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definitely the most disgustingly over-the-top sugary candy i could find. im glad to say that type of thing no longer appeals to me, although i did just eat some laffy taffy and a box of nerds :)

My Mom's dump cake that we used to make on Girl Scout trips. Pie filling + cake mix + dollops of butter = happiness. And yes, I still love it - and my mom still makes it!

malasadas, fresh from Leonard's Bakery!

Was my favorite, and still is, cheesecake.

Like many others, it was mom's desserts that I loved best! It's a toss up between her Mexican wedding cookies and her Hello Dollies. I've had both made by other people, but hers are still my favorite :)

Chocolate eclairs.

Leche flan (which I called "yellow cake"). Still love it.

my grandmother's apple pie. sadly, i don't think we have the official recipe. that woman was magic!

My great-grandmother's apple pie. Still love it, but haven't quite figured out how to recreate it yet.

I loved brownies a la mode as a kid... I still do, but it's not my go to dessert anymore

"Muddie Buddies" - the horribly messy Chex peanut butter-chocolate-powdered sugar concoction.... I have NOT outgrown this treat, though it's been a long time....

Rice pudding was my favorite as a child and still is to this day. I love it warm sprinkled with cinnamon - so comforting!

my mom's chocolate chip cookies....and never. looking forward to them on thursday!

The University of Maryland ice cream factory makes the most incredible Devil's Food ice cream. It's been years since I've had it, but I know I'd still love it.

rocky road ice cream

Chocolate cake with fudgy frosting. Now I'm more of an apple tart kind of gal.

my moms sour cream coffee cake. she still makes it every time my brother and i come home and it's still just as good!

most definitely the chocolate pudding my grandmother would make us if we were very well behaved

betty crocker boxed brownies, the fudge kind! To this day my parents house always has at least one box, my sisters and I were known to bring them to everything.

Fresh baked chocolate chip cookies. Warm, gooey, and full of chocolate. That just never goes out of style.

Ice cream - does one ever get sick of ice cream? I think not...

Sweet potato pie--and yes, I still love it! My grandma is 97 years old and still makes the best I've ever tasted.

wacky cake - the cake made with salad oil. Delicious cocoa flavor, and best when topped with maple frosting!

I loved ice box cake, the one made with chocolate wafers and whipped cream (or whipped topping). And no, I have not outgrown it. In fact, when I was home in Denver this past summer, I searched through my childhood book collection for The Better Homes and Gardens Junior Cookbook so I could make it for my husband. Unfortunately, I could not find the cookbook.

I was and still am a big desserts lover, but my favorite treat growing up was vanilla cupcakes with vanilla frosting. It might not be my top favorite anymore, but it's definitely still delicious!

Plain and simple, Oreos. Three was the limit imposed by our parents, but I used to sneak extras-- I'd sit on the stairs eating Oreos and drinking water, so as to wash the tell-tale Oreo grit from my teeth.

I don't eat them as much anymore, but I still believe that there is NOTHing as delicious as a fresh Oreo.

I loved and will always love my mom's pumpkin roll with cream cheese icing...She makes it once a year and makes a whole separate roll just for me. I can't wait to have it on Thursday!

Puppy Chow. Chex mix w/ chocolate and powdered sugar.

I used to eat oreos all the time - now I can't stand them!

Ice cream cake with extra black crunchies!!

I used to love very dry cake and icing that was so sugary and grainy it would make my teeth hurt. I'm over it now.

Orange creamsicles...and no, I still love 'em!

frozen berries, especially home-grown strawberries. my friend and I used to run back and forth from the refrigerator, shouting 'CANDY!' and sucking on them. I still adore them.

