Familiar Chocolate Desserts to Acerbic Desserts Sums Up These Gossip Girl Characters

“Destiny is for losers. It's just a stupid excuse to wait for things to happen instead of making them happen,” said Queen Blair herself, so we made it happen – turned all the iconic Gossip Girl characters into desserts that is. We promise you these desserts go hand in hand like Chuck Bass and Blair Waldorf or should we say Serena and Blair, or perhaps Dan and Gossip Girl (who thought of this combo, because ew). Imagine you’re in New York City at the crème de la crème of the Upper East Side and these entitled folks strut around, like desserts, while the non-so-entitled ones act equally snooty, and round the corner, trying to fit in.

1. Creme Brulee – Blair Waldorf

Despite the bitchy attitude (think the Creme Brulee’s caramelised sugar crust) we know Blair is a sweetheart deep down, on rare instances it comes out. Let’s blame it on the trauma and cheer for this diva for she is smooth and iconic with her presence, clique, style, parties and her iconic lines. In her own words, “I'm not a stop along the way. I'm a destination,” is something one might also feel for the beloved pudding that creme brulee is as well. Both are iconic and know their worth and really go through it during the show (preparation for the baked custard). But the end product is a refined and dignified presence that is a pleasure to share a room with or rather have a taste of.

2. Mango Panna Cotta – Serena Van Woodsen

A social butterfly who is always seen as the damsel in distress but somehow quite not it, she’s a befuddling presence. The rich, uptown party girl act cost her a lot, as did her disappearing act, but she never lost her spot as the envied diva with impeccable style and Blaire’s best girl, as she reminds Blaire of her own power towards the end of season 1, “Don't let people tell you who you are. You tell them”. This blondilocks is hella assertive and does not take anybody’s nonsense, despite having given people enough reason to hurt her. So, you know how to celebrate her, why, conjure or order a mango panna cotta!

3. Chocolate Soufflé – Dan Humphrey

The bourgeois need the proletariats to survive, but the way this one tried to fit in by secretly b*tching about the rich and the famous, all the while cosying up to them is downright cringe. We all rooted for Dan until we didn’t, but his journey is commendable that he was somehow able to crack the code and bag “the” Serena Van der Woodsen and also befriend the begrudging Blaire. We recommend looking up a chocolate souffle recipe because you'll crave one now because Dan is simply like one of these. The poofy nature is tricky to master and Dan is nothing but nifty when it comes to navigating the elite circles.

4. Chocolate Cheesecake – Chuck Bass

A serving of an arrogant manchild anyone? While all of the Upper East rich folks have that trademark arrogance, Chuck Bass comes first in this race. Do try your hand at a chocolate cheesecake recipe and there’s another version that falls under the tab, dessert recipes without oven. Chuck is mostly put together and the manipulative bad boy who has a complicated involvement with Blair, but he does get his act together in the end and as smooth as the chocolate cheesecake, the Roman warrior, Chuck returns to his empire, Blair in the end and all is well in the Kingdom of insufferable egos. This is perhaps why he said that insufferable line, “People like me don't write books. They're written about”.

5. Tiramisu – Nate Archibald

If you think Dan and Chuck are bad, Nate takes the cherry on the cake and also eats the whole cake himself. He seems to ruin all the girls he’s involved with and also himself, because chaos invites chaos, making him the most messy character on the show, after Jenny, Dan’s sister of course. Out of all the Italian dessert names, this perhaps is the most famous, Nate is the heady tiramisu with the coffee kick that soaks the ladyfingers. The soaked biscuits are topped with generous mascarpone cheese, symbolic of his growth towards the end of the series – he chucks going after messy short-term relationships and does the world some good by focusing on his career instead.

6. Lava Cake – Jenny Humphrey

It really would have made sense for this girl to go “XOXO Gossip Girl” or be the one to spout Gerogina’s iconic line: “Nothing like a scorned lover to scorch the earth. I can hardly wait” and also towards the end of the series Dan’s line, “You are no one until you're talked about,” so dear old Jennie takes the dramatic route to try and fit in with the rich folks including making a nemesis out of Queen Blair. She is a disaster and as everyone crawls out of their hellholes, and turns a new leaf, Jenny seems to be the only one, engulfed by the black hole of her own making. She’s a lava cake, one taste of her and you’re doomed with how good the dessert is.