List of desserts
A dessert is typically the sweet course that concludes a meal in the culture of many countries, including the western world. The course usually consists of sweet foods, but may include other items. The word "dessert" originated from the French word desservir "to clear the table" and the negative of the Latin word servire.[1]
There are a wide variety of desserts in western cultures, including cakes, cookies, biscuits, gelatins, pastries, ice creams, pies, puddings, and candies. Fruit is also commonly found in dessert courses because of its natural sweetness. Many different cultures have their own variations of similar desserts around the world, such as in Russia, where many breakfast foods such as blini, oladyi, and syrniki can be served with honey and jam to make them popular as desserts.
By type
Brand name desserts
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- Pumpkin pie topped with Cool Whip
Cakes
Cake is a form of bread or bread-like food. In its modern forms, it is typically a sweet baked dessert. In its oldest forms, cakes were normally fried breads or cheesecakes, and normally had a disk shape. Modern cake, especially layer cakes, normally contain a combination of flour, sugar, eggs, and butter or oil, with some varieties also requiring liquid (typically milk or water) and leavening agents (such as yeast or baking powder).
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- Babka
- Banbury cake
- Bánh
- Bánh bò
- Bánh chuối
- Bánh da lợn
- Bánh khoai mì
- Bánh tét
- Battenberg cake
- Baumkuchen
- Berlingozzo
- Better than sex cake
- Bika Ambon
- Birthday cake
- Bizcocho
- Black bun
- Black Forest cake
- Blondie
- Bolo Rei
- Brownie
- Buccellato
- Buckwheat gateau
- Bulla cake
- Bundt cake
- Butter cake
- Butterkuchen
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- Cake balls
- Cake pop
- Caraway seed cake
- Carrot cake
- Cassata
- Castella
- Chantilly cake
- Charlotte
- Cheesecake
- Chelsea bun
- Chiffon cake
- Chocolate cake
- Chokladboll
- Chongyang Cake
- Chorley cake
- Christmas cake
- Coconut cake
- Coffee cake
- Cupcake
- Cupcone
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- Dacquoise
- Depression cake
- Devil's food cake
- Dirt cake
- Doberge cake
- Dobos torte
- Donauwelle
- Dundee cake
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- Fat rascal
- Financier
- Flourless chocolate cake
- Foam cake
- Frankfurter Kranz
- Friand
- Frog cake
- Fruitcake
- Funing big cake
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- Garash cake
- Genoa cake
- Genoise
- German chocolate cake
- Gingerbread
- Gingerbread house
- Gooey butter cake
- Groom's cake
- Gugelhupf
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- Kalathappam
- Kek Lapis Sarawak
- Kentucky jam cake
- Kiev cake
- King cake
- Kladdkaka
- Kornigou
- Kouign-amann
- Krakow gingerbread
- Kransekake
- Kuchen
- Kue cubit
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- Pain d'épices
- Pandan cake
- Panforte
- Panpepato
- Parkin
- Parrozzo
- Pastiera
- Petit four
- Pinca
- Ploatz
- Pound cake
- Prekmurska gibanica
- Princess cake
- Prinzregententorte
- Punschkrapfen
- Put chai ko
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- Sachertorte
- Šakotis
- Šampita
- Sesame seed cake
- Sfouf
- Sheet cake
- Simnel cake
- Snack cake
- Sno Balls
- Song gao
- Spanische Windtorte
- Spekkoek
- Spice cake
- Sponge cake
- St. Honoré cake
- Stack cake
- Stollen
- Streuselkuchen
- Swiss roll
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- Tahinopita
- Taiyaki
- Tarta de Santiago
- Tea loaf
- Teacake
- Tin roof pie
- Tipsy cake
- Tiramisu
- Torta alla Monferrina
- Torta caprese
- Torta de nata
- Torta Maria Luisa
- Torta Tre Monti
- Torte
- Tottenham cake
- Tres leches cake
- Tu
- Tula gingerbread
- Tunis cake
- Tunnock's teacake
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- Battenberg cake is a light sponge cake.
- Madeira cakes tend to have a firm yet light texture, and are traditionally flavored with lemon.
- Zwetschgenkuchen is a sheet cake or pie made from yeast dough or shortcrust dough that is thinly spread onto a baking sheet and covered with pitted plums.
Confectionery and candies
Confectionery is related to the food items that are rich in sugar and often referred to as a confection. Candy is a confection made from a concentrated solution of sugar in water, to which flavorings and colorants may be added. Candies come in numerous colors and varieties and have a long history in popular culture.