Virtually anything my grandmother made was my favorite dessert, and all were pretty much guaranteed to feature Cool Whip as a main ingredient. Frozen chocolate pie, cherry cheesecake pie, and the crowning achievement in Southern Lady ingenuity, the Jello cake. Spongy angel food cake layers, jabbed with a knife and soaked with liquefied cherry and lime Jello, then iced with Cool Whip and put in the refrigerator to solidify. It was spongy, it was jiggly, it was cold and creamy, and it was the perfect antidote for a steaming NC summer. And yes, I'll still eat it! I can't wait to gorge myself on all her desserts (there are always multiple options to choose from) when I head back down south for Christmas.

As a kid, I loved eating Pop Tarts for dessert. Yes, I have outgrown them. Except the smores kind.

Duncan Hines yellow cake from a box with chocolate frosting. Will never outgrow it!

banana pudding from the back of the nilla wafers box. still love it

Brownies! And never will I outgrow them.

Lemon Cheese Pie - Made with a store bought graham cracker crust, sweetened condensed milk, cream cheese and lemon juice. Sadly, I don't think I will ever outgrow it.

rice krispy treats!! still adore them.

peach custard pie. Haven't outgrown it yet. I still love peaches and I still love anything custard-y.

Strawberry ice cream with rainbow sprinkles. It's something I still indulge in, but only once a year in the summer!

A vanilla cone with rainbow sprinkles from the Mr. Softee ice cream truck.. and nope, I haven't outgrown it yet!

I was very partial to banana pudding. Like many childish delights, I have (happily) not yet outgrown this partiality.

At least as a teenager, they were these brownies that a friend and I would make, topped with creme de menthe frosting and a chocolate glaze. (We made a huge amount of money on them at bake sales, too.) I still like them now, although they're a bit too one-note sweet.

ice cream. still love it, but these days i only eat better quality ones.

My aunt's chocolate toffee that she sends every year at Christmas time. I still look forward to her packages each year!!

ring dings. i've definitely outgrown those.

THIS IS THE GREATEST COOKBOOK EVER. thank you, whoopie pies. you saved my life.

Warm chocolate chip cookies and vanilla bean ice cream. Few things in life are better!

gumdrop cookies... I think there were cornflakes involved?

my grandmother's apple pie and 50 years later I try to come as close as I can to hers.

I love love love and have always loved loved loved apple pie... such a classic!

Sugar cookies, and I'll never outgrow making them OR eating them. My favorites were those we cut into huge dinosaur cookies (with bits of lifesaver for eyes), or those we cut into rectangles (and frosted to look like flags of the world). AWESOME to take for birthdays in elementary school!

lemon meringue pie, had to have for my birthday every year. I haven't had it in years. Maybe I should make one for Thanksgiving...I don't know if I still love it. I had forgotten all about it, thanks for bringing back the memories

I know this shouldn't be considered a dessert, but I used to love getting the bubblegum flavored penicillin/antibiotics after dinner when I had strep throat as a kid. A few months ago my niece got sick and I couldn't resist sampling some childhood memories... it was awful. I can't even describe my disappointment, definitely not what I remembered, but my niece likes it!

The jello poke cake my mother used to make every year at Christmas---one layer was red jello and the other green. I still love it (and make it every Christmas myself), but probably only because it's nostalgic since I no longer like either jello or cool whip.

Ice cream in a sugar cone is still one of my favorites.

You never outgrow a good dessert! Mmm... chocolate pudding.

Jimmy Carter Cake -- some sort of baked nut-crust, a mixture of Cool Whip and cream cheese, Jell-o instant chocolate pudding, and than Cool Whip. My brother's and father's birthday are at the end of January-beginning of February and somehow this cake was perfect for winter birthdays. I haven't had any in years.

homemade french vanilla ice cream

Pumpkin pie...haven't really outgrown it.
This cookbook looks great!

Lemon meringue pie made with my grandmother. Just made it last week, so still enjoy it.

Pumpkin pie, and I've only out grown in with regards to now loving all pie-except cherry. I just can't get on board with cherry pie.

