The Lazy Girls Guide To Getting A Sweet Treat
If peanut butter cookies are too much work and apple pie takes too much planning then read on…
Being both lazy and addicted to sugar I often find myself in a situation where I desperately need a sugar hit but I’ve already eaten the two bags of lollies I bought with the groceries, there is no pie in the freezer, I don’t want to leave the house, I can’t be bothered baking, and no one feels like enabling my addiction by popping down to the dairy for a block of chocolate.
To cope with this sick sad situation I have devised numerous ways of getting my fix without resorting to any sort of work. If you ever find yourself desperate you can try these too.
- A quick and easy place to start is a cold beverage. If you have fizzy in your fridge it’s an obvious choice. Alternatively you can dissolve a tablespoon of milo or other chocolate drink in a small amount of hot water and then top it up with cold milk. Lime concentrate works well as it’s so full of sugary syrup. I also have a large bottle of banana flavoured milkshake syrup in the pantry. Add some of this to milk for a cheats milkshake. There’s an added bonus of getting your daily calcium needs.
- Hot beverages can be great too, tea with 3 teaspoons of sugar or a hot chocolate with two heaped tablespoons of choc.
- As long as you’ve got bread and sugar on hand there is an easy treat around. Simply toast and butter your bread then cover in sugar. Yum!
You can get fancy with this one by using a mixture of brown and raw sugar with cinnamon. Sprinkle it on and grill for little while so the sugar start to melt. - If you have some bananas they can also be mashed on to toast and covered in sugar.
- Who needs to slave over an apple pie made from scratch when you’ve got a toasty maker.
Slice your apple thinly into a bowl and microwave it for a bit to soften it up.
Layer the apple on a piece of white bread and sprinkle with sugar.
Put another piece of bread on top and toast in the toasty maker.
Pseudo apple pie! - If you’re a fan of coconut like me bread covered in jam and desiccated coconut is a lazy girls louise slice.
- With a wee bit of fore planning you can buy some candy that you like but isn’t your favourite. Preferably something that takes a while to eat like lollipops or peppermints. When all the good stuff this will still be available until your next store run.
- Last but certainly not least is every little girls favourite – fairy bread! Y’all know what to do.
So now you’ve heard some of my tips, what are yours? Maybe we could make a lazy girls desert book?
33 Responses to “The Lazy Girls Guide To Getting A Sweet Treat”
My favourites are:
* Hot milo
* Self saucing chocolate pudding – this one is amazing but it serves at least two :D
* This berry pudding that I made tonight, so quick! I also chopped up an apple and threw it in. Delishhhh.
Yum, yum, yum! Thanks for the links, I’ll be trying them both in the very near future!
Oh the toast, butter and sugar is a treat my mom always used to make me!
I also love spreading condensed milk on bread and sticking it in the toaster over to let it caramelize/brown.
Oh and I bake brownies like a fiend. When I’m running low, I bake more, LOL.
What is fairy bread??? I feel like a dork…have no idea what this is!?!
thanks for these! some i already knew of, some i didn’t. i often find myself in desperate need of sugar. i remember that when i was a kid i used to do a mix of egg yolke, lots and lots of sugar and coca powder. it sounds disgusting and i’m not even sure i’d try it today, but back in the days it was my daily after school treat. a few teaspoons of chocolate sause can help as well.
Holy crap. This post speaks to me. I have actually DONE the psuedo apple pie toasty thang! I used apple, honey, and strawberries. I ate it with a BIIIG dollop of Jalna Creamy Custard yoghurt. Aw yeah. I so forgot all about it until reading this just now!
Now, this is pretty shameful, but my favourite and most disgustingly lazy sugar fix started as a crazy craving when I was pregnant with my daughter. But it became a habit. And it goes a little somethin’ like this:
place about 5 (YES. FIVE.) tablespoons (not pissy little teaspoons for THIS hardcore addict) of raw sugar (so crunchy and yummy ) into a mug. Mix with about the same amount of good quality cocoa powder. No water. No milk. Just om nom nom by the spoonful. It’s kinda like eating chocolate flavoured dirt, with bits of sweet sweeet gravel.
Gritty-licious!
I have not done it for a few months now. I have withdrawals. BAD.
And a cavity forming, I suspect.
O.o
Wow I really want some fairy bread now.
What is fairy bread?? *American* hahaha. I like peanut butter bread & cinnamon + sugar toast when I need a easy sweet treat, although I love to cook so I’m just as likely to whip up some french toast or something else that’s quick.
Okay, I just Googled fairy bread & my eyes popped out of my head.
Haha I love this post, thanks for the ideas! It’s 330am here and I just satisfied my belly with two large peanut butter sandwiches. So I would suggest anything with peanut butter. I also hear it makes you sleepy, so great for midnight snacking!
