Chambre de Sucre Sugars Me Up

[Free Stuff by Wilfrid:  July 14, 2011]

Who could refuse some super-cute sugars from Chambre de Sucre to taste and test?  Well honestly, I was half in a quandary.  I only use sugar if I drink strong espresso or ristretto or maybe mint tea.

Of course I cook with sugar,  but regular readers will know I am more likely to be stewing some gizzards than baking a cake.  But like I said, it's cute.  And there are people who care.

Oh yes, there are some fancy tea partiers among us and I am not referring to the right wing of the Republican Party.  There are people for whom tea is a special occasion, dress-up event, with the full panoply of pretty cups and saucers, sugar tongs, cakes and dainties.  (Yes, Wandering Eater, I am talking to you!)

If that's how you roll come four o'clock, or if you'd just like to cheer up your coffee break - or, I'm told, if you celebrate Ochugen, the Japanese hot weather gift-giving fest celebrated round about now - you will be all over these titbits.

There were heart shaped ones too but I think somebody put them in the pie - see below.

Well they are pretty and I did try tasting them and in all honesty I probably need some training.  They tasted like sugar.  Oh I am so disappointed in my powers of description.  Hand-made, not processed, and you kind find out all about them here.

I did try cooking with them too but they got a bit hidden among the pecans.