Sweet Junkie Blog
January..The Time For Sugar Free Sweets!
Date of post 10/1/2010
So here we are, Christmas and New Years celebrations are over, the last of the festive turkey has long since been curried, turned to terrines, blended to a soup or boiled for stock. The cake tins have been tipped and swept free of the mince pie cru [...]
How to Make Sugar Mice
Date of post 25/10/2009
How Sugar Mice Are Made It's probably a safe bet that most of us have not given too much thought into how sugar mice are made. In the modern age most would probably assume huge factories churn out millions of the little creatures fr [...]
End of Summer!
Date of post 2/9/2009
Newly returned from a glorious holiday on the beautiful coast of north Norfolk and feeling as fresh as a daisy, it struck me that the end of summer was upon us, dammit! In the sweets industry this is not such a bad thing, for though it means the end [...]
Lovely Lovely Liquorice
Date of post 13/8/2009
Sitting down and gazing wistfully into the middle distance, chewing slowly on some of the latest Liquorice Allsorts batch, I wondered to myself what on earth people did without this wonderful stuff before it was invented. I stopped wondering and thou [...]
Home Made Toffee
Date of post 7/7/2009
Of all the sweets for sale at Sweet Junkie, the one most easy to replicate at home is that of toffee. In parts of Wales for example, whole evenings at Christmas time are devoted to the art of ‘toffee pulling’, where folks gather together [...]
