I am BIG fan on flavoured coffee! I have been flavouring my own coffee brew for years. I have this little shelf by my coffee maker filled with all kinds of savoury spices like cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla, cocoa, etc..that I combine daily to my coffee grounds to make a great tasting, great smelling coffee (there is nothing better than the aroma of flavoured coffee in the morning!). At first I only spiced up my own coffee but then I started making it for guests to my home and I always got the same reaction: Guests would take a sip, then smell, then stop, then let out a little "Mmm..” and then ask me about the what kind of coffee it was. I would of course let them know the flavouring I added. Some of my guests have told me they have tried to do something similar with their coffee but just could not get the right balance of savoury spices to replicate the wonderful home brew I served them.
That got me thinking, why don’t I create a product similar to our Angell Spice Shake & Rub where all the spices you would need are in one bottle, perfectly balanced to create a great taste no matter how you use it. And the idea of Sweet & Savoury Spices was born I spent the next 2 years “pregnant" with this idea, experimenting with different flavours and mixtures for recipes beyond coffee. I started adding my spice pre-mixes to baking, pancakes and crêpes, oil dressing for summer salads, and anything that called for cinnamon, nutmeg, etc and replaced it with my new Savoury Spices. Made everything taste better with just a sprinkle or teaspoon full-Easy Peasy!
But no, I couldn’t just stop there and make my life simpler, I decided to create sweet version of my savoury spices. This idea came about when I was at a restaurant with my mom and we were enjoying some specialty coffees. You know, the ones that have a little nip of liqueur, a sugar rim and some chocolate flakes or cinnamon sprinkled on top. I love these coffees but it’s always takes a while t make and it’s a toss up how it will taste depending on which server is making it. Why could it not be done simpler? What if the sugar rim was the spice, too. This would offer a full-bodied taste with every sip and possibly bring out, accentuate the flavours in the liqueurs! So I went home and created a sugar version of my savoury spices that I was still experimenting with at that time.
I used these spiced sugars as rims for different types of specialty coffees and it worked just as I thought no matter which liqueur I used. So then I moved on to different uses: I added these sugars on toast to create amazing cinnamon toast; Instead of using the spice in my coffee I made regular coffee and replaced 1 of my 2 teaspoons of sugar with the spiced sugar; I used it in most of the same baking I used the spices in and everything just tasted so much better and everything I made had a consistent, delicious taste! Once perfected, the first people I gifted Angell Cin Spice & its’ sweet counterpart, Angell Sweet Cin Spiced Sugar, to were my Mom & Grandma along with some coffee and liqueur! They loved the rich, bold cinnamon flavours and gobbled it up!
Since then I have created two other flavours in spice and sugar spiced versions: Angell Kiss Spice & Angell Sweet Kiss Spiced Sugar (cocoa & strawberry) and Angell Bliss Spice & Angell Sweet Bliss Spiced Sugar (warm vanilla). And I will be creating a fourth with a little help from you. In the new year we will be having a contest where you get to decide which flavour the new Sweet & Savoury products will be. The name of it is Angell Lust Spice & Angell Sweet Lust Spiced Sugar…start brainstorming now…can’t wait to hear all f your ideas!
Also in the next couple months we will be adding to our Recipes Page Sweet & Savoury use ideas and recipes. Sign up for our newsletter on this blog’s home page to be alerted first when these events happen!
So stop struggling with getting the perfect taste in your cooking and disappointing your family and friends. Let us do the heavy lifting for you - we have the spices & spiced sugars you would need all in one bottle, perfectly balanced to create a great taste no matter how you use it. Sugar & Spice Really Does Make Everything Nice! ~V