[Avodah] Berachot in the Course of a Meal
Zev Sero
zev at sero.name
Wed Jun 20 13:50:29 PDT 2012
On 20/06/2012 3:37 PM, Prof. Levine wrote:
> From http://tinyurl.com/8x3yfyz
From that URL:
> There is considerable debate over the need for a blessing over cakes,
> cookies, and other "mezonot" items eaten as a dessert and readers
> comments, customs, and rulings on this issue is especially welcomed.
> Common custom seems to be that one who is fully satiated from a meal
> and is only eating cake and cookies as a dessert or because one enjoys
> their taste, recites a blessing upon them.[13]
One quibble: this applies only to those cakes, etc., whose bracha is
definitely mezonos, i.e. cakes made from a liquid batter. Cakes made
from dough are hamotzi according to some opinions; we say mezonos on
them because safek brachos lehakel, but within a meal that same safek
works the other way, and one should not say a bracha on them.
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