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
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Reader Comments (67)
Oh cool! I was wondering when someone would come up with this list :D
I have never had a Brooklyn Egg Cream and a Daifuku.
I just love the pyramid drawing btw!
I'm for 53 out of 100 and there are 3 I'd probably never try. Not too bad I guess... I'm now on a mission to try them all! I do have to say I have a 101th entry. Everyone in the world must try a Berger cookie in their lifetime. You can only find them in Baltimore, MD; but they are a necessary and intrinsic part of civilized sweet tooth society!
Vanessa!! OMG! Good entry!! I only recently tried them: http://www.cakespy.com/2008/08/berger-hold-fries-baltimores-famous.html
That's my kind of Food Pyramid!
67 out of 100 and looking forward to try the rest! Thank you!
I really like the sweets version of the 100 list!!! I will have to get working on it immediately!
I've eaten 71 out of the 100. I have severe nut allergies, so I think I've done pretty well for myself. I really want to try clotted cream. I can't believe I haven't tried it yet...
I've eaten between 54 and 71. There were some things on the list that I'm pretty sure I ate as a kid (we went to a lot of potlucks, fairs, etc.) but have no specific memory of.
http://snackreligious.blogspot.com/2008/10/sweet-hundred.html
Some of these are challenging to those of us with food allergies--especially the prepared-food items like Moon Pies. But I've taken a crack at it in The Soy-free Kitchen:
http://soyfreekitchen.blogspot.com/2008/10/soy-free-kitchen-tries-sweet-100.html
Oh HOW FUN! I love the pyramid - soooo cute. Although I get a "D" as a grade, that's just good news for what's to come! Check out my list :) Nothing is crossed out - NOTHING!
Well, it looks like my magic number is 62%! Thanks so much for creating this list...this is fantastic! :)
See my results here:
http://sugarandspice-celeste.blogspot.com/2008/11/sweet-100.html
Yay! I finally got around to this awesome list! It's posted here: http://yummysmells.blogspot.com/2008/11/6th-verse-same-as-first.html. Thanks for the great idea!
I was surprised at how few of these I had ever heard of much less tried, but I didn't cross out any!
Can you guys pretty please make a post on pralines? I'd love to make some as gifts for the holidays, but can never get them to not be grainy. :( Help, cakespys!
I tried to create a link but it wouldn't let me but I have 72!
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I can't believe there has been so much I haven't tried. Love this!
http://acomicbookgirl.wordpress.com/2008/12/12/the-sweet-100/