Favorite Dessert you'll gain 2 lbs just describing

[samhexum]

A diner near me makes heavenly Chocolate Strawberry Shortcake. I've also been known to go all 'Meg Ryan' over a slice of blueberry cheesecake.

[Rudynate]

I made a marjolaine once. Toasted hazelnut meringue layers, whipped cream between the layers and chocolate ganache frosting. Best thing I ever ate. It was so much work, I never made it again.

[amused1]

My mom's best friend used to make a 6 layer chocolate sponge cake filled with chocolate whipped cream and covered with a kind of fudge-like icing. God, it was like the best sex ever.

[bigvalboy]

My current favorite and addiction...Bread Pudding from Kaluz in Fort Lauderdale. Maybe not 2lbs, but absolutely to die for.

 

[+ poolboy48220]

A co-worker made a carrot cake that was legendary around the office. She shared the recipe with me on the condition I never bring one to work and "compete" with her.

[+ sync]

I'm an equal-opportunity dessert advocate, just bring it.

[+ tassojunior]

key lime pie

[+ Avalon]

My current favorite and addiction...Bread Pudding from Kaluz in Fort Lauderdale. Maybe not 2lbs, but absolutely to die for.

 

 

Now that is what bread pudding is supposed to look like!

 

When I was a boy my mother once made bread pudding. It looked horrible! Just a glob floating in water. I gave it to my father. That upset my mother. For several days I was not allowed to eat dinner with the family; I had to eat in the kitchen serving myself from the pots and pans.

[samhexum]

My current favorite and addiction...Bread Pudding from Kaluz in Fort Lauderdale. Maybe not 2lbs, but absolutely to die for.

 

I'm a noodle pudding guy.

 

 

 

http://scibosnian.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Noodle_Kugel_1.jpg

 

[+ Funguy]

I'm a noodle pudding guy.

 

 

 

http://scibosnian.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Noodle_Kugel_1.jpg

 

 

That's really not dessert. Goes great with brisket!

 

Now dessert, I love chocolate cheesecake and creme brulee (melt a few chocolate chips in there and add some fresh raspberries also while it cooks!)

[gallahadesquire]

Celebration cake, May 1979 Bon Appetit. A pound of nuts; three sticks of butter; eight eggs; sugar.

Four layers of nut merigue interspersed with chocolate, vanilla, and praline butter cream.

 

750 calories/slice (calculated).

[samhexum]

Celebration cake, May 1979 Bon Appetit. A pound of nuts; three sticks of butter; eight eggs; sugar. Four layers of nut merigue interspersed with chocolate, vanilla, and praline butter cream. 750 calories/slice (calculated).

 

That's not bad, considering I'd cut into 2 (maybe 3) slices.

[+ g56whiz]

The Hummingbird cake on the cover of the February issue of Southern Living. That’s if my partner hasn’t made his Tiramisu (which he makes by the acre) or his Toquilla cheesecake.

[samhexum]

The Hummingbird cake on the cover of the February issue of Southern Living. That’s if my partner hasn’t made his Tiramisu (which he makes by the acre)...

 

You must have an awfully big kitchen.

[+ g56whiz]

You must have an awfully big kitchen.

 

Everything’s big in Texas (especially the egos). Lol

[+ maltayar]

Portuguese Custard Tarts (Pasteis de Nata) and Napoleons (Mille-Feuille) are both addictive.

[gallahadesquire]

Portuguese Custard Tarts (Pasteis de Nata) and Napoleons (Mille-Feuille) are both addictive.

My first High Tea was at Fortnum and Mason's in London.

 

Menu:

Welsh Rarebit

Scone with clotted cream

Napoleon

 

I'm amazed I survived that meal.

[craigville beach]

I'm a noodle pudding guy.

 

 

 

http://scibosnian.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Noodle_Kugel_1.jpg

 

 

 

 

 

you mean sweet noodle kugel

[Rudynate]

My first High Tea was at Fortnum and Mason's in London.

 

Menu:

Welsh Rarebit

Scone with clotted cream

Napoleon

 

I'm amazed I survived that meal.

 

 

High tea or afternoon tea?

[gallahadesquire]

High tea or afternoon tea?

Definitely high tea:

https://www.teatimemagazine.com/high-tea-vs-afternoon-tea/

[MartyB]

German Chocolate Cake followed by Almond chocolate croissants.

[Rod Hagen]

Best Dessert I've ever had and I have Nora Ephron (God Rest Her Soul) to thank for pointing me to it. Every trip I make to New York, even when I was there for a funeral, I make time for this dessert. Truly a marvel.

 

https://sweets.seriouseats.com/2013/08/behind-the-scenesthe-grapefruit-givre-at-boulud-sud.html

 

[+ FreshFluff]

I'll be mocked for this, but the giant chocolate peanut butter cup at Uno's is amazing. The ice cream is a distraction.

 

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[samhexum]

Her name is Lola. She was a showgirl

But that was 30 years ago, when they used to have a show

Now it's a disco but not for Lola

Still in the dress she used to wear, faded feathers in her hair

She sits there so refined and drinks herself half-blind

She lost her youth and she lost her Tony. Now she's lost her mind.

 

He writes the songs that make people run.

 

Some Rite Aid stores in California have taken to blasting Barry Manilow tunes as part of a plan to make loiterers scramble.

 

Employees told the Wall Street Journal that the drugstore chain has been testing the tactic of playing songs by the 75-year-old crooner outside their stores — over and over, loudly — to deter panhandlers and vagrants.

 

But the plan has also left neighbors mystified.

 

“I thought some older man had died and left a Barry’s Most Depressing Hits CD on repeat,” said Lisa Masters, a professional drummer in Long Beach who couldn’t open her windows without hearing “Mandy” blaring.

 

“I felt trapped in an episode of ‘The Twilight Zone,’” she said.

 

When she called Rite Aid, she said an employee explained that the Manilow technique had worked at other locations and was now working in Long Beach.

 

“His attitude was, ‘Would we rather have panhandlers or Manilow?’” Masters said.

 

A Rite Aid spokeswoman told the paper that customers were finding it difficult to enter some of their stores because of loiterers, so the chain started employing a couple of deterrents — including Barry Manilow.

 

“We are in the early stages of exploring this approach and have not made any decision about the potential rollout of this to additional stores,” she said.

 

The Manilow technique has also been used at a Rite Aid in San Diego, according to WCPO.

 

Over in Hollywood, neighbors have also been subjected to the Manilow music when strolling outside Rite Aid.

 

John Fields, a record producer for the Jonas Brothers and Miley Cyrus, posted a video on YouTube showing him walking outside the drugstore as “Somewhere Down the Road” plays.

 

“Another night with Barry Manilow,” he says.

 

For some, the music is soothing.

 

“It’s one of those beautiful moments,” LA comedian Debra DiGiovanni said of hearing “I Write the Songs” on repeat.

 

“I know all the words. When I was in my 20s, we might have made fun of him, and now I’m in my 40s and he’s nostalgic. It reminds me of Mom and Dad in a lovely way.”

 

Manilow, a Brooklyn-born star whose career has spanned more than 50 years, hasn’t heard about the tactic, his publicist said.

 

“It’s not very kind that people don’t want to stand around and listen to his music,” she said. “It’s odd. He wouldn’t comment on something like this. I don’t think he knows about it.”