Desserts

Cookie Monstar’s Desserts and Ice Cream is a family owned dessert and Ice Cream shop. The shop is located in Virginia Beach, Virginia, adjacent to the main entrance of Naval Air Station Oceana. This family owned business originated from an in home family kitchen that provided homemade family deserts and ice cream to local military families of deployed service members. These hand crafted desserts and ice cream flavors are popular during the holidays, special occasions and peak tourist’s season. The use of fresh ingredients in the shops products and friendly customer service has raised the shop’s reputation. Cookie Monstar’s attracts locals and tourist that desire homemade desserts and ice cream that fill sweet tooth satisfaction beyond being just satisfied. The shop primarily sells a large variety of homemade cookies, donuts, cakes, danishes, and brownies. The homemade vanilla or chocolate…

huge waterfall up there. It was cold though because of the higher elevation. On Tuesday, we drove to this cave system formed by the lava flow from Mount St. Helens. The cave was about 2 or 3 miles long to the end and 2 or 3 miles back. You could see Mount St. Helens when you walk out of the cave and it is still covered in snow even though it was about 75 degrees on the ground. Thursday night we went to dinner this really old school that they turned into a restaurant and a hotel place was super…

excited about it. She ran and told the other children that I was gonna let her make cupcakes. Everyone in the house was excited about her baking cupcakes. I taught her how to bake cupcakes. Everyone was just as excited about the cupcakes, as they were about the cookies. She did a great job baking the cupcakes as well. This encouraged her to want to learn more. I began to teach her how to make different types of cakes, cookies, pies and candies. She made treats, until she was burnt…

With an interesting number of food today, it is not surprising to see a revitalize interest of dessert after any kind of meal. Dessert can be found in a diverse range of restaurants around the world. Sweet cravings for dessert existed since the early beginning of humanity as the ancient civilization enjoyed themselves to eat fruits and nuts that was rolled by honey. The confection derived it's name from the French word desservir, which means "to clear the table", (History of Things, 2010). On…

Imagine sitting at the dinner table surrounded by great friends, delicious wine, and then the aroma of rich chocolate grabs your attention. The hostess emerges from the kitchen and you behold this magnificent cake and you can feel your mouth salivate with desire. The first bite thrills your taste buds, the cake is moist, rich, and gooey. You absolutely insist on getting the recipe. Well, my signature Rocky Road cake is indeed sinfully delicious, yet complexed to make and requires skill as well…

1. Introduction 1.1 A brief history of dessert Dessert is the final course of the meal that should complement previous courses. Dessert is defined by most dictionaries as a sweet food eaten after a meal. The term "dessert" can apply to many foods, such as cakes, tarts, cookies, biscuits, gelatines, pastries, ice creams, pies, puddings, custards, and sweet soups. Fruit is also commonly found in dessert courses because of its naturally occurring sweetness. Some cultures sweeten foods that are…

When people think of desserts shops, most of them likely to assume that is the place that for girls and couples to be. Does that mean those foods being symbolized as ‘girly’ stuffs? In my observations, I am going to look at whether desserts are being symbolized, the different attitudes and eating habits between different genders towards eating desserts, and also the other characteristics of desserts other than just simply foods. In a Saturday afternoon, I entered and stayed at a local dessert…

luxuries. Arthur’s rebuttal to Singer’s statement comes in the form of what Arthur calls “Just Desserts”. Arthur defines “Just Desserts” as “the idea that sometimes people deserve to keep what they have acquired” (Arthur 500). This paper will analyze Arthur's argument for just deserts, and ultimately argue that it is a viable and important variable in creating a moral code. Arthur breaks his theory of “just desserts” into two parts: Positive and negative. I will first analyze the positive…

I have a friend from Southern California, and she told me she did not even know we were in a drought. When she said that I was shocked, I thought how could she possibly not know? After reading the chapter China Town, in the book Cadillac Dessert by Marc Reisner, I finally got my answer. How could she have known there was a drought when almost all the water in California gets pumped down to the heavily populated desert area. The chapter begins with some background. The author states that…

is made up of long chains amino-acids which are known as the building block to protein. (Gel well: which additives make the strongest) Gelatin can only be found in animals with a spine so it is not able to be eaten by vegetarians. There are twenty-eight different types of collagen known to us, but only one is used for gelatin. That is hydrolyzed collagen. (BCA Chemistry) In gelatin, three amino acids come together in a chain (polypeptide chain) and are connected by hydrogen bonds. This…