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The mini-smores ice cream cones that were served at Steven Starr's Continental Midtown in Philadelphia. Some of the desserts there don't quite hit the sweet spot (so to speak) but these were heavenly. Three miniature waffle cones filled with milk chocolate ganache, and topped with a perfectly charred marshmallow top. Sadly (and much to my tummy's chagrin) they no longer offer the morsels, but they will always have a fond place in my heart - and by extension, no place on my hips :-)

french macarons. preferably chocolate with fleur de sel on top.

mine is roasted chickpeas. :)

savory: puff pastry rolled up with blue cheese crumbles (and sometimes prosciutto), then sliced and baked until puffy. sweet: i guess that would be cupcakes. i lean towards savory treats though.

A thin slice of Spanish chorizo on a wheat cracker over a healthy dollop of some sort of stinky cheese. Explorateur works fine!

A good cupcake, nothing too fancy, just a cook chocolate cake with a nice vanilla frosting.

My favorite bite-sized treat is crushed almond clusters covered in dark chocolate and topped with toffee bits. Decadent and healthy at the same time!

My mom's chocolate chip meringue cookies.

Haven't had too many bite-size desserts; I guess pfeffernusse?

There are a bunch on the savory side--I think tops would be fried okra.

tiny cupcakes!

Brownie Bites!

Mini cheesecakes! I love a little bit of crumbly graham cracker crust.

I'm excited to see what desserts are in store! Thanks and I hope I win!

petit fours...they're cute and creative. there's a huge variety to choose from too. and often they're so flavorful that you wonder how they got so much into such a tiny item.

My fav bite-sized treat is definitely doughnut holes! YUM.

My all-time favorite bite-sized treat is deviled eggs. Especially when my mother makes them with a little extra paprika. Ooooooh yeah.

gummy cola or root beer bottles

sea salt caramels by Little Flower Candy Co. - delightful!

A popsicle! Or a cupcake... depending on how indulgent I'm feeling...

I love mini-chocolate cupcakes with cream cheese in them!

Bacon wrapped shrimp...mmm.

A slice of cheesecake.

Sure, it's a bite. What can I say, I have a large mouth. :)

Fried pies, deviled eggs, devils food cupcakes w/o icing, dove chocolate bites, and on and on and on. I'm not a good enough liar to choose one.

There's a sweet little tapas restaurant in Powell, OH called Maca. They serve a single spoonful of chocolate ganache sprinkled with sea salt , sitting in a puddle of olive oil. It's everything I ever wanted in one bite.

Chocolate ice cream. Bowl or cone accepted.

candied nuts

Tiny lemon poppy-seed muffins with a limoncello-sugar glaze. YUM!

Chocolate covered pretzels

I'm going to say the first thing that comes to mind at the moment, because if i stop to think about it, I'll probably have a whole list...the plain (no chocolate, sprinkles, or powdered sugar) mini-doughnuts from the Daily Dozen Doughnut Company in Pike Place Market. I've only been to Seattle once, but I remember those doughnuts--amazing, tasty little treats. Yum!

Just one? Inconceivable! Anything bite sized combining peanut butter and chocolate. Some pecans thrown in would not be amiss.

Savory - Wasabi peas

Sweet - Dark chocolates

chouquettes

a bite of anything chocolate!

Mini doughnuts. Without a doubt.

savory: corn and okra fritters
sweet: these apple butter, candied walnut, and creme fraiche tarts I made once.

pa amb tomaquet -- basically grated tomato on top of toast with jamon serrano. addicting and ridiculously simple to make.

My grandmother took leftover pie dough scraps, rolled them out and sprinkled liberally with cinnamon and sugar, sliced them with a thread and then baked them. She let me name them and I called them crusty-pies.

Very good stuff, because she made her pie crusts with lard.

So many to choose from... for a no-cook snack, mini-Reese's cups! If I'm baking, brownie bites or chocolate chip cookie dough. By the spoon it's a small bite, right?!

a spoonful of peanut butter dipped in chocolate chips. or a dark chocolate truffle. mmmm...

without a doubt, a freshly baked, flaky to the touchm honey soaked piece of baklava

Mini cheese cakes.

Toss up between a rich, fudgy brownie bite, a homemade yellow cake cupcake with a ganache frosting or beignets.

Bite sized toffee chewy chocolate brownies

Movie theater popcorn slathered in butter. So bad, but so good.

Brownie Bites - Dorie Greenspan recipe is really good.

