Chocolate Covered Anything Day

Chocolate covered pastries. Valeria Lu / Pixabay.com / 2019 / CC0 1.0

The 15th of December is Chocolate Covered Anything Day.

This is a day to have something covered in chocolate, and it can be anything you want. It can be drizzled, coated or absolutely smothered in chocolate — it all counts!

If you are short of ideas, perhaps a doughnut, a croissant, ice cream, or a strawberry even.

To go all out, you could rent or buy a chocolate fountain, invite some friends over, and coat anything you want in chocolate.

Less ambitiously, you could buy a bottle of chocolate syrup, and coat things in it.

Remember, chocolate is a spice by itself before we sweeten it, and is used in cooking savoury dishes such as Mexican mole sauces. So you could also literally have a chocolate covered plate of dinner today!

On another note, according to the Interflora florist company, the 16th December is the worst day to have a birthday:

“The WORST birth date emerged as December 16th — due, in part, to its proximity to Christmas, cold weather, and likelihood of it getting forgotten with all the festive celebrations.” ^[1]https://www.interflora.co.uk/blog/best-birthdays/ Interflora. When is the Best Day to Celebrate a Birthday? 23 July 2018. Accessed November 2020 at https://www.interflora.co.uk/blog/best-birthdays/

So if it’s your birthday today, you definitely deserve something chocolate covered!

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History

The first print mention of “Chocolate Covered Anything Day” universally occurring on the 16th December that CooksInfo is aware of is in a list of “silly food holidays” compiled in 2004 by Emily Nunn of the Chicago Tribune. “December…. Gazpacho Day (6), Cotton Candy Day (7), Pastry Day (9), Noodle Ring Day (11), BouillabaisseDay (14), Lemon Cupcake Day (15), Chocolate Covered Anything Day (16)…” ^[2]Nunn, Emily. Surrender to never-ending glut of silly food holidays. Chicago Tribune. Reprinted in: Kerrville Daily Times. Kerrville, Texas. 22 Sep 2004. Page 3C. Col 1.