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Fun Stuff => CHATTER => Topic started by: LadyFirelyght on 29 Feb 2008, 18:41
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Personally, I'm a huge fan of cheesecake. Of course, if I ate the amount of cheesecake I crave, I would be huge in size as well as fan-dom. The best cheesecake I've ever tasted was one my mother made. Oreo crumb crust, chocolate cheesecake with chunks of chocolate cream Oreos in it, chocolate cream Oreo chunks on top as garnish. Even my sister who hates cheesecake loves that one.
So, where do your sweet teeth lie?
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In my mouth?
I've been going off sweets recently but I'm still a sucker for Chocolate Mud Cake, particularly the one that The Cheesecake Shop makes. Also their Caramel Mud Cake is fucking brilliant. But I haven't had a piece of either of those for about three or four years now.
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Pizza.
What?
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Whipstitch, dessert pizza? If not, tell me dessert!
Also, Anyways, I've never had chocolate mousse. I'm a self-proclaimed chocolate freak, but I've never had chocolate mousse. Messed up, huh?
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Crème brûlée. The real stuff is quite expensive, but you can get decent enough imitations at Whole Foods.
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Aw man. Cheesecake. Or ice cream cake. Or hell, any kind of cake.
My mom makes this mind-blowing thing--watermelon cake. It's not nearly as nasty as it sounds. It's made of three layers: the "red" is raspberry sorbet, the middle layer is either vanilla ice cream or whipped cream, and the "green" is lime sorbet And the seeds--the seeds are CHOCOLATE CHIPS. And there is a copious amount of them.
Look up the definition of "delicious" in the dictionary, and you know what you'll find?
The definition of "delicious", which is what this is.
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Um... dessert's never been something done with any considerable regularity for me (Yes, my mother never gives us dessert unless we specifically ask for it which we hardly ever do) but I guess, it would probably be a Queen of Sheba cake.
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Pizza.
What?
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Dessert pizza is terrible.
I generally don't like sweet things.
Crème brûlée and flan is OK.
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That watermelon cake (if you can even call it that) sounds yummy.
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Tiramisù. ^_^
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Oh my god, Vanilla... I forgot about tiramisu. That's one of the most tongue-gasmic desserts ever.
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I would have to concur that cheesecake is the bees knees and is far superior to most other desserts in the cosmos.
Since tis the season, I feel the need to mention Girl Scout Cookies - particularly thin mints. They are inspirationally delicious.
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eclair cake
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My mom's rum cake is probably the best dessert I've ever eaten. Also, my aunt makes coffee cookies which are pretty much awesome.
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Cheesecake. That is all there is.
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My mum makes the most amazing chocolate fudge brownies, but not very often. Other than that I think chocolate cheesecake when I'm the mood for sweet things. Ooo, strawberries and cream is one of the best!
And I've had one of those Oreo pizza dessert things. It was rubbish. The topping was too squidgy (like stale oreos) and the bottom was really hard. Meh.
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Dick.
edit: Jon stole my name.
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its a tie between banana cream pie, boston cream pie, and crazy cake. i just made some crazy cake last night omfg its so amazingly good.
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Crème brûlée. The real stuff is quite expensive, but you can get decent enough imitations at Whole Foods.
Make it yourself! Whisk half a cup of sugar into three egg yolks, add a pint of scalded cream with a teaspoon of vanilla, mix well, throw it in custard cups and bake in a water bath for 40 minutes at 325. Chill overnight, then devour. So easy, and SO GOOD! (Of course to really do it right you have to caramelize the sugar on top, which requires a torch, but if you don't have one you can still make the custard and enjoy it.) Anyway, creme brulee was going to be my answer too, although cheesecake and tiramisu are fantastic answers as well.
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I don't "get" creme brulee. Maybe I've only had poor examples of it, but the custard part has always tasted too sweet and the sugar part always too burnt.
