We will publish more information very soon, but this is an event you will want to check out. All proceeds will go to lend a hand to Ulysses Galvan who is being treated for leukemia and will soon have a bone marrow transplant. Katherine Clapner from Dude, Sweet assembled some of the city’s finest chefs for this fundraiser. Continue reading
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by Steven Doyle
Last year Dude, Sweet chocolatier Katherine Clapner offered up anatomically correct human hearts that were butcher shop ready and made up entirely of chocolate. They were a huge hit, as you might expect. This year, however, she is erring on the side of rainbows and kitty cats sprinkled with fairy dust. Please enjoy your pink unicorns made up of 72% chocolate. We look forward to next year where we suggest more chocolate innards. Continue reading
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by Angela Hopkins
Dude, Sweet Chocolate is going on its fourth year in DFW. My first experience was in the Avoca Coffee shop off Magnolia in FW. Most people know of the uber popular location in the Bishop Arts District, but now we can cruise over to 2925 Crockett in the West 7th area.
Pastry Chef, Katherine Clapner, having studied with Valrhona Chocolatier, entices us with her uses of dark chocolate in all her creative chocolate concoctions from truffles and fudges to soft butter toffees. Everything is handmade. She has your typical combinations with marshmallows and coffee. I was told by Adrian at the Fort Worth newly opened location, the “Crack in a Box” is a best seller. Chocolate Bark with candied salted nuts, and yes, it is in a box. Continue reading
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by Steven Doyle
I love me some Dude, Sweet Chocolate, and not a week goes by that I don’t stop in for a visit and to snoop for something new from the warped and talented mind of Katherine Clapner. Be it her Trixie and Chim Chim bar which is a Szechuan peppercorn and lime chocolate bar, or the Fungus Amongus, a soft butter toffee made with porcini mushroom and pepitas.
Chef Clapner is always coming out with something new and interesting, and it pays to drop by one of the three locations which we list below. A recent visit netted a beautiful box of foie and caramel coins that was only available at the Preston Center shop. Continue reading
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by Steven Doyle
Dude, Sweet Chocolate owner Katherine Clapner wants you to have a sweet holiday season and has opened two new shops to assist you with your gifts and to satisfy your primal need for chocolate. The smallest version is at 8304 Preston Center Plaza in Dallas sandwiched between Taco Diner and R+D Kitchen, the other is in Fort Worth at 2925 Crockett. Both of these shops geographically enhance Dude, Sweet’s proliferation of Clapner’s special design on chocolate. Continue reading
by Steven Doyle
From the woman who brought us some of the most delicious cookies imaginable, Pam Denesuk has always maintained that life is too short to eat an average cookie. We whole heartedly agree. The owner of Great One Cookie Company has managed to take her company to epic heights in the short one year it has been in business.
You may recall this was the cookie of choice at this year’s Academy Awards. Continue reading
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