The Sweet 100
Wednesday, September 24, 2008 
Recently, a website called Very Good Taste started something of an internet fire with a list called "The Omnivore's Hundred", which listed 100 foods which "every good omnivore should have tried at least once in their life." We liked the idea, and inspired by the vegan variation on Hannah Kaminsky's site, we thought--why not make our own Sweet 100!? Like the original, our list includes "fine food, strange food, everyday food and even some pretty bad food"--but in our universe, it's all sweet! (In case any of them are foreign to you, links to pictures and recipes are included; also, for any vegans, feel free to go through the list assuming it's a vegan counterpart). How many have you tried? If you'd like, feel free to follow the same guidelines:
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.
5) Optional: Post a comment here linking to your results--or just post a comment letting us know how many you've tried, or what you're going to try next!
- Red Velvet Cake
- Princess Torte
- Whoopie Pie
- Apple Pie either topped or baked with sharp cheddar
- Beignet
- Baklava
- Black and white cookie
- Seven Layer Bar (also known as the Magic Bar or Hello Dolly bars)
- Fried Fruit pie (sometimes called hand pies)
- Kringle
- Just-fried (still hot) doughnut
- Scone with clotted cream
- Betty, Grunt, Slump, Buckle or Pandowdy
- Halvah
- Macarons
- Banana pudding with nilla wafers
- Bubble tea (with tapioca "pearls")
- Dixie Cup
- Rice Krispie treats
- Alfajores
- Blondies
- Croquembouche
- Girl Scout cookies
- Moon cake
- Candy Apple
- Baked Alaska
- Brooklyn Egg Cream
- Nanaimo bar
- Baba au rhum
- King Cake
- Sachertorte
- Pavlova
- Tres Leches Cake
- Trifle
- Shoofly Pie
- Key Lime Pie (made with real key lime)
- Panna Cotta
- New York Cheesecake
- Napoleon / mille-fueille
- Russian Tea Cake / Mexican Wedding Cake
- Anzac biscuits
- Pizzelle
- Kolache
- Buckeyes
- Malasadas
- Moon Pie
- Dutch baby
- Boston Cream Pie
- Homemade chocolate chip cookies
- Pralines
- Gooey butter cake
- Rusks
- Daifuku
- Green tea cake or cookies
- Cupcakes from a cupcake shop
- Crème brûlée
- Some sort of deep fried fair food (twinkie, candy bar, cupcake)
- Yellow cake with chocolate frosting
- Jelly Roll
- Pop Tarts
- Charlotte Russe
- An "upside down" dessert (Pineapple upside down cake or Tarte Tatin)
- Hummingbird Cake
- Jell-O from a mold
- Black forest cake
- Mock Apple Pie (Ritz Cracker Pie)
- Kulfi
- Linzer torte
- Churro
- Stollen
- Angel Food Cake
- Mincemeat pie
- Concha
- Opera Cake
- Sfogliatelle / Lobster tail
- Pain au chocolat
- A piece of Gingerbread House
- Cassata
- Cannoli
- Rainbow cookies
- Religieuse
- Petits fours
- Chocolate Souffle
- Bienenstich (Bee Sting Cake)
- Rugelach
- Hamenstashen
- Homemade marshmallows
- Rigo Janci
- Pie or cake made with candy bar flavors (Snickers pie, Reeses pie, etc)
- Divinity
- Coke or Cola cake
- Gateau Basque
- S'mores
- Figgy Pudding
- Bananas foster or other flaming dessert
- Joe Froggers
- Sables
- Millionaire's Shortbread
- Animal crackers
- Basbousa
cakespy mischief
Reader Comments (67)
I got 57% and my list is now up!
This is such fun! Although, it's a little scary to see how many of these I've actually eaten. ;)
http://www.leymoo.com/index.php?/archives/56-The-Sweet-100.html
As us geeks would say: OM NOM NOM
I only scored a 45, I have a long way to go, I better get baking!!!
Wow, this must have been a lot of work. Awesome list, so many things I've never heard of that I now feel I must try! I think I scored fifty eight, but I'm not sure now. I decided to also italicize the things I had made, just to liven things up a little more ;)
http://thequeenofcakes.blogspot.com/2008/09/sweet-hundred.html
What! No Little Debbie Cakes?
Do you allow substitutions? Green tea ice cream for green tea cookies? Is there a charge?
I'll post this on my blog so I don't break the chain:
http://PositivelyForkStreet.blogspot.com
Oh my lawd, you should have this list on your sidebar always.
Great pyramid, btw.
Yum! I now have a list of things to eat that I didn't even know I wanted to try. http://www.penguinbot.com/blog/view/3" REL="nofollow">Here's mine! I've had 61.
What a relief. Love the artwork! Love the List. My kind of food. Something I know. Yep!
AmyRuth
You have such an unstoppable ability to twist everything into a discussion about sweets! :-)
You've done it again Jesse. Amazing! I've added way to many to my "to taste" list. Although, I must confess it gives me great satisfaction to say, "Cakespy Made Me Do it!"
There's an award for you over at my blog:)
Nice Cakespy Ilove it and many of your sweeties I lovetoo, I think you are the best, love thid ides!!!xGloria (I love the pyramid!!!) ji
Tres Leches is one of my favorites too and I have a yummy recipe that I madeto My frist year blog! xxGloria
This was fun! 37 for me...thanks for sharing this.
http://foodfrombooks.blogspot.com/2008/09/sweet-100.html
How FUN! I had to include this in my blog too! Thanks for sharing.
wow. Ummm...should I be cheering or blushing at my score? ;) I have sampled 81 out of the 100.
I just HAD to go and see how many I've tried...
http://mommabeck.blogspot.com/2008/09/sweet-100.html
great list! i've tried most, and looked up a few that i've never heard of!!
This was so much fun! I really enjoyed it- I have posted it on my blog. I have lots of yummies on my "to eat" list!
I enjoyed your list! Great job with some of those obscure ethnic/regional specialties. I've tasted 60-something. Here's my link:
http://noe847.blogspot.com/2008/09/list-o-sweets.html
I've also linked back to this post (I think)
Nancy
I was pleasantly surprised...http://krabstitch.blogspot.com/" REL="nofollow">On my blog I scored a 62 on the Sweet 100 and 51 on the Omnivore 100...I didn't realize I was such a foodie!
I've had to edit mine again, because I've actually had lots of Mexican Wedding cakes, I just didn't know that's what they were called. So, I'm up to 57 now. I'll have a British 100 up on Tuesday!
Here is my http://retorte.blogspot.com/2008/09/sweet-100.html" REL="nofollow">list.
49/100. better than i was expecting! i'm going to try buckeyes next.
I've tried 43 of the desserts. I have no clue what I am making next. Donuts seem very tempting thought!
49/100!!! when i first scanned the list i thought i was going to do more poorly, but not bad! this list is so brilliant. what about red bean soup--- a chinese dessert soup! when we were kids we looked upon it with painful dismay, and another chinese friend of mine would take it home and freeze it into fudgesicle-like things. now i love red bean, present in many asian desserts. i love that daifuku is on the list!
I thought I would maybe break 50 but 63 items it is. Not to bad I think. I will have to find some of the other ones to try.