I'm a sucker for brownies, though, particularly the fresh-out-of-the-oven type. BJ's Restaurants makes something called a Pizookie, too, which is basically a gigantic, fresh-baked chocolate chip cookie smothered in ice cream--unbelievably good.
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Key Lime Pie. Key Lime motherfucking Pie. Has to be real, though, none of this foodcoloured-green bullshit. Preferably with merangue, like Mom's, not whipped cream like some otherwise passable entries by restaurants. Now I'm not a momasboy or anything, but that woman makes one mean-ass Key Lime Pie. I've been to Key West (aka the nicest overgrown t-shirt-shop ever to engulf an island) and had award-winning Key Lime Pie and it was about as good as my mom's, though somewhat subtler.
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If I were to be honest, cheesecake.
But fuck conformity, I love PISTACHIO ICE CREAM.
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List threads.
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Better than Sex Cake
INGREDIENTS
* 1 (18.25 ounce) package devil's food cake mix
* 1/2 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
* 6 ounces caramel ice cream topping
* 3 (1.4 ounce) bars chocolate covered toffee, chopped
* 1 (8 ounce) container frozen whipped topping, thawed
DIRECTIONS
1. Bake cake according to package directions for a 9x13 inch pan; cool on wire rack for 5 minutes. Make slits across the top of the cake, making sure not to go through to the bottom.
2. In a saucepan over low heat, combine sweetened condensed milk and caramel topping, stirring until smooth and blended. Slowly pour the warm topping mixture over the top of the warm cake, letting it sink into the slits; then sprinkle the crushed chocolate toffee bars liberally across the entire cake while still warm. (Hint: I crush my candy bars into small chunks as opposed to crumbs - I like to have pieces I can chew on!)
3. Let cake cool completely, then top with whipped topping. Decorate the top of the cake with some more chocolate toffee bar chunks and swirls of caramel topping. Refrigerate and serve right from the pan!
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Vanilla jaconde with mango-cassis filling & dark-chocolate compote.
MMMmmmm
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Dessert is a topic that I am passionate about. I can (and do, with alarming regularity) eat two or three desserts because desserts are the greatest thing.
My favourite thing of all is apple pie.
I also adore Mum's Lemon Meringue pie (so much tangier than any other lemon meringue pie, and with good, solid meringue and a yummy crumb crust). Last weekend she made me a bunch of mini pies and bought them over! It was the best thing! It is great with a big scoop of good quality vanilla icecream and a bit of mango puree. Another popular one is a cold-set French Vanilla cheesecake, and like Squiddy, I haven't found anyone who makes one better than The Cheesecake Shop. I aspire to one day make one as good, but they won't tell me their recipe, the shits.
Oh oh and of course there is plain old icecream. We have an icecream shop on the beach that is absolutely stellar and they make their own waffle cones right there in front of you, which is so cool. I like vanilla icecream best of all but sometimes I feel bad about wasting all of the other flavours, the ones I have liked so far include Cookies and Cream, Triple Choc, Mint Choc Chip, Baileys and a delicious Mocha Fudge Ripple. What is also good in icecream is Cold Rock, where they smoosh icecream together with stuff, my favourites there are vanilla icecream mixed with mango sorbet and Gummi Bears, and Milo and coffee icecream mixed with Maltesers.
When it comes to simple things I find you cannot go wrong with a simple red jelly and a tin of Two Fruits (peach and pear in syrup I think they are).
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The first thing that popped into my mind was chocolate fondant (with vanilla ice cream and raspberry or strawberry sauce, preferably), because it's just so insanely delicious. And after my mom learnt how to make it, I've had the pleasure of eating it with some regularity (like, 2 or 3 times a year, maybe). The center isn't always as liquid as it's "supposed to be" when she makes it, but it still tastes awesome.
