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Holidays are always filled with too much dessert. And on the Fourth of July, there is always too much pie -- as well as crumbles, and crisps, and slumps. The natural reaction to this, of course, is to eat them for breakfast on the fifth. So we asked our staff:
What is your favorite dessert for breakfast?
Do you go for fruit or chocolate? Cake or pie? Tell us in the comments!
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Brette: Cake. For. Breakfast. I should add icebox cake to that list now.
Christina: Cold birthday cake -- always yellow with white icing. And a tall glass of milk.
Bryce: I love a poundcake for breakfast. Especially this one.
Karl: Leftover birthday cake.
Hannah: Might as well go for the gold: cheesecake!
Jason: I'm with Hannah in camp cheesecake.
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Maddy: My mother allowed breakfast pizza with caramelized apples and sharp cheddar, but not pie, sadly. But now I make my own rules, so I'll I choose blueberry pie a la mode (Haagen Dazs vanilla, please).
Maggie: Hot blueberry cobbler (with vanilla ice cream, duh) and a hotter fresh cup of coffee. And I would be lying if I said some of that ice cream didn't find its way into my cuppa joe.
Marian: Mine is a fat piece of blueberry pie, chilly from the fridge.
Sarah: I don't want to give too much away, but there's a certain Food52 Senior Editor who's admitted to eating ice cream with her coffee for breakfast. Sounds like a brilliant idea to me!
Kristen: All my favorite breakfasts are desserts. But the ice cream sandwich to which Sarah is referring was a high (low?) point: Jeni's double toasted coconut inside Tate's macadamia nut cookies.
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Amanda: Peach pie -- my mother fully condoned pie for breakfast, and I love her for it.
Amelia: I'm not much of a dessert person (I always get lots of strange looks when I say this). However, there are these cookies that my parents make called Coffee Toffee Bars that I can't resist. As the name suggests, they are kind of begging to be eaten for breakfast.
Merrill: Summer pudding with lots of cream.
Emma: A chewy chocolate chip cookie, dipped in milk. (You see, I never dip my cookies in milk unless it's in the morning. Probably makes it feel more like cereal...) I also wouldn't be opposed to trying this.
Marian: That's kind of similar to a hip new trend called cookie cereal!
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Bea: S'mores for breakfast while camping chased with some instant coffee.
Lauren: I love Cheerios with left over non-whipped cream. The rest of my family is firmly in camp pie.
Amelia: I'm not much of a dessert person (I always get lots of strange looks when I say this). However, there are these cookies that my parents make called Coffee Toffee Bars that I can't resist. As the name suggests, they are kind of begging to be eaten for breakfast.
Stephanie: I may have had chocolate ice cream and two chocolate chip cookies for breakfast just this morning.
Amanda Li: I usually opt for savory in the morning, but there's nothing like a thick slice of pumpkin bread to dunk into your coffee or hot chocolate.
Merrill: Growing up, we sometimes had slices of leftover angel food cake, toasted, for breakfast. Tastes like a roasted marshmallow!
Tell us: what dessert do you like to eat for breakfast?
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