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A party trend that has become quite popular lately is the Chocolate Fountain. From birthdays to baby showers to baptismal to corporate events to weddings, the chocolate fountain table might have been the next crowded area next to the buffet table.

A chocolate fountain is a stainless steel with 2 or 3 (or more) tiers that melts chocolate and produces a continuous flow of chocolate film over the tiers like a fountain. The chocolate fondue are usually: Bittersweet Chocolate, Darksweet Chocolate, Premium Chocolate, Milk Chocolate, White Chocolate, and even Colored Chocolate. There is a variety of “dippers” or “dippings” which are used to dip into the chocolate film and cover it with the desired amount of chocolate.

Dippers can be fruits and non-fruits:
Fruits:
1.Banana
2.Apple
3.Pineapple
4.Orange
5.Melon
6.Watermelon
7. Grapes
8. Strawberry
9. Blueberry (Frozen)
10. Kiwi
11. Raspberries (Frozen)

and Non-Fruits:
1.Chocostick Wafer
2.Vanilla Wafer
3.Breadstick
4.Marshmallows
5.Graham Cracker
6.Garlic Fingers
7.French Bread
8. Pretzels
9. Mini Donuts
10. Chocolate Chip Cookies
11. Peanut Butter Chip Cookies
12. Butter Cookies
13. Mini cup cakes (in choco, ube, strawberry, and cheese)
14. Churros
15. Rosquillos
16. Broas
17. Barquillos
18. Butter Egg Roll Cookies
19. Nachos
20. French Fries

The Chocolate Fountain is highly favored because of the following advantages:
1. It simplifies your menu. Just serve the chocolate and dippers then the dessert bar is done.
2. Because of the interactive and fascinating experience of “dipping” it makes eating more exciting.
3. It is an elegant and impressive table centerpiece.

“My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far today, I have finished 2 bags of M&M’s and a chocolate cake. I feel better already.”
~ Dave Barry

I’m literally drooling while posting this picture. And all the more I salivated when I noticed that my recent snapshots share are all food…so tempting and alluring. This is the husband’s shot of his special Father’s Day cake…Red Ribbon’s Chocolate S’mores Cake: moist chocolate cake with layers of heavenly marshmallow and grahams. Topped with caramel and chocolate squares.

1. Chicken sa McDo, Jollibee, or KFC?
:: KFC junkie here! I love both the original and hot & crispy chicken, unlimited gravy, zinger, choco mousse and coleslaw.

2. Pepsi, Coke, or rootbeer?
:: Coke

3. Greenwich, Pizza Hut, or Yellow Cab?
:: Yellow Cab! I love their 4 Seasons Pizza, Calzone and Charlie Chan Pasta.

4. Adobo, sinigang, or nilaga?
:: I go for adobo.

5. Beef, pork, or chicken?
:: Pork.

6. Starbucks, Coffee bean and tea leaf, or Gloria Jean’s?
:: Starbucks. I love their Mocha Frap.

7. Cornflakes, Honey Stars, or Milo cereal?
:: Cornflakes.

8. Goldilocks or Red Ribbon?
:: Red Ribbon.

9. Tokyo Tokyo, Teriyaki Boy or Rai Rai Ken?
:: Tokyo tokyo.

10. Take Out or Dine In?
:: Delivery…lolz!