Ice Cream, Chocolates and Sweets Thread

[slcricfan1]

(01-27-2022, 01:04 PM)stillwill Wrote:  Overall I have reduced my sugar intake, I stopped taking it with coffee and even cut out dairy.  I don't think I consume any sugar at all most days. Even fruits I only eat time to time. I lost about 12 lbs, went on Intermittent Fasting and modified Keto Diet. IF is still going, Keto is gone but I haven't gained any weight despite eating like a pig in recent time. Time to time I have chocolates and Ice cream, usually finish them in a day or two and then that's it for sometime. Apart from cutting Sugar and Fruits I didn't do anything, still drinking beer and drunk eating and surprisingly the weight has remained the same. On top, I'm not practicing or being active at all.

Here are my sweets.

Chocolates - I like Reese Peanut Butter, Aero, Forrero Rocher, Cadbury Oreo, Toblerone, Hershey Cookies and Creams and Kinders.
Ice Cream - Basic ice cream tubs sucks, there are some high end Gelato tub and I usually prefer Hazlenut/Kinder flavoured ones. There are these Indo-Canadian ice cream makers that have tremendously improved their quality and their products can found in big box stores now. So they have like Mango, Kulfi and Falooda flavours and they all taste very premium.
Traditional sweet - I like Thothal, Mysore Pakku, Wattalapam, Rasamalai( store bought "Kesar" and Mango flavour) and Gulab Jamun.
Drinks - Honey Dew Bubble tea, Chocolate Bubble Tea. The powdered ones taste so much better. Gotta be careful with which stores you buy, lot of them taste like crap, so you gotta find  the good ones.

Shit I hate - Japanese Cheesecake , Macaroons(so fkin tiny and super expensive and highly overrated) and Dark Chocolates(WTF LOL, tastes like shit, just eat the regular one you weirdo). I alos fkin hate regular chocolates with nuts and fruits in it. It taste fkin disgusting. Just eat them separate lol.

Is Gulab Jamun a traditional Sri Lankan sweet?

[Keshan]

(01-27-2022, 11:48 AM)Bada Wrote:  This place is great if you're into cheesecake
https://www.tecclk.com/

It's there at One Galle Face too. British woman married to a local is running it. Been there for a few years.

She makes an awesome Passion Fruit Victorian cake or something. Its so good!. You get sucked into it slowly

- https://www.tecclk.com/?lightbox=dataItem-kf6lmz7z



Favorite in our household!

[stillwill]

(01-27-2022, 01:21 PM)Dilz Wrote:  

(01-27-2022, 01:04 PM)stillwill Wrote:  Overall I have reduced my sugar intake, I stopped taking it with coffee and even cut out dairy.  I don't think I consume any sugar at all most days. Even fruits I only eat time to time. I lost about 12 lbs, went on Intermittent Fasting and modified Keto Diet. IF is still going, Keto is gone but I haven't gained any weight despite eating like a pig in recent time. Time to time I have chocolates and Ice cream, usually finish them in a day or two and then that's it for sometime. Apart from cutting Sugar and Fruits I didn't do anything, still drinking beer and drunk eating and surprisingly the weight has remained the same. On top, I'm not practicing or being active at all.

Here are my sweets.

Chocolates - I like Reese Peanut Butter, Aero, Forrero Rocher, Cadbury Oreo, Toblerone, Hershey Cookies and Creams and Kinders.
Ice Cream - Basic ice cream tubs sucks, there are some high end Gelato tub and I usually prefer Hazlenut/Kinder flavoured ones. There are these Indo-Canadian ice cream makers that have tremendously improved their quality and their products can found in big box stores now. So they have like Mango, Kulfi and Falooda flavours and they all taste very premium.
Traditional sweet - I like Thothal, Mysore Pakku, Wattalapam, Rasamalai( store bought "Kesar" and Mango flavour) and Gulab Jamun.
Drinks - Honey Dew Bubble tea, Chocolate Bubble Tea. The powdered ones taste so much better. Gotta be careful with which stores you buy, lot of them taste like crap, so you gotta find  the good ones.

Shit I hate - Japanese Cheesecake , Macaroons(so fkin tiny and super expensive and highly overrated) and Dark Chocolates(WTF LOL, tastes like shit, just eat the regular one you weirdo). I alos fkin hate regular chocolates with nuts and fruits in it. It taste fkin disgusting. Just eat them separate lol.

Weirdo indeed
.Dark chocolatw has more cocoa hence a richer,more sophisticated taste and generally has less sugar

When Im eating chocolates, I don't care what it has lol. It doesn't taste good for me. I rather not eat dark chocolates than eat them at all.

[Keshan]

(01-27-2022, 11:41 AM)Bada Wrote:  https://m.facebook.com/isleofgelato/posts/1658762460929269

Can't see pistachio on the delivery menu. I had a scoop every time I went to the city centre. Haven't gone there in a long time. Ditched it for One Galle Face

Oh no recently, in Kurumba also they didn't have the Pistachio. I hope they haven't stopped it temporarily due to unavailability of ingredients or something.

