[Avodah] Berachot in the Course of a Meal

[Zev Sero]

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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