Jennifer's Guide to Scottish Sweets - a.k.a. How to Rot your Teeth the Glasgow Way!
This waist betrays me; i've known my fair share of sweets in my day. i was a candy connoisseur before there were boutique candy shops to satisfy sugar-addicted folks like myself. i knew which local stores carried foreign and black-market American candy when i was a kid. Before boutique candy shops, you had to hunt around for those sugary sweets guaranteed to rot your mouth.
As such, i have carefully set about eating the sweets of Scotland, braving the cavities and calories of this land's offerings .
1. Tunnock's Snowball
Delicious fluffy marshmallows, whipped into a fervor, and covered in creamy milk chocolate. Do you need a cigarette? i do after writing that.
2. Coconut Ice
(Pictured above)
If you still have your own teeth beware of this achingly sweet treat. Chewy and creamy, this candy is pretty much made out of sugar and coconut. A bit like fudge only better.
3. Tunnock's Tea Cakes
i think i could probably eat at least three of these in one sitting. i think i'm addicted. For all you Canadians, they are kind of like Dare Viva Puffs only they aren't disgusting. Tunnock's Tea Cakes are filled with creamy marshmallow goodness and finished off with a biscuit bottom. i would move across the ocean for you, tea cakes! Err...
4. Caramel Shortcake
Ohmygod. Where do i even begin? The milk chocolate layer which is followed by creamy caramel? Or the buttery shortbread bottom that combines it all into one major mouthgasm. The first time i ate one of these, i had to take a nap afterwards from the sugar crash. My body was unable to digest such quantities of sugar (which is rare) and i could barely string together a sentence. When eating one, i would pencil in a nap afterwards.
These are a mix between wine gums and jelly babies. i don't know how else to describe them other than being yummy and, of course, awful for one's dental hygiene.
Ok, this might actually be one of the best sweets in the world - but only when it's homemade. There is quite a good restaurant here, The Pig and The Butterfly, who give out complimentary homemade tablet at the end of your meal. Damn, it's worth going to just for the tablet - let alone the food. i'm actually going there for lunch tomorrow and can hardly wait. Forget lunch - just give me mountains of tablet to eat my way out of!
A Scottish tradition. A way of life. Milk chocolate enrobes caramel and wafers in this gorgeous wee biscuit. Again, best if they are fresh and haven't been sitting on the shelf at Tesco for months. Apparently Tunnock's makes "more than 4,000,000" of these biscuits every week. i probably account for 1000 of those.
Kind of like the above but with coconut too. i worship at the House of Tunnock's.
4 comments:
Mmm I gave out Tunnock's Caramel Wafers in my Out-Of-Town Boxes at my wedding...
I just looked up a recipe for Scottish Tablets, was just a little surprise to see it's a LOT like Pralines without the pecans, no wonder why you like them so much, yumm
WOOOOW, my mouth is really watering very badly after seeing your blog. I also like this so much if you create another one content about baklava and about its recipe. As I like it most I always have to find baklava online shop to buy this tasty one. So if you accept my request then I'll be able to make it on my own.
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