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i like something simple. i have been making a lot of mixed fruit galettes (mostly a variation on fig plus something else).

gingerbread with fresh, not too sweet, whipped cream.

I like Shuna Lydon's, of the eggbeater blog, recipe and the Laurie Colwin recipes she references.

Only sweet/dessert I make more than once a year.

We've been baking Dorie Greenspan's World Peace cookies a lot!

Apple pie, apple crisp, apple galette ... this is the best time of year for baking my favorite desserts ; )

my go-to dessert is flan, usually with raspberry sauce instead of the caramel sauce. i also like making ice cream.

I love making cupcakes, any and every kind.

My most recent favorite is a Brandied Caramel Cheesecake served with fresh peaches and toasted pecans. My preceding favorite was a Stilton-Blackberry Tart with Walnuts and Pomegranate Reduction. But my all-time, live-long favorite has got to be a good ol' Rhubarb pie, crisp, or cobbler with quality ice cream.

My favorite dessert to make is upside-down apple cake.

I like making fresh chocolate chip cookies. It's one of the only things I can make without reading a recipe, and the smell is heavenly.

Rice Krispy Treats. I cannot bake at all.

Definitely cupcakes.

My favorite dessert is a brown butter almond torte with plums (or really just about any fruit). Though Medrich's brownies are the thing for any chocolate mood.

Thanks to Dorie Greenspan my love of baking has really blossomed! (Also to the total delight of my family!) I now love making pies, tarts, and her summer fruit galette with rhubarb!

Soon I'll be venturing into the world of danish dough and puff pastry, hopefully with the same tasty success!

Incidentally, Pure Dessert is a fantastic name for a cookbook!

I've been on a bread pudding binge lately. We have challah every Friday, and inevitably, we have leftovers. I combined a few recipes to come up with a winner. I use a basic recipe and make whatever variation suits me that day. Some examples are chocolate chip/cinnamon, banana/chocolate chip, maple/chocolate chip, orange/chocolate chip, almond/chocolate chip (I'm sensing a theme here...) and Bananas Foster with rum.

Chocolate bread pudding.

Creme Brulee!

The first time I tasted it was at a restaurant and I was blown away. I decided I wanted to learn how to make the creme brulee, so I did. Then it turned into an obsession of sorts--trying every recipe under the sun in search of the perfect creme brulee.

Years later I'm still in pursuit of the "perfect" recipe, but I don't mind, it's been such a tasty journey!

I like making desserts, whether it's a tortilla covered with cinnamon and cooked apples, chocolate chip cookies or pumpkin cheesecake. I love making bundt cakes -- especially eggnog rum and chocolate kahlua.

Love Medrich's books - have bought & used them all, but my favorite dessert to make is still Domingo - a chocolate cake recipe from Rose Levy's The Cake Bible. It's even impressed some culinary pros at dinner parties. :)

When it comes to eating desserts, I am an equal opportunity lover of most things sweet, from the simple, traditional cookie to a more complicated multi-layered cake. When it comes to baking desserts myself, however, I tend to prefer fuss-free, simple desserts like balsamic strawberries over vanilla ice cream.

I love making chocolate cakes, all different kinds- cupcakes too.

Blue velvet cupcakes, my twisted take on the classic Red Velvet... the cake is royal blue and the cream cheese icing is neon blue. Even after one bite, your mouth looks like it was mauled by a Smurf.

My favorite dessert to make is a panna cotta with fresh berries.

Plum clafouti!

I like making pies the most. Other stuff is fun to make, but I feel more accomplished when I make pies for some reason.

Any ice cream with my ice cream maker, or rice pudding with left over rice from dinner.

Tiny key lime pies with real whipped cream...

Christmas cookies - the house turns into a cookie factory, and we always have a fire in the evening and carols on the stereo. Also, apple pies after being out at an orchard in the fall. I love seasonal baking!

Chocolate Cobbler
Lemon Yogurt Cake
Anything topped with Chocolate Buttercream
Peach Macaroon Cobbler
Caramel Cream Pie
Coconut Cake
Blueberry Dumplings
Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

My favorıte dessert to make is Czech kolacy, which I still make with my mother every Christmas. We make the round ones with spoonfuls of filling in the center, and though poppy is the favorite of both of us (must be the Bohemian blood!), we also usually make cherry and apricot.

It's a cream cheese dough, so even though I don't eat them anymore (I'm vegan), I love helping put them together for our family celebration every year.

I love making pavlova. I make meringues and then cover with ice cream and berries

I love to make brownies!

Mmm...apple pie. It's time consuming but so worth it.

My favorite recipe to do is the Clove Spice cake from the old McCall's cookbook...

I love when my girlfriend makes her brownies!!

I love to bake and can go all out with the fancy schmancy stuff, but in my heart, there is no greater perfection than the Rice Krispy Treat.

And no, not that garbage that's prepackaged in the store. A pan of freshly made Rice Krispy Treats lasts all of about an hour in my house. Which is why I only make them about twice a year.

:-)

Rhubarb crisp - sometimes with strawberries.

Gonna have to second the gingerbread with fresh whipped cream comment, super-spicy. Close second is hummingbird cake, but that's an enormo pain in arse and only gets made if a guest knows where the bodies are buried.

Homemade oreo cookies and homemade fig newtons...yum!

I love anything with apples, so a fresh apple pie or apple crisp is heaven for me (with chocolate ice cream). My wife does a dynamite pan raspberry shortbread (which we call her "snortbread" around here, since it tends to be inhaled rather than eaten).

Apple pie. It makes me think of the holidays. I've been experimenting recently with all kinds of variations from the traditional pie crust: apple crisp, apple tart, apple cake tatin, apple turnovers....Just the smell in the house is pure pleasure.