We always make icebox cake at christmas- made out of chocolate wafers and whipped cream. It was my favorite cake as a kid and I still look forward to it%Pr

My mom wasn't a baker, or much of a cook for that matter so all of my treats were store bought - Mickey's Banana Dream Pies - banana cake with a dent filled with banana cream filling (haven't existed to my knowledge in eons), Dairy Queen dipped cones and Strawberry Shortcake ice cream bars (still indulge in those last two....)

Lemon pie.

When I was a kid, it was all about Little Debbie snacks, especially Swiss Cake Rolls (preferrably after they had been in the freezer for about an hour so they could harden up and make peeling off the chocolate easier and more delicious).

ho ho's. and yes, no longer eat the things.

Flans and puddings. Love them still.

Hostess Snowballs = hot pink, coconut-covered, cream-filled, devil's food cake awesomeness. I loved them so much I used to shoplift them from the convenience store.

I haven't had one in a few years, but I would eat one right now if I had one.

Custard pie.

Lemon torte. I always asked my mom to make it for my birthday. Its a lot of work with the layers of lemon cake, the lemon filling, and lemon frosting. I have not out grown and still try to get her to make it for my birthday.

My favorite dessert as a Kid was always Hostess Twinkies. I have outgrown Twinkies, and moved on to other, more calorie-laden treats. Not that I'd turn down a Twinkie, mind you.

Big black and white cookies

chocolate chip cookie dough, no...I wish I could

pecan pie. I have not outgrown it, but unfortunately nobody else in my family likes it, so I'm making apple (as required by my brother "a good guest would bring apple...")

carrot cake - and still is...

Cookies half dipped in chocolate. Still love them!

Tapioca was my favorite as a child and still remains my favorite, especially with pineapple chunks in it.

carrot cake -- made with pineapple and no nuts or raisins.

any day that my mom made chocolate chip cookies with my grandmother's recipe felt like my birthday. and, I still think the cookies are delicious!

Brownies from the mix and frosting from the box - and definitely, definitely not ;) Though I think I'm filling up more on nostalgia than anything and I've learned to use better ingredients.

pound cake w/ whipped cream and mint chocolate chip ice cream

Rice crispie squares, always made by my auntie and given to us by the ice cream bucketful after dinners at her house. I'm still a die-hard sweet tooth, I could never outgrow it!

the dessert I enjoyed most was homemade oatmeal raisin cookies

Ice cream with the hard chocolate shell - and nilla wafers.

we ate lots of rice krispie treats. still love 'em. made a batch last christmas with homemade marshmallows, and holy cow...

My grandma's german chocolate cake! I've never outgrown my love of it, in I had a piece yesterday!

The innocents' trio: rice pudding; bread & butter pudding; tapioca pudding. They're perfect in my mind; I haven't had them in decades.

pumpkin cheesecake

I liked ice cream then but not so much now.

Mickey Mouse Ice Cream Pops

my favorite comfort food is pumpkin chocolate chip cake...i make it at least once a month.

Brownies, and brownie batter was a close second. I still cannot resist!

Strawberry Shortcake, and no, never!

I don't quite remember, but I think the answer is "all of them." The ones I absolutely can't eat now are Hostess Pies.

Home made chocolate pudding - especally liking the spoon and bowl.

dirt! that deliciously pedestrian mix of cream cheese and pudding, topped with crumbled oreos. i like to think i have outgrown it, but the simply creamy, cloyingly sweet flavors are addictive for a reason!

Pecan pie - and it is still a favorite.

Ice cream cake - no, it's not the same as ice cream. And of course I still love it.

My mom's chocolate cake with buttercream frosting. No way have I outgrown it!!

definitely ice cream. and I still like it...

My grandma's angel food cake. It's still fine, but now I appreciate more complex flavors... like grandma's red velvet cake.

Baked apples in cherry coca cola. Today I would use Dr. Brown's Black Cherry instead. So no, I definitely have not out-grown them!

Banana pudding - why even consider "outgrowing" it?

My parents' apple crisp. So delicious, and I have such happy memories of them making it together. I make it at least twice, every apple season.

