I am not certain if it should be called dessert since it will not be with or directly after dinner I will have a handful of chocolate chips or a couple of spoonfuls of ice cream. I really do not have anything other than those that I do not eat at other times of the day. Had two of those cheap iced oatmeal cookies for breakfast and an apple with a slice of cheese for lunch. Sweets are either cookies or fruit and I prefer those as a meal and not after one.

I enjoy dessert after a meal at a restaurant, but normally don't at home mainly because I don't have anything handy. If I have ice cream, pie, etc, at the ready, sure I'll partake.

Never have dessert, I just don’t care for sweets anymore.

About an hour or two after dinner we might have some ice cream or some canned fruit. I am having tomato soup and a grilled cheese sandwich tonight for dinner and later plan on having some warmed Devon custard with some fresh raspberries on top and maybe a Voortman wafer cookie.

Terilyn, I wish I could say that. I have a massive sweet tooth and it isn't doing me any good. It was hard enough to cut out salty snacks. I was hoping to get some Medjool dates yesterday so I could eat one of them hoping that would satisfy my sweet tooth instead of eating something else not good for me.

I seldom eat dessert, not even when dining out. The only time it's in the house is if I'm having someone over, or on a rare occasion, like a couple of weeks ago when I really wanted apple pie. Then I'll make it.

Hubby has the sweet tooth so today I made a caramelized upside down apple cake. I am not much of a sweet eater just love to make desserts.

Dessert is never planned at home. DH has a sweet tooth and keeps ice cream in the freezer for himself, but doesn't have it every day. I sometimes can be tempted by dessert when we eat out, depending what it is and how full I am. We usually share a dessert if we agree on one. I'm picky about sweets.

We usually don't eat dessert except when the grands are here on the weekends. Tonight they want chocolate ice cream.

My hubby dug up some sassafras roots. I'm making some homemade root beer. The syrup just has to cool yet before we can taste it . We will know if I keep or pich it.

Perfect timing, Lucille! We don't usually eat dessert as such but if need be, I can always roast a marshmallow or have a chocolate chip cookie. I made a triple batch C.C.'s the other day. I didn't mean to but was not paying complete attention when I doubled the recipe and put in an extra C. of sugar so I had to triple the recipe. Darn!

I baked banana bread the other night since we had three ripe bananas. That and leftover Halloween candy is as close as we have come to dessert lately. I put the candy under the counter and I think everyone forgot about it.

I found a dozen bakery cookies, oatmeal raisin, for $1 and froze 2 dozen!

We're not regular dessert eaters but enjoy making things for friends and family. Old fashioned gingerbread is on the menu for this weekend.

DH & I both have a sweet tooth. Me more than him. Tonight it was Sanders salted caramel chocolates. Yum! There's apple pie in the freezer too. That might be tomorrow night's dessert.

Lemon meringue pie! I burned a bit of the first layer of meringue under the broiler. And, the second. Hah! Scraping is easy with a sharp knife and gritting your / my teeth. The pie is wonderful though. 3 lemons, lots of zest and an indulgent husband who loves anything lemon. Whew! Not anything I want to do next week or for the next couple of months. I think I'll stick with cookies. Much more forgiving.

I do have a sweet tooth, and like to have a little something in the evening (usually a couple of hours after my last meal) many evenings.

Cherryfizz, I keep medjool dates on hand for just that reason. Dried apricots, too. But I've also figured out ways to bake up only 1 -3 servings of a boxed mix (like brownies or cake) so that I don't overindulge when I want a warm baked treat.

I happened to see that Talenti had a flavor called Hazelnut Chocolate Chip. I loved their Vanilla Chocolate Chip, but they've discontinued it, so I thought I'd try the Hazelnut version. It was okay, but disappointing. The Vanilla Choc. Chip had shaved bittersweet chocolate in it. The Hazelnut has hard chunks of chocolate which isn't that appealing to me. I guess it's a good thing that I didn't love it because I won't buy it again.

I don't usually but brought one frozen Ferrero Rocher candy to work with me tonight.

A halfway proper dessert is occasional, by that I mean having a slice of pie or cake, or a sundae. More typical is a row of rectangles from a Lindt chocolate bar, dark for DH, milk for me. I used to make (instant) pudding with whipped cream when the boys were kids, have a hankering now! Sometimes I’ll get myself a bowl of ice cream with Hershey’s syrup. I love the chocolate topping that gets hard, Elmers.

