Sugar fiend

Just saying that a woman with GD who is getting a bit sick of her diet and craving sugar in any form decides to throw a baby shower (we'll just say a baby shower and skip over the fact that it might just have been her baby shower ...). Well, the menu might look something like this (it was brunch today).

To start, the easy/casual bagels, cream cheese, and lox.
Cold wonton wrappers with curried eggs and hot wonton wrappers with artichokes
Very healthy blueberries
Less healthy cabbage salad with toasted almonds (too much sugar in the dressing I made)
Then some OJ and apple cider and prosecco. Plus chocolate liquor and coffee. All off limits to the host, obviously.
Then she starts to bake.
First, very healthy low carb blueberry muffins.
And then a few more thing she's craving. And suddenly you have a table that looks like this:



Chocolate cheesecake
Vanilla cupcakes with sugar frosting (far, far more than the total number of guests)
Carrot cupcakes brought by a friend at her request
Chocolate chip pumpkin bread (okay, three)
Rum cake (in an octopus mold - I won't claim maturity on this one, but at least I didn't try to swirl the cake batter with neon food coloring like last time. JD was most unimpressed with the last presentation, but I love Willi.ams Son.oma clearance holiday specials ...).

Don't worry, I only had 2 bites of sugary desserts today, but I packed away a whole tupperware of treats in the freezer for Jan. 1 ....

My neighbor who showed up with her 2 kids called later in the evening to ask me a question and commented on how tired I must be after the cooking and cleaning. But you know the best part about not having a baby yet? JD and I took a blissful two hour nap after the guests had left (more than 5 hours after the first guest arrived). And that is another perk of throwing your own baby shower at your very own apartment.