Delicious Dessert Recipes, Anyone? It's On The Taste Buds Of The Diner! If you were to ask a group of 100 people for their definition of a delicious dessert recipe, you'd probably get very few definitions and plenty of specific dessert names. You may say “The most delicious dessert in the world is chocolate cheesecake!” Then you've got lemon meringue pie, apple pie, ice cream cakes, carrot cake with cream cheese frosting ... oh, truly, you could write a small dictionary of delicious dessert recipes! 'Dictionary of the Delicious Dessert' has a nice ring. Every family has a little stash of recipes, handed down from generation to generation. Every family claims there's nothing quite like their own secret family treasure, particularly when it comes to tasty dessert recipes. It may well be that just a teaspoon of this or that ingredient can make that lemon meringue pie recipe unique and your family just wouldn't have it any other way. My Mom had her own little stash of wonderful dessert recipe cards, which she kept on index cards in a cute little painted metal box. Most were handed down from her Mom and Aunts. Three of my very favorite and most delicious dessert recipes are still in my possession: one is for fresh strawberry pie, a summer delight all the neighborhood kids looked forward to eating for the other three seasons of the year. The second is her Mom's secret, to-die-for lemon meringue pie. The third is her Mom's famous Norwegian butter cookies. Now these are the benchmarks against which I measure any other dessert. Although these delicious dessert recipes must be duplicated – almost - in millions of other households, even Marie Callendar's pies don't measure up to those pies. As for my Grandma's cookies, well, they are like a little visit to Heaven on a plate. The fresh strawberry pie had me closing my eyes, savoring the sweet delights of a mouthful of fresh strawberries, whipped cream and a flaky pastry I have yet to master. When it was strawberry season, my Grandma and Mom and all of us kids would pile into Grandma's car and drive from San Francisco to Gilroy to buy strawberries from the farm stand vendors. Maybe what made that delicious dessert recipe an all-time favorite, to this day, is the fact that it took all day to procure the ingredients, or maybe it was the intoxicatingly fresh smell of thousands of fresh strawberries. The lemon meringue pie is very lemony, made with fresh lemon juice and lemon zest. The graham cracker crust made it perfection. As for those Norwegian butter cookies, there must be some Norwegian secret. No matter how I try to duplicate the plain butter cookie, with its ever so delicately browned edges, I cannot. I think you must have to be born in Norway or something. (She produced a similarly delicate and perfect pancake.) So let's hear your vote for the incomparably delicious dessert recipe! There must be thousands! Summary Dessert recipe favorites vary greatly from person to person. Some like Lemon Meringue while others lean towards traditional cookies.There are so many dessert favorites to choose from. The meal just is not complete without a little something sweet to signal the end of the meal. Related Articles Variations Of Strawberry Shortcake Dessert Southern Pecan Pie - Dessert Essential Related Sites