Friday, 3 January 2014

All-Time Dessert Favorites In The United States

By Marquerite Velasquez


Can you honestly say "no" when a sweet course is placed in front of you? Truly no meal will ever be complete without dessert for an ender. Whether you choose cakes, pies, ice cream, cookies or something else, you can bet that Americans are never the people to say no to these foods. There are many amazing treats dearly loved by most Americans and here are just a few of the nation's top-rated desserts?

The phrase "as American as apple pie," definitely highlights the great love for pie in the United States. Different styles of pie have been served as a dessert course even in the days when the colonies still belongs to England. Needless to say, apple pies have made its way to the top of the list of the most favorite of its kind, followed by the pumpkin pie. We can go on forever if we enumerate the different pies there is from flavor to kinds of pies. Chocolate crme pies, key lime and lemon meringue are just a few others with great popularity.

Chocolate has long been a favorite treat and in the United States, it is most often served in the form of sweets such as cakes, cupcakes or brownies. Chocolate birthday cakes are hugely popular and brownies make a perfect, easy-to-hold treat for potlucks, picnics and other special occasions.

Kids would surely say that one of their all-time favorite desserts is cookies. Come to think of it, no matter your age or gender cookies come highly popular especially if we are talking about chocolate chip cookies. This particular cookie is highly special for Americans because its history will reveal that the original batch of these cookies was invented by an innkeeper in Massachusetts, the owner of the Toll House Inn. Using a Nestle semi-sweet chocolate bar cut into pieces blended into her baked cookies - that is how this mouth-watering recipe came about. In fact Nestle made sure that they produced chocolate chips by the name "Toll House Morsels," once the innkeeper's cookies became widely popular.

And who could refuse ice cream, especially on an extremely hot day? Ice cream and ice cream treats come in many different flavors and forms that there will surely be one great option for every ice cream lover not only in America but worldwide. Amongst the flavors though, vanilla remains the consistently preferred flavor on an overall consensus. Chocolate and cookies & cream are two flavors that are not far behind in terms of popularity.

Now that you have read about favorite American desserts, it's time to get out there and sample some great sweet treats. If you live in Southern California, YoKuMon, is a place you must visit. Located in Culver City, this ice cream shop offers up a full menu of great ice cream and dessert options. In addition to grabbing a cone filled with your favorite flavor, you can also enjoy a sundae, shaved ice, a shake or a freshly baked cookie. These cookies, which come in about eight different varieties, also are used to make YoKuMon's signature offering, the $2 ice cream sandwich. You can mix and match any cookie with any flavor of ice cream to create your own special treat.




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