Hot brownies, apple pies, crumbles etc are not desserts – they’re breakfasts. The whole point of dessert is that it’s the opposite experience of dinner. Therefore, dessert should always be light, sweet and cold. Ice creams, sorbets, fruit slices, fruit slices, chilled dessert wines or even smoothies are acceptable desserts. Warm desserts are unacceptable.
In general, sweet things are always worse when heated. A room temperature brownie tastes better than a hot brownie because cool butter has a more pronounced flavour than warm butter. Sweet food tends to lose some of its complexities when heated and as a result the sugar overpowers the rest of the flavour profile. I’m no food scientist but I speak from experience, since I eat a lot of food. Another example is doughnuts- the mild yeastiness obly becomes apparent when cooled. Warm doughnuts just taste like syrup and flour.
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Take a wild guess and say your American for referring to those desserts as “breakfast”
I can definitely taste subtle and complex flavours in warm sweets, personally. They don’t just taste like syrup to me, but yeah, humans can taste sweetness better if it’s warm.
Also I consider dessert just an unhealthy treat, not the opposite of dinner.
Hot small lava chocolate cake…
Hot brownies, apple pies, crumbles etc are not desserts – they’re breakfasts
Tell me you’re American without telling me you’re American…