They also had a Mint and Chocolate ice cream that was nice.

[JamisBanda]

(01-27-2022, 02:01 PM)stillwill Wrote:  

(01-27-2022, 01:21 PM)Dilz Wrote:  Weirdo indeed
.Dark chocolatw has more cocoa hence a richer,more sophisticated taste and generally has less sugar

When Im eating chocolates, I don't care what it has lol. It doesn't taste good for me. I rather not eat dark chocolates than eat them at all.

Dark chocolate is the best.

[stillwill]

(01-27-2022, 01:27 PM)Dilz Wrote:  Desserts

Watalappan - we make a pretty good one
Dark chocokalte biscuit pudding - again in house and there are some legit places to buy.dont like the cho cream icing(just like proper dark choc/milk choc cream)

Triple layer choc mousse
Creme brulee and cream.caramel
A warm bread and butter Pudding,sticky date pudding ans Apple pie

Passion fruit pavlova

Anybody who likes Cheese cake should try a no bake cheese cake with passion fruit topping(its brilliant)

A good Tiramisu is rare to find in SL.

I can recommend the baked curd (excellent Fusion dessert),Jaggery pudding and Sago pudding at Ceylon Citrus

A fan of Japanese steamed cakes(so soft- the breadtalk one)

Will write more later

LMAOOO when I moved here, I had a gf for awhile who was born here and then couple of hook ups. That's when I got introduced to Creme Brule, Macroons, Japanese, Bubble Tea and American Cheesecake and etc. I remember when the server brought creme brulee and burned it with a small torch lol. I was like Wtf is this haha.

[stillwill]

(01-27-2022, 01:36 PM)slcricfan1 Wrote:  

(01-27-2022, 01:04 PM)stillwill Wrote:  Overall I have reduced my sugar intake, I stopped taking it with coffee and even cut out dairy.  I don't think I consume any sugar at all most days. Even fruits I only eat time to time. I lost about 12 lbs, went on Intermittent Fasting and modified Keto Diet. IF is still going, Keto is gone but I haven't gained any weight despite eating like a pig in recent time. Time to time I have chocolates and Ice cream, usually finish them in a day or two and then that's it for sometime. Apart from cutting Sugar and Fruits I didn't do anything, still drinking beer and drunk eating and surprisingly the weight has remained the same. On top, I'm not practicing or being active at all.

Here are my sweets.

Chocolates - I like Reese Peanut Butter, Aero, Forrero Rocher, Cadbury Oreo, Toblerone, Hershey Cookies and Creams and Kinders.
Ice Cream - Basic ice cream tubs sucks, there are some high end Gelato tub and I usually prefer Hazlenut/Kinder flavoured ones. There are these Indo-Canadian ice cream makers that have tremendously improved their quality and their products can found in big box stores now. So they have like Mango, Kulfi and Falooda flavours and they all taste very premium.
Traditional sweet - I like Thothal, Mysore Pakku, Wattalapam, Rasamalai( store bought "Kesar" and Mango flavour) and Gulab Jamun.
Drinks - Honey Dew Bubble tea, Chocolate Bubble Tea. The powdered ones taste so much better. Gotta be careful with which stores you buy, lot of them taste like crap, so you gotta find  the good ones.

Shit I hate - Japanese Cheesecake , Macaroons(so fkin tiny and super expensive and highly overrated) and Dark Chocolates(WTF LOL, tastes like shit, just eat the regular one you weirdo). I alos fkin hate regular chocolates with nuts and fruits in it. It taste fkin disgusting. Just eat them separate lol.

Is Gulab Jamun a traditional Sri Lankan sweet?

No my sister in law who is from Chennai makes it lol. It is not a Tamil sweet, but found its influence there, she adds a bit of salt to the dough, so while the liquid is sweet the ball has a bit of salty touch to it. I like it better than the ones sold at stores. Rasamalai I like it from the store.

[rsk19]

Chocolate: Swiss - Cailler dark chocolate with hazelnuts or almonds
https://www.swisschocolate-online.com/en/cailler/232-cailler-of-switzerland-cremant-dark-whole-hazelnuts-200g-7613034389039.html

Ice-cream: Woolworths South Africa tin roof ice-cream with chocolate sauce
https://www.woolworths.co.za/prod/Food/Frozen-Food/Ice-Cream-Frozen-Yoghurt/2-Litre/Tin-Roof-Dairy-Ice-Cream-2L/_/A-6001009028051?gclid=Cj0KCQiAosmPBhCPARIsAHOen-OECRO4uqKs_dNldO5XvE3QbWaab7sn-qHV_7cyd0grWbOG82T397caAmkBEALw_wcB

Pudding: chocolate biscuit pudding with cashews

[rsk19]

Favourite traditional sweets:
Konda kavum (made with kitul pani) and kalu dodol

[The One]

My favorite kind of chocolate is milk chocolate with caramel and sea salt. That combination is amazing, the salt has to be in tiny crystals.

There's a local brand in Portland called Moonstruck, I think they're my favorite now.