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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Those are so cute! I would love to see knit canolis…or srawberry shortcake. Mmmm, yum
My favorite dessert would be anything made with Chocolate, cake, pie, cookies. But if I had to come up with one dessert that I only make twice a year it would be Strawberry Rhubarb pie. Don’t ask me why only twice but that’s it.
Mmmmm… a cupcake from Crave Bakery in Calgary with mint icing….yummmm
CHEESECAKE with fresh strawberries.
Well, I wish I could have some cheesecake from the Cheesecake Factory… yum!!! Darn ocean in the way…. I guess I have two favorites that I get from there… it’s Tirimisu cheesecake or Key Lime cheesecake… ooooh, tasty…
But, the one dessert I’ll always remember (that my siblings and I made a special trip for late in the day once….) Frisch’s Chocolate Cake with Ice Cream in the middle and Fudge on top… nope, sorry, don’t remember the actual name… but, that’s o.k. we know what we’re talking about… yum!!!!
Most of all… I would love to buy her patterns so I could make some myself! talk about oooh, and aaaaahss!! 😉
I’d knit up puppychow, you know shreddies with melted peanutbutter and chocolate with an icing sugar coating.
hmmm, i do love a good carrot cake, but think how fun a strawberry shortcake would be to knit, the whip cream, the berries, the cake!! Or how about a big glass of iced-caffe! with a fun straw. Hubby would be easy, cheesecake or a big tiramisu!
My favorite dessert is Strawberry Shortcake! I would love to get hold of some Wollmeise. This contest may be my only chance!
I would like to make A fruit tart! I love fruit tarts and just to lengthen it a little: I would use giuandia for the crustm simply pink or roter himbeermund for the strawberries, kornblume for the blueberries, jultomte for the raspberrys, and fratello for the chocolate piece:D
I think my very favorite dessert is pecan pie. I always make it for Thanksgiving because most of my family doesn’t like it and then I get to eat most of the pie! I don’t know how appetizing it would look as a knitted item, though.
Totally boring – pound cake… it is my absolute favorite. Followed by red velvet cake – the real, southern kind (that one would be more fun to knit).
I would pick dark dark chocolate cheesecake. For me there is no such thing as too dark when it comes to chocolate, so you could use black yarn and it would still look yummy!
Being from Hawai’i, I would pick a luscious coconut cream pie like the sky-high one served at the famous Halekulani Hotel in Honolulu! Ono-licious!
If I could knit my favorite dessert, it would have to be carrot cake. Not only do I love the texture and taste of the cake itself, but the cream cheese frosting is yummy too…sadly, no cake for me…I’m on a diet…boo.
We have a place here that makes the best cheese danish, drizzled with chocolate over the top. Knitted would be cute, but not nearly as tasty!
Red Velvet Cake. YUM! Or, maybe Bananas Foster. It’s a tie between the two.
Georgia Mud Fudge Blizzard from Dairy Queen! Hands down it is my Favorite summer treat.
choices. choices. choices. For nostalgia’s sake, I’d go for what we called “whipped cream cake” in my family—–a dark chocolate 2-layer cake with whipped cream as the frosting. Heavenly. Maybe I can make one at our family reunion in July, so I won’t have to eat it all myself (my own kids don’t like whipped cream—weird!).
Of course, if we can stray from the sweets category, I get a good giggle out of imagining how one would knit a plate of spaghetti and meatballs.
I would have to knit ice cream of some sort, either an ice cream cone or a hot fudge sundae!
Mine would be cheesecake.
Or maybe apple cobbler a la mode.
Or wait, maybe a big slab of chocolate cake with ice cream!
Or, no, perhaps a DQ Oreo Cookie blizzard. Or their turtle sundae. Or even the Brownie Batter Blizzard!
Dude, you’re making me hungry!
1) Mint chocolate chip ice cream in a pretzal cone. (Oh, it’s been way too long since I’ve had one of those!)
2) Slice of cherry pie with a crumbled topping. Last time my mom baked me something for my birthday, it was that – no cake for me, thank you. I much prefer pies.
3) Red bean tempura ice cream with chocolate sauce drizzled over it.
Ok, I can’t think about this anymore. My list would be too long. Think I love dessert?!
I think it would be so cute to knit up a Whitman’s sampler! My father would buy one at Christmas every year, despite my mother’s protests, and then my sister and I would fight over who got the chocolate covered cherries. My mom would get mad because my dad would move to the second layer before the first was done – MAJOR no-no.
I’m not sure if having knitted desserts sitting around my house would be a good idea because it would just remind me of the real desserts I could be having! But I think it would be fun to knit up my favorite dessert – my mom’s red velvet cake with buttercream frosting. Yum!
My choice would be my mother’s Red Velvet cake. The red yarn color would be a challenge to match, since this cake has a small amount of cocoa in it, along with red food coloring. It gives the cake a warm red color that I associate with SO many joyous events – family birthdays, christenings, and anniversaries. My mother is 79 this year, and we all gather round her when she starts giving lessons on how to bake this cake since our years with her are so precious now.