(http://www.lakeland.co.uk/content/images/staticpages/recipes/chocolate_puddings.jpg)
My mom makes this Daim ice cream cake (meringue and home-made ice cream with Daim chips in it) as well, which is also quite delicious, but I don't think it beats the chocolate fondant. But it's not as rich, which is a plus.
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its a tie between banana cream pie, boston cream pie, and crazy cake. i just made some crazy cake last night omfg its so amazingly good.
What, pray-tell, is a crazy cake?
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I'd have to say, raspberries, lime sobert.. I don't really care much for sweets, I really like fruit and tangy stuff. I love Lychee gelato.
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Lunchy mentioned the Cheesecake Shop. It should be noted that they also make a fantastic Black Forest cake.
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Here is a pdf of the winter menu for the most delicious dessert shoppe in Fargo/Moorhead. (http://www.nicholesfinepastry.com/menus/NicholesFallWtrMenu0708.pdf)
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Cheesecake. Oh dear god cheesecake. It is the Greatest Thing. I think the best I had was at the Cheesecake Factory, and was this one:
LEMON RASPBERRY CREAM CHEESECAKE
Raspberry Vanilla Cake, Creamy Lemon Cheesecake, Raspberry Lady Fingers and Lemon Mousse
My mom's lemon cheesecake is a close second. And as much as I enjoy chocolate, I never really cared for chocolate and cheesecake together. (Only very rarely do I find one really I like.)
Other than that, fruit pizza (this thing my mom makes - sugar cookie "crust", cream cheese with some sugar as "sauce", topped with fresh fruit, usually strawberries, kiwi, raspberries, blueberries, and banana = DELICIOUS) is my favorite thing of all time, closely followed by chocolate chip and oatmeal raisin cookies. And those cupcakes I made that I posted in the baking thread were pretty delicious.
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Has to be peanut butter pie with whipped cream and chocolate sauce. Or mud (vanilla pudding+crushed oreos+coolwhip+gummy worms)
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Raspberry cheesecake with raspberry syrup on top. I had it once at a place called the rundown in the outer banks of North Carolina, haven't seen it on any menus where I live.
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I would have to concur that cheesecake is the bees knees and is far superior to most other desserts in the cosmos.
Since tis the season, I feel the need to mention Girl Scout Cookies - particularly thin mints. They are inspirationally delicious.
I should have a wing dedicated to me in their factory due to all of the money I have given to the Girl Scouts for their yummy, yummy Thin Mints.
When it's not that time of the year, an Oreo Blizzard is the way to my heart.
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Here is a pdf of the winter menu for the most delicious dessert shoppe in Fargo/Moorhead. (http://www.nicholesfinepastry.com/menus/NicholesFallWtrMenu0708.pdf)
I LOOOOVE this place. So much.
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I'd say the lemon meringue pie my mum makes. Words cannot describe how awesomely tasty her lemon meringue pie is.
Closely followed by creme brulee. Ever since I was a really small kid, I've loved creme brulee.
I also like bread & butter pudding. Preferably made with raisin bread.
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for serious, I don't enjoy the taste of sugary things at all.
dessert-wise I generally go for the tartest and coldest of lemon tarts / sorbets.
given the choice? I'd rather have a sandwich - and not one of those creepy icky ice-cream sandwiches you crazy americans have in your crazy walmarts where they don't sell proper cheese but you can buy at least five hundred different poorly-made t-shirts with mildly offensive slogans on the front. (I am totally kidding - walmart was awesome fun when I went - I basked in the complete lack of taste like I was some kind of a fluorescent pink rhinestone-embellished monitor lizard)
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Ooo, I forgot something! My mom's bread pudding. She makes her own bread for it and it is SO FREAKING DELICIOUS. I can eat the whole batch, it's so good. Especially when it's warm. Argh. Now I want bread pudding.
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BLOOD PUDDING
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(http://www.foodsubs.com/Photos/bloodpudding.jpg)
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That is so disgusting. Hardly what you'd call dessert :P
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chocolate cheeescake and a pina colada
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(http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/3909/570502hu6.gif)
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Godiva Chocolate Cheesecake from the The Cheesecake Factory.
