I usually have a bottle of amaretto here. I don't normally drink it, I put it in pound cakes! Many years ago before the internet was in every home, I baked and decorated cakes from my home for other people. In the nature of that, baking magazines and the such were a love of mine. One time I saw an ad for a company where a woman made cakes with spirits and shipped them all over, so I splurged and bought a small amaretto cake. If I remember correctly, she was in Georgia. I really, really loved the cake, although it was pretty expensive or at least it felt like it at the time. I decided I would try to adapt my beloved pound cake recipe to get that flavor. I set out to get a bottle of amaretto cream. I could not find that here, so I bought the plain amaretto. I only changed one thing in my recipe, instead of a cup of canned evaporated milk, I used a half cup of amaretto and the other half heavy whipping cream and it turned out really well. My Mom loved it too and has made some also over time. Yay ! That is how I came to keep some around most of the time.
I normally drink my coffee black, so creamers are just for the occasional treat. My last husband put so much cream and sugar in his coffee, to me it was nearly not coffee anymore. LOL !! But hey, whatever you like, right ?
I had to order the stuff the whole time we traveled via Amazon and only the powder's available to deliver. Don't tell anyone I told you but we paid 3x the normal price for creamer and it wasn't even the liquid kind! Shh.
Pura drinks hers black, too. If anything, a shot of half/half. She eats closer to zero sugar than anyone I know. Can't even enjoy a piece of the cake she made me a couple weeks ago.
You guys have a lot in common. She loves baking. I recently celebrated a birthday, she always makes me a something, regardless where we are. Every single year. This year it was a fruity pebble vanilla cake.
That's a pretty cake. I have never heard of a fruity pebble cake, but I do love sprinkles! It would be hard for me to bake and not taste it. I always think I need to know what I am serving. Ok, I don't even TRY to resist. LOL... my total downfall !
Sometimes there are a few things that life just can't go on without, even if you have to pay too much to get it. 😂 How bad I want it, sometimes determines the price I am willing to pay, even when I know it's a rip. Powdered creamer though?? That IS desperate ! I'm being silly, but my very few experiences with such things is that, they always seem to coat the inside of my mouth with a greasy feeling. I've have never quite known what part of the ingredients causes that, but it became a "never again" thing for me pretty fast. Ick !
Yeah it's terrible. Go figure my favorite poison's only available here in the US. You know even their candy bars taste different in EU and UK? They use real coco powder and no HFCS in anything. If I'm not mistaken, HFCS is banned there. Same candy wrappers, same colors and look, but the taste takes some getting used to.
Come back here after being gone awhile and everything's sweet, even string cheese.
Alright, now you're getting the whole shabang. ONLY, and I mean that in all caps, on special days like my birthday do I get fully-loaded (she calls it) dessert. She can't taste them, either, doesn't have the pancreas for it. It's typically naturally sweeteners like banana, monk fruit, not sugar alcohol, nothing sugar alcohol and I'm leaving a lot out.
I have found many products over the last few years that either taste WAY too sweet or WAY too salty to me, that I used to love. They are changing long time products to cheaper versions and putting more of the bad stuff in them to try to pretend it all tastes the same. Although I am totally sugar addicted, I don't like my regular food to be sweet (unless it's a sauce that is supposed to be).... and it's crazy how much salt is being put into things. Good Lawd ! I don't need balloon feet ! LOL
Anyway, some things have become history to me, simply because the manufacterers have cheapened them and ruined the flavor. Yuck ! Did they really think we wouldn't notice??
Hmmmfff ! 😄