I always loved donuts. I'm much more of a cookie/brownie person these days.

I will never outgrow the only kind of cake i eat ate and will eat: yellow cake with chocolate frosting. a classic.

They may be simple, but I always loved my mom's peanut butter cookies. They are just perfect and taste sooo good!

When I was 8 years old, my father, who only saw us kids one weekend a month, took me out for a birthday dinner. I had cherries jubilee for dessert. It had rum on it! It immediately became my favorite dessert, partly because of the rum and partly because my father actually paid attention to me. I didn't have it again til I was about 40... at a steakhouse. They served it tableside... and it was so delicious! It'll always be my favorite dessert.

strawberry shortcake

Rice Crispy Treats. I never make them any more, but not that I think about it, I should!

A plain NY Cheesecake has always been a favorite treat for as long as I can remember, and it's definitely not something someone usually falls out of love with.

Mallomars! I've always wanted to try making them from scratch... any thoughts?

pistachio flavored instant pudding... i still love the flavor.

Oh, cheesecake. Loved then, love now.

this is an odd one. My grandma used to make me a bowl full of fruit, say blueberries, bananas, maybe strawberries, mixed with sour cream and lots of sugar. I still dream about that rich, sour yet sweet, creamy concoction. I haven't had it in years but I am not opposed to the idea...

Desserts weren't a regular thing, but I absolutely adored when mom would buy my birthday cake from a local bakery, and she'd get the chocolate cake with whipped cream filling and frosting instead of buttercream or other frosting. And the cake would still be cold when it was served, so the whipped cream was a little like ice cream.

If I wasn't 900 miles from that bakery, I'd say I haven't outgrown it, but sadly, it's a bit of a drive to get a cake there.

Chocolate cake with lemon curd. I haven't it had it in a long time, but it still sounds appealing.

My Aunt Sophia's homemade fresh peach custard ice cream. Does anyone ever outgrow ice cream? Silly question; I'd crank my arm off to get another helping of that heaven!

My grandmother's deep dish apple pie. Never out grew it, only wish my grandmother was still around to make it.

My favorite dessert as a kid was either chocolate cake with "sticky" frosting (a marshmallow like frosting) or chocolate pudding pie with graham cracker crust. I haven't had either since I moved out of my childhood home. I hate to think I have outgrown them, guess I might just have to try making them for my kids or at least have my mom do so :).

A hot fudge sundae from the local dairy. I hardly ever eat ice cream now but sometimes my car will inexplicably veer off the road when Dairy Queen is spotted!

There is an infamous chocolate cake story that still gets trotted out now and again from when I was about 4 years old-- alas, the bakery is half-way across the country from where I live now (and possibly out of business), but it was a glorious thing. (I more or less ended up wearing most of it, hence the story).

My-t-fine chocolate pudding and no I will never outgrow it.

My family has been making Chocolate Rum Balls as our holiday traditional dessert for as long as I can remember. I adore these rum balls. I haven't outgrown them at all. As a child I loved them, even though they do contain a healthy dose of rum. I love them even more now.

Bismarck doughnuts, the raised sort with Chocolate Frosting and sort of yellow puddingy cream in the center. I still love them although rarely eat them.

I loved applesauce cake with caramel frosting. I picked it for my birthday cake when I was a kid and it's still the best!

I have always loved my grandmothers Lemon Cake Pudding. I still make it from scratch occasionally.

Cheers!

Green Spritz at Christmas - green tastes better
or chocolate pudding the rest of the year. There's really nothing better than some cold creamy chocolate pudding.

I have two favorite desserts from childhood-Chocolate Chip cookies, and Strawberry Shortcake. Of course I haven't outgrown them!

My great-grandmother used to make this wonderful peach cobbler. Homeade crust and all! It was just to die for so as I got older I started to help grandma out making it and learned out. Nope...I haven't outgrown it and have family that loves it as much as I did growing up.

