cooling time, this entire process takes all of 5 minutes, and each mold makes six bars. The seven Yummy-Dummy executives will spend all day making hundreds of bars. At six bars every 5 minutes, that's 72 bars an hour, so it should take less than three hours to make 200 bars. Why, then, does it take all day? You have to factor in time for a board meeting and, of course, time to go outside and play.

During my time with Yummy-Dummy, I experienced something most can hardly imagine: a chocolate company board meeting. The seven girls, lead by Risa and Sara's father, Gerry, tossed around a volleyball that gave only its holder the right to speak. The girls discussed what items to add to their already scrumptious line of chocolate bars. Among the candidates were dark chocolate with dried fruit, dark chocolate with coconut and my favorite, dark chocolate with toffee, and that doesn't include the ideas that were too top secret to make it to print. The next topic of conversation blew me away. Every quarter, the girls donate 10 percent of their profits to charity. The amazing part was that nearly every girl had a different charity they wanted to donate to. I'm old enough to remember the original Nintendo, and I can name maybe three charities, four tops. These girls spent a large chunk of the meeting debating which charity would be best, and they still couldn't come up with a definitive answer. Among the finalists were a foundation that brings education to young