I do keep dates on hand, as I can buy them at the source in Indio, very close to Cathedral City. There are quite a few date farms around Indio, and so I can buy a variety of dates. My favorites are Bahri, which are the softest and sweetest, but they are not available all year. I like to stuff dates with almonds or walnuts and then dip them in chocolate, but it has to be bittersweet chocolate, or else they will be too sweet.

I also like kolaches, which were very popular in Temple, Texas, where I grew up. Temple has a very large Czech population, and the radio station used to broadcast in Czech on Sundays. I've not made them myself - I've only bought them at Czech bakeries.

Kevin likes to have ice cream and/or chocolate covered almonds for dessert. I don't bake desserts very often any more (although I used to professionally in San Francisco), but I do plan to make a Torte di Mele this week-end, since we have a lot of apples on our tree. I am also going to have to dehydrate most of the apples, which will be very time consuming, but I do like snacking on dried apples. I have not cooked with them yet, however, although I might want to start.

I have a lot of dessert recipes, and I would like to make them, but they make too many servings for me to store, except for the ice cream, which is easier for storing.

Before I retired, I would make desserts such as apple pie or lemon curd tart and take leftovers to work. I also like making Bavarian Cream Pie and chocolate mousse. I usually make these at the same time, as I can use the leftover egg whites from the pie to make the mousse. I like making macaroons, but Kevin won't eat them because he does not like coconut.

I could make more cookies, as they store well, but I shouldn't be eating them.

We rarely have dessert. My SIL has been making banana bread a couple of times a week and dropping one off all these last months of mostly staying home. We might have a slice of that or plain pound cake but in the morning, not after dinner. Sometimes those restaurant desserts look so wonderful (not that I've been in a restaurant lately, it's been since Mar 7!), but I don't usually have room left after dinner for dessert. I'll make an exception if eating with my mother, we'll sometimes share something or if I order for both of us and eat a dessert, she will too. Anything to get her to consume more calories, even if I end up uncomfortably full ;0)

Apples will be both my supper and dessert until the holidays are over....famous last words....ha!..... it will be good for as long as it last! . :-)

It lasted just three days...My downfall was a chile/cheese dog at Chesters!. with a CHOCOLATE sundae for dessert!.

Oh well.. there's always NY! I do feel a lot better with.just the three days.

Not me. I am on an eternal diet. 😔

But I made SO a heart shaped fried apple pie tonight for dessert. Dinner was filet mignon and salad. He also got a loaded twice baked potato with his. I served the fried pie with a tiny scoop of vanilla ice cream. Not a loss for me, as I mostly say if it ain't chocolate, it ain't worth it.

I do have some dark chocolate oreos in the freezer for those times when I really really want a little something sweet.

Lucille, I only recently discovered kolaches. My life is definitely better now that I've found them. Yours look delish.

We have dessert almost never. Probably not twice a year.

We like dessert but neither of us need the extra calories. You can't eat what isn't in the house and so we never buy anything along those lines, not even ice cream. In normal times when we eat out a fair amount, same answer - never.

Dessert growing up was jello (with evaporated milk poured over for my Dad - yuk!) or pudding or canned fruit almost every night. Now we only have dessert on Sunday which is the day that my daughters both usually come home for dinner and we all let loose a little. Still not too crazy - fruit crisps are a favourite. That being said, as I love to bake and challenge myself, I look forward to the odd occasion when I can go all out with butter, sugar, chocolate...

For me dessert type items are simply snacks. I am seldom in the mood for them after a meal. When I stop to think about it, growing up we always had plenty of pastries, candy, and Ice cream in the house. My mother would often bake pies. Eclairs, Napoleans, and coffee cakes from the bakery were frequent purchases as were pastries from the breadman. Sometimes my father would have a dessert with his after dinner coffee. But the only time it was really referred to as dessert was when we had dinner guests or holiday meals.

I could never stick to a diet without sweets. Recently I have dropped some weight (about a pound a week) and am down one jeans size. Going for 10 more. I have ice cream, a few cookies or something sweet every day. There is nothing I avoid entirely including fast food and pizza. Calories in, calories out. No bad foods, no super foods. Allowing yourself to indulge avoids binging.

Dessert for me is a little 85-90% cacao chocolate, almonds or walnuts, and a couple of mandarins in season. Dried fruit when there are no mandarins. While I love baked goods, I avoid the cabs and sugar.

Lucille, that looks great!

When we have company (remember, before C19?) we always have something. Something I make usually.

We keep ice cream in the freezer. When I start having a bit after dinner, then every night I start wanting it.

My husband is the shopper, as he qualifies for senior hours. Lol. He only buys vanilla which is what he likes. The Trader Joe’s French vanilla is pretty good. When I have it I sometimes sprinkle unsweetened cocoa powder and chopped pecans on it. That’s really good. To me.

