Fall Fruits Festival ~ Chocolate & Giveaway

** Giveaway now closed. **

Welcome to the last day of the Fall Fruits Festival! I've combined it with my usual Chocolate Friday. I felt that it was only right that I should declare Chocolate to be a Fall Fruit - LOL! Should be much easier to get those recommended fruit servings now - you're welcome. :) Whether or not you agree that chocolate is a fruit, it does go well with fruit and it is a good Fall food!

Have you experienced the fun of every day of the Festival this week? You don't want to miss out on all the yummy recipes linked up to each day!

Day 1 ~ Pears
Day 2 ~ Pumpkin
Day 3 ~ Apples
Day 4 ~ Cranberries

Now if you're all caught up, you should reward yourself with some chocolate! I knew that I wanted to find a recipe for today that combined pumpkin and chocolate. I thought about truffles, but didn't see a recipe I liked. I also thought about combining pumpkin fudge with regular chocolate fudge - yum! But then I thought of something else and found a recipe to try. This is a nice Fall biscotti and it does combine pumpkin and chocolate!

You can get the recipe for Pumpkin Pecan Biscotti at epicurious.com. It doesn't have an overwhelming pumpkin flavor, not too much chocolate, and it isn't super sweet. It's just right! The recipe calls for white chocolate, but I didn't have any. I just used about a half cup of semi-sweet chocolate chips instead. This biscotti is softer than the other kinds I make, but I like it!

** GIVEAWAY CLOSED. ** And now...giveaway time!

This giveaway is for chocolate!! That's over a pound of Trader Joe's dark chocolate! I feel certain that you can come up with some use for it. :)

Enter the giveaway by leaving a comment on this post! That's it! The giveaway will stay open through 10pm PST on Sunday 10/18 and the winner will be randomly chosen from the comments.

Now it's time for you to link up your chocolate posts and recipes, because it's kind to share! You can link up a new or old post about chocolate, but please do include a link back to this post so everybody can enjoy the Fall Fruits Festival (and Chocolate Friday)! If you don't have a blog, feel free to share chocolate links and recipes in the comments.

Check back through the day to see all the chocolate posts linking up! I can't believe this is the last day of the Festival! My only regret is that I didn't make it a requirement to give me a sample to taste for every recipe linked - LOL! You can come back all weekend long and look at all the links (and you can still link up your posts) and enter the giveaways! Giveaway winners will be announced on Monday. Thank you so much for helping to make this such a fun and successful week! I really hope you enjoyed it!

Have a fantastic Friday friends!

I'm linking this up to the Grocery Cart Challenge Recipe Swap!  I'm also linking this to Tasty Tuesday at Balancing Beauty and Bedlam!

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