I think everyone agrees that the Sahara takes the cake, though.

Now the question is different.

Lifetime is huckleberry pie or my grandmother's recipe for lemon meringue pie.

Functionally now I occasionally buy carrot cake at Safeway.

Apple or cherry or rhubarb. or any kind really.

Hot and cold.

I have to agree.

My favorite is a very simple dessert. It is strawberries and blueberries with homemade whipped cream. Sometimes, I like to add either a little bit of pound cake or angel food cake.

Sadly, I am lactose intolerant, so any time I indulge, I pay for it. lol Dairy substitutes just don't do it for me when it comes to homemade whipped cream.

I recently bought a KitchenAid stand mixer, and one of the things I wanted to do was make homemade whipped cream. I’ve seen them do it on the Food Network for years! I was surprised at how easy it is, and it is SO good! I doubt that I’ll ever eat Cool Whip again 😎

I can't go back to Cool Whip after having homemade. There's no comparison.

This morning I went to the store and got strawberries. They have been macerating in a little sugar all day. Tomorrow I’ll probably make a cake, and so we’ll have cake and strawberries topped with whipped cream. Can’t wait! 😋

Enjoy!

suprizingly good.

I haven't tried it yet. I've seen it in stores. I'll have to pick some up and give it a try.

will fix that problem. Trust me on this. I know.

I havce never tried a supplement. I hope it works for me. I'd love to do an ice cream cake for my birthday!

whipped cream like my mom used to make. But lemon souffle stays at the #1 spot.

Have some nice posters from the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum.

Lemon meringue pie with a near tastycake filling. Big family favorite here by all - special diets be damned once a year.

It's the Rub' al Khali. Great place to go camping.

My Birthday fav.

sorta time consuming. She used a real pie crust and cooked the coconut, pineapple, cream, sugar, eggs, etc. on the stove on very low heat for a long time. Not an easy recipe but one of the most delicious things you will ever eat!!

My all-time favourite. Yum!

coconut ice-cream

No passion fruits around here

Well there are few, but they aren't the real yummy ones

We have friends with loads of bushes/vines

these two words. One spelling trick I shared with them is which would you rather of a second helping of your favorite dessert or a second spoonful of sand.

I wish you had been my 3rd grade teacher.

Maybe something with dates?

Honestly, I have a hard time saying I've got a favorite.
The most amazing one I've ever had was a Grand Mariner soufflé at Le Francais when it was a 5 star under Jean Banchet.
Comes to table, and looks like a biscuit in a ramekin. Dessert waiter cuts a slit and pours heavy cream into it.
The soufflé exploded magnificently into a perfect little cake. It rose more than an inch above the edge of the ramekin and had a perfect crown shape!
It was fantastic and the presentation was outstanding.
But, as to every day (or week) desserts, I can't say I have a fave.

us how to tell the difference between desert and dessert. He said dessert has two esses because "you always want two of those."

He's right - I always want two desserts.

Technically a semi arid shrub steppe.

Well, I cheat and use sweetened condensed milk for the caramel.

I have to control myself, though, or I'll feel ill from so much sugar and fat.

at Kubel's, LBI, NJ. Desert is a state of mind.

And I will recommend the post. But I will not wear a mask while doing so.

helpings. Same with supper/super and dinner/diner. I learned this trick when I became a teacher.

I haven't tried a Tres Leches cake yet, but I'm sure that I'd love it! (Like a Banoffee Pie.)

But... Gotta have something on top. My granddad always called it "flop" but it was actually "Dream Topping" (comes in a packet, mixed with milk). Nearest thing in USA would be "Cool Whip"... and it's an excellent substitute IMO. So Apple Pie with Flop. Good tasting (to me) and good find sentimental memories too.

They sell the exact same thing as Dream Topping in the US. We call it Dream Whip.

Chocolate gelato, or the chocolate cake with fudge icing from the bakery of my youth.

Hot fudge sundae is right up there as well.

Then there's cheesecake. But it has to have chocolate in it.

Does anybody else think I have a problem, besides me?

I'm sitting here writing about chocolate while there's a fire happening about two miles from my house. Planes are flying overhead. And I'm trying to decide whether I should eat the apple pie that was just baked, or go have ice cream with chocolate on it.

And anything with rhubarb in it.

plain chocolate ice cream with walnuts or rum raisin with apple pie with carmel drizzle.

Cheesecake without flavors (other than chocolate)
Chocolate chip cookies
Rocky Road ice cream
Creme brûlée

Guess who has been on a diet since gaining her quarantine fifteen?

To eat it right, one must eat it slowly....

Love it!

Which is required if you comment.

So unhealthy, but so delicious!

DD

Best thing Florida ever did. And mine is to die for, if I do say so myself.

Key Lime pie, but I'd take any kind of pie really. A nice root beer float in the summer is really nice!