Great blog, btw. I discovered it a few days ago and I think I’ve already read the whole thing :D
xx Renee
Hehe, this is great! I can honestly say I’ve never tried sugar-sprinkled toast before…I will have to give it a go! If I really need something sweet and there’s not much in the house, I reach for jam or honey – something naturally sweet. Either that or scrape together some ingredients and bake little cupcakes!
…I don’t actually like sugar that much since breaking my (seriously disgusting) sugar addiction afew years ago!
A very long time ago I used to make apple toasties, but instead of sugar I used to use lots and lots of cream cheese!
Now if I feel like sugar, I have a teaspoon of organic peanut butter (that has no added sugar). That’s usually sweet enough for me to satisfy the urge – normal peanut butter is too sweet and flavourless for me now compared to the organic stuff. I also drink carbonated water, I love it and the bubbles make me think of lemonade so I trick myself into thinking I’m getting a sugar hit.
About the sweetest I’ll get is chopping up a granny smith apple and eating it with (heated up) frozen berries, unsweetened yoghurt, and a square of lindt chocolate grated on top. I often have a block of chocolate sitting around for weeks…
Something I like to do is warm up a tortilla, spread butter on it, then sprinkle lots of cinnamon and powdered sugar on top. (Regular sugar works too.) Then I roll it up! It’s like a cinnamon bun/lady finger.. So good..!
O you poor deprived woman! Fairy bread is white buttered bread covered in hundreds and thousands. It’s shown in the last picture above. :D
Wow, chocolate dirt! You’re hard core lady.
Great isn’t it :]
Hi Renee, thanks for stopping by!
I bow down to you with your powers of will!
A block of chocolate lasts 1-2 days around me.
Mmmm yum.
Oh, fairy bread, most scrumptious of breads! This post made me really hungry.
My favourite lazy dessert is ‘mug cake.’
You put (from the top of my head) a couple tablespoons of self raising flour, sugar, olive oil, milk, an egg & cocoa in a mug then microwave it til it’s instant cake! Dangerous.
Yay, good ideas. A fav of mine is sudo oatmeal cookies. You put about half a cup of oatmeal in a bowl at a bit of butter, brown sugar and if you have it some chocolate chips. Pop in the microwave for about 45 seconds and wah la, sudo oatmeal cookies.
Another good one is if you have pop corn in the house make peanut butter pop corn ( a fav in my house when I was growing up. You put about 1/4 cup of peanut butter, couple table spoons of milk and a little brown sugar to taste (depends on how sweet up like it) Pop the corn and then head the peanut butter mixture in the microwave. It is done with the peanut butter and sugar is melted. Then drizzle the sauce over the pop corn. It is still a fav when the cupboards are empty.
How did you kick your sugar addiction?
Hee hee, my mom used to make cinnamon quesodias, she would in a frying pan fry up a torilla with butter and brown sugar and cinnamon till it was all melty and crispy
“Dessert Pizza”: lightly toast a piece of white bread, spread with non-brand-specific (*coughNUTELLAcough*) chocolate spread, sprinkle with choc chips/marshmallows/whatever else you can find and whack it under the grill for a couple of seconds. Particularly good with marshmallows, as they go all melty and awesome.
And if you want to be good, sliced up banana on top can count as a contribution to your fruit intake for the day…
Wow peanut butter on popcorn, I’d never have thought of that! Great idea.
YUM! Bread definitely seems to be a staple in getting our sugar fix when there’s no real cakes in the house.
oh dear… dont encourage her people!
ohhh it’s been way too long since I had cinnamon sugar toast! My lazy girl sugar fix is usually an eggcupful of chocolate chips or a cold milo. If I’m feeling virtuous I go for plain yoghurt with either banana or jam mixed in. …and now I’m incredibly hungry!
Stopping at just an eggcup of chocolate chips sounds virtuous enough!
A block of chocolate last 1-2 minutes around me :p
Well Usually it turns into more than one eggcup, the one just makes me look more restrained :P
I heart all of you! I’m so glad it’s not just me that gets creative when I need a sugar fix and can’t be bothered to leave the apartment. I’ve done the sugar and cinnamon on toast, and recently I’ve found myself eating peanut butter right out of the jar. Nutella on a Ritz cracker is another favorite. I’m so trying the fairy bread!
When I was a kid my mom would put butter and brown sugar on left over (American) biscuits and pop them under the broiler. Yum!
This is the best article EVER! I have half a mind to print it out and hang it above my desk for those dangerously intense sugar cravings I tend to get at around 2:25AM…uh-oh!
O you mean scones? :p
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