Suggested Family Activity • It’s National Chocolate 🍫🥛 Milk Day
Suggested Family Activity • It’s National Chocolate 🍫🥛 Milk Day
Today is National Milk Chocolate Day, a day to celebrate all things good and chocolatey. You might enjoy this classic sweet in a variety of ways, such as making smores, baking chocolate chip cookies 🍪 or having a plain chocolate bar 🍫. You can also heat chocolate pieces to drizzle on plain cookies, cakes, or even popcorn. Or you can add it to milk to make chocolate milk (adults could add melted chocolate to a coffee drink for a sweet surprise!) or use it on your favorite ice cream 🍦. The book Chocolate Lover’s Cookbook for Dummies by Carole Bloom, and others like it at your public library, will give you lots of great ideas for how to cook up a chocolate treat today. If you are interested in learning how chocolate is made, check out the book Beans to Chocolate by Inez Snyder in the “How Things are Made” series.
Young children will enjoy the pictures books Curious George Goes to the Chocolate Factory by H. A. Rey, Betty Bunny Loves Chocolate Cake by Michael B. Kaplan, or A Chocolate Moose for Dinner by Fred Gwynne today, while chapter book readers might like The Chocopocalypse by Chris Callaghan, the classic Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl, or The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart by Stephanie Burgis. There are also lots of great titles for adult readers to enjoy – Joanne Harris’ first novel Chocolat, which was also made into a feature film, or one of several chocolate related mystery series such as the “Chocoholic” series by JoAnna Carl; Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder, a Hannah Swensen bakery mystery by Joanne Fluke; or Death by Chocolate, a Savannah Reid mystery by G. A. McKevett.
