Saturday, September 27, 2008

List o' sweets

I came across this Sweet 100 on food from books. It was created by Cakespy, and includes lots of ethnic and regional specialties. The ones I've eaten are in bold. Nearly all of the items on this list are links, so you can click and find out what they look like! Thanks, Cakespy, for all that work and such a fun list. I learned a lot!
  1. Red Velvet Cake
  2. Princess Torte
  3. Whoopie Pie
  4. Apple Pie either topped or baked with sharp cheddar
  5. Beignet
  6. Baklava
  7. Black and white cookie
  8. Seven Layer Bar (also known as the Magic Bar or Hello Dolly bars)
  9. Fried Fruit pie (sometimes called hand pies)
  10. Kringle
  11. Just-fried (still hot) doughnut
  12. Scone with clotted cream
  13. Betty, Grunt, Slump, Buckle or Pandowdy
  14. Halvah
  15. Macarons
  16. Banana pudding with nilla wafers
  17. Bubble tea (with tapioca "pearls")
  18. Dixie Cup
  19. Rice Krispie treats
  20. Alfajores
  21. Blondies
  22. Croquembouche
  23. Girl Scout cookies
  24. Moon cake
  25. Candy Apple
  26. Baked Alaska
  27. Brooklyn Egg Cream
  28. Nanaimo bar
  29. Baba au rhum
  30. King Cake
  31. Sachertorte
  32. Pavlova
  33. Tres Leches Cake
  34. Trifle
  35. Shoofly Pie
  36. Key Lime Pie (made with real key lime)
  37. Panna Cotta
  38. New York Cheesecake
  39. Napoleon / mille-fueille
  40. Russian Tea Cake / Mexican Wedding Cake
  41. Anzac biscuits
  42. Pizzelle
  43. Kolache
  44. Buckeyes
  45. Malasadas
  46. Moon Pie
  47. Dutch baby
  48. Boston Cream Pie
  49. Homemade chocolate chip cookies
  50. Pralines
  51. Gooey butter cake
  52. Rusks
  53. Daifuku
  54. Green tea cake or cookies ( I have had green tea ice cream)
  55. Cupcakes from a cupcake shop
  56. Crème brûlée
  57. Some sort of deep fried fair food (twinkie, candy bar, cupcake)
  58. Yellow cake with chocolate frosting
  59. Jelly Roll
  60. Pop Tarts
  61. Charlotte Russe (but I have had Bavarian Cream, which is a component)

  62. An "upside down" dessert (Pineapple upside down cake or Tarte Tatin)
  63. Hummingbird Cake
  64. Jell-O from a mold
  65. Black forest cake
  66. Mock Apple Pie (Ritz Cracker Pie)
  67. Kulfi
  68. Linzer torte
  69. Churro
  70. Stollen
  71. Angel Food Cake
  72. Mincemeat pie
  73. Concha
  74. Opera Cake
  75. Sfogliatelle / Lobster tail
  76. Pain au chocolat
  77. A piece of Gingerbread House
  78. Cassata
  79. Cannoli
  80. Rainbow cookies
  81. Religieuse
  82. Petits fours
  83. Chocolate Souffle
  84. Bienenstich (Bee Sting Cake)
  85. Rugelach
  86. Hamenstashen
  87. Homemade marshmallows
  88. Rigo Janci
  89. Pie or cake made with candy bar flavors (Snickers pie, Reeses pie, etc)
  90. Divinity
  91. Coke or Cola cake
  92. Gateau Basque
  93. S'mores
  94. Figgy Pudding
  95. Bananas foster or other flaming dessert
  96. Joe Froggers
  97. Sables
  98. Millionaire's Shortbread
  99. Animal crackers
  100. Basbousa
The rules:
1) Copy this list into your site, including the instructions!
2) Bold all of the sweets you've eaten!
3) Cross out any of them that you'd never ever eat.
4) Consider anything that is not bold or crossed out your "To Do" List.

So I've enjoyed about two thirds of these sweet treats - maybe a few more, like a flaming dessert (surely I have at some point but can't remember specifically) and the mock apple pie. I've either had Millionnaire's Shortbread or something very similar. I've had green tea ice cream but not cake. Hmm, I can't believe that Turkish Delight isn't listed. I don't know of a sweet that I wouldn't try...

How 'bout you?

3 comments:

Audrey said...

Wasn't this fun? I'm curious now about the ones I've never heard of. Does the millionare come with the shortbread, by any chance?
Audrey

Cakespy said...

Wow, that is impressive!! It was fun coming up with the list because we just kind of sat around listing everything we could think of and narrowed it down. What fun to discover the rest though, right? :-)

ostwestwind said...

Nancy, couldn't find any email-adress. Brown sugar is easy to find, your daughter should go to LIDL, it's in the organic section from cane, we have it from sugar beets too. Available in nearly every supermarket. She should look for this

http://www.koelner-zucker.de/brauner_zucker.php


or this

http://www.sweet-family.de/index.php?id=22

scroll down to the last picture.

If she has again trouble she can mail me ostwestwind at yahoo dot de