Most Satisfying Desserts

Oh yes — breakfast brownies are where it’s AT. Or if you were me this morning, chocolate chunk cookies + morning coffee. Reasons I love being an adult.

Celebratory desserts are my absolute favourite.

Oh how I miss those family get-togethers to celebrate special occasions.

I had my first warm day soft serve today!
So good :)

Leftover thanksgiving pumpkin pie for breakfast the next morning.

One of my most treasured memories of childhood was when, on occasion, my mom would make us chocolate chip cookies for breakfast. It was always the Toll House recipe on the back of the the bag, scaled for the two of us to have a few cookies apiece, warm and gooey out of the oven. I hadn’t thought about that in years, and reading this post and others comments brought me back to that tiny apartment kitchen with the wonky sloped linoleum floor.

my absolute fave is birthday cake for breakfast the day after <3 something about cake thats been sitting out on the counter for 12ish hours and a coffee is highly satisfying <3 especially if its covered in funfetti frosting!

One of the great tragedies of being a woman is hearing other wonderful amazing cool women speak about sweets as if partaking is a moral shortcoming: “oh I shouldn’t” or “I’m being so bad” or “I’m going to regret this later.” Dessert is such an absolute joy and it just breaks my heart that so many people have a tricky relationship with it. I love seeing anytime its celebrated to thank you for this!

This week I made NYTimes Earl Gray Tea Cake with Dark Chocolate and Orange Zest. Really really great, highly recommend.

I’d like to expand breakfast brownies to include basically any “morning after” breakfast dessert with a cup of coffee: a slice of birthday cake with an iced coffee the morning after the party, pecan pie with hot black coffee for bfast after thanksgiving, a slice of fruit pie the morning after a summer picnic, a chocolate chip cookie dipped in coffee, eaten sneakily so the toddler doesn’t demand cookies for his breakfast.

I never eat cake…except for birthdays/weddings. Been missing those special times with loved ones for such a long time. Looking forward to the days we can celebrate together again. ??

Pumpkin pie the morning after Thanksgiving, served fridge-cold with a hot coffee alongside. Chef’s kiss!

I live alone and hardly ever bake because I will eat the entire thing in one sitting. But when I go home to see my mom, we bake. Banana bread. Spice cake. Muffins. But the last 4 visits it has been Grandma’s pound cake and Sticky Toffee Pudding (the British variety). Pound cake is basically a breakfast food when it’s mom and me. I always bring a few slices back home with me and eat them for breakfast with my coffee until its gone. Almost like taking a piece of my mother home with me; it helps ease the homesickness I always feel when I leave. And of course fresh, homemade whipped cream and fresh cut fruit is added to it!

I saw a TikTok yesterday where a guy said “Did you know you can just…make yourself a cake? And eat it?” and took a bite of a cake in front of him, and that was the whole TikTok and I was like “yes, yes you can!!” It was so simple and perfect. Make yourself a cake and enjoy it!!

I made an Oreo icebox cake and banana nilla wafer icebox cake for our gathering in the backyard today and the anticipation of people taking dessert on a sunny Thursday is half the fun!

Just had a random ice cream while walking the dog (my husband is a terrible dessert instigator and I love him for it) and it was HEAVEN.

Yes to all of these! I would expand on the “breakfast brownies” and say any leftover dessert for/with breakfast. And, spontaneously replacing lunch with a bowl (or two) of ice cream. Also, an unplanned weeknight dessert that you suddenly realize you have the time and ingredients to pull off.

Peaches and cream in our house is grilled peaches with ice cream—SO good!! Yay summer!

Coffee cake always. Any good / easy recipe recommendations for coffee cake?

loved it

This gluten-free carrot cake from Bon Appetit that my husband makes every year for my birthday:
https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/gluten-free-carrot-cake

I spend the other 364 days of the year DREAMING about it!

My favorite desserts are the ones that I make for other people. One of my greatest kicks in life is seeing the smiles on other people’s faces when I bestow upon them a special treat that I have whipped up. It’s usually not anything fancy, but I love baking for my kids, my family, my friends, my coworkers, anyone who will take it really! I’ve always felt that my baking was a selfless act of love for others, however, upon reflection it appears that my motivation is not entirely altruistic. I think I also do it for myself– baking and sharing the fruits of my labor with others is something that makes me just as happy as it makes the people who receive it. :)

I will add these 2: #1 is the one my home-from-college son makes, using an actual cookbook and even improvising on the recipe, while I marvel silently that he used to be a BABY and somehow he is now 19 years old and can bake a cake from scratch. And #2 is any dessert enjoyed sitting on the couch in the evening in my pajamas while drinking a cup of mint tea and watching a favorite program.

As I read these one by one I thought “Oh yes, that’s good”, “Oh yum”, “Oh those are my favorite too”. Basically, as a dessert lover, this picture sums things up nicely. Just reading it was satisfying!

I think it may be peaches and cream.

Pie. Pie pie pie pie pie. That is all. :)

Definitely ate a breakfast brownie as I read this, which is perfection.
I also love that one cadbury creme egg per season, when i get excited to see it in the drugstore and savor the sugar and chocolate that tastes like childhood!