FReeper Canteen ~ What is your favorite dessert? ~ August 23 2004

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[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

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~ MONDAY FAVORITES ~
This week: What is your favorite dessert?

In our continuing series about your favorites, we ask this week about food. We chose this topic for the most obvious of reasons--we all like eating. Instead of wasting time eating something nutritious, we skip to dessert. After all, that's the most important part of the meal. So? Post your favorite dessert and a picture on the thread. If you can't reach us via Freepmail, email us at canteenusa@canteenusa.com . By the way, you can put more than one favorite dessert. These things can be hard sometimes. We don't want to stress you.

~ Dessert Exhibit A~
~ Cookies ~
Don't see your favorite dessert? Post it on the thread. Also, post the recipe if you'd like. (Click pictures for recipes! If you have a better recipe, please share it with everyone!)


 

Chocolate Chip Cookies

 

DID YOU KNOW?

Ruth Wakefield invented Chocolate Chip Cookies. Ruth Graves Wakefield graduated from the Framingham State Normal School Department of Household Arts in 1924. She worked as a dietitian and lectured on food, until, together with her husband she bought a tourist lodge named the Toll House Inn.

Ruth Wakefield prepared the recipes for the meals served to the guests at the Inn and gained local notoriety for her deserts. One of her favorite recipes was for Butter Drop Do cookies. The recipe called for the use of baker's chocolate and one day Ruth found herself without the needed ingredient. She substituted a semi-sweet chocolate bar cut up into bits. However, unlike the baker's chocolate the chopped up chocolate bar did not melt completely, the small pieces only softened.

As it so happened the chocolate bar had been a gift from Andrew Nestle of the Nestle Chocolate Company. As the Toll House chocolate chip cookie recipe became popular, sales of Nestle's semi-sweet chocolate bar increased. Andrew Nestle and Ruth Wakefield struck a deal. Nestle would print the Toll House Cookie recipe on its packaging and Ruth Wakefield would have a lifetime supply of Nestle chocolate. (Click here to find out more information.)
 

 

Snickerdoodles
 

Peanut Butter Cookies

 

Oatmeal Cookies (Auntie Fawnn's recipe--click the photo!)

~ Dessert Exhibit B~

 

 

Godiva Hot Fudge Brownie Sundaes

 

Cheesecake
 

 

Chocolate Cake

 

~ NOW IT'S YOUR TURN TO SHARE ~
Let's Eat!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Welcome to the Canteen, Euro....and thank you for your service to America.

[Stag]

Thanks for the welcome, I do appreciate it!!

[TASMANIANRED]

I don't think I could handle a kitten right now.

The girls are very frisky right now.

I'd hate to adopt a kitten and have it turn into the object of a game of tug within the first day.

After they mellow a bit , I'll consider it.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

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[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

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[GaretGarrett]

[Real Southern Peach Cobbler ...warm with vanilla ice cream on the side. It has to be made a special way, though.]
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Yes, this is the best dessert in human history as my grandmother made it. I've tried for years to duplicate it. She didn't use drop biscuit-type crust but real (lard-based) pie crust strips. The strips she laid in the bottom of the baking dish she sugared & lightly browned first so they wouldn't get soggy. The top strips she just sprinkled w/sugar & cinnamon. And only FREESTONE peaches--not cling! Cling peaches have 1/4 the flavor of freestones. Even canned freestones make a great cobbler.

But in the realm of the possible my favorite dessert might be this from the book "The Cake Mix Doctor". It will make your reputation if you don't tell anyone how brain-dead easy it is. 5 minutes from idea-to-oven.

Box of Devil's Food cake mix (NO pudding-in-the-mix)
21 oz. can Cherry Pie Filling
3 lg. eggs
1/2 tsp. pure almond extract.

Dump all in bowl, mix on LO one min., on MED 2 min., scraping sides of bowl as you go. Pour in buttered/sugared Bundt pan or 9X13" sheet pan. Bake accord. to cake mix box directions.

Frost while warm w/choc. butter-cream frosting made w/at least 1/2 stick real butter &1 lb. confect. sugar, unsweetened cocoa or bak. choc. (Dutch Process if possible), blended w/BOILING WATER. (The heat makes it taste almost like cooked fudge frosting.) Add pinch of salt, tsp. of good pure van. extract, and one cup or more of LIGHTLY TOASTED pecans. (Walnuts if you don't have pecans, or a mix of the two. But TOAST them. Entirely different flavor from raw nuts.)

If you make it in the Bundt pan use all the frosting. Pile it on & fill the center hole w/it so everyone can dig out an extra spoonful. This cake makes grown men (& women) weep & it's the best "Keeper" I've ever known. Truly better the 3rd day than the first. .

[Fawnn]

Stag!!! #100!!!

[WhiteGuy]

I promise, I love just about every desert on this thread.

However, I consider the meal a failure if I am still hungry upon finishing.

(If I am, I order more meat)

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, TASMANIANRED, for stopping by the Canteen with your favorites. Cowboy cookies.....yum.

[I still care]

Italian Ricotta Cheesecake.
Zeppole. And anise flavored pizzelle.

[dandi]

For homemade desserts I like yellow cake with chocolate cream cheese frosting or pecan pie. Dining out I love creme brulee. Also, the Chocolate Bread Pudding at Harry's Seafood Bar & Grille in Gainesville, Fla. is a religious experience. It's drenched in a butter sauce and flanked by two huge scoops of vanilla ice cream. Oops, I just gained two pounds thinking about it. ;)

[BykrBayb]

I didn't know Gov. McGreevy's nickname was Peaches.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

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[MS.BEHAVIN]

I know just how you feel (felt) about losing your dog..
I lost my beloved Collie today...
Maybe I'll get another in awhile..
Ms.B

[BykrBayb]

Yummm. Fruitcake. I like it dry, so it absorbs my special basting sauce. Powdered sugar and whiskey. I supposed most people would prefer rum, but I love whiskey. I baste it every day for a week or two before eating it.

[Mygirlsmom]

LisaM, mine is a distant memory also - never to be had again, I'm afraid. I had a great aunt who made a killer schaum torte with tons of whipped cream and berries. Not the hard meringue shells you find in restaurants, but a soft, wonderful creation with a bit of crunchier meringue crushed on top. Yum!!!

[MS.BEHAVIN]

My favorite dessert is Sweet Potato-Pecan Pie...
The whipped cream that is served on top is made with
Praline Liqueur...
It's out of this world...
Ms.B

[ridesthemiles]

I/2 perfectly ripened cantalope, (sans seeds)

Large scoop of French Valills Ice cream or custard

Drizzle REAL maple syrup over

ENJOY