My mother had a ferocious sweet tooth. So do I. I suppose if these were here I would eat them, but they are not. They were never here. I photographed them at the Auckland Food Show last week. They were made by Vaniyé Gourmet French Delicacies in Auckland.
They were so beautiful I had to have them forever. Oddly, looking at them almost satisfies my sweet tooth. Yum!
Titirangi Storyteller 
Oh-oh…my drug of choice. I’ve worked very hard not to crave these little beasties. My body likes me for all that work! I can look at temptations like this and say, “If sugar just came into the world now, it is such a powerful drug that it would be illegal.” And then eat an apple from Nelson, NZ! 😀
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Sugar is really an amazing artistic medium… whilst I did not achieve anything on this level, I spent years working on cake-making, first on getting the flavours balanced and then a few more on presentation, which is an ever evolving set of skills and true art… unfortunately my powers of resistance were fairly feeble… I am a do or do not sort when it comes to pastry… there is no medium, no two-forkfuls and I’m satisfied…
These days it’s mostly just eye candy…
Well, there is the 72% Ghanaian chocolate I keep stashed in my office for ’emergencies.’
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Looking at them does not satisfy me as I really, really would like to have all of them–now. I’m craving chocolate . . .
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Well… there IS this bar of 72% Gahanian chocoloate I keep stashed in here for emergencies – but this may have inspired a much greater need… Time to track down Ms Vaniye and get her to indulge us. Which reminds me – I have not put a link to her site on the page! Uh oh…
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Mom would have poured sugar on top of these!
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Absolutely! Or honey if she had some handy…. I think she would be horrified at the trend for nice sweets and candies to be less sweet these days – at least this sort of sweet. I am sure the Twinkie is as sweet as ever…
Remember her tea??? “Therrrrrre is no such thing as too much sugarrr in my tea!”
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