Sugar Love

The Holiday Season is approaching and we will indulge even more in our traditional treats, many of them loaded with sugar. Did you know...

Americans spent $32 billion on Candy in 2011. The consumption per capita was 25 pounds (11 kilos).

(Candy is North American expression for what is in the UK, Ireland, South Africa and other commonwealth countries called confectionery)

The word candy comes from qandi - Arabic for a sugar confection.

Another sugary treat is a Cupcake. Americans ate over 770 million cupcakes in 2012.

National Cupcake Day is December 15.

The largest cupcake shop chain in the US is Crumbs Bake Shop.

Cupcake (also British English - fairy cake, Australian English - patty cake or cup cake) is a small cake designed to serve one person, which can be baked in a small thin paper or aluminum cup. Icing and other cake decorations can be applied.
The first mention of the cupcake can be traced as far back as 1796, when a recipe notation of "a cake to be baked in small cups" was written in American Cookery by Amelia Simmons. The earliest documentation of the term cupcake was in "Seventy-five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes, and Sweetmeats" in 1828 in Eliza Leslie's Receipts cookbook. - Wiki

Cupcakes popularity spread in 2000 when  Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw nibbled on them.



popular TV sit-com "Sex and the City"