Sweet Treats Index - TV Tropes
- ️Wed Mar 29 2017
Not recommended for diabetics.
This is an index for tropes involving sweet foods.
A subcategory of Food Tropes. See also Baked Index, Fruit and Vegetable Tropes, and Meat of the Index.
Tropes
- Bad Humor Truck: The driver of a sweet ice cream truck is a bitter villain.
- Brain Freeze: Eating ice cream too fast gives you a— BRAIN FREEEEEEEEZE!!!
- Bubble Gum Popping: Blow bubbles bigger than you that burst in a big mess.
- The Cake Is a Lie: "Did I say you'd get a cake for doing this job? I Lied."
- Cake Toppers: A wedding cake is topped with miniatures of the newlyweds.
- Carrying a Cake: Character carefully carries crazily colossal cake.
- The Character Ice Cream Bar: An ice-cream bar that resembles a work's character.
- Charlie and the Chocolate Parody: A Stock Parody of a certain famous work set in a chocolate factory.
- Chocolate-Frosted Sugar Bombs: Sugar—part of a complete breakfast!
- Chocolate of Romance: "Mama always said love is like a box of chocolates, you'll never know what you're gonna get."
- Donut Mess with a Cop: Nothing sweeter than a dozen donuts on duty.
- Dropped Ice Cream of Sadness: Accidentally dropping an ice cream cone is the saddest thing that can happen to anyone, especially a child.
- Endangered Soufflé: Take care of that souffle!
- Everyone Hates Fruit Cakes: An odd-looking dessert that nobody wants to eat at Christmas.
- Fantastic Fromage: Cheese made from fantastic, often revolting sources.
- Fortune Cookie Gag: Fortune cookies that serve as a source of Running Gags or humorously prescient advice/knowledge.
- Gelatinous Trampoline: Bouncing on jello.
- Genius Sweet Tooth: Great minds need that sweet fuel.
- Gingerbread House: Unless you're Hansel and Gretel, everyone wants to eat this sweet building at Christmas.
- Girls Love Chocolate: "My boyfriend gave me a big box of chocolates on our date. How sweet of him."
- Greens Precede Sweets: "You must eat every vegetable on your plate first if you want dessert!"
- Gross Gum Gag: Bubble gum is a fun candy... before it's chewed.
- Heartbreak and Ice Cream: Her comfort food, just in case.
- I Was Told There Would Be Cake: Cake is promised as a reward.
- Jail Bake: The cake holds the secret to your escape.
- "Jar of Jellybeans" Contest: A contest about guessing, counting, or measuring to find the amount of jellybeans in a jar.
- Jumping Out of a Cake: There's a sweet "surprise" jumping out of the birthday cake.
- Level Ate: Sometimes, a video game level is just like a "California Gurls" setting.
- Marshmallow Dream: "I dreamed I was eating a giant marshmallow, and when I woke up, my pillow was missing!"
- Mars Wants Chocolate: "Puny Earthlings, we want all of your nougat bars named after our planet!"
- Mascots Love Sugar: Critters have a massive Sweet Tooth.
- May I Borrow a Cup of Sugar?: Meeting a neighbor by asking to borrow something from them.
- Mining for Cookies: A mine full of foodstuffs.
- Misfortune Cookie: It's not sweet to have a bad fortune in a good cookie.
- Parody Product Placement: Nothing like a good old obligatory Hostess Fruit Pies ad to sweeten your spoof.
- Pie in the Face: Nothing like a sweet pie thrown to the face!
- Pie on the Windowsill: Stealing a pie put on the windowsill to cool.
- Piñata-Smashing Gag: A joke involving characters hitting piñatas, usually as part of a party or celebration.
- Post-Treatment Lollipop: "You've been a good patient. Here, have a candy."
- Pun with "π": A pun on the words "pi" and "pie."
- Real Men Hate Sugar: If you like sugar, you're not a man.
- Sensual Sweets: Sweet foods are associated with sensuality and sexuality.
- Sinister Sweet Tooth: Villains identified by their taste for the sweeter things.
- Soda-Candy 'Splosion: When a combination of soda and candy creates an eruptive geyser.
- Sugar Causes Hyperactivity: If kids eat sugar, they'll go on a rampage.
- Sweet Baker: Heroes identified by bakery of sweeter and sugary foods.
- Sweets of Temptation: Sweet treats symbolized for bitter temptations and hidden dangers.
- Sweet Tooth: Nothing sweeter than your character loving sweets.
- Tempting Cookie Jar: Who can resist a countertop container of coveted confectionery crisps?