Happy National Chocolate Covered Anything Day ! ! ! 

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A Brief History:
Putting the Chocolate on Top of Another Sweet Treat: On this day, dip and drizzle your favorite foods in every kind of chocolate imaginable. If you could cover anything in chocolate, what would it be? Many foods taste better when dipped in chocolate, and some businesses focus on this practice. Celebrate with chocolate-covered fruits, peanuts, cashews, pretzels, pound cake, and gummy candies. Don’t forget chocolate-covered coffee beans. Try dipping your favorite food and invite friends to join you. Chocolate-covered treats also make great gifts.

chocolate covered strawberry courtesy of Openverse

Origination: National Chocolate Covered Anything Day celebrates the origin of chocolate. People celebrate every day with chocolate, and special occasions like anniversaries, birthdays and a great day, to go alongside. The history of chocolate and its creation from the cocoa bean can be traced from the Xocolatl-loving Olmec, Maya and Aztecs of Mexico dating back to the era of between 1900 BC to 1500 BC. The Maya considered chocolate to be food of the gods, with the cacao tree being held to be sacred. They also buried dignitaries with bowls of chocolate.

Examples of Chocolate Covered Items: Here is a list of some items that you have seen:

• Bananas and peanut butter
• Cookies
• Potato chips
• Orange wedges
• Ritz crackers
• Biscotti
• Peanut brittle
• Marshmallows
• Fudge
• Shortbread
• Ice cream
• Strawberries
• Cherries
• Other holiday fruit
• More. . .

Holidays: There are several holidays, especially Valentine’s Day and Mother’s Day where giving a heart filled with chocolate covered strawberries or other treats is just dandy with candy! What a way to express the love and affection a relationship means!

More Recent Evolution: Since the Mayan period, the list of ingredients with the relation to most chocolate products has expanded vastly past simple cacao. Companies have reduced the cocoa content to decrease costs related to production and also to increase chocolate’s shelf life, making the once very valuable delicacy to have varying and limitless variety.

The Last Few Centuries: In the late 17^th century people began to mix chocolate drinks with milk to make them taste better. The first chocolate factory in America opened in 1765.

More Recently: Today, chocolate is still the very delicious dessert that it has always attained from back in the old days every year. Every year, countless companies come out with a new variation, and present companies introduce different renditions and even “limited edition” variations of the recipes used to produce chocolate products. More and more renditions and recipes have arisen in more recent years. The microwave had given more opportunities and different styles, especially after inventing the cup-shaped round and square microwavable light grey surfaces that refract the microwave to ensure more even cooking.

Chocolate-Dipped Candied Orange Peel courtesy of Openverse

Celebrated: National Chocolate Covered Anything Day is celebrated on December 16^th every year!

A Few Facts:
I am sharing a few facts, and more, some trivia, some not trivial. . .

Different Flavors of Chocolate:

• Milk Chocolate
• White Chocolate
• Dark Chocolate
• Semisweet Chocolate
• Bittersweet Chocolate
• Unsweetened Chocolate (or Baking Chocolate)
• Cocoa Powder
• Sweet German Chocolate
• Chocolate Truffle
• Cacao
• Brownie
• Fudge
• More. . .

Chocolate Covered Strawberries courtesy of Openverse

The Evolution of Chocolate Candy:

Strawberry Sampler image for pattern cover courtesy of Openverse

The Present:
This year, people all over the world, including the U.S. are enjoying their chocolate, especially covering a delicious treat–every day!

The Future:
Let’s give thanks and enjoy chocolate on top for this whole great year and in the years to come. . .

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Photo by Anita Austvika courtesy of Openverse

National Chocolate Covered Anything Day