My mom's little nut cup cookies -- only made at Christmastime, but oh, how I waited for them! I still do, haha -- except now, if I was really proactive, I could make them myself =). Definitely have not outgrown these.

Snickerdoodles were, and probably still are, my favorite cookie!

ice cream, which I will never outgrow

My god mother's rice cakes.

Hostess Ding Dongs, and yes, I outgrew them. (And I moved east where they aren't available.)

White cake with white icing covered in coconut. I still love it to this day. A very close second is chocolate chip cookies which I make far too often.

As a young girl, my favorite dessert was strawberry shortcake. I still love it.

As a kid, I could NOT get enough strawberry cake. Any occasion there was a need for a cake, I demanded strawberry cake.

To this day, my mom still believes I love it so there's always some waiting for me when I go home.

Even if I have outgrown it, it's probably the most love-filled dessert I eat all year, so how could it not taste good? :)

My Nana's strawberry shortcake. I remember one time having extra strawberry juice on my plate and picked it up to slurp the juice off the plate. Well, my father was NOT amused and the next thing I remember was flying up the stairs to my room. I was maybe 8 years old. Never did that again, but still love the strawberry shortcake!

My favorite was chocolate mousse.

i loved vietnamese glutinuous rice cake. it was sold by this one store in my town and it closed down a while ago. i got so excited every time my mom got it for me.

Ice-cream stirred methodically until it was a melted bowl of soup.

I wouldn't say that I'm over it, exactly -- I'm just not that patient anymore.

eclairs, fig bars, and canollis.

Strawberry shortcake! And I still love it. What's not to love?

I loved yellow layer cake with buttercream frosting (100% butter, no shortening or margarine) back then, and I still do.

I loved Angel Food cake with the the Devil's Chocolate frosting. I'm not sure I'm glad I outgrew it.

Pavlova

I loved strawberry cake with vanilla icing. I'm 28 and I still ask for "pink" cake on my birthdays.

My favorite was strawberry shortcake, and nope I have never outgrown it!

Banana frozen yogurt, made with our stock of approaching overripe frozen bananas (my parents would slice them into sandwich bags and stick them in the freezer once they started to get mushy). And I still love it!

My mom used to make a cake from a cake mix, but adding sour cream and chocolate chips, which would settle to the bottom of the bundt pan as it's own layer. I could eat tons of that cake and not get tired of it. These days, I'm less of a chocoholic, and more of a tart or bread pudding kind of dessert girl.

still love mochi

My mother's coffee cake - somehow it was nothing like any other coffee cake I've tasted. Rich, crumbly, a little caramelized, dense... She lost the recipe a decade ago and can't recall where she first found it, so I've been trying to recreate it ever since...still no luck.

The jam-filled cookies my sister, cousin and I used to make with my grandma. Usually apricot, raspberry or strawberry jam.

Haven't had them in a long time, but I would love to make some myself!

I have a huge sweet tooth nowdays...not so much as a child. I'd have to say my favorite back in the 50's was my aunt's homemade angel food cake with an amazing glaze drizzled over the top...

Cheesecake was my thing... I've not outgrown it but have graduated to more "mature" flavours, Khaluah being one.

hot gooey chocolate chip cookies with ice cold milk! I'll never outgrow it!!!!!

The chocolate blackout cake from the late, much lamented bakery in Brooklyn. I grew up in the Bronx, my family didn't have a car, so rarely had it - only when relatives came to visit and brought it along. I found recipes for it online, which are very good, but it doesn't taste exactly as I remember it - even with all the modifications I've made. It, along with the wonderful pure butter cookies baked fresh at Sutter's in the Bronx or in the Village, are treats that I've never outgrown - they unfortunately became extinct.

My grandma's "jello pretzel salad." Raspberries in jello, a layer of cream cheese and whipped cream and then over a "crust" of sugary pretzels. Heaven then and still is today!

Rice Krispy Treats... and I most definitely haven't outgrown those. I get cravings for them all the time, and love them just as much (if not more) than I ever have.

