Chocolate Tours

Sydney is a great place to discover with its natural beauties, art and history all combined in one place. With the extreme weather in Australia, you can assure yourself that you will be finding the best of the places for both summers and winters. If you are planning your tours for the winter, you might as well put Sydney on your list for it will give you just the right warm feeling you crave in those cold winds. Here are a few places that might get you excited for the winter vacations.

Mona farm

This amazing farm is located only at a three hour drive from Sydney. It is a conflation of a natural beauty and an art gallery which is not something you would find in many cities. It has the most beautiful view with trees and acres of land spreading from the lavish accommodation that holds room for about 10 people. The sculptures are present throughout the lands and gardens ranging to upto 20 sculptures in total.

The byron

If you are looking for a resort and spa, this is the place that you want to add in the tours you are planning. It is a cosy little place that is just perfect for the winters, having a complimentary movie and popcorn at night followed by a comfortable sleep in the soft beds. You will wake up to a delicious buffet and yoga.

Cabin at kangaroo valley

This cabin is a bot off-grid but is the perfect spot for the few friends or family you plan to stay with for a private yet cosy affair. A warm cabin with a king sized bed, cozy kitchen, glass doors, installed heater and a relaxing pool outdoors with a view of a natural park ranging from different animals is just what you need this winter.

Lake crackenback

A magnificent resort that is covered in the white blankets of snow and home to many warm services that you would want to soak yourself in with the cold winds outside, should be added in your list of tours. It offers the beautiful views of the soothing lake and the great big mountains reaching the top. Moreover, they have a ski closet within the resort where you can help yourself to an adventure in the snow.

Primus Hotel

If you are looking for something fancy for the plan of sydney harbour boat tours in Sydney, then you should opt for this luxury five-star hotel situated in the city. It has one of the best services in town ranging from deliciou buffets, valet service and complimentary internet. It is the perfect hibernation spot to get yourself spoiled from the glorious services offered by the hotel.

Once upon a time there were the last months of 2019 and a real commercial case: Nutella Biscuits . That is the latest Ferrero house product linked to the famous spreadable cream, which has driven the web and the market crazy, not necessarily in this order. And that already begins to boast the first imitations. But if it is true that, according to the conspirators of the web, Nutella branded biscuits are born as a “war” response to the spread of Pan di Stelle flavor, then the war continues.

Because for a few days, after being announced in November, the filled biscuits of the same line arrived on the market: the Biscocrema. Not a novelty, given that since 2007, the year in which the Pan di Stelle biscuits have become an independent brand, the products branded by the white star, a symbol of gluttony, have followed one another with a passion for Italians. How can we forget the “low” calorie snacks, despite the unmistakable cocoa flavor.

But what should we expect once we arrive at the supermarket? “The basis for the success of Pan di Stelle – says Francesco Del Porto, President of the Barilla Group Italy Region – is the passion for the product combined with the evocative power and magic of this brand, which brings everyone back to childhood.

But Pan di Stelle is also attention to the quality of the ingredients, the impact that the supply chains have on the environment and on the communities “. So, first of all, a product” without palm oil “, a factor on which the manufacturer relies heavily, formed from a cocoa biscuit – ça va sans dire – and the Pan di Stelle cream. Unlike Nutella Biscuits, which have invaded the shops with different types of packaging,

it will be sold only in single portions of 28 grams, containing two biscuits, delicate and small in size; a sales solution that wants to wink at a more conscious consumption, or perhaps only at the possibility of putting them in the bag and taking them to the office or school. Different products even if very close in the collective imagination, ready to challenge each other with hits of receipts and social comments, positive or not.

But what can we really expect once we take the first bite and which is the best, if a better one exists? We tried to answer, with our personal test of taste and comparison between both products.

Among the Christmas sweets of the Apulian tradition there are also horseshoe biscuits with dark chocolate tips. Horseshoes are actually simple and easy-to-make biscuits, which we now find in bars and pastry shops all year round, but during the Christmas period, enthusiasts, who make homemade desserts, also try their hand at making these biscuits by playing with the molds and then alternating stars with saplings or white-winged angels to then “dirty” a part of biscuits with chocolate.

We work the cold butter of the fridge with our hands so as to roughly break it and gradually add the icing sugar. We mix well and add the egg (the whole one), mix and then also add the yolk.

We take the vanilla seeds from the berry (my grandmother, however, only used the bag of vanillin) and add them to the mixture.
We also insert the flour and starch and as soon as we obtain a homogeneous mixture we cover and leave aside. Meanwhile, prepare some sheets of parchment paper and heat the oven to 170 degrees in ventilated mode.

We spread the dough on a surface and take small quantities of dough, stretch it loaf (as if it were a breadstick) and at this point we fold it just giving a horseshoe shape.

With a knife we ​​cut the tips so as to make our horseshoe perfect in closing (or at least we try)