# What is your favorite kind of dessert? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 17, 2020, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-kind-of-dessert/849647 "2020-03-17T12:44:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2020, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-kind-of-dessert/849647/1 "2020-03-17T12:44:42Z")
You can have any dessert that you desire. What kind would it be? Cake, Candy, Fruit, Melons, Pie or Pudding? ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2020, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-kind-of-dessert/849647/2 "2020-03-17T12:49:20Z")
I’m a Cake lover. That’s assuming it’s a very well made cake, moist, flavorful with a creamy frosting. The kind my grandma made. 😉 They’re hard to find anymore. You have to splurge on the ingredients and make one yourself. My favorite cake today is a yellow cake with chocolate icing. 2nd favorite is Carrot Cake with cream cheese icing ---
**Author:** ![MoonMoon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moonmoon/32/2959_2.png) [@MoonMoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoonMoon)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2020, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-kind-of-dessert/849647/3 "2020-03-17T12:51:26Z")
Cake. Always and forever cake. Delicious, moist cake with minimal frosting. ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2020, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-kind-of-dessert/849647/4 "2020-03-17T12:53:53Z")
Cake cake cake… preferably chocolate with vanilla frosting and soft vanilla ice cream… ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2020, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-kind-of-dessert/849647/5 "2020-03-17T13:13:41Z")
I guess there was a time that candy was a very special dessert. But it’s so readily available today. There’s an aisle full of candy at every grocery. I’ve noticed many restaurants don’t offer cake anymore. Cake will go stale pretty quickly. That’s probably why restaurants don’t offer it. Apple pie is what I see on most menus. ---
**Author:** ![Hermitian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hermitian/32/470_2.png) [@Hermitian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hermitian)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2020, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-kind-of-dessert/849647/6 "2020-03-17T13:18:28Z")
A melon is a dessert? Where are cookies? Ice cream? ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2020, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-kind-of-dessert/849647/7 "2020-03-17T13:26:35Z")
I forgot the cookies and ice cream. I tried to think of the most common desserts. But those two slipped my mind. That’s unfortunate because I know they’re popular. You can vote Other ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2020, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-kind-of-dessert/849647/8 "2020-03-17T13:30:06Z")
Where’s the ice cream option? Isn’t that, you know, a rather default option for a poll like this? ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2020, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-kind-of-dessert/849647/9 "2020-03-17T13:37:37Z")
To quote Albert from Walt Kelly’s _Pogo_: “Anything close to hand is perty much favorite with me.” ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2020, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-kind-of-dessert/849647/10 "2020-03-17T13:46:07Z")
My special desserts are cheesecake and angel food cake but most of the time I like brownies and that was the option I was looking for. I think brownies are a type of cake so that’s what I went for. ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2020, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-kind-of-dessert/849647/11 "2020-03-17T13:47:01Z")
I voted for pie, but my forever favorite in the whole, wide world is cookies. No cookie is safe around me! (Except Oreos. Yuck.) ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2020, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-kind-of-dessert/849647/12 "2020-03-17T13:49:28Z")
Cake. Specifically, a chocolate birthday cake with chocolate buttercream frosting, and mocha buttercream in between the layers. ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2020, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-kind-of-dessert/849647/13 "2020-03-17T13:50:29Z")
I’m in the minority and voted pudding. I LOVE warm chocolate pudding (the cooked kind not instant) - especially the skin! I know, there aren’t many of us pudding skin lovers. I shudder when I read a recipe that says to place plastic wrap on top of the cooked pudding!:eek: It’s a dessert I don’t have very often, maybe once a year, because it’s a pain to make. It has to be stirred constantly so it doesn’t burn/scorch. And the other problem is, I will eat the entire bowl! Cake is ok, but it was something we had all the time when I was growing up so it doesn’t seem like much of a treat to me. Candy is too readily available. It also has lost its excitement. Fruit/melons - I love fruit and eat it every day. I don’t consider it a dessert. Pie is good but not my favorite. Where are donuts on the list!!?? I LOVE a raised chocolate frosted donut. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2020, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-kind-of-dessert/849647/14 "2020-03-17T14:25:43Z")
You know how sometimes, on a menu or a recipe card, you’ll see something listed called something like “Death by Chocolate”? That’s what I’m ordering. ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2020, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-kind-of-dessert/849647/15 "2020-03-17T14:54:20Z")
Creme brulee. Cheesecake. Creme brulee cheesecake! ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2020, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-kind-of-dessert/849647/16 "2020-03-17T15:09:06Z")
Serious question: is cheesecake considered cake, or pie? Despite the name, I would consider it to be more like a pie than a cake. Whichever it is, that’s my answer. My second choice would baklava, but since there is no “pastry” category I guess that would be other. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2020, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-kind-of-dessert/849647/17 "2020-03-17T15:12:22Z")
Cheese. Whatever’s made in the general region of wherever I happen to be dining. With what’s left of the loaf, and what’s left of the wine. Don’t bring me any damn bread with fruit or nuts baked into it, please. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2020, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-kind-of-dessert/849647/18 "2020-03-17T15:17:43Z")
Grand Marnier. That’s fruit, right? ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2020, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-kind-of-dessert/849647/19 "2020-03-17T16:55:08Z")
Other: Ice cream ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2020, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-kind-of-dessert/849647/20 "2020-03-17T17:00:20Z")
Other: cognac or port or armagnac or a really nice single-malt. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-kind-of-dessert/849647.md?page=2)