It's dessert time, what's your perfect post-dinner treat?

toomanypancakes@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 67 points –

My weakness is tiramisu, it's so frickin good. Hook me up with a piece of that and I'm in heaven.

But what about you, what dessert item really moves your meter?

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C'mon, you can't ask us to pick just one. Sometimes you feel like something creamy, sometimes you want crunchy, at times even fruity.

Actually, it's cheesecake. This week. Because my wife has banned it from the house.

I agree with your wife. No cheesecake in the house.

....also, I don't like cheesecake.

…also, I don’t like cheesecake.

Are you an alien? Welcome to Earth.

When people eat cereal, there's generally one debate. Milk first, or cereal first?

Would it interest you to know that I don't like milk on my cereal AT ALL? No milk please!

Or that with the exception of corn, I eat all my vegitables raw only?

Or that I don't like dark chocolate?

I'm trying to think of other things people think is crazy that I don't like.......

OH! Mac and Cheese.

I also find it strange that people will defend pineapple on pizza as being "not wrong, just let people enjoy what they enjoy" but will throw a hissy fit if someone were to eat a hot dog sideways, or sit on a toilet backwards (which originally was the intended method).

Or that with the exception of corn, I eat all my vegitables raw only?

Even potatoes?

Ya know, I never thought of potatos as vegitables. But now that I think about it, corn and potatos.

I used to snack on raw peeled potatoes, but I definitely enjoyed them more if they were cooked/baked/fried/mashed.

Plain af New York style cheesecake. You weirdos that put berries on it are strange.

I don't do much dessert any more.

Carrot cake with a lot of cinnamon and cardamom and cream cheese frosting is the biggest exception. Or just like chocolate chip banana bread.

A week or two ago, I made my wife some peanut butter cookies, because she really likes those. I decided to keep half the dough in the fridge so I could make more fresh. The next day I grabbed a nice dark chocolate square from a bowl we keep on the counter and thought, "I wonder how the league butter dough would be on this." Oh my god, it was like the best Reese's peanut butter cup you've ever had. Truly amazing.

I thought this story was going to end with your wife having ate the dough as a midnight snack.

No, she/we didn't eat it all at once, but none of the rest of it made it into the oven, either.

homemade ice cream sundaes

i went to an ice cream parlor once and ordered a banana split, but they were out of bananas. And while i did not go immediately across the street and buy a single banana from the grocery store right there, i decided that it was worth it during my next grocery run to purchase a carton of ice cream and some toppings and make them at home. and I've been doing that at home for almost two years now as my go to dessert

You should share with us what your general recipe is, if you'd like to of course :)

my go to right now is Neapolitan, a banana, some chopped walnuts, chocolate chips, and chocolate syrup. Not quite a true banana split, but more like whatever is easy to get in bulk. And I'll swap around the ice cream and occasionally the toppings depending on mood and availability. There was one point where we had some strawberries leftover after making waffles one day so i cooked them up into a syrup and used that as a topping for a while

That sounds really good! The Neapolitan is an interesting choice. I'd probably lean more towards one of the 'safer' flavors. Lol

My honey ordered a cookies&cream milkshake at Fuddruckers once upon a time, and they sadly told him they were out of oreos. We teased them so badly about that, they were shamed into going across the street to the store to buy a bag of oreos. I don't think we went over the line. I hope. We were trying to be lighthearted about it. and we were very appreciative that they fulfilled our order.

Throw some Costco Ghirardelli brownie mix in a mug

Add a little milk and stir

Microwave for roughly 45 seconds, until it starts bubbling, then quickly stop

Throw some vanilla ice cream on top

Eat it up with a glass of milk on the side

Fuckin delightful man

I have all these things right now in the house. omg. Yet I've already gone to bed and I don't want the cats thinking they can finagle another midnight snack out of me if I get back up to putter around the kitchen. Dessert for breakfast it shall be!

Watermelon slices with Tajin spice which is a chili lime spice. The absolute best.

Ice cream or frozen custard, especially now that it’s so hot.

Well, a cocktail of course!

I do like sweets sometimes. Ricotta cake with raspberries is the house favorite; tiramisu is amazing, cheesecake is great, ice cream, or a fruit salad. Those are all so good.

