Good morning.
Happy birthday, MrWrite!
Wishing you an unwrinkled year!
Hey. I invented a zero-calorie chocolate Easter egg!
I did. Briefly.
My daughter is on a serious diet, which excludes any form of sugar and good stuff like chocolate, so I thought I'd try and make an Easter egg for her that kept inside the rules of her diet. I bought a couple of slabs of Candarel chocolate - I don't know if you get that brand in the US, but it's artificially sweetened - which I melted and poured into Easter egg molds. The chocolate took ages to set, even in the fridge, but once it had I mixed up some of that calorie-free jelly (Jell-O) and filled the eggs with it. They looked awesome. I wrapped them up in a basket, tied a ribbon on it and gave it to my daughter when she arrived. But oh, when she opened the wrapping there was just a sludgy pile of something quite indescribable sort of glooped in the bottom of the basket.
Turns out that this Candarel chocolate doesn't have quite the same properties as ordinary chocolate - maybe it's the lack of sugar - but it doesn't set properly once it's been melted and doesn't
stay set at room temperature even though the no-cal jelly does. What a mess! But my daughter tucked in with a spoon and said it wasn't bad.
Mmm. I don't see a marketing opportunity here.