This first thing I thought of when I read this question was Blue Bell's Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream. But not the kind with the new "reformulated" chocolate chips, but the old school chocolate shavings they used to have.

Then I'd mix it until it melted into a delicious mint chocolatey soup and I'd drink it as the angels sang from above.

chocolate covered donuts

My fave was pumpkin pie, I would request it on my birthday instead of a cake and we would pile it high with whipped cream. I have not outgrown it.

Pistachio Ice Cream was always my favorite as a kid. I remember all those times going to the drive-thru at Farm Stores with my mother late at night just to pick some up, and of course I haven't outgrown that ice cream!

My Grandmothers "Pig Cake". It was a vanilla cake with pineapple baked in the batter. It was layered and frosted with whipped cream. Nothing like I would absolutely enjoy now but I always craved this cake when I was a child!

angel food cake from box mix

when i was 8, my mom dragged me to a woman's club meeting, and someone brought the most glorious French Silk Pie (from Baker's Square maybe? Are there still any around these days?). I've been hooked ever since and I haven't been able to say no to a slice of the chocolate creaminess with the delicate whipped topping and chocolate curlies....*drools*

Those horrible frosted grocery store cakes and cookies. My mom NEVER let me have them.... totally forbidden fruit. I still have a little love for them... usually taken care of by a bite or two.

Mom use to make "green martin salad" this stuff was pistacio pudding in whipped cream, pinapple, nuts and maricino cheeries (those things are not natrual!) I loved it then and I still love it

donuts and I only love them more as time passes

Ice cream sandwiches. I'm still a fan!

Homemade coconut cream pie with merengue and toasted coconut on top. Outgrow it? Never!

Chocolate pudding - and I just make it with darker chocolate now.

My mother used to make pots de creme in little glass jars my father had bought here somewhere in the Middle East. We always called the "PoTs de cream"; they are still delicious, even without the exotic glass jars.

custard pie

Hershey's 'Hand Me Down Chocolate Cake' which was printed on the cocoa can label. Mmmmm. Still love it!

Krispy Kreme donuts and slushies from the corner gas station (not together of course).. but they were both special treats my little brother and I would get with my dad. We would occasionally get up on a Saturday morning really early and get hot donuts for our breakfast much to Mom's disapproval. The slushies were Saturday afternoon treats in the summer when Dad would go get gas for his lawn mower... such good memories...

the triple layered chocolate mousse from chocolate (sp?) in berkeley (alice medrich's place). every birthday. every year until they closed.

My favorite was blackberry mush that my mom made. I really need to find the recipe; I haven't had it for a long time but I'm pretty sure I'd still love it. Thank you and Happy Thanksgiving!

Popcorn

Chess pie

pumpkin pie... and no, i have never outgrown it.

Lemon Meringue pie, could not care less about it now

My mom would make Pina Colada Squares on special occasions, from the "Cooking with Kinettes" book she had. Sort of a shortbread/cake bottom, with a crushed pineapple goo center and a meringuey coconutty topping. Delicious!

I tried to make them a couple years ago but found the goo a little too gooey. Still pretty good though!

Apple crisp that they made at school. I liked it so much I had my mother get the recipe.

Little Chinese Cakes sold on the streets of Hong Kong.

Hum.. it's a toss up between
A) Jello Pistachio pudding- gloriously green with little chunks of pistachio in it. Those were pistachios right? I honestly haven't thought of eating it in the last 10 years. and
B) "Fluffy Jello," Cherry. This is one I think my mother must have gotten from a Jello cookbook- let the jello half set, then whip with a beater. I'm pretty sure my palate has grown out of that one now.

chocolate ice cream. Now I prefer dark chocolate sorbet, but it's just a grown up version of the classic.

Mom's brownies. Praline brownies. No doubt.

Pumpkin pie, actually! I would spend the entire year looking forward to when my mom would start baking it again. And nope, never grew out of it! It's still one of my favorite desserts, despite some that complain of its "monotonous texture." I think it's creamy and custardy and... mmm.

