Taste Test Your True MBTI Personality With the Perfect Desserts That Compliment You: Part 3

This is part 3 of the MBTI series, and if you’re here, we assume you are a fan already (lucky us!), and have come back to see what your backstabbing friend or your favorite celebrity (hint: Min Yoongi) would be if they were a dessert.

It’s that time of the year again when the sloth in us comes out and only wants to eat Christmas-themed or colored goodies, so don't blame us if your soul sister dessert is a tad autumnal or holiday-tinged. In this third installment of “If the MBTI Personalities Were Desserts,” we have a little circus with ringmaster ESTP, and their accomplices—the trio of the tinkering and curious ISTP, ESFP and ISFP.

Just like our eternal well of love for chocolate and how we don’t count calories and don’t recommend anyone doing so, neither do we want you to take this article seriously. Live a little, be a little unserious, or something an ESFP kidnapped by an ISFP would say, probably. Hold on tight and to your horses, as we unravel the third installment of this MBTI series as desserts!

1. ESTP, The Entrepreneur: Apple Rum Spiced Chiffon Cake

You can spot these people immediately at social gatherings; there’s a certain air of charisma about them, in almost the exact same way as people flock around Logan Roy (Succession). These guys are action-oriented and high in energy, and rather than discussing the what ifs and what can bes, they go for what will be, fixing and repairing stuff on the way. By the time you finish discussing a fantastic doable thing, they will have a solid blueprint for it inside their heads. Intrigue them with a chiffon cake, as it boasts autumn with its apple spice filling sandwiched by the chiffon cake, with a generous buttercream frosting outside. The chiffon cake, instead of the regular sponge, might just make them a little existential or intrigued enough to be the inspiration for their new ‘doable’ conquest. It depends on which ESTP you know, as turbulent ones might be the former, and assertive ones the latter.

2. ISTP, The Virtuoso: Cherpumple

This one reflects the ISTP mascot, on the MBTI website, who is seen wearing the trademark yellow handyman suit with his chunky yellow goggles perched on his head, ready to go wild in their garage. They are ready to take on the world with their hands-on approach, bringing their endless well of curiosity and eternal boredom into our lives. They are the engineers and mechanics of the MBTI world, and love a good spine-tingling exercise; they might just be that fastidious friend who loves a good game of Scrabble or Monopoly, or they could secretly also be a gifted musician (BTS’ Min Yoongi). Since they can be quite mechanical and love something intriguing, a Cherpumple is the perfect representation for them. Its name is a portmanteau combining "cherry", "pumpkin", and "apple pie" fillings in three different cakes, stacked on top of each other and slathered in whipped cream. Entertain them with this unusual dessert and watch them get intrigued by you too.

3. ESFP, The Entertainer: Bingsu

The life of the party this one, you will see ESFPs on the dance floor and forcing some poor, painfully shy MBTI type to also join them and jiggy with them; think Joey Tribbiani from Friends or Serena van der Woodsen from Gossip Girl. They know how to have a good time and provide great entertainment to those around them. They are extremely spontaneous and love to live in the moment, all the while being fabulously dressed and taking on the world. They are hard to please so the Korean Bingsu feels like an obvious choice. It’s a milk-based shaved-ice dessert that is quite simple, but depending on where you order it from, it can rack up the cost. Calm their nerves and please them with a Bingu the next time they go on a random shopping spree that induces a nervous breakdown when the bills come knocking.

4. ISF, The Adventurer: Cendol

This MBTI personality lives for a new adventure every day, and absolutely loves it when it is a life-changing experience. Pleasantly surprise them with a Cendol, with its green gelatinous noodles suspended in coconut milk, especially the next time they ask you to “live a little” and you push them off the edge of a cliff with a parachute, of course, just let them figure it out on the mini trip down. Jokes aside, cendol is like the falooda of India—it’s fun to look at and for any adventurous soul who seeks the next thrill, they won’t say no to the interesting-looking cendol, for they are extremely open-minded. We can all learn a little from these grown-ups who never lost their zest for life, even when the folks came for them with their tasers to tie them down. Maybe take that trip or indulge in their wildest fantasy with them the next time they share a piece of themselves?