Fancy Sugars

[andiesenji]

I am a diabetic.  I have it in good control and am very careful about my sugar intake.

However, from time to time I am tempted to go "over the edge" so to speak.

Newly arrived in my email was this missive from The Nibble  to which I have subscribed for a few years.

So, not only am I tempted by this article, I naturally had to click on the  online purchasing button and have now spend far too much on things that I can look at but not consume.  Hopefully my guests will be suitably impressed to make this all worth while.

And to top it off I ordered the recipe book "Sugar Baby" - Oy, am I a pushover!

[Cuilidh]

I can see how you could be tempted by this one Andie - the sugars are so beautifully presented.  I hope your guests feel suitably honoured when you offer these to them.

[Cornish Cream]

Adorable book Andie.I had a read of some of the reviews and most people are pleased with the book.The sugar shapes are amazing,no wonder you went overboard with the purchasing button.

[andiesenji]

Adorable book Andie.I had a read of some of the reviews and most people are pleased with the book.The sugar shapes are amazing,no wonder you went overboard with the purchasing button.

Sometimes I have virtually no resistance (shopwise) when something like this slips across my desktop.

[maddy]

Sometimes I have virtually no resistance (shopwise) when something like this slips across my desktop.

we are cut from the same cloth Andie!

Oh, they are adorable.....don't blame you for going crazy on the plastic.
I have sussed that sugarbaby book out previously.....I did have to weigh up if I needed more sugar in my life though 

[achookwoman]

Andi,  on your recommendation, I subscribe to this site.  Love it.  Saw the sugar stuff this morning and was REALLY tempted.  However with a daughter who is a dentist,  I didn't dare.   She is doing battle at the GC school at the moment as they reward the children with lollies.

[cookie1]

I love the sugarbowl. I don't know why as we don't use one as we don't take sugar in tea or coffee nor do most of our friends.

[obbie]

  Wow, i love the pastel colored balls.

Robyn

[nazar]

l have a friend andie  who buys timtams [ yummy choc biscuits ] puts them in a container just so she can smell them
as she cant eat them either makes her terrlble sick

[andiesenji]

l have a friend andie  who buys timtams [ yummy choc biscuits ] puts them in a container just so she can smell them
as she cant eat them either makes her terrlble sick

I know just how she feels.  I have a problem with regular chocolate or "raw" or "natural" cocoa but I can use Dutch process cocoa with no problems.  It's not exactly an allergy, my allergist tells me it is one of the components of theobromine.  Within a few minutes of consuming it, I get a severe frontal headache, both sides so it's not like migraine. 
I rarely get headaches, since solving my sinus/allergy problem I don't have a headache from one year to the next, so these that occur with consumption of chocolate are isolated.

Fortunately I can cook with it, just have to remember not to taste as my threshold is very low.  I can do some interesting things with Dutch process cocoa though, so it isn't too great a deprivation. 
I've been asked by neighbors to make my fruited cocoa Christmas cake, which Helene so nicely converted to the TMX for me and I will post photos of same.  I use the black cocoa from King Arthur Flour catalog so it turns out quite dark and with intense flavor.