Anything everything chocolate for me too!!

Lemon lover here!!!🍋💛🍋💛🍋

Vanilla is the nectar of the gods.

I love lemon too, and love fruity flavors such as strawberry. The flavors have to be "the real deal," though, and not those that are obviously artificial. If not fruit flavors, then vanilla or caramel. A neighbor recently gave me some Mexican vanilla which I had never used before. I love it, especially for its chocolate undertones.

Caramel

Just adding I never turn down caramel.☺️

Love chocolate, and in particular, chocolate mousse.

Walmart now sells a really good 3/4 cup size for under $3.

Who knew?

Sometimes cinnamon, sometimes vanilla. Depends on the food or drink in question.

Cinnamon and vanilla for me.

Chocolate is one of the major food groups in my book.

But lemon and lime are close seconds.

Cinnamon is an essential.

Sweet spicy ginger.

I'm with your SO...caramel is my fave, tho I do love vanilla. Many years ago, before caramel was so ubiquitous, I loved burnt sugar and butter brickle, too. There was a bakery near my home that had burnt sugar cakes with burnt sugar frosting. 60+ years and I still remember them fondly, lol.

I never buy sweets (candies).

For desserts or ice-cream : Lemon, coffee, ginger, blackcurrant. Not too sickly.

Chocolate, lemon, and carmel

Caramel and toffee.

Your hubby has good taste!

I like lemon cheesecake or lemon cheesecake ice cream! Carmel center in a Drumstick cone is pretty good tho! Ferrero Roche Hazelnut candy is a treat!

Carmel here as well. In England they had something called Treacle Toffee. Ah me. And keep your salt away from my caramel.

For cake Lemon jelly.

patriciae

patriciae, you made me think of the kids in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. "Treacle tarts!" as though, that was the thing that would bring them out of hiding.

A treat for me is more often a small something with cheese and many times green chile. I can’t remember the last time I bought a chocolate bar. Oh, and I avoid barbecue chips like the plague because they are so addictive to me😂!!! But, I do love vanilla ice cream and occasionally something caramel.

Chocolate and caramel together

Not a big chocolate fan but do like good white chocolate, such as Lindt or Ghirardelli. It can be good on its own or when combined with raspberries, such as the White Chocolate Raspberry Cake I like to order from Nothing Bundt Cakes.

Anything with cinnamon, almond, vanilla or apple. LynnNM, I do love barbeque potato chips, but they don't love me.

Clue: I'm looking online for the best buy on Toblerone milk chocolate bars, having gone through three-quarters of the twenty bars I ordered July 1. A former neighbor from Germany gave me my first taste of these. She disliked most brands of US chocolates. The chocolate is good, and the bars are affordable because of the 'nougat' content.

Chloebud can have all my 'white chocolate'. Heck, that isn['t even *chocolate*!

Hobbittm,

No you are not boring, you're just

a purist!

“Heck, that isn['t even *chocolate*!”

Right…no cocoa solids and why I like it.

I think that my most favorite sweet treat is the Maple Cream Sticks from Giant Eagle. Holy cow, they are crazy delicious! I can't hardly eat them because they are so sweet and will give me a headache if I eat more than a few bites. I want to eat two or three of them though...HA! I also love plain vanilla ice cream with some chocolate syrup on it. I do have a sweet tooth, but I can't really eat too much sweets. :(

Chocolate…dark preferred. No mix-ins for ice cream, just chocolate….dark. and definitely no sea salt.

I just tried these: OMG! They are pure quality! Taste like they came from a chocolatier! They are good until April of 2026...I'm thinking they would be great in Christmas gift bags.....I purchased 10!

The treacle in treacle tarts is actually not treacle at all but Golden Syrup, an inverted sugar syrup. Whereas treacle toffee is made with actual treacle, similar to molasses.

It depends. We don’t eat many sweets and I don’t eat hard candies at all. I do like a vanilla based ice cream, either plain or with chocolate chips, peanut butter or something swirled in. Love Moose Tracks. Don’t eat chocolate based ice cream at all. But a good molten chocolate cake is heaven, or a rich homemade chocolate cake.