Huge fan of fleur de sel caramels. And dark chocolate w/ mint so after-eight mints are a favorite.

Homemade fudgy brownie bites with a dollop of whipped cream

chocolate covered cheesecake pops at PS7's in Washington, DC

Salted caramels. Mmmmmmmmmmm.

Mini-Mt. Rainier Truffles

I was first innoculated to these devilish desserts when my mother was working at Affaire's Chocolates and Desserts in Tacoma, WA on the East Coast. A jr. sized version of the adult truffle, the fluffy minty insides were the perfect foil to the dark chocolate shell. Complete with green colored white chocolate "snow" draping the top after it's mountainous namesake.

Five pounds I was happy to gain that summer!

Petit fours, mini cheesecakes, tiny tartlets and cream puffs - Love tiny desserts!

i love payard's flourless chocolate cookies!

without a doubt chocolate truffles. They're a mess to make, but oh so delicious.

La Duree macaroons with salted caramel in them.

I made a whole spread of bite sized deserts for my cousin's graduation party a few years ago - truffles, mini cakes with buttercream frosting, mini cherry hand pies, and tiny cups of lemon sorbet. I think the truffles will always be my favorite.

Cheese and crackers for sho.

they aren't really meant to be bite sized, but my father's wife once served us scotcheroos on 3/4" squares (scotcheroos = peanut butter rice crispy treats with chocolate/butterscotch topping). they were yummy and in reality that was probably a reasonable serving size. however, I couldn't stop thinking about them for weeks and by the time I finally caved and made them I ate a fourth of the pan.

as for desserts that are designed to be one bite portions, I love a tiny cream puff.

Chocolate & Hazlenut Ravioli covered in powdered sugar are my favorite bite size treat.

profiteroles!

goat cheese and pesto in tiny puff pastry cups

Oh, but there are so many... although I do love mini pecan pies...

Haystacks...kind of like softer macaroons. My girlfriend's mom makes the best!

As many know, State Fairs are the place to try interesting and basically everything in the world that is or can be fried. So I got to try a fried chocolate truffle at the Texas State fair last year, and wow..... I was floored, thing was pretty good!

Those little, Brazilian cheese bread balls are so addictive. I can't stop eating those once I start.

I like the little desserts at PF Changs, but I heard that they still all have like 300+ calories...

Cheesy Sausage balls. Little artery bombs.

Petit Fours!

Another vote for coconut macaroons. For savory, tomato/arugala/mozzarella ball

For me, if it's bite-sized, nothing beats a really nice, pure, decadent, dark chocolate truffle - preferrably with a raspberry or Bailey's filling.

I love profiteroles with ice cream and hot fudge!

I love to make mini cupcakes, but I think my favourite mini dessert would have to be millionaires shortbread. Its incredibly rich, but a bite sized portion of shortbread topped with creamy caramel and chocolate is just perfect.

dark chocolate truffles with crushed peppermint.

or a reese's cup.

Mini Key Lime Tarts from a nearby bakery

mini cheesecake bites.

Sweet: A square of Dolfin's dark chocolate with pink peppercorns
Savory: Popcorn!

Caramel brownie bites with a pinch of sea salt on top.

For simplicity's sake, a chocolate mini cupcake with cream cheese frosting.

gougeres made with gruyere cheese!

I love the little cream puffs that are stuffed with ice cream!

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A half of a fig with a dollop of marscapone on top, mmm.

Stuffed Jalepeno Peppers ala pioneerwoman.com.

I love melting moments cookies! So much fat, but so delicious.

once in a while i like a sweet chocolate hole from dunkin' doughnuts or a savory empanada

Maple fudge.

My great aunt's caramels, mom's fudge, or a handful of chocolate chips.

Ohhh my sister makes the BEST peanut butter balls (Buckeyes, whatever...). They're a lot richer and creamier than most other recipes I've come across, and pretty much, just better. I love them. I want them right now, in fact...

I made little dark chocolate, almond flavored brownie bites in a mini muffin tin that had a ganache icing with toffee crumbles in it. But there are so many things you can make small that I love. Mini cheesecake bites too!

Dateballs. They are baked then rolled in powdered sugar. I have no idea how to make them, but my mother in law makes them every Christmas.

Dates stuffed with tamari almonds or those salt-and-pepper cashews.

a nice briocheesque bun with a hint of sweetness

A cut-out sugar cookie

Brownie cheesecake bites!

mini cupcakes!

Any tiny, bite size mini tart. From Savory to Dessert! YUM.

