Random question for the day: Desserts
 

I haven't posted an extremely random question in a while so here we go:

What is your favorite dessert?


I'm a sucker for a good creamy cheesecake. Better Homes and Gardens has a recipe from many years ago that is a vanilla bean cheesecake, and it is THE BEST homemade cheesecake ever.

Another one of my favs is this turtle cheesecake from a brewery I used to go to in Jacksonville called Southend Brewery. Its an upscale brewery with really fantastic food, and their cheesecake has a pecan and chocolate crust on bottom, then pecans, caramel and chocolate on top. Ohhhhh it is soooo yummy

Cookies.. Any kind as long as they are "home-made" really but my all-time favorites are Snickerdoodles and Sutter's Home (Peanut Butter w/ chunks of chocolate). I don't eat any mass-marketed cookies except for the Pepperidge Farm brand but will on occasion buy cookies from the bakery. After that pretty much any kind of pie with Pecan, Pumpkin and Apple at the top of the list.

I love chocolate but cannot stand the taste of chocolate cake, ice cream or pudding and only eat chunk chocolate in cookies. Yeah, I know its weird but just how I am. I have an ex-girlfriend who didn't know this and she gave me a surprise birthday party (another thing I hate) with a chocolate cake.

I'm not a fan of plain chocolate anything either. I'm one of those people that can't stand desserts that are really rich or overly chocolatey, so I have to have that good balance between chocolatey but not too sweet or rich. When I get birthday cakes (store bought ones), I like to get a chocolate vanilla swirl, but then I get the whipped topping which is almost like a cool whip texture and flavor... it's very light and doesn't taste like solid sugar.

I also only eat cookies that are homemade. I LOVE cookies but I usually only eat them right after they come out of the oven, when they're still warm and gooey :p I just did make snickerdoodles for the first time a few weeks ago and they were very yummy!

I'm also one that can't stand something "too sweet". When I was a kid I could eat that stuff all day...now I'm lucky if I can finish an entire candy bar. :)

Cheese cake and pumpkin pie are at the top of my list. :)

Soft Ice Cream, like you get in McDonalds Flurries.

Belgian Waffles. Served in Wetherspoons pubs. Waffle, vanila ice cream, bananas, caramel sauce. Lubbly.

Mmm...Pecan pie and cheesecake (just because they were mentioned). Yet, if I have to pick just one for years it has been peanut M&M's FTW. :up:

Funny question, as I just added a Palettes of Flavour sub-forum on JPiC: http://jpicforum.info/palettes-flavour/ --- One of my favorites from Easy to Bake Easy to Make recipe cards is the Cranberry Peach Cobbler - it's a fabulous dish - a very rich dish actually and the recipe is on JPiC :D

Jacquii.

Home-made pumpkin pie from scratch (none of this pie-in-a-can junk). Every year I carve to pieces (cut up) 2-4 pumpkins. A couple hours labor but worth the effort :)

Banoffee pie. Oh yes :D

ok - WHERE'S the recipe???? :D

Jacquii.

I'll have to see if my wife will give that up :)

I was going to make pumpkin pie from scratch this year. Didn't grow any pie pumpkins though and the large ones they sell for jack-o-lanterns are bitter. Local store advertised pie pumpkins in their weekly circular a week or so before Halloween so my wife and I went out of our way to get some. However this store never got their shipment and wasn't planning on stocking them at all. Was very disappointed and won't ever return there.

Next season, I'll be planting pie pumpkins in the yard for this purpose.

Good luck LOL

Jacquii.

It's actually posted on my site under recipes - here (modified so anyone can use it). I put the link because there are more recipes in that thread.

Or at least that's the version my wife posted...

Nice! Thanx for the sharing - but what is this about 2 CANS of pumpkin? :P
I think I'll share the recipe on JPiC as well - it looks really good - I like the idea of streusel topping - Inventive.

JAcquii.

The exact reason why I said :)
No one is forced to use the real stuff - or if it isn't available, 2 cans should be the equivalent (I personally hate the canned stuff - nasty).

Apple Pie.

-Raymond

Apple Pie, Yum! :D

-Raymond

There is no dessert thant can compete with Baklava :)

I like Baklava in small quantities. No one else in the family does though.

Sweet Pancakes (like you Americans eat for breakfast) + Syrup :D
Banoffee, Apple or Pecan Pie :D
Any cheesecake
Any iced cake as long as there isn't too much marzipan (non-marzipan cakes are better :D)

I can't eat too many sweet things, I'm more of a savoury person but I do like the odd bar of cadbury's now and then :)

Chris

hmmm - now this sounds very interesting - Care to share the recipe? ;)

Jacquii.

1.) Go to local restaurant
2.) Order whatever
3.) Eat
4.) Run away and don't pay

:D

I don't know how to cook them, never really bothered to learn but I suppose I could give it a try one day when I'm feeling dangerous :D

Chris

ROFL - but isn't that mini-recipe you share called the dine and dash buffalo wings?!?!? Muuuuaahahahaaaaaaaaa! https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/

Jacquii.

You can modify these rules in Mexican restaurants. Just ask the waiter to bring you the hottest pepper they have, and eat it right in front of him.

If you can do it without crying you'll likely eat there for free from now on. ;)