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America's Favorite Desserts

By Marquerite Velasquez


Who can ever resist the serving of that sweet course after a meal? In fact, a meal is not quite a "meal" if not concluded by desserts of any kind. Americans are definitely a nation of people who love desserts - from pies to cakes, cookies and ice cream. More than the deliciously sweet tastes, it must be that wonderful feeling after eating these desserts that make us real fanatics of them. Let us take a look at what the top-rated desserts are according to Americans.

Part of the Western culture's sweet course is the highly popular "pie." This has been part of American meal as far back as when the United States is still part of England. The all-time American favorite is the apple pie and following its suit in popularity is the pumpkin pie. The list of choices for pies can go on and on as people discover more possibilities for flavors and kinds for this type of dessert.

For those with extremely strong cravings for chocolate, brownies or cake are two of the desserts rather hard to resist. Chocolates in any given form are never missing in American households as we all know and see it quite clearly. Chocolate birthday cakes, platters filled with brownies on the Fourth of July and other chocolate treats are definitely an American tradition and brownies and cakes are the favorite ways for Americans to enjoy their chocolate.

As for kids, one of the all-time favorite American desserts would have to be cookies. In truth, Americans of all ages eat millions of cookies each year and the most popular flavor is the chocolate chip cookies, which actually was invented in the U.S. by an innkeeper at the Toll House Inn in Massachusetts. The innkeepers broke up bars of Nestle semi-sweet chocolate and stirred them into her cookie batter. The result was an instant sensation and is the reason why Nestle began making chocolate chips and why they are known as Toll House Morsels.

Of course, like the poem says, we all scream for ice cream and this is certainly true in the United States where ice cream shops are all around us. Vanilla has been a favorite flavor for more than a century, but flavors such as Cookies n' Crme and chocolate are next in line. In addition to a simple ice cream cone, Americans love sundaes, root beer floats, ice cream sandwiches and just about any ice cream treat they can find.

Now if all that talks about desserts particularly ice cream has made you crave for some, you can always have the best ice cream treats at YoKuMon, a Culver City ice cream shop. At YoKuMon not only do you enjoy an abundance of flavors of ice cream, they also offer shakes, sundaes and shaved ice. Their most popular item is their famous $2 ice cream cookie sandwich. These special gourmet ice cream sandwiches begin with two freshly baked cookies, and they offer more than a half-dozen varieties of homemade cookies. You can mix and match cookie flavors and ice cream flavors to create your own custom treat.




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