Sometimes when I go out with my husband or with friends, we get a dessert and split it. It’s been a long time since I’ve eaten a dessert by myself. Not that I couldn’t eat it by myself. But I don’t feel as guilty if I’m splitting something decadent and delicious. Half the calories, none of the guilt. Right?

Then I read this list of desserts and their calorie count and realize that by even eating half, I could be consuming from 600 to 1100 calories. Yikes!!!

I’d like to know how you deal with desserts. Do you eat them? Avoid them entirely? Or split them even more than two ways?

Here’s the list of rich but hardly nutritious treats (that I found on AOL) and the author’s hilarious comments.

My question is– have you had any of these? And if so, are they worth their insanely high calorie count???

1. P.F. Chang’s Great Wall of Chocolate with Raspberry Sauce, Calories: 2,240, Total Fat: 89 g
Well, it does have 20g of protein and we can write off the raspberry sauce as being in the fruit group, so it’s sort of like salad, right?

2. Romano’s Macaroni Grill’s Dessert Ravioli, Calories: 1,630, Total Fat: 74 g
This Italian-inspired concoction consists of peanuts, caramel and chocolate in fried pastries served with vanilla ice cream and, uh, more caramel. Don’t worry, their New York Cheesecake only has 1,610 calories.

3. Mimi’s Café Chocolate Chip Pecan Pie, Calories: 1,879, Total Fat: 111 g
Why choose between pecan pie and a chocolate dessert when you can jam them both onto one plate? Plus, pecans = heart-healthy fats, right? Right? Come back here, we’re having chest pains.

4. Cosi Double Trouble Brownie Sundae, Calories: 1,594, Total Fat: 95 g
“One warm chocolate brownie & one blondie topped with two scoops of vanilla ice cream, whipped cream & a cherry.” Seven nights on the treadmill, alternating between self-loathing and considering eating another one when you get home.

5. Baskin-Robbins Heath Bar Shake, Calories: 2,310, Total Fat: 108 g
We like our coffee like we like our men: blended with Heath ice cream and caramel and tastefully garnished with whipped cream and pieces of candy bars.

6. Friendly’s Caramel Fudge Brownie Sundae, Calories: 1,530, Total fat: 70 g
An Oreo brownie with five scoops of ice cream, hot fudge, caramel and whipped cream. Who could have guessed those ingredients would add up to such high digits? We blame new math.

7. Don Pablo’s Chocolate Volcano Cake, Calories: 1,380, Total Fat: 77g
(Not to be confused with the 1997 film.) Take one chocolate cinnamon cake, drop it in a pool of molten chocolate butter sauce, scoop ice cream on top and shovel into maw. Burp.

8. On the Border Chocolate Turtle Empanadas, Calories: 1,280, Fat: 81 g
Really, how better to wash down a meal of fried flour, refried beans and guac than a pile of pastries filled with chocolate, caramel and pecans. With ice cream. Delicioso!

9. Chili’s Chocolate Chip Paradise Pie, Calories: 1,600, Total Fat: 78 g
Why have dessert when you can have novelty dessert?! It comes to your table fajita-style, sizzling in a cast iron skillet. And it’s soaking in a vat of cinnamon butter. (Kind of like your heart.)

10. Dairy Queen Georgia Mud Fudge Blizzard, Calories: 1,490, Total Fat: 83 g
When something has “dairy” and a reference to the south in its name, you can bet it’s going to err on the side of decadent.

11. Applebee’s Sizzling Apple Pie with Ice Cream, Calories: 1,086, Total Fat: 56 g
There’s nothing more American than warm apple pie — that has over a thousand calories. The ice cream melts over the sizzling sugary crust, creating a hot-and-cold classic for your piehole.

12. Jamba Juice Peanut Butter Moo’d Power Smoothie, Calories: 1,170, Fat: 30 g
… from a smoothie! Tacking the word “smoothie” at the end of a name instantly makes it better for you, so no biggie. That’s why we have entire-pepperoni-pizza smoothies for lunch every day.

13. Funnel Cake from a Creepy Guy at the Fair, Calories: 760, Total Fat: 44 g
It’s like a rite of passage when you go to a boardwalk or carnival. Chase it with some cotton candy and then get back to Skee-Ball with a renewed sense of energy.