There are so many of you out there making Girasoles with our KAL and I wish I could invite everyone to a Sit & Knit one night to work on them! (Never mind that we couldn’t contain all of the KALers here at Loopy Central if you all came on the same night. This is just me, thinking wishfully wishfully thinking contemplating how fun it would be.) See this little circle? It’s the start of Knitting Daughter’s KAL. She and Elf Donna talked themselves into making one and I’m really happy about that. Donna is using Cascade 220 and KD is using Cascade Heritage. KD has knit plenty of socks and scarves, but this is her first lace project and her first chart-reading project. I think being a Loopy Elf for the summer is getting to her….
Thanks for weighing in (snicker) on Brownie Batter Blizzards. I’m glad that it’s a limited edition flavor and that it will be going away soon. I have a better option for all of us. Remember when I blogged about Marlon and her amazing knitted pastries back in February? As soon as I saw them, I was trying to figure out how to get some, as they are just too cute. I told her that she really ought to set up an Etsy shop so that I could buy 
some other people could enjoy her beautiful work, too. And she did! As soon as she opened, I hopped over there and bought these two – the Fruit Tart and the Chocolate Strawberry Cake. They arrived in a cute package, and got here lickety split (when you consider that she shipped them from Amsterdam). I thought that I’d set them out on display in our kitchen at Loopy Central, but I have kind of been enjoying them in 
my office for too long, now. I don’t want to give them up. (Check out the latest pastries in her shop. The whipped cream cracks me up! And the Poached Pear in Wine Sauce? Rhubarb Pie? Carrot Cake? sigh.) She plans to continue to add a few new ones in most every week, so bookmark it and keep an eye on things there.
My contest question for you this month: If you were knitting up your favorite dessert, what would you be knitting? (Not a fan of desserts? What other food item do you think would be fun to see knit up?) Leave your answer in the comments and I’ll draw for the winners next week. Since Marlon used Wollmeise Rhubarb in her Rhubarb Pie, I think we’ll use Wollmeise yarn for the prize in the contest. That seems fair.
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Carrot cake with lots of cream cheese frosting, or brownies a la mode with peanut butter fudge sauce, or a chocolate chip cookie, or a gooey cinnamon roll or, or, or…I could go on for a long time. I have a sweet tooth the size of Alaska.
Raspberry-white chocolate cheesecake with oreo cookie crust! That’s my favorite dessert and I think it would be awesome as a knitted pastery. (It sure would have fewer calories, too.)
I’d knit my grandmother’s rhubarb custard pie! I LOVE rhubarb…rhubarb jam, rhubarb butter, rhubarb cake, rhubarb crisp, but nothin’ beats grandma’s pie! I grow several batches of rhubarb and always cut enough to put in the freezer and make rhubarb goodies all year long.
My second choice would be own chocolaty-chocolate cake with lip-smackin’ cinnamon chocolate frosting.
Do we have to pick only one?? Chocolate pie, chocolate chip cookies, turtle sundae, – heck, just about anything with dark chocolate will do!!!
How do you choose just one favorite dessert?! I love pumpkin pie, chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting, chocolate orange ice cream, coconut cream pie, and on and on. Since it is berry season, we’ve been having lots of berry shortcake lately.
I think I’d knit a giant bowl of ice cream, with some handspun chocolate sauce, and of course a cherry on top! It’d be great to use a white tweed with black flecks for a chocolate chip ice cream, and of course that lovely shade of pink cascade 220 for the bowl. I’ve made myself crave ice cream now!
Brownies! yum 🙂
Tiramisu because of all of the different layers to knit.
I am not a big dessert fan, but can not resist a Mighty-O doughnut.
I would have to say that I would love to see strawberry shortcake knitted up in all it’s glory.
Well, I am a sucker for mint chocolate chip cookies. If I saw some knitted up I would probably try to eat them 😉
It’s not my absolute favorite, but I think spumoni would make a good knitted project. Spumoni-colored afghan, maybe?
McAllisters Deli used to serve the most Delicious Pecan pie only they called it Kentucky Pie because it had a fudge brownie base and chocolate mixed into the pecan center of the pie itself, Yummy!! It was served with your choice of Vanilla or Chocolate Ice cream. I’m betting it would look divine knitted up!
I would definitely be knitting some creme brulee or tiramisu. Both….so…..delicious!
Although I love tirimisu and creme brulee is something I cannot resist, my favorite dessert is my grandma’s lemon sponge pie. So tart it makes your tonsils squinch up and my mouth water just thinking about it. Anything lemon usually works for me, lemon bars, lemon meringue pie, just a good, tart, from scratch lemon pudding is delish. Rhubarb custard pie would work also. Yummm.