A few years ago, my mom and I hosted a Valentine's Day dessert party that consisted almost entirely of bite-size desserts that we spent DAYS making: petits fours, mini eclairs, truffles, tiny cupcakes, little lemon tarts, on and on and on. My absolute favourite, though, was something entirely simple to make: honey madeleines. My favourite. So so good.

Key lime tartlets with white chocolate cream.

Coconut Macaroons.

dried chili mango!

Cupookies. My invention of a cross between mini cupcakes made from cookie dough. So good.

The dark chocolate raspberry bombe from Lazia (in Edmonton) ranks, for sure, as do the "fortune cookies" (flavoured chocolate chip cookies served with ginger-cardamom steamed milk) from the Wild Tangerine, but my all-time favourites are probably my boyfriend's mom's marmalade sqaures!

I love these Mini Cupcake Baking Cups I found in a specialty shop. They come in squares, ovals, hearts, stars, etc, and they make for great nibblers and decoration on the kitchen table.

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chocolate ganache cupcakes

Bourbon laced undercooked blondies

Biscotti is the perfect treat--you get it all! There's crunch, but there's also that meltingly wonderful texture after it's been dunked in coffee; there's usually a tinge of sweetness, but it's buried in a wonderful, hearty cookie base. To be REALLY specific, the perfect bite-sized treat is the chocolate-dipped almond biscotti at Stella Pastry in the Telegraph Hill area of San Francisco.

chocolate covered peanut butter balls

the himalayan pink salt caramels from purdy's... in milk chocolate

Stuffed mushrooms, of almost any variety.

I have to admit I love Tim Horten's Timbits, especially the chocolate glazed.

We had these little egg custard pastries in Lisbon that were the most delectable treats ever -- and they also eat them for breakfast!

Orange chocolate mousse in white chocolate shells. I think it's from a Giada recipe, but man, they were good!

chocolate and almond financiers!

chocolate raspberry or caramel macaroons... just writing the name makes my mouth water....

An Indian dessert, called "Shahi Toast" . Thick slices of good french bread, sliced into quarters, deep fried, then soaked in a simple syrup, flavored with cardamom & rose water, and then topped with thickened milk.... out of this world.

Mochi or meringue cookies!!

A piece of high quality chocolate candy.

flourless chocolate cakelettes... I always make these for christmas dinner and when they first emerge from the oven they are these deliciously crispy little cakes with ooey gooey chocolate centers... when they cool, they have the feel of truffles and taste just as good, if not better. (usually they don't survive to cooling tho)

A nice cocoa meringue!

doughnut holes, or mini pecan pie tarts

Those fruit pate/gel things

When I was a kid, I used to help my grandmother (my yaya) bake melomakarouna cookies. These cookies are soft honey cookies usually with pistachio on top.Since my yaya passed away, everytime I get my hands on a melomakarouna, it brings me back to Greece and all the things I did with her. They're almost gooey, honey soaked and will melt in your mouth!

I made myself want some.

My, oh my. I love a composed dessert. So hard to pick just one. My current indulgence has been roasted figs with vanilla sugar, topped with mascarpone, balsamic vinegar and pistachios.

Pecan tassies, Yum

Pralines

bacon-wrapped scallops

I love little bitty cream puffs! Thanks!

Dove dark chocolates - simple but so good! Also love cheese and crackers, doughnut holes, and little licorice Scottie dogs.

petite cupcakes have the perfect proportion of cake to frosting!

Cake Balls!!!! They are so yummy.

animal crackers

My favorite sweet or savory bite-sized treat is miniature cupcakes. Thanks for the giveaway!

Dates stuffed with Parmesan cheese and wrapped in bacon.

fresh almond cookies

bruschetta (a big bite, i guess). the best i ever had was topped with brie, fig jam, and a drizzle of balsamic reduction.

gougeres

Really ripe strawberries with vanilla whipped cream...the original bite size dessert!

Teacakes baked in the mini bundt pan with a cherry inside each one. Yum-m-m! Pretty and a surprise.

i can't stay away from two-bite brownies... YUM.

Thumbprint cookies - we only make them at Christmas, and they're rolled in chopped walnuts and filled with raspberry jam. So little, you don't feel guilty after eating a dozen :)

Bacon-wrapped anything :)

A little bite of sharp cheese.

Dark chocolates from Gail Ambrosius Chocolates in Madison, Wisconsin. They are exquisite!

