Tantalizing cinnamon-and-sugar combos

Sniff, sniff, sniff. Who hasn’t been lured to a mall food court by scents wafting from a Cinnabon? Even if you don’t cave, that sugar-and-spice combo causes your nose to perk up.

Cinnamon donuts (mini-beignes) and cinnamon rolls at farmers’ markets and mom-and-pop bakeries are that much more enticing. You fool yourself into thinking the treats are somehow wholesome, because of where you buy them. Then, since they’re small and delicious, you wolf down far more than you should.

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Well it takes a whole other level of self-restraint to resist BeaverTails―a.k.a. Queues de castor―in Ottawa, Halifax, Vancouver and other Canadian cities. That smell of warm cinnamon causes even the healthiest people to crave a cinnamon, sugar, dough and butter delicacy.

You’re even more likely to give in to those BeaverTails when you smell them late at night and if you’ve been out drinking. Come to think of it, I ate my last BeaverTail during exactly that kind of conditions.

I was up at Whistler Village during the 2010 ParaOlympic Games and we (Cindy, Dorothy and I) were stumbling our way back to the hotel from the Ashley MacIsaac St. Patty’s Day celebration at Atlantic Canada House. Grabbing a BeaverTail seemed irresistible and it was such a Canadian way to top off the night.

BeaverTails go by alternate names (e.g., Elephant Ears in London, Ontario; Fried Dough at fairs and amusement parks in the United States and in small towns across Canada). But, no matter what you call them or where you are when you yield to the call of these cinnamon-and-sugar combos, one thing’s for sure…they’re sweet, messy and

      AWESOME!