My Favorite Dessert

Which is Yours?

Erik Van Tongerloo
Desserts are always so delicious and no matter how much I have eaten before; I always need my dessert. There is plenty of choice among all the different desserts which exist worldwide and you will understand my difficulty to pick just one favorite dessert.

Ice-cream is my favorite dessert in every season but especially during the summer. This delicious sweet is available in all the countries of the world but I always prefer the Italian ice-cream. Before I travelled to Italy I always enjoyed this dessert in an ice-cream parlour in the city I live and made from whole milk. I thought they had the best recipe in the world but I changed my mind after taking many travels to Italy.

The Italian Ice-cream is really the best one in the world and is always my favorite dessert. They are the expert of the ice-cream and maybe the reason can be found that ice-cream originated from Italy and they seem to have the "real secret" of making ice-cream. You can compare it as an art and maybe comparable with their "pasta". You can't find in any other country of the world the quality of pasta like in Italy; even Italian restaurants in your hometown don't offer the same quality. It is the same with ice-cream; you can eat it in every country and find ice-cream parlours which sell Italian ice-cream but it is still different. The typical "gelato" melts more than the traditional ice-cream in your hometown. It is really delicious and I already look forward to enjoy this delicious sweet and dessert.

Ice-cream is a traditional dessert in Italyand almost every one knows the popular Italian ice-cream and called "gelato". Their secret is that this ice-cream is still hand-made but there are still differences between the individual gellateria in Italy. A foreigner maybe doesn't recognize the difference but the Italian people know perfectly where to find the best ice-cream in their country.

Italian ice-cream is made from whole milk, eggs, sugar and natural flavourings. This ice-cream doesn't taste only better but it is even healthier. Italian ice-cream contains between 7 and 8% fat; traditional ice-cream contains 10% or more fat. Italian Ice-cream provides less calories and the best taste. My favourite Italian ice-creams are straciatella (vanilla ice-cream with chocolate streaks) and nocciola (ice-cream with hazelnut). There is plenty of choice in different tastes of ice-creams and especially if you enter one of the gelatterias in Italy; you will find at least 20 different tastes and even these can be mixed in different ice-cream coupes with for example fruit or some other ingredients.

Ice-cream is my favorite dessert but can also be mixed with some other desserts. I also like pancake, waffles, apple pie and I often combine these desserts with ice-cream; this gives some variety in my desserts but the ice-cream is almost every time added to my dessert and it is really delicious to have a cup of coffee after my dessert.

Enjoy the ice-cream!

Published by Erik Van Tongerloo

I live in Belgium. My hobbies are travelling, watching movies, running, listening music, taking pictures. I enjoy writing and like to share this with everyone of the world.  View profile

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  • Victoria Dawson2/17/2009

    ;o)

  • Kristie Leong M.D.1/30/2009

    I love gelato! I like the fact that it's slightly healthier too.

  • Trinidad Subido1/23/2009

    Vanilla is also my favorite Ice cream flavor. Now I'll add eating gelato to my list of food to try when I visit Italy. Great piece.

  • PennyB11/24/2008

    Ice cream always makes an excellent dessert as you can add so many things to it, especially fruit...... then that would make it a healthy dessert.... right?? LOL

  • Deirdre11/16/2008

    HI Eric. Nice job. But I prefer Chocolate Cherry from my hometown dairy.

  • Linda M. McCloud11/12/2008

    We love ice cream all year long. I love to get a bowl of chocolate ice cream and then wrap up in a soft blanket to eat it (in the winter). Such a wonderful feeling.

  • R. Elizabeth C. Kitchen11/12/2008

    Chocolate Mousse is always good!

  • Momma J11/12/2008

    For some reason I never liked the italian ice. I love icecream as long as it has some type of chocolate in it.

  • 3lilangels11/12/2008

    oh wow yummy in the tummy!!!!!!

  • mimpi11/12/2008

    I must get something to eat now...

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