Monday, September 29, 2008

Sweet 100

I thought I'd give this list that is circulating the blogosphere a try. I like sweets a lot so this is a list I can get into! This was originally on Cakespy.

1) Copy this list into your site, including the instructions!
2) Bold all of the sweets you've eaten--or make them a different type color.
3) Cross out any of them that you'd never ever eat. (I don't know how to cross out in a blog so I made them blue text.)
4) Consider anything that is not bold or crossed out your "To Do" List.

1. Red Velvet Cake
2. Princess Torte
3. Whoopie Pie
4. Apple Pie either topped or baked with sharp cheddar
5. Beignet
6. Baklava (Pluh-eeze, my mother is Egyptian. Of course, I've eaten Baklava. I've made Baklava.)
7. Black and white cookie
8. Seven Layer Bar (also known as the Magic Bar or Hello Dolly bars)
9. Fried Fruit pie (sometimes called hand pies)
10. Kringle
11. Just-fried (still hot) doughnut (They have these at a stall at the Pike Place Market near DeLaurentis. They are fantastic.)
12. Scone with clotted cream (At the Empress in Victoria for afternoon tea.)
13. Betty, Grunt, Slump, Buckle or Pandowdy
14. Halvah (See note above re: Baklava, except I haven't actually made Halvah.)
15. Macarons (Given the spelling, I'm assuming these are the French almond cookies versus the American over-sweet coconut ball cookies.)
16. Banana pudding with nilla wafers
17. Bubble tea (with tapioca "pearls")
18. Dixie Cup (You mean this isn't a waxed paper cup one drinks out of? It is an actual food item?)
19. Rice Krispie treats
20. Alfajores
21. Blondies
22. Croquembouche
23. Girl Scout cookies
24. Moon cake
25. Candy Apple
26. Baked Alaska
27. Brooklyn Egg Cream (When I was 15, a 10 year old I was babysitting made me one. His father was from Brooklyn originally.)
28. Nanaimo bar
29. Baba au rhum
30. King Cake
31. Sachertorte (I'm not marking this one off until I have this in Vienna.)
32. Pavlova
33. Tres Leches Cake
34. Trifle
35. Shoofly Pie
36. Key Lime Pie (made with real key lime)
37. Panna Cotta
38. New York Cheesecake
39. Napoleon / mille-fueille
40. Russian Tea Cake / Mexican Wedding Cake
41. Anzac biscuits
42. Pizzelle
43. Kolache
44. Buckeyes
45. Malasadas
46. Moon Pie
47. Dutch baby
48. Boston Cream Pie
49. Homemade chocolate chip cookies
50. Pralines
51. Gooey butter cake
52. Rusks
53. Daifuku
54. Green tea cake or cookies
55. Cupcakes from a cupcake shop
56. Crème brûlée
57. Some sort of deep fried fair food (twinkie, candy bar, cupcake)
58. Yellow cake with chocolate frosting
59. Jelly Roll
60. Pop Tarts
61. Charlotte Russe
62. An "upside down" dessert (Pineapple upside down cake or Tarte Tatin)
63. Hummingbird Cake
64. Jell-O from a mold
65. Black forest cake
66. Mock Apple Pie (Ritz Cracker Pie)
67. Kulfi
68. Linzer torte
69. Churro
70. Stollen
71. Angel Food Cake
72. Mincemeat pie (This is both bolded and blue text because I've had it, but won't again. Ick.)
73. Concha
74. Opera Cake
75. Sfogliatelle / Lobster tail
76. Pain au chocolat
77. A piece of Gingerbread House
78. Cassata
79. Cannoli
80. Rainbow cookies
81. Religieuse
82. Petits fours
83. Chocolate Souffle
84. Bienenstich (Bee Sting Cake)
85. Rugelach
86. Hamenstashen
87. Homemade marshmallows
88. Rigo Janci
89. Pie or cake made with candy bar flavors (Snickers pie, Reeses pie, etc)
90. Divinity
91. Coke or Cola cake
92. Gateau Basque
93. S'mores
94. Figgy Pudding
95. Bananas foster or other flaming dessert
96. Joe Froggers
97. Sables
98. Millionaire's Shortbread
99. Animal crackers
100. Basbousa

I've had roughly 45 out of 100. I have to admit that many of these I've tried courtesy of Trader Joe's freezer section, but many others I've actually had at the source - like Tres Leches cake in Mexico and a Religeuse in France.

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