Sugar Savvy

Ever since my birthday in June, I have been mildly obsessed. Okay. Completely obsessed. With what? Buttercream frosting. The name itself just rolls from the tongue in sweet harmony.
It all started with the beautiful marble cake that Shawn bought for me. It had this delicious creamy frosting and was decorated with a firm, rich buttercream […]

Newman’s Own Organics is expanding its Newman-O’s Cookie line to include a new Peanut Butter Crème Filled Chocolate Cookie, and has generously sent me a sampler box so that I may review them for our Sugar Savvy readers.
For those of you not familiar with the company, Newman’s Own Organics was founded by actor Paul Newman’s […]

Admit it … you love brownies. What’s not to love about this rich, dense, moist chocolate confection? So when a craving hits you, what do you do: (1) whip up a homemade batch, or (2) reach for the convenience of a brownie mix?
Sometimes desperate times call for desperate measures and you reach for a boxed brownie […]

On Tuesday May 13th, participating Haagen-Dazs Scoop Shops offered a free scoop of their Limited Edition Vanilla Honey Bee Flavor Ice Cream. This flavor will be available through December; however, the company has also recently released Vanilla Honey and Granola Frozen Yogurt as part of its permanent frozen yogurt line.
The release of these two honey-flavored ice […]

Let me state right from the beginning that I am a big fan of ice-cream cake. To me, the only drawback to the typical ice-cream cake is that it is simply too big and too expensive to buy for an “anytime” dessert, and my birthday comes but once a year.
This being the case, when I heard that […]

I’m always amazed by egg whites and the transformation that occurs when they’re subjected to intense beating with my stand mixer, a.k.a. Rosco. I recently had the luck of purchasing some organic vanilla beans (Madagascar Bourbon and Tahitian) from a friend-of-a-friend, who bought them wholesale. I was looking for an excuse to use them, and […]

The Immaculate Baking Co. first caught my eye with the line “a better cookie for kids.” If they’re better for kids, I figured they must be better for me too. They are 100% organic and sweetened with ingredients like figs and cane juice, rather than high fructose corn syrup.

I bought a 10-pack at Target, which […]

Talk about irony. A few short years ago, you wouldn’t have been able to get me to touch a block of white chocolate with a 10-foot pole, and now? Now it’s become an incredible luxury, a culinary diamond in my eyes, and I’ve become completely enamored with its simple existence. Simple indeed, because as I’m […]

Valentine’s Day might be over, but there is still room for love and hearts.
Last-minute gifts are truly the norm for Valentine’s Day, especially when it comes to edible offerings. Being something of a cynic, this simple fact just validates my belief that this is one useless holiday, not worth remembering until the date itself even […]

This handsome nugget, in addition to a similar Mint Sandwich Cookie, is featured as a Christmas item on the Emily’s Chocolates website, smartly packaged in a sturdy and festive snowman-adorned tub. But a peanut butter sandwich cookie, if you ask me, defies seasonal pigeonholing. And luckily, when I received them in the mail just last […]