{"id":723720,"date":"2010-04-26T13:41:32","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T17:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/?p=3082"},"modified":"2026-10-04T12:28:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T16:28:13","slug":"where-are-the-good-fruit-desserts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/723720","title":{"rendered":"Where are the good fruit desserts?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3083\" title=\"Market1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/files\/2010\/04\/Market1-300x200.jpg?resize=300%2C200\" alt=\"Market1\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>Some dessert menus skew toward chocolate &#8212; a basic flavor pole around which the ancillary flavors of nuts, butterscotch and marshmallow revolve. If there is a fruit dessert, it will likely be something heavier, such as pear-caramel cake, or a chocolate and banana confab.<\/p>\n<p>I find these kinds of desserts easy to pass on after dinner. I love them, but really think such dense sweets taste better in the afternoon with a cup of coffee than following a big meal.<\/p>\n<p>But I am a sucker for fruit-based desserts. When I went to<strong> Market Buckhead<\/strong> recently to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/2010\/04\/15\/burger-of-the-week-market-buckhead\/\">write up a burger of the week<\/a>, I couldn&#8217;t resist this concoction. It&#8217;s a coconut flan with candied kumquats, lime whipped cream and toasted coconut. What an amazing combination of flavors! I particularly loved the way the barely sweetened cream flecked with lime zest added such a sparkly top note.<\/p>\n<p>True, it was pretty rich. I either resisted eating it all or thought about resisting it all, but this was one of the better desserts I&#8217;ve &#0133;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some dessert menus skew toward chocolate &#8212; a basic flavor pole around which the ancillary flavors of nuts, butterscotch and marshmallow revolve. If there is a fruit dessert, it will likely be something heavier, such as pear-caramel cake, or a chocolate and banana confab. I find these kinds of desserts easy to pass on after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2574,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-723720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-32gU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2574"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=723720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":825392,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723720\/revisions\/825392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}