As a kid, I loved chocolate pudding with whipped cream, and I still do! Chocolate anything is good ... yes?

Mom was a fabulous cook and baker, so.......all sorts of pies (fruit, cream, custard, lemon meringue), cakes (chocolate, coconut and carrot were favorites), cookies (nothing beats chocolate chip), fruit cobblers nearly every week. My absolute favorite would have to be her orange sour cream scones for breakfast. And, no I haven't outgrown any of them. I just wish I could bake as well. I love to practice!

Chocolate mousse from Sizzler. Don't know if I'd still like it (haven't been to that restaurant in years).

Homemade Pecan Pie, and I still can't get enough of it!!

ice cream was always a treat, and I still like it.

Pumpkin Pie. Always

i remember i used to eat the whole pie by myself..while staying skinny as a toothpick

My favorite desert as a kid was always triple chocolate cake (a chocolate box of cake, with a box of chocolate pudding, and a bag of chocolate chips). I still love that cake now and actually make it to bring to my parents or work from time to time.

Carvel ice cream cake, due to the 'chocolate crunchies'. I felt nostalgic and bought it for my birthday one year, but I am sad to say that I have outgrown it - it wasn't the delicious crunchy, cold, sweet mixture I had remembered!

Without a doubt, my favorite treat was chocolate cake with vanilla frosting and a side of vanilla ice cream. A total classic combination!

Chocolate chip cookies out of the oven.

Apple pie with streusel topping. I can't get sick of it, but my mom hasn't made it in years.

One of my fave desserts as a kid were french macarons from this little french bakery near our apartment. I absolutely adored them and totally forgot then until I went to study abroad... and fell in love with them all over again.

I hae never gotten over brownies, can't make them now, because I would eat the entire pan!

For me, a Chicago boy, it was - and still is - Eli's Chocolate Chip Cheesecake. My friend and I would be whisked to Water Tower Place every Christmas season for a shopping/people-watching extravaganza, with the afternoon topped off by cheesecake before the train ride back to the suburbs.

My favorite dessert was the fried apple pie at McDonald's. I haven't outgrown it, but it has been replaced by the pretty sad and cardboard-like baked apple pie at most McDonald's locations.

I always loved brownies, and I still love brownies!

The most awesome dessert my mom made was a German cake called, and forgive the spelling if it's wrong, "Kalte Hund". It was a super rich chocolate, rum, sugar and lard frosting slathered onto a cracker shaped cookie. Using a loaf pan lined with wax paper, (any bigger and it would have taken forever to eat), she would start with a layer of the frosting and then a layer of the cookies, alternating until she came to the top of the pan, ending with a layer of frosting. It then went into the refrigerator until it was thoroughly hardened. Our serving was a very thinly sliced piece. This little loaf would last about a week because it was so rich.

I've never learned the recipe; guess I should so I can enjoy it in the future. I can't say that I'll ever outgrow this dessert. I mean, why should I? To heck with the occasional lard!

Rice krispie squares..............yum!

My mom made the most wonderful pie.......layers of Chocolate and Butterscotch cream topped with Whipped Cream......I still love it!

Brownies. I eat less of them now, but no, I haven't outgrown them.

My grandmother's sickly sweet chocolate icing on a vanilla cake-- cans of condensed milk are in the ingredient list. I still love it, but in moderation.

My mother used to make a chocolate chip Bar with a light baked merangue on top. I got the recipe from her a couple years back.

i loved coconut cream pie, and i still do:)

I loved s'mores as a kid and I still do. Any time I can combine chocolate, marshmallow and graham cracker it's a good thing!

To be honest, I don't remember - a multitude of parents and a dizzying number of places lived - but I do remember the cherry Sno-cones at a carnival in Mississippi, adoring the twinkle lights and being allowed to stay up late. When I was 16, I arrived in New York City, and fell in love with eclairs at a French pastry shop - now that was bliss, my friend!

