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Decorated Sugar Cookies ... Since these decorated sugar cookies will become part of a bouquet you’ll want to insert a wooden skewer in each one as soon as it finishes baking... Some novice bakers find it easiest to use plain white icing on their decorated sugar cookies, and then they use candies or sprinkles in various colors on top of that...

Sugar Gliders Make Fantastic Pets ... Baby sugar gliders (called joeys) like to ride on their parents back, which is very cute and entertaining... Like people each sugar glider is different, they are very social and intelligent animals with distinct personalities... Sharing your house with a family of sugar gliders living with you is almost like a having a piece of the out back in your own home...

Brown sugar lassie,
Caramel treat,
Honey-gold baby
Sweet enough to eat.
Peach-skinned girlie,
—Langston Hughes (1902–1967)

If any mention was made of homicide, madness, adultery, and intolerable tortures, we would let the church-bells ring louder, the church-organ swell its peal and drown the hideous sound. The sugar they raised was excellent: nobody tasted blood in it.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

Some days your hat’s off to the full-time mothers for being able to endure the relentless routine and incessant policing seven days a week instead of two. But on other days, merely the image of this woman crafting a brontosaurus out of sugar paste and sheet cake for her two-year-old’s birthday drives a stake through your heart.
—Melinda M. Marshall (20th century)