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

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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

 

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

Fresh peach pie from the Katella Deli in Los Alamitos, CA. Come to think of it, I better get down there before the season is over.

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Cowboy cookies.
Peanutbutter,
oatmeal
pecans
chocolate chips

Life is good sometimes.

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[writer33]

Carrot cake with cream cheese. Of course you could put cream cheese on a bumper and it'd taste good.

[LisaMalia]

My favorite dessert is one I'll never have again. It was my late grandma's apple pie. I've tried to duplicate the recipe, but it just doesn't taste the same.

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

[Libertina]

ice cream, bananas cooked in brown sugar and butter, fresh blackberry berry pie, angelfood cake, and my home-made hot pepper cashew-brickle! YUM!

[Loyalist]

Baklava!

I don't enjoy most desserts, as I don't like fruit and most dessert chocolate is too rich, but I could eat baklava all day if it wasn't fattening.

[Euro-American Scum]

pecans

Come to think of it. . . a slice of pecan pie and a glass of milk would go good right about now. . .

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Chocolate/Chocolate cake                                                            White/White Cake

I made and decorated these for my co-workers last day on the job at the college. They were both VERY tasty!!

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Carrot cake with cream cheese. Of course you could put cream cheese on a bumper and it'd taste good.

Stuffed dates -- pitted dates, stuffed with cream cheese, topped with a walnut or pecan.

Put 'em out as appetizers on Thanksgiving morning, I guarantee you won't have to cook a turkey in the afternoon.

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