I love peach cobbler or an apple crisp made with fresh fruit. Lemon is also a favorite. Caramel is more of a runner-up for me and we maybe use it occasionally as an add on for ice cream, but DH loves it. I would enjoy a nice slice of my mother’s caramel cake though and she made some sort of burnt sugar frosting that was to die for.

Thank you floral.

I always assumed treacle tart was in the Chess pie family. In the south they have Cornmeal pie. I finally looked it up, bread crumbs. Same family. But of course Treacle toffee has that molasses flavor I was so happy to meet there, cooked to a chewy consistency. Love at first bite. I had to make it myself here.

Just the word treacle has me giggling. I'm sure they're very different things even if they both have treacle in their name.

I love when the kids yell "Treacle tarts!" "And ice cream!". Such excitement 😃

Chocolate first, vanilla second

@279332973, what you are calling ’cornmeal pie’ is actually Chess Pie, custard type pie that is made with the usual custard ingredients plus cornmeal and a touch of lemon. It bakes up with a caramelized crust and is really quite good, if a bit on the sweet side for me. If someone put it in front of you, you probably would not guess the cornmeal was an ingredient.

yes,Hence the reference. Sorry not to make that clear. Pecan pie is in the same family. Cornmeal was my oldest sister's favorite pie and she preferred it for her birthday instead of cake. I did assume Treacle Tart would be in the same world. I had no idea it was made with bread crumbs though. Treacle tart was Harry Potters favorite desert.

patriciae

There are so many I can't pick one! It depends on the day, but chocolate is always great!

Has anyone tried the caramel apple filled Werther's? This reminded me I need to look for some! They are absolutely fantastic!

:)

As a kid, I was a wiz at making the Bakers semi-sweet chocolate brownies ;)

I don't eat sweets much anymore but my son made a Danish berry dessert recently , RØDGRØD MED FLØDE , with our Rhubarb from the garden and Alaska blueberries and raspberries - boy is that good !

And like I said I don't have my appetite anymore, but I've loved so many desserts in the past and will always enjoy a bite if we order to share:

flourless chocolate whiskey cake, bread pudding of any sort, tiramisu, creme brulee, lemon or chocolate mousse, pots de creme, etc.

I do have it in my mind to make this again (two summers ago it was outstanding)

https://www.goodlifeeats.com/lemon-cloud-tart-with-strawberry-rhubarb-compote/

One I enjoy making each holiday is persimmon pudding .

Dessert rules !

I must also mention, we've been having affogatto sort of regularly, we just use our french press to make strong decaf coffee since we have no longer have an espresso maker. It's always a hit especially when you add extra dollops of vanilla ice cream topped with more coffee, like 2 or three times, haha !

Affogato is possibly my favourite dessert. Simple, delicious and not too sweet.

Amy, have you ever had a Sanders Chocolate Bumpy Cake? Delicious!

Never heard of it. Looks DIVINE!

stacey_mb, here is something to know about Mexican vanilla:

As a way to continue cashing in on its reputation for some of the finest vanilla production, Mexico and other Central American countries started selling synthetic versions that were a lot more profitable. To enhance the synthetic product to more closely reflect the rich, complex, and fragrant characteristics of the real pods, a component called coumarin was added.

Mexican vanilla is therefore now mostly known to be a synthetic product with the addition of coumarin which gives it an extra fragrant and rich appeal. Coumarin is derived from the tonka bean which grows on a Cumaru or Tonka tree. Tonka beans are used in France and other European countries in desserts and perfumes with a flavor described as a complex mix of vanilla, amaretto, almond, and cinnamon.

However, if you live in the United States you will have to pay up for the real beans or settle for coumarin-free products since coumarin is a banned substance due to potential health risks when high quantities are consumed. Mexican food labeling laws are not as regulated as in the USA which means that many Mexican extracts labeled as pure may in fact be artificial and may contain coumarin.

Just so you know!

Oh--peach anything!

@patriot_gal I have friends who travel to Mexico frequently and often give me Mexican vanilla they bring back because it’s so cheap there. It always goes straight into the trash. I may have read some years ago that there was a crackdown on the use of that toxin, but I’ve never gotten over my mistrust of it.

Thank you for the information on Mexican vanilla, Patriot_gal. That got me investigating and fortunately this particular brand is pure vanilla and doesn't contain coumarin. It was helpful that it is available on Amazon with details on ingredients.