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Quotes About Dessert

The Key lime pie is very simple to make. First you line a 9-inch pie plate with a graham cracker crust. Then beat 6 egg yolks. Add I cup lime juice (even bottled lime juice will do), two 14-ounce cans sweetened condensed milk, and I tablespoon grated lime rind. Pour into the pie shell and freeze. Remove from freezer and spread with whipped cream. Let sit five minutes before serving.
~ Nora Ephron
cracker crust and pack it into a 9-inch pie pan. Then mix 12 ounces cream cheese with 4 well-beaten eggs, 1 cup sugar and a teaspoon vanilla. Pour into the pie shell and bake 45 minutes at 350°. Remove and cool 15 minutes. Then spread gently with 2 cups sour cream mixed with ½ cup sugar and bake 10 minutes more. Cool and refrigerate several hours before serving.
~ Nora Ephron
pudding I've ever eaten. It tastes like caramelized mush. Cream 2 cups sugar with 2 sticks butter. Then add 2 ½ cups milk, one 13-ounce can evaporated milk, 2 tablespoons nutmeg, 2 tablespoons vanilla, a loaf of wet bread in chunks and pieces (any bread will do, the worse the better) and 1 cup raisins. Stir to mix. Pour into a deep greased casserole and bake at 350° for 2 hours, stirring after the first hour. Serve warm with hard sauce.
~ Nora Ephron
Dessert spoons are large, oval-shaped spoons. They are so large that you could go for a swim in them.
~ Nora Ephron
Everyone needs cake, Del.
~ Nora Roberts
I fed a dragon a fruit tart.
~ Nora Roberts
And he had no quarrel with dessert—a choice of chocolate, pistachio, or strawberry ice cream from Moxley's, served with homemade brownies. His plate cleared, he
~ Laura Lippman
chocolate muffin, which is just a cupcake without icing.
~ Laurel Snyder
Avoid any diet that discourages the use of hot fudge.
~ Don Kardong
First world problems: When the hot fudge on your sundae turns cold.
~ Internet meme, c. 2017
Hot fudge is gravy for ice cream.
~ Internet meme, c. 2013
a mint sky with chocolate chip stars
~ Terri Guillemets
There's nothing wrong with me that a little ice cream won't fix.
~ Author Unknown
There's no diet list I'll follow that would rule out cherry pie.
~ Edgar A. Guest
...we must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie... It casts out stress as the heat of the hand repels quicksilver... Keep you your precious vapors, your fantods, your anxiety. Give me a pie. Give me a pie anyday.
~ David Mamet, Boston Marriage
I prefer to regard a dessert as I would imagine the perfect woman: subtle, a little bittersweet, not blowsy and extrovert. Delicately made up, not highly rouged. Holding back, not exposing everything and, of course, with a flavor that lasts.
~ Graham Kerr
Walking over to Iggy, he poked him with his shoe. Does anysing on you vork properly? Iggy rubbed his forehead with one hand. Well, I have a highly developed sense of irony. Ter Borcht tsked. You are a liability to your group. I assume you alvays hold onto someone's shirt, yes? Following dem closely? Only when I'm trying to steal their dessert, Iggy said truthfully.
~ James Patterson
My poor brother. The media beast was hungry, and Matthew Angel was the appetizer, the main dish, and the dessert.
~ James Patterson
Not to like ice cream is to show oneself uninterested in food.
~ Joseph Epstein
One of the things that happens in my house on the holidays is after dessert, we sit down to a very ambitious men-versus-women game of Trivial Pursuit. It's brutal. And there's a trophy.
~ Bobby Flay
Women need chocolate. It's a scientific fact.
~ Sophie Kinsella
I'd never scan the starters and main courses on a menu in a restaurant as a child. I'd want a dessert for starter, for main course and for dessert.
~ Dervla Kirwan
I don't think I've actually ever had cheesecake from the Cheesecake Factory. I've had the Steak Diane. I don't like cheesecake!
~ Perfume Genius
The meal was two and a half hours of indulgence. Gallimard had chosen common, traditional dishes for them, but each dish was the response to this challenge, an implied promise that this would be the best sole, the best duck they would ever have. The dessert would be the one they felt wistful about someday when they couldn't have dessert.
~ Thomas Perry