Well… These days, strawberry short cake, made with drop biscuits is one idea.
I better go have some while I think of another idea!
From an aesthetic point of view, I think a simple slice of lemon meringue pie would knit up beautifully. The meringue in a light white mohair with a touch of sheen; a sunny, custardy yellow; and a thin, flaky brown pie crust. Cherry pie with a lattice top might be pretty — and challenging, too.
The sweet I would most love to knit up, however, and send by the bag to my very favorite yarn purveyor in the world, would be Hershey’s kisses.
I’m drooling over all the comments. I’d love to see a knitted strawberry shortcake because nothing says summer like fresh strawberries.
I would knit me some tiramisu!
I’d make sushi filled with catnip for all my friends’ cats.
I’d knit up a tiramisu, to look just like the slice my husband and I had at our wedding — tiramisu as wedding cake is a very, very good thing and the owner of the cafe we had as our reception venue baked an exquisite one. Plus, I could bring out the topper we had, an Ernie and Bert figurine, and present it to my husband on our tenth anniversay next year. If not a traditional dessert, I’d vote for small fruits and vegtables — saw a knitted corn on the cob somewhere online and the thought of it still makes me smile.
banana bread, made w/real bananas and a touch of applesauce. So the knitted version would feature a loaf, a freshly cut slice and for color, some real, perfectly yellow bananas.
Key Lime Pie! 🙂
Hmmm…my favorite dessert may be pot de creme au chocolat but I don’t think that would be very interesting knitted up…a little pot with dark brown in it.
I’d love to see knitted brussel sprouts…or peas! In the pod, of course.
A knitted starfruit might be a challenge.
mmmmm… strawberry shortcake, red velvet cake, tiramisu…
I’d knit a cut-into baked alaska, using layered “ice creams” so I could have several colours. And I think I’d try some mohair for the “meringue” 🙂
Not a big dessert person but I think a knitted pizza might be cute.
I would knit custard. Coconut custard pie, creme brulee, flan. But custard is definitely not very visually exciting now is it?
I did just buy a book, Tasty Crochet. All crocheted food all the time. I think I’ll be crocheting a drumstick soon. YUM
I love the Italian cream puffs, profiteroles. Or maybe seeing a nice dessert wine knitted up. Just something different.
Neapolitan ice cream!
Hmmm… favorite dessert. That’s a tough one because there are so many to choose from. However I think I’ll keep it simple…a simple small square of dark chocolate.
I’d have to knit sherry trifle. But the way I make it which is better than any other recipe we’ve tried. Come out to see us in CA sometime and I’ll make it for you. One reason I don’t make it often is it ends up being too much dessert unless you have a lot of people over.
I love a *very* wide range of desserts, but I think if I had to pick one, it would probably be home-made lemon meringue pie, where the lemon filling is nice and sour. It’d be fun to knit up too – all of those contrasting textures would make for fun yarn experimentation!
Best dessert ever!! Apple, cranberry pie – baked in a brown paper bag. A recipe from a friend, who got it from her grandmother-in-law. Now, her teenage son bakes it for the holidays. Always request a “birthday pie” instead of a cake. A nice tradition – using his great grandmothers recipe.
I would love to try to knit a slice of gooey chocolate-coffee cake with thick fudge frosting, but how would I get the aroma??
Maybe I’ll just go bake one instead.
I think my dessert pick would be key lime pie–my current fave dessert!
The desserts are pretty, but I think a big bowl of spaghetti and meatballs would be wonderful! Only problem, my cats would probably drag pieces everywhere…
The fruit tart is especially adorable!
My favourite dessert is a homemade warm brownie sundae but I think I would love to see a fruit salad knitted up.
I’d knit my favourite dessert of all time — it was something my grandmother made and it was called Aunt Lilian’s Chocolate Icebox Dessert. (You can tell it was obviously a product of the 20s or 30s by the reference to “icebox”). Clearly it was food from the time before they realized that arteries are fragile things and as prone to clogging as the pipes in a bathroom full of long-haired teenaged girls.
It’s essentially a chocolate mousse in a springform pan lined with handmade ladyfingers, and then turned out, slathered in whipped cream and candied cherries. It’s one of those things with a pound of sugar, a pound of butter, and 8 eggs plus whatever amount of chocolate. It has the texture of silk, the look of ice cream and the density of concrete. It’s also flavoured with Grand Marnier or Amaretto or something. A very small bowl goes a long way, especially after Christmas dinner (which is the only time of the year we could convince my mother to make it).
It wouldn’t be as interesting to knit as a lovely martini glass of fruit salad pieces, but it has more personality.
Definitely would knit the chocolate truffle cake! YUM!
Yum! Wollemeise! What about a banana split! That’d be crazy to knit: all the details!