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!

[Fawnn]

One that I make, and is a family favorite is a Fruit Pizza. Recipe for that one provided on request....:)

Is that the kind that has a sugar cookie crust, sweetened cream cheese, and fruit? (My daughter sometimes makes that, but I never have.)

Regardless, I'm sure there are many who'd love your recipe!

Of all days for a food thread! I'm actually going to try to sleep overnight tonight so I can spend Monday with the grandbabies. School starts on Tuesday. Chances are I'm going to spend time watching the MBABGDITW#2 while my daughter and the older two pick up some last-minute supplies.

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[CatAtomic]

I'm gonna vote for an old school dish, sometimes simplicity is best,,, Gimme a slice of peach pie and a coupla scoops of vanilla ice cream!

[Fawnn]

Post 'em all! Please! ;)

[Stag]

Harvey Wallbanger Cake -- yummy.

Let me know if you want the recipe AND the number for the local alcohol annonymous chapter :-)

The cake packs a bit of a punch.

[doug from upland]

There's an argument I'll put to rest
As we come to the great dessert fest
There is no contest here
It's exceeding clear
That a chocolate chip cheesecake is best

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I'm not talking one little piece. I'm talking the whole thing. :)

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

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[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

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[writer33]

I'll have to try that. It sounds pretty good. It's amazing that someone like you would have such a broad recipe base. :) Just kidding!

The recipe does sound good and you'd be right in finding me on a food thread.

[Awestruck]

Jello brand egg custard.. can't stop eating it!

[Euro-American Scum]

You have to remember I stay (try anyways) by working with the Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts and that one always goes over big. Haven't dared to be as brave as you and take one into the office yet.

The HR bimbo almost tossed her cookies when I dug into a glistening, gooey, soft, steamy toosie roll. -:)

It was worth all the trouble it caused to watch her go back to her office, frantically wade through her encyclopedia of forbidden practices to see what kind of a harrassment lawsuit she could come up with.

Priceless. (For everything else, there's Mastercard).

[TASMANIANRED]

Judging from the number of votes for peach pies, I deduce there are a lot of southern gents and ladies here.

Peaches are the queen of the fruit kingdom.

[NormsRevenge]

Favorite dessert?

Cream puffs FRench souffle Apple pie. :-)

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[Euro-American Scum]

Peaches are the queen of the fruit kingdom.

Uh. . . . Nah. Don't think I'm going to touch that one.

[Fawnn]

Harvey Wallbanger Cake

Of course we want the recipe!

Here are some more of mine:

Authentic Dutch Apple Pie

Andrew's (Flourless) Mocha Fudge Cake

This one has cream cheese in the crust and in the filling!
Strawberry Surprise Pie


No Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies

[reformed_democrat]

Thanks. I've always enjoyed these threads, and thought it was time to jump in.

[Moonmad27]

I was going to add good ol' peach cobbler, but you said it far better than I could! (I'm from Texas, where it goes best with good ol' Blue Bell vanilla ice cream).

[sharktrager]

When di ning out, Key lime pie.

But, at home, I make the best chocolate chip cookies.

[T Minus Four]

CHOCOLATE!!!!!!!! Preferably dark chocolate. Chocolate, cake, chocolate truffles, chocolate mousse, chocolate pudding, chocolate cheesecake, chocolate pie, chocolate brownies (as if there were any other kind), chocolate cookies, chocolate donuts, chocolate fudge, any of the above with chocolate frosting, chocolate ice cream, especially Haagen-Daaz chocolate/ chocolate-chip ice cream.

Sucks to be on a low fat diet sometimes (sigh).

[Euro-American Scum]

Blue Bell vanilla ice cream

Oh man! Now you've done it. I haven't had Blue Bell vanilla since I had hair. And airline tickets to Texas aren't cheap. -:)