After-dinner coffee and chocolates - without chocolates!

[SashaTwoShoes]

Lately chocolate, which I love, has decided not to love me back. I've been feeling a bit sick after eating it and just generally not satisfied with the taste. Maybe I've eaten too much! It doesn't feel like a treat anymore.

Does anyone have any ideas for small "grown-up" type sweets that might feel like a treat with coffee after dinner? I'm thinking candied fruit, or maybe Turkish delight or something like that. I don't want to keep reaching for the After Eights if there's something nicer out there!

oh not Turkish delight and coffee bleurgh! what about actual coffee creams or benedicts

Those little fruits made from marzipan, Petit Fours I think?
Or medjoul dates? I'm not keen but my dsis swears they're better than chocolate!

Bendicks mints. Too dear to get sick of.

hobnob

@SashaTwoShoes I love amaretti biscuits with coffee.

Dried/candied fruits, nuts, lotus biscoff or cafe noir biscuits. Macarons. Peppermint creams.

Petit fours can be little cakes too I think? These thorntons mini caramel squares are nice!

Ooh yes medjool dates!

See I think coffee creams are vile and Bendick’s mints are very sickly.

I’d go for something like panforte, or some other fig and nut type thing. My local Turkish shop does one. Halva is quite moreish, though very sweet.

Me too!

Baci di dama biscuits

Dates stuff with marzipan

Coffee flavoured wafer biscuits

Crystallised fruits

Sugared almonds or caramelised pecans

Amaretti biscuits

Those wafer straw thingies

Caramel florentines

Dates, nuts, fudge, popcorn, toffee, cheese, dried fruit, berries, brandy snaps.

Danish butter cookies?

Tiny sweet biscuits, fudge, jellies, coconut ice (remember it - pink and white!), biscotti, loads of choices!

Baklava?

Dates. Turkish delight, baklava - can I join you?

Macarons, Mini meringue filled with fresh raspberry compote.

Ooh, for me it would be anything Liquorice.
Ate a packet of Pontefract cakes lying in bed reading Mumsnet last night 😂

im not keen on the jelly hot drink combination. I had little round aramaretti biscuits last year I won a hamper so I don't know where they came from bur they were delicious.

We have a winner right here!

I would murder some baklava right now.

Tablet!

Keep away from the After Eights and get some good chocolate.

Amaretti or cantuchi or other Italian biscuits.

Amaretti biscuits
Macarons
Profiteroles, without the chocolate