Favorite Sweets.

[Wren of the Brown]

 

 

 

[Ryrin]

Lol..lol.

 

 

The first couple are appealing but the last???

 

This is a cake:

 

[U4ea]

 

 

[Ryrin]

[LadyWordsmith]

I'm amused that this is the first thing I'm posting, given the huge number of tasty sweet things I bake! But given it's almost Easter.... these right here are my favorite Easter Candy. And even my favorite SweetTart item (above and beyond regular sweettarts). I've just always thought they were awesome. And some years lately it's been hard to find them (even at Walmart, which makes me sad!) This year, they've revamped them! More colors and flavors, smaller tarts, same great texture. I'm not really a huge fan of 'just any candy'... so these are my special spring favorite. 

[LadyWordsmith]

Now *this* is one of my favorites to make. Chocolate Raspberry Torte. (In my family we use semi-sweet or dark chocolate for this one.) It's got an old-fashioned chocolate mousse buttercreme filling between the layers, and it's glazed in chocolate (no icing here! Just melted chocolate goodness). It's the absolute richest thing I have ever made. No one takes 'huge' slices of this one. But there's usually nothing left when I bring it home either. It's been one of the family staples since the early 80s when my mother got the recipe out of a gourmet chocolate cook book we gave some family friends. It's one of those crazy 30+ step recipes that takes nearly 24 hours from start to finish (but it's absolutely worth it).

 

[Ryrin]

[LadyWordsmith]

RUGELACH! Long time family favorite. :) 

[Ryrin]

Love that!!!

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

mmmmmmm.... rugelach....

 

I make mine with kolachki dough.

 

or sometimes sweet yeast dough.

 

this thread is so evil.

 

except the vegetarian kittehs.

[Ryrin]

Yes, it is, Cindy.  I need to engage in more fantasy eating than the real deal.

 

 

Well, it has fruit in it.

[WolfbrotherKronos]

I really like ice cream sandwiches - the ones with cookies on the outside though.

[Ryrin]

For you:

 

[WolfbrotherKronos]

Yummy

[Ryrin]

This.

 

[Shauna]

Choocolate chip cookies, peanut butter cake and lemon poppy seed bread

[Ryrin]

I love those too, Shauna!

[Ryrin]

[Shauna]

Ryrin, that looks good on a cold day

[Ryrin]

It was cold when I posted it!

[Neeto]

my all time favorites are these two types of tamarindo candy and also german chocolate cake

 

[LadyWordsmith]

Ryrin... love white hot chocolate!

 

And that German Chocolate cake looks delicious, Neeto. I love German Chocolate. 

 

Here's another favorite of mine, though I cannot find any in stores that ever taste as good as the ones we make at home: Oatmeal Cookies!
And I don't mean a 'with raisins' cookie or a 'over-cooked'... I mean stuffed-full-of-oats, sweet, flavorful, CHEWIE Oatmeal cookie. (With enough texture that it comes apart slowly, not mushy). Where you can taste and feel the texture of OATS because it's made with real, rolled, oat goodness and not modern oatmeal. 

This picture still doesn't have enough oats in it, but it looks close enough. 

[Shauna]

Ryrin, I also love white hot chocolate

[Ryrin]

Lady, that is my most favorite thing!

[LadyWordsmith]

Yay! I just shared my personal recipe over in the St. Patrick's Day Sweets/Foods thread, since they are also a very Irish thing.