Dessert-o-licious

Recently I had the pleasure of receiving some cake pops from Veronica’s Treats to review here. The package arrived and as I unwrapped it, I was greeted by these beautiful pops. So pretty that I didn’t want to eat them!

When you’ve come across cinnamon in the supermarket or your spice rack, have you ever stopped to wonder where the spice comes from? Believe it or not, it is actually the inner bark of a tree!

While in Costa Rica, I had the pleasure of visiting a spice farm and was able to see how vanilla beans, cinnamon, and chocolate are grown. Vanilla is actually an orchid and can be grown around many other trees. It grows as a flower that needs to be hand pollinated and only gives one harvest [...]