Heaven.
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Sorbet, hands down.
At my workplace I can testify that yr average Banana Cream Pie Blizzard is pretty damn awesome.
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www.mrsmunchies.com (http://www.mrsmunchies.com)
cookies, brownies, and milk. delivered to your door. from 8pm - 230am. also they are absolutely delicious. every single person who has tasted them today has gone a little crazy! including me.
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Now my main goal is "Go to Berkeley and then work as a delivery person so I can get free cookies".
i hate pagebreaks.
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I like pie.
Blueberry, apple, rhubarb, whatever. As long as it comes with pie crust and custard.
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Key Lime Pie.
Amen to that.
So - Ruby Tuesday used to serve Key Lime lemonade. It was magical. It was liquid pie. It was the stuff dreams were made of.
And then they stopped serving it.
Then they stopped serving strawberry tall cake (also brilliant).
I don't go to Ruby Tuesday anymore.
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If a date ends in cake, you didn't really get dessert.
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A ginger sling with a pineapple heart
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I just tried fried ice cream for the first time, that was pretty fantastic.
But I love pecan pie. I'd sell a slice of my soul for a slice of pecan pie.
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Lunchy mentioned the Cheesecake Shop. It should be noted that they also make a fantastic Black Forest cake.
I mentioned it first you fucker!
I made myself a new dessert the other day (chances are it's been made before this but I still like it). I toasted myself 6 mini waffles (much like stroopwaffles but i couldn't find that particular brand), put a layer of vanilla icecream between each layer and filled each little square with maple syrup. It was made of win.
I have previously made the same thing but I alternated filling each sqaure with maple syrup and Cadbury's Chocolate sauce (which basically tastes like melted chocolate if you haven't seen it). Damnit, now I want waffles.
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And then they stopped serving it.
Then they stopped serving strawberry tall cake (also brilliant).
I don't go to Ruby Tuesday anymore.
They stopped serving almost everything that was good and replaced it with boring stuff. They used to have a great menu. Last time I went there was when they'd first done this. My mom and I looked at the menu after we'd ordered drinks, then apologized to our waiter for not wanting anything (which he said he completely understood), paid for our drinks and left the guy a nice tip anyways, and then went and ate somewhere else.
Ruby Tuesdays, you suck.
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I just tried fried ice cream for the first time, that was pretty fantastic.
But I love pecan pie. I'd sell a slice of my soul for a slice of pecan pie.
How does that work? O.o
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Icecream is frozen rock hard, covered in a batter of shredded coconut and then very quickly deep-fried. It's pretty good.
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Peppermint ice cream, no contest, especially if it is transformed into what Hannah has ingeniously titled ice cream soup, which is just normal ice cream stirred until it reaches the consistency of soft-serve.
Failing that, creamy vanilla ice cream, souped, then with liberal amounts of drinking chocolate powder mixed in - best chocolate ice cream on the planet.
I have also recently discovered that I am a huge fan of custard.
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Icecream is frozen rock hard, covered in a batter of shredded coconut and then very quickly deep-fried. It's pretty good.
Indeed it is.
Hey, speaking of ingenious, deep-fried goodness: deep fried snickers bars. Holy Mount Vesuvius, these are fantabulous. They are classic fair food at our town's annual Popcorn Festival, though I don't think I've ever encountered them elsewhere.
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That sounds almost as bad as a deep-fried Twinkie, which has always struck me as possibly the most nauseating dessert concept ever.
But evidently some people like them.
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There are pages and pages online of instructions for how to make deep-fried mars bars... they look like shit and taste like a heart attack. I was disappointed:(
The best dessert ever though, is cherry pie. If you don't like cherry pie, this is because I have not made it for you and thus you've had shitty pie.
