Thread: What's the best dessert you've ever made?

I'm sure many of you guys are masters of creating fine dessert creations.

What do you consider your finest creation?

It can include ice cream or anything that's sweet.

My masterpiece is what I like to call "The Chocolate Bomb."

It is a creation, however, that is extremely rare. I have only created it three times due to the amount of ingredients needed.

It consists of:

Three scoops of Chocolate Caramel Caribou Ice Cream (
Denali Flavors

)

Three scoops of Chocolate Mosse Tracks Ice Cream (
Denali Flavors


)

Nestle Toll House Semi-Sweet Morsels


Hershey's Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips


Hershey's Hot Fudge


Hershey's Syrup


ReddiWip Whipped Cream (If you're really in the mood, try the chocolate version!)

Lastly- chocolate-covered cherries

Fresh gooseberry pie in made from scratch crust. The berries must be picked prior to turing purple to preserve the tartness and it is sacrilege to cut that tartness by the addition of too much sugar. Topped with a quality vanilla ice cream.

For those unfamiliar, gooseberries are a thorny bush fond of disturbed areas in timber. Picking them tends to get one scratched up and often results in contact with poison ivy or chiggers (I just picked enough berries yesterday for about two pies). After picking you have to destem and take off the beard on the bottom of each berry.

Domestic varieties, like the berries pictured, are available, and are good, but nothing beats wild. Wild berries are usually much smaller than domestic.

My whole family loves my brownies, but I only use the Pillsbury box kind. But nobody can get them perfect like I can. They always ask me to make them for birthdays and holidays, that's one of the things I have to make.

Not much of a dessert guy, but I have made a grilled peach cobbler with vanilla ice-cream before. Grilling the peaches caramelize the sugars on the fruit and provide a nice smokey flavoring. It was a big hit when I made it. (Mouse over the desserts for the recipe).

The wife tends to bake more than myself. She made a Walnut Praline Pumpkin Pie for Thanksgiving that was out of this world.

The wife also made a Stawberry Cake that was to die for recently. I think I posted a pic a while back, but can't find it. If anyone wants the picture or recipe, I'll try and dig it up later...

I used to make something called
Banana Split Cake

. Lot's of different recipes on the net, but I think the linked one is what I did. It'll just about crack your teeth, so I haven't made it in many years.

Hmmm. Maybe I'll add it to the menu for the Fourth.

Not much of a dessert guy here either, but I have made my own "snake pit" ice cream a couple of times. The name comes from one designation for "everything on hand". I'd toss in various combinations of fruits, nuts, and candies. Anything made with Heath bars is a perennial favorite.

Another is what I called "Gloppo Pie" (also known by other names). Essentially its canned fruit (cherries preferred here) dumped into a greased pan, covered by a layer of raw cake mix (white or yellow for me) and drizzled with butter before baking in the oven until slightly browned on top. Works great in a Dutch oven as well...

I'm not into sweets, but I try to make apple crisp every fall. I serve it warm and top it with real whipped cream.

Sabres, that concoction you've made makes my stomach hurt just thinking about it. Wow. Thats more chocolate than I eat in a year!!

Not really into sweets at all here also, Ice Cream on top of cake at Birthday partys is good enough for me... haven't made homemade Ice Cream in years...

I used my kids ice cream maker to make a white wine italian ice. THat was really good...I hear a mulled red wine sorbet is pretty good. May try that too...