Desserts For People Who Don't Like Chocolate

Chocolate often seems like the go-to flavor in the dessert world. A 2016 survey by Ask Your Target Market revealed that chocolate is, by far, the most popular cake flavor, with 58 percent of all respondents identifying it as their favorite cake flavor. But it's not just chocolate cake that wins all the flavor love. In the summer of 2020, when YouGov asked nearly 20,000 Americans to name their favorite ice cream flavor, the winner was also chocolate. 

So, what this all means is that if you don't love chocolate, there's going to be a lot of desserts you don't love. And if you don't even like chocolate, we need to find you some alternatives, pronto.

For all the people who don't like chocolate, this one's for you. We've compiled this list of delicious desserts that are so good that don't need to mine that obvious crowd-pleasing flavor choice: chocolate. Instead, they're perfectly confident to rely on sleeper flavors like strawberry, lemon, orange, and of course, vanilla. These desserts for people who don't like chocolate are still crowd-pleasers with a fair amount of creativity and just a hint of risk-taking. 

In the summer of 2020, when YouGov asked nearly 20,000 Americans to name their favorite ice cream flavor, close to 17 percent responded with chocolate. Strawberry was a distant third. 

That's a real shame as, if you were to bake yourself this moist, delicious strawberry cake recipe, there is a really excellent chance that you won't have to fight off everyone in the house to nab the last slice. Then again,  maybe you will when you craft this cake.

Once you put this recipe for three-ingredient berry cobbler into your rotation, the only thing that's going to feel lonely is chocolate. That's because you can swap out the mixed berries that are called for in this recipe for any kind of berry, or, for that matter, any kind of fruit you can imagine. It's also "dangerously" easy to make, though you probably won't bother to call it anything other than delicious when you take your first bite.

Angel food cake is lighter-than-air and a perfect foundation for just about any flavor, but especially for summer strawberries. But until you've made your own angel food cake, you may not be able to fully appreciate just how light it really is, or why. So, here is the angel food cake recipe you've been looking for, which gets its lightness from a dozen egg whites whipped to medium-stiff peaks.

The wonderful thing about oatmeal cookies, apart from the fact that you can enjoy them while actually believing that you're eating something good for you, is that there are many ways to make them that they are basically incapable of becoming boring.

The least boring of all, however, may be these cranberry orange oatmeal cookies. If you're into chewy cookies with surprising fruit flavors, then these are going to become your favorite go-to treat.

According to Statista, the only frozen dessert more popular than sherbet is plain old ice cream. As trendy as sorbets have been throughout the last few decades, their popularity just doesn't compare to that of sherbet. But for lovers of sherbet's smooth, creamy, fruity flavors, the choices in the supermarket tend to be slim. No worries if you have this Orange Julius recipe, which tastes like a Dreamsicle but sips like a milkshake. 

If you're having a hard time deciding between the cranberry orange oatmeal cookies and the crescent roll-crusted cheesecake, we have a recipe for you that will serve as the perfect compromise, although we hesitate to use the word "compromise." That's because there is absolutely nothing about this delicious no-bake recipe for cranberry orange cheesecake that could ever really be characterized as a "compromise."

With a mere 15 minutes of prep time, this recipe for lemon bars promises to yield you 15 sunshine-yellow lemon bars with hardly any fuss at all. Even better, these treats will look stunning arranged on a platter or serving dish at your next get-together. But perhaps what we love most about this recipe is the ability to pull up a fork and eat these babies right out of the pan. 

Sometimes, that first visit to the scale in the morning reminds us that maybe it would be best if we chose between cocktails and dessert for moderation's sake. But that's not so much fun. Do you know what is so much fun? An icy, cold margarita. And so are cupcakes. So what's the most fun of all? When your cupcakes taste like margaritas, of course. That's what this berry margarita cupcake recipe is all about. Make sure you use a tequila you like because you're going to taste it. 

This lemon meringue pie offers up a velvety, substantial meringue that you can really sink your teeth into, making for a beautifully pleasing texture to accompany the pleasing crust and sweet-tart lemon curd waiting for you at the center of this dish. That's because, like pavlova, the meringue that tops this lemon meringue pie adds a splash of a secret ingredient that you will never believe is what works the magic until you try it for yourself. 

This recipe for carrot cake is so moist and delicious that it almost doesn't even need its creamy, rich cream cheese frosting. But if you're bothering to make the cake, you might as well make the frosting too, which is easy to make, besides. The recipe also calls for a cup of freshly shredded carrots, which you should be eating plenty of every day anyway because they're so nutritious.

A galette is a pie or tart that is baked free-form on a baking sheet, rather than molded into a pie dish or tart tin. That means the dough has to be substantial enough to maintain its shape while baking, but don't think that means it isn't good. But how tender and flaky can a "substantial dough" be? Very, when it makes use of the secret ingredient you'll find in this apple galette recipe.

This recipe will make not only the best gingerbread cookies you've ever tasted but also cookies with a wonderfully tender texture. That's because they use both butter and vegetable shortening. The shortening helps to increase tenderness, while butter lends a lovely rich flavor. Using a ratio of one-to-one butter to shortening is a perfect mix, along with classic gingerbread ingredients like cinnamon, brown sugar, molasses, and, of course, ginger.