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Let's all go over to redglasscurls' place and have make us some cherry pie. Sounds like it would be worth the trip just to check it out.
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Dang man, I can't make decent pie in a dorm kitchen. There are no dishes and no-one wrings out the sponge so it smells awful and your hands reek like spongemold after you use it.
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Crème brûlée. The real stuff is quite expensive, but you can get decent enough imitations at Whole Foods.
Make it yourself! Whisk half a cup of sugar into three egg yolks, add a pint of scalded cream with a teaspoon of vanilla, mix well, throw it in custard cups and bake in a water bath for 40 minutes at 325. Chill overnight, then devour. So easy, and SO GOOD! (Of course to really do it right you have to caramelize the sugar on top, which requires a torch, but if you don't have one you can still make the custard and enjoy it.) Anyway, creme brulee was going to be my answer too, although cheesecake and tiramisu are fantastic answers as well.
I'll try that, thanks. Now that I think about it, I believe my cousin has a little torch lying around somewhere...
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you can pick up little blowtorches at most hardware stores, and even some art stores. They aren't expensive.
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I have one!
No, really, I do.
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Dang man, I can't make decent pie in a dorm kitchen. There are no dishes and no-one wrings out the sponge so it smells awful and your hands reek like spongemold after you use it.
Well, crap.
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Instead of a blowtorch, you could also set them about an inch below your broiler in the oven and it'll caramelize the sugar that way, too!
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In theory that works, Brittany, but in practice it gave me very burnt sugar. If you try the broiler method watch VERY VERY closely in order to avoid overdoing it. I much prefer my torch, now that I have one. Plus, playing with the torch is fun!
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Hmm. No one should listen to my cooking advice ever anyway, as I tried this (http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,1977,FOOD_9936_32756,00.html) and ended up starting a fire when the cream boiled over. That was after I posted that, though.
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Plain New York cheesecake.
Maybe not the most exciting but I think it's lovely.
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Leonidas: Sour cream on top or no? I've seen it both ways and I quite enjoy both ways.
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Sour cream on top of a chessecake???
That sounds absolutely disgusting.
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That's what I thought... until I tried it. It was amazingly light, subtle and the perfect compliment to such a rich dessert
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THIS JUST IN
Fondu is excellent, whether it be cheese or chocolate. Particularly Fondu at The Melting Pot.
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if i weren't a lactard, then fried ice cream might be my #1, but since I am, i'll go with "any German dessert wine on the menu."
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Banana pudding with meringue and vanilla wafers, homemade by my mom. Hands down the best thing ever. After that its all kinds of pie and cobblers. Key Lime being the best.
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lemon meringue pie, or Calamari (I know MOST people think of Calamari as an appetizer, but I like to finish a meal with it)
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i made my flatmates fall in love with me by making mudcake .... were talking the kind where you have to slowly melt chocolate over the stove and slow cook the cake for like 2 hours, it is god damn tastegasmic tho
on another dessert note i am also a sucker for a baskin and robbins brownie sundae, those things are amazing
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There is this creole-style restaurant in my home town that has the most delicious concoction ever created.
Observe:
Fried bananas
Banana Bread
Banana Ice Cream
Massive amounts of Hot Fudge
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if i weren't a lactard, then fried ice cream might be my #1, but since I am, i'll go with "any German dessert wine on the menu."
Consume first!
(http://pics.drugstore.com/prodimg/140280/200.jpg)
Enjoy!
(seriously, this stuff is my best friend if milk/icecream/cheese is anywhere near me)
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It's not really a dessert in my book but if you hold an Aero over a barbeque for a few seconds (take it out of the packet first, people) then it is absolutely gorgeous. Literally only a few seconds, five at the most, or you get a chocolatey barbeque and no Aero.
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Had a chocolate croissant once in France. Best thing is it didn't taste like it was crammed full of sugar.
I also had a fried Oreo which was surprisingly good.