I don’t like very many things with ice cream on them; I take my cake or pies without ice cream because I don’t like the ice cream mushing things up, and the flavour doesn’t do much for me. I also don’t like ice cream cakes. My husband thinks I’m weird (well, let’s just focus on this reason at the moment); I’m sure there must be other people out there who don’t like ice cream on all their desserts, right?
ETA: You can choose multiple things.
I will take any excuse I can to eat more ice cream.
I like ice cream on apple pie, on apple crisp, and a brownie sunday is just about the best thing ever. But I’d rather have regular cake than an ice cream cake. I have a deep abiding love for frosting, and ice cream cakes don’t have any, so what’s the point?
I don’t particularly like ice cream and icing in the same dessert combination, but otherwise I think a la mode is great (especially on something warm).
I voted meh, but combined with a hot pie–that works for me. Otherwise, not a big fan.
No, ice cream makes perfectly good dessert soggy.
ice cream cakes are the shit, though. They’re pretty much entirely ice cream, though, so it’s not the same thing as putting ice cream on a sponge cake or pie or brownie or something
Hear, hear!
Heck, prolly my favorite dessert is ice cream a la mode with ice cream (and hot fudge).
Give me my cake or pie on a plate, and ice cream in a bowl. They can mix in my stomach.
Ice cream on a warm thing can be good, but I’m just not really an ice cream person. I don’t like frosting, either. I prefer my cake naked.
I come from the other end, sort of. I don’t like every kind of ice cream, and there’s way too much bad ice cream out there, but I dislike most cakes and pies. In my case, I’d rather have one ball of lemon and one of raspberry ice cream - skip the cake. And the few cakes I do like? Adding ice cream to them just makes the cake mushy, so no.
I’ve mostly had pie a la mode, not cake.
Just yesterday I had lunch at Reef (run by Bryan Caswell, recently in the running for Next Iron Chef); I had the Vietnamese Coffee Tart with Condensed Milk Ice Cream & Mint Syrup. The dessert menuis heavily a la mode…
Also memorable after many years–warm pecan cobbler with a scoop of Blue Bell Homemade Vanilla.
I hate ice cream on cake or pie, because it ruins a good thing. Spongy cake or flaky crust? Now a sodden mess! I hate cobbler because it’s a lame replacement for fruit pie, so I therefore hate ice cream on cobbler. I hate ice cream on cookies.
There’s one a la mode dessert I like: fudge brownie sundaes. The brownie has to be fudge-type, the ultra dense chewy brownies, not anything lighter, and certainly not cake-type brownies. The dense fudge brownie can hold up to the ice cream far better than the other desserts above.
And I concur that ice cream cake is not really like cake with ice cream on it. It’s a frozen treat all its own creature.
I’ve got sensitive teeth so I don’t eat ice cream at all anymore. Warm + hot is just about the worst thing I can do to my teeth, so ice cream on warm or even room-temperature stuff is right out.
I’ll have extra cake, please.
My wife and I are on opposite sides of this issue. She is a pie-lover (and other desserts to a lesser extent) and doesn’t care if there is ice cream with it - she doesn’t ask for it but doesn’t refuse it either. She’d never think of just having a bowl of ice cream by itself.
I, on the other hand, love ice cream and most kinds of pie or cake are not complete without a scoop. And I’d happily eat through a tub of ice cream or an ice cream cake.
I voted ‘best thing ever’, but with the caveats of ‘must be really good ice cream’ and ‘must be in the proper ratio of ice cream to dessert’. The ice cream should be roughly a quarter to a third of the volume of the dessert it’s accompanying.
I’m not really an ice cream eater.
I like ice cream on my desserts OK. I won’t die if it’s not there, but it’s a nice addition to have once and a while.
I once tried bananas foster over ice cream. I love bananas foster and ice cream, so what could go wrong?
Welp, my teeth are sensitive and the combination of hot + cold hurt. A lot.
Never again!
My guilty pleasure is Denny’s Apple Pie, Ice Cream, and caramel sauce desert. Must be 2000 calories. :eek: :eek: 
Once a year it’s fantastic.
You know, I have sensitive teeth too - maybe that’s where my dislike of desserts a la mode came from. Although I recall not liking it as a kid, either, when I don’t think my teeth were sensitive.
I shouldn’t say I don’t like anything with ice cream - a proper brownie with vanilla ice cream and hot fudge sauce over all is heavenly.