With plenty of nuts but no gooey fudge

Runners-up would be:

* Pumpkin pie with whipped cream
* Key Lime pie
* Chocolate chip ice cream, but not the cookie dough crap. I despise it these days when awesome chocolate chip is so difficult to find compared to mint chocolate chip or the atrocity cookie dough version

Their store brand chocolate chip (not mint or dough!) is divine. Best ice cream in the freezer IMO.

I'll remember that when I travel.

I am stuck with Publix house brand, which is not bad. Sometimes I get Blue Bell when it is on sale.

I lust for this!
Meringue fluffs on a sea of crème anglaise. Served with a ribbon of caramel on the top.

She declared it, "Delicious!"

It looked good. I haven't had it. It seems like a lot of work.

You have to poach the meringue clouds, make a crème anglaise, wait for everything to cool, assemble it and only then, make your caramel to drizzle of the top.
That’s why I prefer to order it in restaurants.



Sadly, hard to find here in the states.

Mine, especially.

Coffee flavored Italian dessert.

Yum!

I used to live in Germany and made a yearly summer trip to Italy for shopping and touristy stuff - like the food.

Learned to make it myself. Even make my own ladyfingers.

tomorrow.

Preheat oven: 400 degrees

2 baking sheets lined with parchment paper

Pastry bag with 1/2 inch round tip

Ladyfingers

5 large eggs
2/3 cup sugar - divided.
1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
1 cup cake flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
1/3 powdered sugar

2 bowls - separate eggs while still cold. Yolks in one bowl. Whites the other. Cover each w/ plastic wrap and allow to reach room temperature. Takes about 30 minutes.

Electric mixer: Beat yolks and slowly pour 1/3 cup sugar into yolks on high until thick and light yellow.
Add vanilla, beat a minute to mix throughout.

Mix flour and salt together. Sift over yolk mixture. Do Not incorporate. Just allow to rest on top at this time.

Beat egg whites with cream of tartar, until soft peaks form. Then add remaining 1/3 cup sugar and mix until you get stiff peaks.

Now fold egg white mixture into yolk/flour mixture 1/3 at a time. Make sure to incorporate fully.

Fill pastry bag.

Pipe out 3 inch lines of cookie mixture onto parchment paper. Keep the mixture about 1 inch apart. Fill up both baking sheets.

Sift/lightly sprinkle powdered sugar over your ladyfinger streams.

Bake 8 minutes.

Remove from oven and lift parchment with cookies to wire rack to cool a minute. Then remove cookies from parchment paper and place on another rack to finish cooling. Longer they stay on the parchment paper the more likely they will stick and break when trying to move.

Forget about the ladyfingers for now.

Filling

The yolks of 4 large eggs
1/2 cup sugar divided
3/4 heavy cream
1 cup mascarpone
1 tablespoon orange infused honey

Coffee/liquor blend

Shallow bowl

2 cups espresso
2 tablespoons rum or rum extract - I use rum with coconut.
Blend well. Set aside.

Gather 2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder.

You'll need at least 24 ladyfingers.

Back to filling

2 bowls needed

Mix egg yolks with 1/4 sugar until volume triples in size.

Mix heavy cream with remaining sugar until firm but not stiff peaks form. Mix in mascarpone until mixture is soft and spreadable.

Fold yolk mixture into mascarpone mix.

Layering your Tiramisu

Using a 2 quart baking dish, sift 1 tablespoon of cocoa over bottom of dish. Cover all the bottom.

Lightly dip a ladyfinger into espresso/rum mixture.
One ladyfinger at a time, dip into blend and arrange on bottom of baking dish on top of cocoa. Ladyfingers should be placed round side up.

Once bottom is covered with ladyfingers, spread 1/2 of your filling over cookies.

Repeat process with ladyfingers/espresso blend and layer on top of filling.

Spread remaining half of filling over top.

Sift last tablespoon of cocoa over filling.

Cover with plastic and chill.

24 hours is best for full flavor blend but 4-6 hours works too.

Can slice or scoop to serve.

Thank you so much for posting this.

Let me know how it goes.

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and my Blackberry patch just produced a good gallon of berries yesterday and I will be in hog heaven tomorrow when they go into a pie.....plus I will be picking more berries in the morning and our blueberries are about ready too. We got about 2-3 gallons of mull berries 2 weeks ago. Are strawberries were picked, eaten and frozen about 3 weeks ago. Now to deal with all the squash, zucchini, tomatoes, green beans and peppers our garden is pushing out......

Hey! You did not REC the post, which is required if you comment.

( I grew up in N.Y. where there are hundreds, maybe thousands of desserts, all unique. This strikes me as a question from a place where there are just a small, finite # of desserts. The mid-west?)

I'm not a big dessert or desert gal... But good baking from the oven, not the sun, makes my heart happy.

You played both!!!

No cherry.

Thanks for a fun thread. I never think to go to the lounge to read them.

Visit again and again, it is a really nice break!

Better with ice cream. If I can't have that one of my signature pies, pecan or old fashioned apple... better with ice cream.

Did I mention that ice cream makes anything better, even chocolate chips?

that's all.

Any dessert.

With Nutella on top