I could eat dessert any time of the day, but I do not. At times I do bake but I don't eat much of it. I don't recall the last time I did bake something. That looks really good.

Sue

I love dessert! But if I have it in the house, I eat it. So for weight purposes, I try to substitute applesauce with cinnamon as my after dinner treat...sweet, cold and wet. I save desserts for when we eat out...or these days get something to go from a restaurant...but those are rare occasions.

Lucille, the first time I opened this post, your picture wasn't there. This time it was. My oh my, those look wonderful!

Those look fantastic!!!

My Mom always had dessert for after the dinner meal. She was a wonderful baker. When I married, I followed her example and the resulting children after marriage grew up eating dessert after every dinner. None of us, however, do that any longer. Tastes definitely change. My kids still eat sweets more often than I do. Somewhere along the way I just lost the need to have a sweet after every meal. I don't even keep ice cream any longer, because it get freezer burn and has to be tossed (even the small pints of it). I do, however, keep dried fruits and unsalted nuts and, in the freezer, miniature candies. There are three bags now in the freezer that have been there for at least a year. Hey, they are still good. Therefore, when the want for something sweet hits me, I do have it available. Cookies I have found go stale, except for fig bars which I try to keep on hand.

I very very rarely have dessert. I have some fruit juice Popsicles in the freezer if I have a desire. Hubby will have some ice-cream occasionally when there's some in the freezer. I have some of the cake in a cup mixes for the microwave in the pantry just in case I need something for friends visiting, but not since covid ended visiting.

I never liked cookies or cakes but, for some reason, I like hermits so a few times a year I buy them. I seem to have lost my taste for anything sweet.

Your kolaches look delicious! I've never made them, but have a recipe from a person of Czechoslovakian descent that I would like to try, but her method sounds like a day long project.

Where do you find black raspberries? I love them in jam, but have never seen them in stores.

We do have dessert after dinner most days. I love to bake, so sometimes it's baked goods and sometimes just fruit. Since quarantine started I've been making a fruit pie (our favorite) most weeks. DH has a regular size piece and I do a sliver. I wish I could lose my sweet tooth, but I just try to moderate and get enough exercise.

I rarely make dessert for the two of us but we do have the occasional bowl of ice cream. I always make it for company and family get togethers.......long time passing. Looking forward to those days.

I unfortunately have a whole mouth full of sweet teeth. There are always cookies in the house and ice cream often. DH loves his goodies too, but he is insulin dependent, so all goodies are the lite varieties. Desert depends on his blood sugar 2 hours after dinner. If he is in a good range, a small dish of ice cream is ok, or lately we have been keeping Tootsie Pops on hand....satisfies the sweet tooth need and lasts a long time. I sometimes indulge in those things also. Last night we went overboard and had a dish of sugar free Jello with cool whip. It tasted really good for a change. Haven't had Jello in a long time. No lectures please, his every 3 month A1C range has never been more than 6.2.

I don't bake anymore, just not physically able to do all that, but all desserts are allowed here and we are happy to partake of anything anyone brings into the house. We do practice moderation and work at keeping his blood sugar in line. Sometimes it is 'necessary' to forego dinner and just do that warm apple pie ala mode and call it dinner.

Where do you find black raspberries? I love them in jam, but have never seen them in stores.

I buy blackberry pie filling in cans. I alternate between apple, cherry and blackberry.

Love blackberry jam! They have it at Cracker Barrel.

I have blackberry jam in the pantry, I use it for the butter cookies I make sometimes.

Thanks, Lucille. I forgot about canned pie filling; I always have access to fresh or frozen fruit. I was just curious as I've have never seen black raspberries in the market, just red.

No. no dessert today. Dessert is something I usually wish people wouldn't make for me, as unfortunately I fear sugar is over-rated. Occasionally I like ice cream or I like a bit of a dark chocolate bar. But otherwise, while I'll cook it once in a while... I really don't desire desserts. Most of them ruin the taste bud sensations of the veggies, seafood or meats that I just consumed.

my usual dessert is "choco keto snaps... i buy them at Costco ... usually have 2 "snaps"

I never saw the Keto snacks before so I went to look up the nutritional info. Coconut doesn't thrill me, but the choc covered almonds might do it until I saw the final ingredient listed: shellac!?!

annie, you freaked me out so i checked my bag.... last ingredient is Sea Salt!

whew!!

shellac

Resin secreted bt the female lac bug. Used as a food glaze, as well as the more familiar coating for wood.

But, yeah, I'm not a bug eater.....