I am a sweets freak, but I do know that there is a time and a place for everything, including certain desserts. Bob has discussed before the foods, in general, that he can't even think about eating in summer, but here are specifically eight desserts that should just never see the light of a summer's day:
- Apple pie - it sounds so perfectly all-American, and there is no more all-American time to have it than the Fourth of July celebrations at the height of summer, but apples are a fall fruit.
- Pumpkin pie - I'm not going to lie and say that I always cook and puree pumpkin pulp fresh myself, but even though the canned stuff is available year-round, it's just absolutely autumn. If apple pie is autumn, pumpkin pie even more so.
- Cut-out sugar cookies - Technically, in the summer you'd likely be cutting out shapes of stars, or shells, or fish, but I just can't imagine sitting in a hot kitchen cutting out shapes. Then baking them. Then decorating them.
- Gingerbread - Ginger is a tropical spice, but strangely, we seem to use it for desserts and sweets that we eat all winter long. Gingerbread and gingerbread cookies are so "winter" to me, it makes me shiver.
- Souffle - Even though a souffle sounds light and airy and perfect for summer, there is way too much beating, whipping, cooking, etc. involved that would work up quite a sweat before you even heat up your kitchen with the oven.
- Anything heavy with chocolate - Pretty much, chocolate is a year round sweet ingredients. However, anything with chocolate is usually very heavy and very rich. I can feel myself exploding out of my sundress right now. Besides, chocolate will melts into a mess in summer's heat way too easily.
- Bread pudding - Even if you go crazy and try to make it light by using something insane like angel food cake as a base, or even use summer fruits like berries, bread pudding is just way too heavy to eat in the summer.
- This one's for you - what dessert can you just not imagine eating a warm/hot.sunny summer's day?
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