Dessert Quirks and Confessions
Wednesday, September 24, 2014 
Dessert quirks: we all have them. Even if you don't have established quirks to point to, surely you've been guilty of strange dessert behavior in your life. In which case, even if you don't have a quirk, you've got a dessert confession
This post celebrates those quirky dessert moments and preferences.
I wrote most of these, but some of them were contributed by readers. So don't blame me if you disagree with the quirk, because I might not have written the one you're focused on.
Here goes:
Root beer floats gross me out. Not the taste, the texture.
The word "moist" grosses me out...
...but I can't think of another word that can accurately describe such a cake.
I once bought a grocery store birthday cake because I just wanted a cake to eat for breakfast all week. At the checkout, the cashier said "whose birthday is it?" and I responded "what are you talking about?". And then I realized...
After my wisdom teeth were taken out, I couldn't abide by cottage cheese and jell-o. On day 2, I mashed a cupcake in milk and ate it. And loved every morsel of the mush.
I could eat Pop-tarts every day. I'm not just saying that. I could eat them every single day.
I prefer vanilla to chocolate.
I find angel food cake a complete waste of my time.
Two words: quadruple stuf.
If I get on a kick, I will eat a dessert every day for weeks on end until I get tired of it.
I love eating ice cream for breakfast. I wish more ice cream shops opened at 9am.
I don't like chocolate covered fruit.
Dunking: not a fan.
White chocolate: love the stuff.
I once ate an entire sleeve of Thin Mints as a child and have never really cared for them since.
I know you're not supposed to lick batter that contains uncooked egg, but I do. I haven't died yet.
I don't like flan.
Salt: I put it on everything. Including brownies, cake, and ice cream.
Too many chocolate chips in my cookie and I'm totally turned off. I'd rather have too few than too many.
There is no such thing as "too much frosting". And yet...frosting shots gross me out.
Do you have a dessert quirk? Tell me about it in the comments section!
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Reader Comments (10)
Mine?
-If I find myself at a potluck or some place with a huge plate of different kinds of bars in front of me, I have to try every. single. one. No matter how many people make pig noises at me :-)
-I will always pass on a dessert with orange in it! If I'm making a recipe that calls for a tiny bit of orange zest, I always either leave it out or replace with lemon.
- No chocolate cake is ever moist enough for me!
@Jameson: ha! That made me laugh.
@Becca: OMG, I so agree with you on the chocolate cake one!! And like you I am a bar FIEND. I feel like a dessert kindred spirit!
I dislike cheesecake - too heavy. Bleur..
I will choose caramel over chocolate. Vanilla is a massive love too.
White chocolate rocks my world. Dark chocolate is meh. Milk is great too.
Rice pudding/panacotta/mousse is not dessert to me. It needs to have a cake like structure.
Neither is poached fruit, fruit or custard. Actually, custard is an accompaniment, like ice cream.
Ice cream is its' own food group.
Banana bread/zucchini loaf/fruit loaf - why bother? just give me cake. Both have sugar in them and both technically are cake but cake has frosting (which makes it awesome and infinitely better).
Hard choc chip cookies? Don't get it - doughy and soft all the way? Same as biscotti.
Yep - lots of quirks too!
I love bread pudding when someone else makes it. Like Thanksgiving, it doesn't taste the same when I have to make it.
Love vanilla sauces on baked desserts with fruit.
Would eat blueberry crumble every single day if possible.
On a side note: Jessie, have you ever considered submitting your art on Threadless.com? Your readers would all vote for you I'm sure. I think your stuff would be awesome on a t-shirt.
@Catie: really!! Is it a texture thing?
@Katie: That is almost exactly what I say to people about sharing dessert. Usually they kind of blink at me for a moment, like "did she really just say that?". Thank you for the comment about threadless! You know, I think I did, years ago. I should again!!
I can't STAND cake donuts, but I finally have come around to yeast donuts. I also love ice cream at all times of day, and pie or good cake for breakfast. I like some Pop-Tarts, too, but I don't think I could eat them every day.
I don't like white chocolate or flan or root beer floats or croissants or commercially produced chocolate-chip cookies. I love meringues and gummy bears and Oreos and mallowcreme pumpkins. I believe very strongly that Red Vines are not only superior to Twizzlers, but shouldn't even be placed in the same category. And I am sad that more places don't offer Icee parfaits -- half Icee, half vanilla soft-serve.