I have to go with cookies...specifically sugar cookies and chocolate chip cookies...I grew up helping my mom make them, and I cherish memories of being in the kitchen with her decorating and frosting and licking the beaters from the mixer...so baking them now makes me happy even when I'm alone in my own kitchen.

I just made creme caramel for the first time and had so much fun! I think custards are going to be my new crowd-wow-er.

I totally forgot one. Pumpkin bars! They are like tiny bites of cake and are fabulous with cream cheese icing and a sprinkle of walnuts or some grated zest on top.

Ice cream in the summer and gingerbread all winter long.

I love Alice Medrich's bittersweet brownies for a quick dessert, but Daniel Boulud's Chocolate-Rum Pot de Creme is my all-time favorite dessert!

I love to make chocolate desserts, be it cakes, cookies or tarts. Anything with chocolate in it.

cakes, particularly multi-layered, buttercream-bedecked birthday cakes, probably win hands-down as my favorite thing to bake. tarts and reine de saba cake come in second, with muffins and scones coming in at a close third.

I love my new ice cream maker. Last night I made cottage cheese ice cream! holy cow, was it rich and yummy.

Fruit crisps, gallettes, pies, cobblers. My new favorite this summer was a strawberry-rhubarb crisp w/lots of ginger courtesy of Dorie Greenspan's Baking tome. Fabulous.

brownies from a box!

Dirty Monkey Loaf...a cocoa banana bread infused with espresso beans and dark chocolate chunks. It's also quite fun to say dirty monkey loaf...*snickers like a middle schooler*

Ah, the things that come from long nights of playing with ingredients is wondrous.

I love cakes - there's a nice feeling of accomplishment when you have the finished product looking very pretty (then completely destroyed as everyone tears into it!). Alton Brown's yellow cake is my favorite, and I love to experiment with different icings and frostings.

Rum Cake.

Brownies, definitely.

I have several "old reliables" including a chocolate-almond torte called "Five-Minute Magic" dressed up with a chocolate ganache and (sometimes) raspberries, for those who like that combination (I don't); the Sacher Torte recipe from my old "Joy of Cooking" circa 1967 (a newer version does not turn out as well); a White Pepper and Ginger cake for a sophisticated cake with subtle heat; and my Mom's old standby -- really quick and easy and handy if you have kids at the table --good vanilla ice cream with frozen grape juice concentrate thawed and poured over as a sauce, with some nice store-bought butter cookies on the side.

Don't ever be turned off by unusual ingredients. I make a cornmeal rosemary cake with pine nuts and orange glaze and it is outstanding.

peppermint patty brownies (brownies from a box. spread half the batter down then place mini york peppermint patties in rows on top, then cover with the rest of the batter)

mmmm.

also: pie.

Enjoyment of the finished product dictates that I like to make ice cream or gelato more than any other dessert. I once achieved recognition for making the best gelato in this large mid-western city.
White chocolate hazelnut gelato (with plenty of Frangelico) blew the socks off of the competition and the heads off of the judges!

brownies. soft chocolately magic.

Pumpkin Pie is one of my favorite desserts to make and to EAT! I have one in the fridge that I baked last night to celebrate my wedding anniversary. 28 years today, and counting!

I can't pick a favorite but pies are a good bet. I make desserts for a living and it's the best job in the world. Who says this dessert is crap or I don't like it? No one. It's like being a good will embassador. The world needs more desserts. (and dessert makers!)

Chocolate mousse with a sliced red wind-poached pear.

cupcakes from scratch designed very pretty on top!

I love so many desserts, it's hard to choose between homemade turtles, with dark choc. of course, homemade truffles, or something else. (I have all of Alice Medrich's truffle recipes!) But the one that gives me a truly Rosy-the-Rivetter satisfaction is creme brulee caramelized with a Home Depot blow torch. I just flex my muscles for company and--whoosh---the crackly, caramelly crust is secure on those individual creamy desserts. I don't care if it's retro or even a total cliche--most people don't know how to do it right. With an industrial-strength blow torch, I'm unstoppable.

Homemade oreos, because everyone from work likes them!

bread bread bread! I know its not a dessert - but if you slather on Nutella it is.

Hello! I would love to win this :)
Our favorite in our house is raisin bread in the bread machine and also sugar cookies w/sprinkles on them :)

Cookies cookies cookies!!! We love to make them and we love to eat them. While it isn't very original, I love Chocolate Chip cookies. Its fun to be creative with them. I've tried different types of chips (milk, semi-sweet, chunks), nuts (pecans, hazelnuts), and other misc ingredients (m&m's, cocoa pebbles or krispies). Winter months are also the perfect time for making snicker doodles to have with hot cocoa.

Spicy Chocolate Brownies, Spicy Chocolate Pudding...Anything with chocolate and Spiciness!!

I love making the flourless dark chocolate tort from the Whole Foods cookbook - Any dessert that requires 12 oz of dark chocolate has to be good!

I bake a lot. I like trying new cookie recipes, and finding interesting things to do with cupcakes. Lately I've been trying to improve my pastry skills.

My favourite dessert is a pear and walnut upside down ginger cake.
Simply delicious with custard or cream.

I love making cream puffs. Dressed down, there's a nostalgic sweetness to cream puffs. Dressed up and called a profiterole they become an elegant dessert. There's an art to making the perfect golden brown cream puff.

Cobbler with a cookie dough topping. It's a bit crunchy-it's like a warm sugar cookie. I love to make it with a combo of peaches and raspberries, or blackberries when I get the chance to pick them fresh.