Fred/Libby Barclay wrote:
Isn't the gist of Jerry Seinfeld's wife's book to get kids to eat
veggies?

I think she hid carrots or spinach in brownies.


Those are examples that I was trying to avoid. I know that if you take
a strong flavor like chocolate or pure sugar you can hide a small amount
of another flavor in it. But I wasn't thinking of that. If you left
the spinach out of the brownies, you'd still have brownies. I want
desserts where the vegetable is the main event, the way you can't make
carrot cake without carrots or the way you can't make sweet potato pie
without sweet potatoes.


I like the tomato or sweet corn ice cream idea.


I suppose Chinese sweet bean paste qualifies, so peanut butter and
chocolate combinations would have to qualify too (but it still feels
like cheating).


Beets are so sweet that there should be a dessert associated with them,
but there isn't a classic. Same with parsnips. You can make a pie with
them, but I haven't tried it, and it doesn't seem like it would taste good.


These ideas are all good. I wonder why some, like carrot cake, have
caught on while others haven't.


--Lia