What are the most popular desserts in the US ? are Panna Cotta and Flodeboller popular in the US?

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1. Panna cotta is great but not very popular. Never heard of the other one.

2. Never heard of either of those. Here in North Carolina peach cobbler, apple pie or apple crumble/apple fritter as well as pecan pie and pumpkin pie.

   Edit: I will add that if you go to any mid to upper scale restaurant in the US you are likely to see tiramisu, tres leches, chocolate cake, baked alaska or creme brulee as some of the most common cakes. For pies, any fruit pies such as apple, cherry, peach, etc.

3. I have never heard of either of flodeballer, but I have seen similar desserts. Probably just called something else here.

   I have seen Panna cotta in restaraunts. But by no means would call that popular here

4. I’ve never heard of either.

   I like cheesecake, ice cream, and pies.

5. Mmm, I love panna cotta, but it’s not hugely popular. I’ve never heard of flodeboller.

   Cheesecake and layer cakes (chocolate, red velvet, carrot) always seem to be popular here, along with apple, cherry, pumpkin, or key lime pie. Where I live, baklava and other Middle Eastern desserts are common.

6. When I think of desserts that are commonly prepared or sold here, I think of sponge cake, ice cream, sweet pies, tarts, and I suppose coffee and port wines.

   I should also note: Dessert is a meal course that’s served after dinner in the evening. There are other treats (e.g: Cookies, milkshakes, s’mores) that aren’t usually thought of as a dessert.

   I’ve heard of Panna Cotta and have had it before, not familiar with the other item you named.

7. Pies, cakes, ice cream. I’ve never heard of flodeboller and panna cotta would only be found in an Italian restaurant or high end restaurant.

8. They serve panna cotta in nice Italian restaurants.

   Never heard of flodeboller.

   Our desserts have a lot of regional, seasonal, and cultural variation, but the most universal and commonly eaten one is probably ice cream. Ice cream parlors are everywhere (and also frozen custard or frozen yogurt places).

9. Panna Cotta is something you could find on a menu in an Italian restaurant here in Los Angeles, but not nearly as frequently as cannoli or tiramisu which are way more popular in the US.

   Never heard of Flodeboller.

10. There’s a restaurant chain called Cheesecake Factory, so cheesecake’s gotta be one of them.

11. You’ll see Panna Cotta on the dessert menus at some nicer Italian restaurants.

    I had to look up Flodeboller. We don’t call them that, but you’ll find chocolate covered marshmallow desserts, but I wouldn’t call them particularly popular.

    I would say some form of cookie or ice cream are the most eaten desserts with various pies and cakes being well liked, but not eaten as often.

12. I’ve only ever seen Flodeboller on instagram and its normally some European pastry account.

    I’ve heard of Panna Cotta, never tried it though.

    The most popular deserts in the US are probably cookies, ice cream, cakes and pies.

13. I never came across panna cotta until I went to actual Italy. It would be considered kind of fancy/exotic by average American standards.

    Absolutely no idea what flodeboller is.

14. Never heard of either one.

    Popular desserts are: pie, cake, cheesecake, strawberry shortcake, ice cream.

15. I live in the Southeast. Ive seen pana cotta on the dessert menu in nice Italian restaurants. I have never heard of Flodeboller. I would say pies or cobblers are the most popular, but that is probably regional.

16. Various cakes, sweet pies, American cookies, brownies, and ice cream are all common and popular desserts in the US. That is certainly not an exhaustive list.

    Treats like Flodeboller exist, but I’ve never heard them called that. They’re also not typically served as a dessert after a meal.

    Some Italian restaurants serve Panna Cotta, and similar custards are used in other desserts.

17. I’m not sure Flødeboller is very popular outside of Denmark. I hadn’t heard of it myself. Sounds intriguing! We have some similar things – there’s a candy called Mallomars that’s similar but very rare and not at all popular. We do have a popular dessert called s’mores that is traditionally a toasted marshmallow on a graham cracker topped with chocolate with another graham cracker on top. It’s popular to make while sitting around a fire, and has a LOT of s’mores inspired desserts based on it. That’s the most popular thing that’s remotely close.

    Panna cotta is rare to see outside some Italian restaurants, but it’s not unheard of.

    The most popular desserts here and probably pies and cakes, and variations on those.

18. I only know panna cotta from that spanish movie “the hole”

19. Never heard of flodeboller. Panna cotta is fairly well-known, I’ve had it at Italian restaurants.

    Popular desserts might be cakes, cupcakes, ice cream, sweet fruit pie. We had pecan and apple pies this year for Thanksgiving. During the summer I often make a fruit gallette with fresh stone fruit. I just looked up the menu for the restaurant I went to for my birthday this year, these are the desserts they have at the moment:

    – chocolate panna cotta, honey poached cranberries, pumpkin spice chantilly, sourdough crunch

    – warm apple cake, hazelnut crumble, salted caramel

    – house made ice creams and sorbets:

    vanilla maple bourbon, chocolate fudge, buttermilk cherry chip, pear ginger sorbet

20. Flodeboller sounds like something made up while doing an impression of the Swedish Chef.

21. It may not be the most popular dessert, but by any objective standard the *best* dessert is chocolate pecan pie. Warm, with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

22. I’ve never heard of either one.

    Cupcakes, cookies, and in Indiana, you can find Sugar Cream pie on most menus that have pie.

23. I’d wager that cupcakes and/or birthday cake is pretty high on the list of most consumed dessert in the US.

    Panna cotta is widely available. Flodeboller isn’t as well known but we do have moon pies and mallomars which are somewhat similar.

24. We don’t call them flodeboller, but the concept (cookie base + marshmallow covered in chocolate) looks like an American thing called a Moon Pie. Very popular as a lunchbox treat for kids, especially in the South.

25. Honestly, it seems boring but simple ice cream would definitely be the most popular dessert.

    There’s a lot of historical influence as to why that is. During prohibition, ice cream took over the social role of alcohol to those actually following the law. That’s why you see old American movies mention things like “ice cream parlors”, which were essentially bars for ice cream. Even after the end of prohibition, ice cream still remained a popular dessert. Then the start of milk subsidies to bolster the post war dairy industry in the 50s meant that ice cream was the most inexpensive dessert you could find. Thus ice cream has remained the most accessible and popular dessert in the US.

26. I think most people have heard of Panda cotta, but it’s probably something that they don’t make at home. It’s probably a mid to upscale restaurant dessert.

    I’m a professional chef and I’ve never heard of flodeballer.