Chocolate Fudge Cookies with Oats and Flax Seed [Recipe]

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--Naomi

June Featured: Chocolate Licorice Fudge

I was asking my mom the other day what our June featured product should be and she said, "fudge."

As general as that may be, why not have our best product be our feature? Fudge it is!

As a company, we're run the standard gamut of taste-testing, experimenting with various flavors while perfecting the tried and true. My dad is behind pretty much all off the more interesting options we've tried, usually pushing them through with a fair amount of skepticism from the production staff (aka, the rest of the family :))

Every once in a while, though, I will admit, he's come up with a winner.

For our focus on fudge here, I'd like to talk about our Chocolate Licorice, one of his proudest achievements. While the prospect of chocolate and black licorice together might make you feel a little uncertain, it's become one of our most distinctive flavors!

At shows, we like to tell people that if they like black licorice, they will like this fudge. If not, than they probably won't. Pretty easy way to tell, right?

This June, I invite you to try our Chocolate Licorice fudge, a true culinary triumph! ;) I'd also like to invite you to visit our table at a craft show... you can sample it there for free. Check out our calendar for details.

Featured: Fudge Easter Eggs

We're going to start doing a Feature of the Month from here on out, starting with April's Fudge Easter Eggs.

We started making the Easter Eggs a couple years back when we were looking for something cute to add to our spring table. The eggs' fudgy goodness made them a smash success! :)

Available is either dark or milk chocolate, the eggs are solid fudge enclosed in a chocolate shell, then dusted with a smattering of appropriately springy sprinkles. Cute, no?

The Fudge Easter Eggs are appropriate for the adult who secretly (or not so secretly) still loves holidays where they get candy, or for the kid with sophisticated taste.

Chocolate Dreams

Our family has always valued togetherness. What better way, my father proclaimed, for the family to be together than for us all to work together in some sort of family enterprise? And with that, we started "the family business", a title that has referred to quite the myriad of projects.

You may wonder what this has to do with chocolate. Well, we are a primarily female family (eleven of us to their three). Women love chocolate! All we girls one day decided to try our hand at chocolate production, since we had a couple of really good recipes. Our family was already participating in craft and trade shows around Michigan with another product, so we added a couple boxes of fudge to the table.

Success! Our fudge was an instant hit. At that point, the entrepreneurial wheels really started turning and we began experimenting with flavors oils and nuts to make our little fudge table better and better.

Within a year, Sweet Somethings Fudge had traveled to craft shows all over Michigan and beyond. We've never been afraid of travel, and our chocolate table has graced Home & Garden shows in many of the eastern and southern states.

These days we've evolved some. Our name has changed slightly--we're now going by Sweet Somethings Chocolate Company--and our product base has widened considerably. We're now offering thirteen different flavors of fudge, gourmet truffles, chocolate bark, turtle pretzels (a personal favorite), and more. Not only that, but we've recently added wedding cakes and party favors to the mix.

www.sweetsomethingschocolate.com