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

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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!

[beachn4fun]

Morning Ma. Morning to Ma's dad.

[beachn4fun]

Hey LTCJ..........

[laurenmarlowe]

I hope everyone has a great day! God Bless Our Troops!

[LTCJ]

For me, or my "voices"?

LOL. Reminds me of one of my favorite tee shirts: "Eight out of the ten voices in my head told me to stay home and clean my guns today."

[beachn4fun]

Hiya Sarge. Do you have a favorite recipe?

[bert]

I like dessert.......

For several years I have studied the art of making pecan pie.

My favorite is pecan pie made to my specifications with my own hand.

[E.G.C.]

((LOL))

[darkwing104]

Mornin', Top! I see you're rarin' to go once again...

It inspires the young-ones or scares the you-know-what out of them I haven't figured it out yet.

[darkwing104]

Wellllll, in that case, tell us what your favorite "fuel" is! What goes well with coffee?

Since Florida is now my home, has been sine 1986, I'll have some Key Lime Pie

[Old Sarge]

It's not important that they know, right?

Just wish I had done as well on mine, this weekend.

[beachn4fun]

Whoa! darkwing........making a different appearance this morning, huh? Did some shopping over the weekend? ;~>

[bert]

Re biscuits, short cake......

The Pillsbury frozen biscuits now available are excellant for this purpose.

Your description was right on except......

Butter the split biscuits, sprinkle a little sugar and then put in the oven till the butter melts. Then add the sweetened strawberies to the biscuit in the soup bowl.

[darkwing104]

It's not important that they know, right?

Just try present a positive image even when you are having a bad day. Works for me.

[Old Sarge]

Oh, lemme think.

You mean one I eat, or one I wrote? Because I've got both.

[LTCJ]

Thanks ...

[darkwing104]

Whoa! darkwing........making a different appearance this morning, huh? Did some shopping over the weekend? ;~>

Kathy in Alaska found this picture for me last weekend. I like it so much that I borrowed it on a permanent basis.

[T Minus Four]

Welcome to the Canteen!

Thanks. I've been lurking around the canteen forever. You finally drew me out with dessert :-)

[Alouette]

Tiramisu

New York Cheesecake

[Old Sarge]

LTCJ: I'm afraid that IS decaf you're seeing - wait unti the high-octane hits...

TOMKOW: Have you finally fixed the issues up there with the workplace computer?

[beachn4fun]

Well, let's not be shy. Give us both! I know you probably have your own that you enjoy making.