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We rarely fix or eat dessert, unless there's something special around like fresh blueberries for pie, or for a holiday meal.
Funny thing is, though, when I was growing up, my mom ALWAYS served some sort of dessert after dinner. It would often be something simple like home-canned fruit (plums or pears were my favorites) but there was always a bit of something sweet to end the meal. I must have had more of a sweet tooth when I was a kid than I do now, because it doesn't even occur to me to eat sweets most of the time.
My mother- who loves to bake but is the size of a twig- would bake a dessert everyday... I would come home from school and there would bee freshly baked cookies or brownies... THEN there would be dessert after dinner... usually a pie or a cake... But that all stopped about 15 years ago when we all tried to go low fat...that was when the low fat recipes came and and she is such a good cook you would never know you weren't eating the real thing... then THAT went to the curb when my father got diabetes... I don't bake... my kids get sweets so often from other places that I just don't like to bring them into the house (and I don't have the will power to turn them down)
We're kind of weird over here. (As if you wouldn't have guessed! ) DH doesn't paraticularly care for dessert. He would rather eat his meal and grab a bag of chips if he gets hungry later in the evening. I enjoy dessert, but not immediately following dinner. I like it a few hours later... maybe 9-10PM or so. Dinner is usually the only meal I eat, so dessert is sort of like a mini meal or backwards breakfast for me - if that makes any sense.
The only time we have dessert shortly following dinner is when we have company.
Same here. I eat once a day pretty much so dessert is my one big vice.
I looked for such a thread and couldn't find any, let's see what goodies everyone eat.
Tomorrow I have to go to a birthday party to a good friend of mine, she'll be 24 years old.
I asked her what she wants and she said "a fruity cake".
I think I made it very fruity
Sponge cake, sprinkled with caramel syrup, layered in between with stabilized vanilla cream and fresh fruits, The first layer of fruit is blueberry, second is peach and third pineapple.
It is decorated outside with stabilized whipped cream and topped with fresh fruits. Apricot, plum, strawberry, orange, pineapple, cherries, blackberries and blueberries.
Do you think she will like it? I sure hope so.
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And to come back on topic, tonight I had some left over sponge cake I broke in pieces and sprinkled with pineapple juice, few bits of pineapple and topped with some whip cream. It was sooooo good.
Here I sit with no dessert. I should not even be reading this but I'm addicted. With another lb or 2 off I'm going to the bakery and hope to find this kind of fruity cake. Other than chocolate this looks like the best I've ever seen. I love so many fruits. I guess my fruit salad will have to be considered dessert tonight. Peaches, cantaloupe, and grapes.
Thank you everyone, the cake was a hit, light and very very fruity and refreshing.
We served Mimosas next to it, they complimented each other perfectly.
The birthday girl was ecstatic. I only make such cakes on special occasions.
When I came back home about 1 PM few friends called in for coffee about 4 PM so I had to whip up something fast.
Another type of fruit pastry. Here it is.
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. Feed the cake to the dog, I want another bite of steak.
) DH doesn't paraticularly care for dessert. He would rather eat his meal and grab a bag of chips if he gets hungry later in the evening. I enjoy dessert, but not immediately following dinner. I like it a few hours later... maybe 9-10PM or so. Dinner is usually the only meal I eat, so dessert is sort of like a mini meal or backwards breakfast for me - if that makes any sense.
What's for dessert today?