The shawls are all looking so pretty. I hope KD enjoys her first lace experience. It can be a magical thing, lace. Kinda like a butterfly when it just emerges, and then the wings expand and the magic happens.
I would love an apple or blueberry pie. I love pie, not so much on cake, but love me some pie!mmmmmmmmmm
A fabulous ice cream sundae. I can see Dream in Color semi-solids as the ingredients, and maybe some of the variegated at the bottom where all hot fudge and ice cream run together. My mouth is watering thinking about this.
White cake w/ mulit colored sprinkles!
For me, it would have to be cheesecake, but for my kids, tiramisu!
Strawberry Rhubarb Trifle. Nummy cream…. my absolute favorite!
Key Lime pie would be my favorite. Ice cream sundae for my son.
Definitely Key Lime Pie! But it would not be green. True Key Lime Pie is a pale yellow (the color of the key lime juice); the green ones are dyed! Oh I love it so.
New York Cheesecake
Lemon Meringue Pie
A chocolate roll cake! But a knitted ice cream sundae sounds pretty cool too…
I would totally knit myself a cheesecake: it’d be the only one that wouldn’t stick to my hips! 😀
I think that my favorite right now is any kind of ice cream! I can just picture a banana split in my mind with bright bananas and delicious mounds of ice cream! Yummm
My favorite dessert? This time of year, strawberry shortcake. But wait – tiramisu is always good, and a REAL key lime pie… In the cooler seasons, I’d go for pumpkin and/or pecan pie.
Lovely and delicious! I’d love to knit (eat?) a doublefudge brownie with pecans and a large scoop of coffee ice cream on the side. (A bit of whipped cream on the brownie wouldn’t be bad either.)
ben and jerrys chunky monkey and keylime pie thats what i would make…… okay now Im hungry
I don’t know about knit up, but my favourite dessert this time of year is lemon meringue pie. My local butcher/grocer makes an amazing one, and I have to restrict myself to only one slice per week or I’ll overindulge & gain way too much weight!
I do think it’d be neat to see a really elaborate Baked Alaska all knit up, though…
I would love to see cherry pie – of course I would prefer to eat the cherry pie, but a knitted one would be adorable 🙂
key lime pie with whipped cream on top!!
Raspberry/huckleberry pie! My absolute favorite!
That’s a tough question because I am a foodie. I think most of all, I’d like to see a grilled cheese sandwich with a cup of tomato soup (with cheese sprinkled on top, of course) in knitted form. And for dessert, I’d like a slice of German Chocolate Cake. :o) Okay, I’m making myself drool, so I better stop thinking about this.
Strawberry Tart. Or Shortcake. Or cheesecake. Oh, pretty much anything with strawberries 🙂
i would knit me up the biggest cheesecake ever! and then i’d knit some big strawberries to put on top of it! yummy yum! 🙂
Hmm, I think I’d also have to go for Rhubarb Pie. I love it, and the rhubarb season is a short one, so you have to get it while you can.
flan…or creme brulee….or profiteroles.
Hmmm…. that’s a toughie. I think my absolute favorite dessert is rhubarb pie, just because I don’t get a chance to have it very often. Also it would be cute knitted up. I also have been enjoying chocolate ice cream sandwiches, but I don’t think they could be as cute as a piece of pie!
Chocolate hazelnut opera cake. Mmmmm…
I have to say that I am a sucker for a brownie sundae — not very sophisticated but oh so good. I haven’t had one in years.
Pie. Any kind of pie, except pumpkin and apple. Maybe Boston Cream Pie, which has both pie and cake and chocolate and creamy filling. Or Key Lime.
Mmm…pie.
One of my favorites is chocolate cake with peanut butter frosting. Reminds me of childhood!! My birthday is next week so maybe if I ask my Mom really nice.
No question in my mind – a hot fudge sundae. A knitted one is the only kind I get these days after being diagnosed with diabetes 1 1/2 years ago. Sigh.
Grasshopper Mint Pie. Hey, I can’t eat it (mint upset my stomach), but I love it and this way I could still enjoy it!
I would knit cherry pie! Yum!
home-made peach ice cream…..
I’d knit a pizza complete with the bits – I think it’d be fun for kiddos to make their own.
Last night I had the best cream filled, chocolate cupcake from McArthurs. Toooo die for! I wish we could make it no calorie. A special treat all the time!