I would have to revert to childhood and vote for my mother's home made buttermilk doughnut holes. Warm, of course.

mini chocolate peanut butter cupcakes! yum.

Mini pecan pies! It's the only way I won't eat five slices :-)

Chocalte Cupcakes all the way

Chocolate macarons from Bouchon Bakery!!

Craving mini lemon bars/tarts now. Ice cream sammy work too.

Chocolate chip cookies. I scoop them with a mini ice-cream scoop and they are such a tiny, sweet treat.

sweet: reese's peanut butter cup
savory: scallop wrapped in bacon

I don't know if it's my favorite, but I love chocolate covered blueberries. Sweet, obviously.

mini profiteroles!

Cake balls. I love saying it as much as I love eating them.

mini brownies. or mini pecan pie bites.

Chocolate covered almonds.

My Mom makes these little bite size candies made of corn syrup, rice crispies and peanut butter! DE-LISH!!

I like profiteroles.

Gougère!

Mini eclairs

coconut and almond bonbons mmm
almond "happiness" homemade

Handful of frozen chocolate chips

my favorite bite sized treat is MALLOMARS.

I adore dates stuffed with marcona almonds and wrapped in bacon, and then baked. The only thing that keeps me from eating them all is the rest of the room devouring them as well!

A small round of walnut raisin bread, smeared with ripe brie and drizzled with honey.

The best chocolate money can buy. The better it is, the less you need to eat.

My grandmothers Italian Almond cookies. I miss my grandma.

i love a mini-tart shell filled with whipped marscapone andf some kind of fruit curd, lime, lemon, and cranberry are all good, topped with fresh fruit!

raspberry walnut rugelach

Pralines, "Steve's Mom's" rugelach, dark chocolate covered sea salt caramels, dim sum, egg custard tarts, pecan tassies, lemon curd tassies (Nathalie Dupree's recipe for the last two- off the hook)

today, blueberries and almonds.

I really love mini tarts and pies, as well as little puddings and parfaits.

I love macaroon cookies.

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Mini bite size brownies! Love em!

one of my mom's small, chunky, nutty, golden, chocolate chip cookies. the simplest, most satisfying sweet thing. made with coffee liqour and hazelnut liqour (Frangelico).

gougeres, particularly the ones at 11 Madison Park

Any mini-cupcake...especially cheesecake!!

The Bacon-wrapped Figs in Mascarpone Cheese at Eat Bar in Arlington, Virginia. They come served 3 at a time in a miniature black cast-iron skillet. To die for.

Bite-sized chili chocolate brownies. I love the spicy and sweet!

Savory- herb and brie stuffed crimini mushrooms with panko crumbs, sweet- coeur a la creme in phyllo shells topped with a slice of strawberry

peanut butter and nutella on a spoon

Any kind of Oreos are my weakness, I love them!

Pretzel + Chocolate = : )

I like milk chococlate truffles and also chocolate covered pretzels.

Gougeres. Hot, right from the oven. I'm pretty sure that's crack sprinkled on top, not shredded cheese

cheetos!

Macarons.

Actually, anything bite sized and sweet. =P

Mini cheesecakes!

brownies for sweet....
pan fried dumplings for savory.....

anything with raspberries, bitter chocolate and sea salt

cream puffs. or mini cheesecakes.

Truffles. Chocolate truffles. Plain or with almost any filling. YUUUUUMMMMMY!

I love love love any variety of savory or sweet mini quiches and cream puffs!

Mini chocolate madeleines with a warm chocolate ganache dipping sauce.

I love chocolate truffles with a good cup of coffee.

chocolate truffles!

biscotti

I love apple fritters - fried in a cinnamon/clove batter and dipped in cinnamon and sugar. Served with caramel sauce.

I love homemade ricotta cheese. Takes about 10 - 15 minutes to make, then about 2 hours in the fridge to cool down, and then a few spoonfuls and I'm satiated.

Fresca nipples!

We like to make small bite size red velvet cake whoopie pies! They are super yummy.

I totally love Cream Horns!

Tea is my favorite meal so I like all of the bite-sized treats I can fit onto my 3 tiered tea tray! But my favorite are Marks & Spencer's scones with clotted cream and strawberry jam. More like 3 bites than one but absolutely delicious!

a nice brownie bite

I like the mini cheesecakes with fruit toppings. Thanks so much!

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I like mini eclairs!

Chocolate truffles

Bite-sized brownies

Small brownie squares.

My savory bite-sized treat is mini quiche.

dark chocolate