Day 37 - Fruit is not dessert!!

I am a sucker for dessert.  I love it.  But I am very, very particular about what I eat for dessert.  The most important rule that everyone must always recognize: Fruit is not dessert!  Yes, I said it.  Now I know there are going to be people out there that argue this point with me and to them I say, argue on my friends.  You can try to convince me otherwise, but I will not be persuaded.  The only thing that will pass as an acceptable dessert is one that contains chocolate.  I have this argument with my family constantly, but they have yet to win!

So given the fact that I am self-proclaimed choc-o-holic, you would think that it would be challenging for me to identify my favorite dessert.  Well, you would be wrong.  Hands down, my all-time favorite dessert is the molten chocolate lava cakes.  I don't think there is anything better than that.  The delicious warm cake, with the even warmer ganache on the inside, with the cold ice cream or homemade whipped cream!?  My mouth is watering just thinking about it.  This can also be the worst dessert, if it is not done right.  I have had truly amazing lava cake before.  But I have also had the worst lava cake - if it is overcooked, and no lava whatsoever in the middle.  FAIL.  The picture to the left show the cake with berries served on the side.  If were having dinner together, I would let you have those berries because there is no way I would be eating them.  They definitely make the dish look nice, but not something that I would enjoy.

I am not a fruit pie person either.  There are people out there that live for apple pie (like my dad).  Or people who would die without a blueberry (like Mike).  Or people that make banana cream pies.  Or Key Lime pies.  Or cherry pies.  Me?  I am perfectly good without a slice of pie.  But the whipped cream or the ice cream that is often served with pie?  Now we're talking.  Or if you have a french silk or any other chocolate pie, I am so in.  But fruit pies?  No thank you!  No lemons, no pumpkins, no rhubarb, etc.  Why?  Because fruit is not a dessert!!

Then there are people who serve fruit in a bowl as a dessert.  Unless there is a chocolate fountain, and/or pound cake to go with it, you can have my serving of the fruit.  I don't like fruit filling in cakes.  I don't like fruit topping on ice cream.  I just have a serious aversion to it.  The funny thing is, I will eat fruit for breakfast.  I will eat fruit for a snack during the day.  I will even eat fruit with my dinner.  But the minute the fruit is identified as being that end-of-meal treat, I shut down.  I scavenge through the house looking for chocolaty goodness.  And if none can be found, then I will skip dessert altogether, which is not my favorite outcome.   So the next time we go out to dinner together, keep my addiction to chocolate in mind, and choose wisely from the menu :)  Because if you don't, then I will.