What are your favorite desserts to have when you eat out?

It’s not often that my husband and I get out of the house to eat. If we do, I don’t care what dessert I have, as long as it includes chocolate.

Flan.

Cheesecake. Or tiramisu.

Flavored, home-made rum.

The BEST dessert of a lifetime was in the Taipei Hooters in Taipei city Taiwan last March. lol

There is no real chocolate in most of asia…strange stuff that looks good but is just so not the real deal…and THEN…glory to God..we found the Taipei Hooters and they had REAL MUDPIE with boatloads of REAL chocolate..OMG….Mudpie, Mudpie, Mudpie…thats the ONE! lol

@Blackberry You are being contrary. :- ). If it’s home-made then you’re not having it when you eat out at a restaurant, unless you are eating at a BYOH-MR kind of place. Get with the program, sweetie, and I mean that with the greatest respect and affection . :-)

@lillycoyote Oh yeah, what I meant was restaurant made? At some restaurants (usually in the Caribbean) they make their own rum, it is so good, not bitter at all. It will have a slice of fruit in it or something.

I dine out often and generally steer clear of the dessert cart unless there is something that is the specialty of the house and it looks incredible. That said, I am always tempted by regional Key Lime Pie, Blueberry Pie and Death By Chocolate. If they look good I will partake.

@Blackberry O.K. I get it now. Sorry. I am definitely not from the islands. :-) It sounds pretty good though.

Opera Cake! Opera Cake!

@VohuManah Opera Cake! Opera Cake! I had to look that one up. Sounds pretty damn good though, for when I am in that chocolately mood.

Tiramisu all the way. Restaurant-grade tiramisu is awesome. I could live off of that stuff. :)

Tiramisu. Its to rich of a desert to make at home for just one, so I love to order it out.

cobbler with that scoop of vanilla
and the lemon passion cake with caramel at macaroni grill

@AmWiser That’s kind of why I was asking. There are really great sweet things, ice cream, brownies, cookies, etc. that you can make at home but unless you are a really good, great or determined cook or baker, there are just certain things that you are never going to get to eat unless you go out to a restaurant.

death by chocolate This is for @jonsblond my chocolate lover soulmate.

@jazmina88 That sounds really good right now too. This question was inspired by my sweet tooth, which is currently in overdrive, but I have nothing in the house and it is really too late to go out to get even a container of ice cream. I am beginning to “question” if asking this question has made things better or worse.

Key Lime pie, Cheesecake, Tiramisu, Lemon meringue Pie, Cannoli…
I think I need to go out with @lillycoyote !

@wilma Sounds good to me. We appear to be extremely dessert compatible, so much so that if you want to skip the meal entirely and just have them bring the dessert cart around as soon as we sit down, it’s perfectly o.k.with me. Though, very often, a dessert tastes so much better after a really good meal. It’s up to you. It’s your call.

I was gonna say a cigarette, but since it has to be something not too usual, I’ll say that fancy shmancy ice cream with mint at the bottom. Meeeeemoriiiiiiz!

There are too many yummy desserts! I usually look for creme brulee, gelatto, or ricotta pie. There’s a restaurant we sometimes visit for dinner that used to have the most incredible champagne cake, but they took it off the menu. :(

It’s never too late to go out and get a carton…......:)

@MissAusten Sorry about the champagne cake. That’s sad, no one should deny you the right to one of your favorite desserts.

@jazmina88 Well, sometimes it is,sometimes it is too late, if only because one has to maintain a certain level of dignity and self-respect in one’s community. Sure, I could stumble into the Wawa at 3:30 in the morning and get myself a pint or a half-gallon of their butter pecan but I won’t, because I have to go in there on an almost daily basis and I just can’t have them thinking of of me as the ice cream addict; the woman that comes in to buy ice cream when almost all good, decent, hardworking people are asleep so that they are rested and ready for the day ahead of them.

I usually have something labor intensive, something with a cool, original blend of flavors. If there’s a crumble or cobbler, I’ll go for that. There’s an outstanding restaurant on the corner of my street, and their pastry chef’s desserts are to die for. Everything she makes is good, so I suppose it also depends on where I am and the quality of the restaurant.

Being dairy-intolerant I very rarely have any dessert at all because virtually none of them are vegan. I will have a fruit salad if they have one, and if not I’ll finish the meal off with a good quality cognac instead.

@downtide That cognac sounds pretty good too. But at home can you make chocolate pudding? During my brief stint as a vegan I used to make pudding with soy milk and it tasted pretty good.

I want to come out with you guys for dessert! Someone asked me once why i bother to order food in a restaurant, he said i should just order dessert.

I like cheesecake, Italian cheesecake, tiramisu (although i think it’s “so yesterday”), cannoli’s, key lime pie from California Pizza Kitchen, and rice pudding from diners.

i am not a big fan of the chocolate choice on any menu, as i find they’re usually too sweet. i love my mom’s apple pie, but that’s not obtainable from a restaurant. i also like homemade strawberry short cake, but again, that’s not from a restaurant.

@jca Yes! I completely forgot about rice pudding! Where I used to work the cafeteria, and it wasn’t your ordinary cafeteria, served rice pudding every Wednesday. I love rice pudding. And as far as strawberry short cake goes… and this is something I make at home, which doesn’t count, according to my own rules :-) but I have to mention it ... what I like to do, instead of shortcake, is to take a nice thick slice of Entenmann’s pound cake and put a rather gluttonous amount of fresh sliced strawberries and vanilla ice cream on top. Delicious!

@lillycoyote: in my family we make strawberry shortcake with banana cake, which is very good. what my grandmother used to do (the family strawberry shortcake pioneer) was use frozen strawberries for the first layer, and then real ones for the top, so the top looked pretty but the thing about the frozen ones is they are really mushy and the cake soaks up the juice like a sponge, so the next day, after it’s been sitting in refrigerator overnight, the cake is cold and sweet and juicy and creamy and more like a pudding.

@lillycoyote I can make dairy-free desserts at home but I’m so used to not having a dessert at all, I seldom bother. (I use rice milk or oat milk rather than soyamilk at home, they’re much nicer-tasting).