8 of the Fattiest Restaurant Desserts
It’s the end of the meal and you’re pondering whether or not your willpower is feeling strong today. Do you really need dessert? You’re full, but there’s always room for dessert, right? And just how much damage are you actually doing calorie-wise? How many extra miles on the treadmill will a little splurge cost you?
Well, wonder no more. We’ve broken down dessert mishap into nutritional value so you no longer have to wonder. The next time you’re deciding whether or not to dive into sweet dessert bliss, this may make the decision for you.
1. Cheesecake
Thick, chunky, and full of cream cheese, eggs, and sugar. There's really nothing that you could even potentially find healthy in cheesecake. Yes, it’s a piece of Americano, especially the mile high New York version, but you’d better split it at least a few ways. One slice of New York style cheesecake can have between 300 and 500 calories per slice with up to 30 grams of fat. That’s more than your actual meal should have.
2. Key Lime Pie
This is by far my favorite restaurant dessert, even my health nut mother in law can’t resist the stuff. And on holidays it’s our secret splurge. That tart flavor and heavy silky texture mixed with a graham cracker crust. You can’t beat it. But if there were ever a reason to make a healthier at home version, I’m quite sure 450 calories and 13 grams of fat would be a good reason why.
3. Fudge Brownie Sundae
Hot fudge, warm brownie, and cool creamy ice cream melting atop of tower of sweet. Sounds delish, but at 1,150 calories and 47 grams of fat, it’s almost a full days worth of calories with absolutely no nutrient density. This is never a dessert you should be getting at a restaurant because you can make it at home and do so much less damage.
4. Milk Shakes
I remember on my way home from church as a child we used to stop and buy french fries and milk shakes once a week. My mom was pretty strict about the foods we ate but I think she just gave up in order to keep us quiet for the full church hour. She’s lucky we were skinny little kids, because milk shakes are a killer for your waistline. Just one cup, which is much smaller than most fast food servings, has 316 calories and 11 grams of fat.
5. Red Velvet Cake
Cream cheese icing, bright red cake with a cocoa flavored backdrop, all stacked high in a layer cake. Well, the key here is how high is your layer cake stacked? If you go to a restaurant and order one of those gigantic slices of bright red bliss, you can expect to pay immensely on the scale, to the tone of 580 calories and 29 grams of fat.
6. Carrot Cake
We all know in the back of our sugar-craving minds that carrot cake, even with all its carrots, isn’t really that healthy. It’s a cake like any other cake, and like red velvet cake, it’s coated with delicious cream cheese icing. Per slice, you’re looking at around 326 calories and 16 grams of fat.
7. Tiramisu
You’ve had your share of pasta, fresh bread, and you’re almost full, but your sweet tooth seems to be screaming loud. One slice of tiramisu sounds amazing, until you realize that just one slice can have 600 calories and 45 grams of fat. Now that Italian specialty doesn’t seems so appealing, maybe wait until you’re in Italy so at least you know you’ll be walking it off site seeing the next morning.
8. Warm Apple Pie with Ice Cream
It seems innocent enough and it’s mostly apples, right? Yeah, all except for that buttery crust, huge scoop of ice cream, and seriously out of whack serving size. Again, this is another dessert that you should always make at home versus over splurging at a restaurant because it can have up to 1,056 calories and 56 grams of fat per serving. That’s just ridiculous.