Recently learned a new, simple cocktail.

  • 330ml rhubarb lemonade
  • 40ml Licor 43
  • 10-20ml lime juice
  • 3-4 ice cubes

Absolute perfection IMHO

Warm Apple crisp with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top!

Cup of coffee. I don't want to eat anything else. I literally just ate.

To be honest I've been enjoying a bowl of frozen wild blueberries as an evening snack. Good antioxidants and fiber to boot but it tastes like icecream for me.

Or frozen grapes! Many frozen fruits are so, so good and refreshing as snacks

I'm with you on tiramisu. If I could only have one dessert for the rest of my life, that would be it!

Sticky toffee pudding. Warmed up with some vanilla iced cream.

I love tiramisu. It’s the only desert I’m remotely interested in if I go out for dinner.

Cha cha (喳咋)

Imagine red bean soup, with a slight taste of coconut.

I've never had it before but I see all sorts of Japanese treats are made with red beans (usually as a paste) and I would love to try it; what's it taste like? Can it be equated to any kind of Western thing or is it wholly unique?

Red beans have their own kind of sweet. I don't know what to compare them with.

I'd say you can try to think of boba tea (not western i know), but instead it's hot, with textures of very fine sand.

A short black. Sometimes chocolate fudge ice cream or something, but rarely.

A sandwich of a couple of frozen Entenman's (Local brand?) Mini chocolate chip cookies with a spoonful of Ben & Jerry's Phish Food filling.

edit: my spouse wants me to add, "and a joint."

Lemon Ice, something about it is just nice in a way I can't really describe, and whenever I get into that headspace of wanting to share food with someone it's one of the first things I think of

Just some quite time with my wife. If it has to be some type of food, then seasonal fruit.

Harris Teeter (Kroger subsidiary) -brand "Private Selection" chocolate ganache ice cream. It makes all other chocolate varieties pale in comparison. I let it sit on the counter a little to soften, or I'll very briefly microwave it if I am impatient. I legit get a nice big eyelid-fluttering dopamine hit with every spoonful.

A brownie sundae!!!

A thicc hot brownie with walnuts, two scoops of vanilla bean ice cream (the real stuff), drizzled with hot fudge and caramel sauce!

Whatever is around with lots of sugar or fat. Icecream, cookies, cake, potato chips.

I like m&m blizzards from dairy Queen but don't live near a DQ, so I don't often get them. I also feel bad that the employees are forced to turn them upside down when they present them to me. DQ has more interesting blizzard flavors but for some reason the boring m&Ms are my preference. DQ also has this peanut buster parfait, which sounds sexual in my head, but I like that one too. I swear this isn't a DQ account. Their hot food sucks ass and I suspect their employees make slave wages.

I Also go crazy for chocolate chip cookies, and chocolate cake, and chocolate donuts.

Wdym, their burgers and chicken tendies are pretty good

I was just trying to prove I'm not a corporate shill. You're right, the fries have always been really good when I got them.

I mix peanut butter with oatmilk and appel syrup and I eat it all up like a dog with two dicks.

I’ll often choose an after-dinner drink, because I usually stuff myself during the main course. Maybe I’ll order an Espresso Martini. Or I’ll go full Dude and order a White Russian. Or whatever else looks good.

When stumped, I’ll ask the server for a suggestion. I try to give them something to work with, like “sweet”, “creamy” or “citrusy”.

I'm stuck between strawberries with honey, and a few scoops of stracciatella or vanilla chocolate chip ice cream with an espresso poured over it.

Chocolate cheesecake. Always makes me feel sick but in a good way.

Banana cream pie.

The bakery we usually buy bread at has had banana cream tarts as one of their desserts of the month, and the sweets case has been a lot more tempting than usual the last several trips. I'm both relieved and bummed they'll be gone tomorrow.

If you've never done this, I suggest giving it a try:

A medjool date that's been soaked in hot water, then take it out of the water, place it above a bar of dark chocolate of the same length, and eat it together (like nigiri) in one bite.

I say it should be dark because the date provides all the sugar and milkyness you'll need.

You'll want to chew on that forever 🤤