been a trusted name in family kitchens since 1843. Their sugar products and sweeteners are made from non-GMO cane sugar and ensure consistently delicious results.

As a healthy living lifestyle blogger, I feel like I do need to mention that it’s healthier to follow an “everything in moderation” or 80/20 principle–don’t get too crazy with self-restriction though! Allow for some sweet indulgences occasionally if you have a sweet tooth!. We’ll be using Imperial Sugar whenever we use sugar in our recipes this week, and can’t wait to share the sweetness with you!

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Make sure you visit their recipe section for some sweet inspiration, and you can also find coupons if you want to try out Imperial Sugar yourself.

Imperial Sugar + our other sponsors have banded together to contribute some awesome prizes for our #Choctoberfest giveaway! Entering is simple – just click below to follow us on Pinterest. Here’s what you could win:

• Granulated Sugar from Imperial Sugar
• Chocolate Mint Essential Woman Omega Swirl and Chocolate Silk Greens from Barlean’s
• Chocolate bars (dark, milk, and white) from Lindt Chocolate
• Hemp seed prize pack (hulled hemp seed, toasted hemp seed, hemp seed oil, and hemp protein powder) from Just Hemp Foods
• Divine Chocolate gift set (15 flavors of chocolate bars!) from Divine Chocolate
• Dark chocolate caramels from Tahana Confections
• Vintage inspired gathering apron from Bless This Mess
• Lulu’s Lovepack (6 flavors of chocolate bars!) from Lulu’s Chocolate
• Pure Chocolate Lovers Supreme gift box from Pearson Farm

As a resident cat lady, it is hopefully obvious that I am big on animal rescue. :]! We have a nonprofit sponsor this year – Rescue Chocolate! They make vegan chocolate treats and 100% of their proceeds are donated to animal shelters. <3!!!

Enter now to win the #Choctoberfest prize. Hurry, because we’re picking the winner on October 12 at 8:00 AM, so if you don’t sign up before then, you’ll miss your chance!

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One of the perks to living in Lewisburg for two years was the fact that every second-ish week of April, they’d have a Chocolate Festival where all the local businesses downtown would make chocolate-y creations and we’d get tickets to sample all the deliciousness!

Read about my 2013 Chocolate Festival food adventures here!

And…my 2014 Chocolate Festival food adventures! :D

Are you all chocolate-d up yet!?

Stay tuned this week for all sorts of chocolate-y goodness! A huge thank you to all of the other blogs participating in #Choctoberfest 2015. Check out their blogs throughout the week for chocolate recipes you won’t be able to resist:

The PinterTest Kitchen • 2 Cookin’ Mamas • A Day in the Life on the Farm • Aloha Flavor • Amy’s Cooking Adventures • Angels Homestead • Balancing Motherhood • Bless this Mess • Busy-at-Home • Chocolate Slopes • Coconut & Lime • Colie’s Kitchen • Cookaholic Wife • Cooking In Stilettos • Cooking With Libby • Cookistry • CopyKat Recipes • Cravings of a Lunatic • Crumbs in my Mustachio • Culinary Couture • Cupcakes Take The Cake • Deliciously Savvy • Eat It & Say Yum • Fairyburger • Famished Fish, Finicky Shark • Farm Fresh Feasts • Food Hunter’s Guide to Cuisine • Full Belly Sisters • Get Off The Couch and Cook • Grumpy’s Honeybunch • Hey What’s for Dinner Mom? • Honey and Birch • I Can Cook That • Jane’s Adventures in Dinner • Jessie Weaver • Life on Food • Life, Love, and Good Food • Majorly Delicious • Moore or Less Cooking Food Blog • Mother Would Know • Or Whatever You Do • Poet in the Pantry • Recipes Food and Cooking • Sassy Southern Yankee • Savory Tart • Seduction in The Kitchen • Serena Lissy • Sumptuous Spoonfuls • Take Two Tapas • That Skinny Chick Can Bake • ThatsSoYummy • The Chonchudo Files • The Crumby Cupcake • The Dinner-Mom • The Saucy Southerner • The Spiced Life • The Spiffy Cookie • The Two Bite Club • The Weekday Gourmet • Vintage Kitty • Wendy Polisi • What A Girl Eats • WhitBit’s Indian Kitchen • Wit Wisdom & Food • Zesty South Indian Kitchen

Are you a blogger who is interested in joining us during out next community event?

Sign up here now!

We’ll make sure you get an email about our next blogger event.

While I’m on the subject of chocolate and delicious treats, I’d also like to mention that sign-ups for this year’s Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap are open! This will be my 3rd year participating! :] Check out the Apple PB Cookie “Dough” Bites and Coconut Cookie Dough Balls I made in previous years!

Last year, we raised >$14k for Cookies For Kids’ Cancer (CFKC), a non-profit organization committed to funding new therapies to fight against pediatric cancer. The process is simple!

1. Donate $4 to join (100% of this donation goes to CFKC) by Nov. 1.
2. You’ll get your food blogger matches‘ contact info to send cookies to by Nov. 9. Keep your matches a secret!
3. Whip up a batch of 36 cookies and ship 1 dozen to each of your matches by Dec. 2!
4. Post your recipe on Dec. 16 and submit the link to the Food Blogger Cookie Swap!

• Are you excited for #Choctoberfest? Did you enter the giveaway?
• What’s your favorite chocolate-containing recipe?
• Are you going to participate in the Food Blogger Cookie Swap?!