Has to complement the main meal. Cake in most cases, but pie is ok if the meal is light. For seafoods, curry and chili, I go for ice cream.
I’m with you, pudding is the best. The best of the best is the pudding my Mom makes. 2 parts chocolate and 1 part butterscotch. The absolute best!
I also love the skin or as Mom calls it the scum lol. My youngest son inherited this love so I now have to share.
Ice cream, but it’s not listed. I picked cake, haven’t had any in a long time
This. For me, at midday, an apple after stewed garbanzo beans and an orange after rice. I rarely eat dessert, though. Once in a while, on a cold afternoon, some kind of chocolate pastry after a heavy meal is nice for a long deep nap. In the evening, gin and tonic after sushi.
I can’t believe how difficult a question this is for me. Serious sweet tooth, yanno…
Keeping it as simple as possible, I’d probably go with cake, preferably devils food with chocolate buttercream frosting.
But if I’m to be decadent, it’d be the same cake, or perhaps a gooey brownie, topped with melty french vanilla ice cream and chopped nuts and hot fudge and whipped cream, with a cherry on top, of course.
Tho these days, I’m sticking with fruit, alas. No hot fudge…
I don’t really do desserts, to me if there is room for dessert then the main course was a failure in some way. But I chose fruit and include melons in that choice.
So…no one else likes cheese? Am I some sort of mutant? A Francophile surrender-monkey?
One of the minor highlights of our Xmas dinner is afterward, when I bring out the slab of ripe Stilton. I used to share it with my father-in-law, the only other one at the table who enjoyed blue cheese. Now my son-in-law helps out with a few nibbles, probably just to be polite. The slab purchase has dwindled to a small wedge over the years.
Good cheese is excellent. A little heavy, but maybe with just a salad and bread and call it a meal.
I had dinner at French friend’s house when his son was visiting. At some point they started arguing and it went on until our mostly silent dinner. Toward the end, I started cracking jokes, and by the time my friend brings out the cheese, they were opening up a bit. I pretended to be put off by the cheese and said, “You French are weird. You argue all night about everying but you’re in complete agreement about this cheese for dessert?” It played out perfectly: They looked at me and then at each other, they burst out laughing and a merry time was had by all.
I scream, you scream, we all scream for ICE CREAM!
Really depends on the meal and what mood I’m in. Cheese, cheesecake, Boston cream pie, apple dumpling, any kind of pie or cake are all favorites.
But my go-to choice is a simple dish of vanilla ice cream. Complements pretty much anything.
Really depends on the meal and what mood I’m in. Cheese, cheesecake, Boston cream pie, apple dumpling, any kind of pie or cake are all favorites.
But my go-to choice is a simple dish of vanilla ice cream. Complements pretty much anything.
As does a ramekin of custard dusted with nutmeg and topped with a shpritz of whipped cream 
I voted Other. Meaning Chocolate. The format doesn’t really matter.
There’s always room for Jell-O. With a shpritz of whipped cream, of course. 
It is a primary tenet of my personal religion that anything on a desert menu with the words “chocolate” and “raspberry” together must be ordered and eaten, even if that means more than one item.
Good cheese is excellent, but no matter when you eat it, it is not dessert.
I chose pie, because I love pie, especially fruit pies. My new years resolution of 2006 was to eat more pie, and it was the only successful new years resolution I ever made. But I’m also a big fan of cookies, ice cream and brownies, which were conspicuously left off the list. I used to think I didn’t like cake, but then I realized I just don’t like most cake. Some of it is freaking awesome.
I chose cat.
Strawberry shortcake, mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm! :o
Scottish shortbread, mmmmmmmmmmmmmm! :o
English trfle, mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm! :o
Au contraire. A tray of cheese and biscuits (crackers) served with a demitasse of strong black coffee is an elegant dessert. So is a selection of fresh fruit, with honey on the side for dipping.
What you’re describing is hors d’oeuvres (other than the coffee, of course). Eating them after the meal does not make them dessert.