Sugar High Friday: The Roundup
Thanks to everyone who participated in Sugar High Friday! I started a new
job so I have been working on this round up for a whole week – but it is
finally done!! Thanks for your patience as well. Everything here sounds
really yummy – and it came from all over the world! I got so excited about
it that I decided to put people’s locations right before the picture of
their food, at least where I could see where they were from.
Cakelaw of Laws of the Kitchen
made a quirky, quintessentially Australian Jaffa Cake! It has jaffa candies inside and out, which confused me
because I would have sworn I was told jaffa cakes were cookies. I am learning something new every day! The cake is complete with beautiful “icing” letters made from cut-out strawberry fruit bars. I need to try that! (Australia!)
Allen over at Eating Out Loud made cake
from his leftover holiday candy! Using, if you can believe it, crushed
candy canes, mint patties, Hersheys, and Rollos. CAN you believe it? It
sounds like it would work with anything! (California, US!)
Ann of the awesomely-named Redacted
Recipes (I love the word “redacted!” Also “recuse.”) made Banana Peanut Butter Cupcakes using peanut butter cups! yummms. And a mashed-up banana! And buttermilk! Now this is baking. (New York, US!)
Kelly of Sass and Veracity
made… are you ready for this?…. Godiva-Truffled Cheesecake Confections. The truffles came in hazelnut praline, maple
walnut, french vanilla, gingerbread, cappuccino, roasted almond, dark
chocolate, and milk chocolate flavors, which is why I think Godiva is just
about one step up from See’s. But as a cheesecake ingredient, I think they
may have found their niche! (US)
Astra Libris of Food For
Laughter did the coolest thing: healthy, fluffy cookies full of sesame candy. omigod. Personally I would
substitute butter as a healthy alternative to margarine, which has some nasty chemical attributes, but regardless, I so want to try these. Yum! (“The Deep South,” US)
Helen of the deliciously named Tartelette made Toffee-Butterscotch
Pudding at the insistence of her mail carrier! And gave him one of the puddings! I wish we had a regular mail carrier. Here in the big city (that would be Oakland) they change them up on us every few weeks. Maybe I just
need to start getting cute food magazines in the mail myself! (South Carolina, US, by way of France!)
Maggie of applesticker made
Werther’s
Originals Shortbread using crunchy hard butterscotch candies that
turned all melty and chewy in the oven like magic! That sounds so buttery
and sweet and good! AND THEN SHE ADDED CHOCOLATE GANACHE. Pure genius!
Susan of Food Blogga made warm,
melty Snickers cookies. Oh my god – easy and yummy. Everyone’s food
sounds so good! Plus she talks about Wonder Woman. My girlfriend gave me
Wonder Woman pajamas! I consider that a shout-out. Hmm; I am seriously
considering making these WITH chocolate chips. Holy gods. (California,
by way of Rhode Island, US!)
Holly at the cutely-named phe\MOM\enon made the even funnier Molten
Chocolate Reisens for Living. Along with the cutest story behind the name. So much cute and funny! (Utah, US!)
Arfi of HomeMadeS didn’t use
storebought candy, but if you make this hokey
pokey and break it over ice cream you can pretend it is store-bought! Of course, I don’t know why else you would ever pretend that. Only three ingredients and so yummy-looking! (New Zealand!)
Can you believe it? Chris from Mele Cotte made Almond Joy! Or “Almond Delight,” to avoid copyright issues. I totally love
the chutzpah of using candy to make candy. It’s candy SQUARED! (Georgia,
US!)
Meeta at What’s For Lunch
Honey?, which has an especially colorful and pretty header, made a Chocolate
Cranberry Tart using a Milka candy bar. I think the candied ginger
might also count! Yum – and so fancy! (Germany!)
Emma at The Chef and The
Photographer made Brownie Bites with toffee pieces in half the batch and peppermint patty chunks
in the other batch. OMG. Shades of Dr.
Frankenbrownie’s Mintsters! But she made actual food with them rather than a melted-down chocolate
monstrosity! (Oregon, US!)
Sarah from What Smells So
Good? totally made Canadian Banana-Coffee Cake. Canadian cake? More like Candyian cake! (I am pretty sure that qualified as a joke. I won’t swear to it.) Is it Canadian because it uses Coffee
Crisp bars? We have those here, but Internet says that it is marketed
mainly in Canada so I guess I will accept that interpretation! This is
also really adorable because she uses the springform pan her husband gave
her for Christmas and sticks the cake in the freezer to save for
Valentine’s. Cute, cute, cute! (Canada!)
Jackie at
href=http://nerdfamilyfood.blogspot.comNerd Family made Rocky Road Delight, an easy way to use up leftover Halloween candy. Bonus points for using store-bought frozen whipped topping as well as
store-bought candies in here! This is a great buy-it-and-melt-it kind of
recipe. (California, US!)
Linda at Make Life Sweeter! used crushed hard
candies to make beautiful jewels in this candy crown cookie, complete with really adorable pictures of her son posing
with the cookie over his head. (The Netherlands!)
Haalo of Cook (Almost) Anything (At
Least Once) made Rocky Road, in a way I’d never seen before. Instead of the American
concoction of chocolate studded with walnuts and marshmallows, apparently
Australians mix marshmallows, nuts, chocolate, and TURKISH DELIGHT?!?
Haalo made it into a gorgeous stained-glass creation by using pink and
white marshmallows and white chocolate to set off the colors of the
turkish delight. (Australia!)
Sneak Preview for Next SHF! Rachel at Vampituity, an Improvised
Perspective will host February 2008′s Sugar High Friday. Get ready to
create “Pies That Evoke Your Dreams.” Inspired by the movie the Waitress,
starring Keri Russell and Nathan Fillion, SHF participants and readers
will be asked top make a voluntary donation to Mission Pie, a non-profit
dedicated to education of youth about the connection between the food we
eat and the land, as well as sustainability and slow food. More
information on the Pies Project at:
http://piesthatevokeyourdreams.blogspot.com.
Watch http://vampituity.blogspot.com
for the SHF February 2008 announcement!