Coming in from school to Mom's Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies, warm from the oven - melty chocolate with a glass of milk. These cookies, with their cinnamon and nutmeg mean Autumn to me and comfort - yes, I still enjoy them.

Strawberry shortcake, which my mother made for my birthday. Lucious, made with strawberries she grew & then hoarded in the freezer 'til our November birthdays. Still love it, though her version is impossible to beat.

my favorite dessert as a child was those wafery pink, white and brown cookies with oreoesque filling in between. i now find them sickening but it used to be that convincing mom to buy them was a culinary triumph.

My fav desert was coconut cream pie. Yum!

Definitely my favorite would be the 8-layer birthday cakes my neighbor used to make. It was white cake with 8 thin layers and chocolate pudding-like filling in between each layer and "Oregon Birthday Frosting" over all. The frosting was kind of a merangue-like frosting. wgbc1446@yahoo.com

home made apple pie - hated peeling the apples but still love the pie - Mrs. Smiths is just about as good however!!!!

Pepperidge Farms Chocolate Cake from the freezer section - and yes, I've definitely outgrown it!

My favorite dessert was anything chocolate -- I haven't outgrown it!

Mint Chocolate Cake; I have not outgrown it!

Always loved Mom's Apple Crisp---and still do!

chocolate ice cream cake... I loved the crunchy bits in between the layers and still do.

vanilla icecream with sliced fresh strawberries

Homemade apple pie -- still love it!

My mom used to make a "made-up" version of an apple bread pudding. I still love bread pudding to this day. Delicious and comforting. Thanks for this chance.

my grandmother always made pudding with cream on top for us kids-I loved lemon and chocolate

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my aunts snickerdoodles and NOPE! didn't outgrow them!

I always liked any kind of birthday cake and I still do!

Chocolate pie. I don't see as much of it these days for some reason but I still love it as much.

I love my pecan pie !!! Still eating it and don't plan on stopping.

My favorite dessert was cream puffs with whipped cream and fresh strawberries. I would still enjoy this now.

cake with lots of icing was my fav...and no i have not grown out of it...

It is a tie between homemade brownies and peach pie. No, I have not outgrown them ... and I doubt that I ever will....

rice krispie treats are bomb, i've never outgrown them!

MY mom's fresh peach,blackberry, or gooseberry cobbler:) ty for the awesome giveaway and entry!:)

Cupavci cookies, made with chocolate and coconuts

My Mom made the best apple pies and I still love them. Nice cookbook, I would love it. Thanks for having the contest. Happy Holidays to all.

I have always loved cheesecake and probably always will!

Banana Pudding with "Nilla Wafers. Still love it, but have it maybe once a year. :-(

My Mom made this cookie with 3 ingredients, peanuts, Capn Crunch's Peanut Butter Cereal, and almond bark, melted to hold it all together. I think I've outgrown it -- mostly because Capn Crunch just changed the consistency of the cereal -- takes some getting used to.

I have never outgrown my love for almost anything chocolate. My favorite dessert as a child was a blackbottom pie from a local bakery. I have tried it other places and have looked through (and baked) dozens of recipes, but I have never been able to find a decent substitute since the bakery closed down. Thank you for the opportunity to participate in this giveaway!

Ice cream!

When I was growing up, my mother made the most amazing Chocolate Cream pies! I STILL ask for one when I go to visit her!!

As a kid I loved fudgey brownies - and I still do!

Chocolate meringue pie. I still love it!

I loved Chocolate Pinwheel cookies. I still love them today!

Chocolate pudding!

It is a tie between my mother's cinnamon rolls -- made with raisins and just the right amount of vanilla glaze -- and her recipe for blonde brownies with chopped walnuts and chocolate chips. I just made my mother's blonde brownie recipe for my three year old daughter and she can't get enough of them. Eating them reminds me of my childhood.

Thank you for participating, and congratulations to our winners:

MajaMez79
valeriam
windattack
brandi
wgsims

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