- Candy (category)
Confectionery
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- Cajeta
- Calisson
- Candied fruit
- Candy
- Candy apple
- Candy bouquet
- Candy cane
- Candy cigarette
- Candy corn
- Candy pumpkin
- Caramel
- Caramel apple
- Caramel corn
- Catànies
- Cezerye
- Chewing gum
- Chikki
- Choco pie
- Chocolate
- Chocolate balls
- Chocolate bar
- Chocolate-coated peanut
- Chocolate-covered coffee bean
- Chocolate-covered raisin
- Chocolate truffle
- Churchkhela
- Cinnamon toothpick
- Cocadas
- Coconut candy
- Comfit
- Cordial
- Cotton candy
- Cuberdon
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- Ka'í Ladrillo
- Kaju Katli
- Kakinada khaja
- Kamarcut
- Karah Parshad
- Kesaria Peda
- Kettle corn
- Konfyt
- Kosereva
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- Mampostial
- Manjar
- Maple sugar
- Maple taffy
- Marron glacé
- Marshmallow
- Marshmallow creme
- Marzipan
- Mendiant
- Milk chocolate
- Mint
- Misri
- Modjeska
- Mooncake
- Moustalevria
- Mozartkugel
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- Paçoca
- Pashmak
- Pastila
- Pastille
- Peanut butter cup
- Pecan log roll
- Penuche
- Pepero
- Persipan
- Pirate coins
- Pirulín
- Polkagris
- Pontefract cake
- Poolaki
- Ptasie mleczko
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- Salt water taffy
- Salty liquorice
- Sesame seed candy
- Sherbet (powder)
- Singori
- Sohan
- Soor ploom
- South Asian sweets
- Sprinkles
- Spunk
- Stick candy
- Strela candy
- Succade
- Sugar cake
- Sugar mice
- Sugar paste
- Sugar plum
- Suikerboon
- Sukhdi
- Szaloncukor
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Cookies
In the United States and Canada a cookie is a small, flat, baked treat, usually containing flour, eggs, sugar, and either butter or cooking oil, and often including ingredients such as raisins, oats, or chocolate chips.
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- Canestrelli
- Chocolate chip cookie
- Chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream
- Christmas cookies
- Colaz
- Cookie bouquet
- Cookie dough
- Cookie salad
- Corn cookie
- Coyotas
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- Rainbow cookie
- Reshteh khoshkar
- Rock cake
- Rose cookies
- Rosette
- Roskette
- Russian tea cake
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- An opened fortune cookie
- Krumkake, some dusted with powdered sugar
- A plain sugar cookie
Custards
Custard is a variety of culinary preparations based on a cooked mixture of milk or cream and egg yolk. Depending on how much egg or thickener is used, custard may vary in consistency from a thin pouring sauce (crème anglaise) to a thick pastry cream (crème pâtissière) used to fill éclairs. Most common custards are used as desserts or dessert sauces and typically include sugar and vanilla. Custard bases may also be used for quiches and other savory foods. Sometimes flour, corn starch, or gelatin is added as in pastry cream or crème pâtissière.
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- Banana pudding
- Bavarian cream
- Bean pie
- Berliner
- Bienenstich
- Bird's Custard
- Bob Andy pie
- Boston cream doughnut
- Boston cream pie
- Bougatsa
- Bread and butter pudding
- Buttermilk pie
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- Charlotte
- Cheesecake
- Chiboust cream
- Clafoutis
- Coconut custard
- Coconut jam
- Cream pie
- Crème anglaise
- Crème brûlée
- Crème caramel
- Custard pie
- Custard tart
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- Far Breton
- Flanby
- Flapper pie
- Floating island
- Flourless chocolate cake
- Frangipane
- French toast
- Frozen custard
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- Crème brûlée prepared using a torch
- A Bavarian cream crumb pastry
- Coconut custard is a dessert dish consisting of a coconut custard steam-baked in a pumpkin or kabocha.
Dessert sauces
Dessert sauces are used to add flavor and texture to desserts, and tend to be sweet.
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Italian cuisine
Doughnuts
A doughnut, or donut, is a type of fried dough confectionery or dessert food. The doughnut is popular in many countries and prepared in various forms as a sweet snack that can be homemade or purchased in bakeries, supermarkets, food stalls, and franchised specialty outlets.
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- Bamiyeh
- Baursaki
- Bear claw
- Beignet
- Berliner
- Bombolone
- Boortsog
- Boston cream doughnut
- Brown Bobby
- Buñuelo
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- Sabudana vada
- Sata andagi
- Sfenj
- Sgabeo
- Shuangbaotai
- Smultring
- Sopaipilla
- Sour cream doughnut
- Sufganiyah
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- Glazed doughnuts
- Smultringer frying
Frozen desserts
Frozen dessert is the generic name for desserts made by freezing liquids, semi-solids, and sometimes even solids.
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Ice cream
Ice cream is a frozen dessert usually made from dairy products, such as milk and cream and often combined with fruits or other ingredients and flavors. Ice cream became popular throughout the world in the second half of the 20th century after cheap refrigeration became common.
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- Ice cream bar
- Ice cream cake
- Ice cream cone
- Ice cream float
- Ice cream sandwich
- Ice cream soda
- Ice milk
- Indian ice cream (Alaska)
- Indian ice cream (Canada)
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- A choc-top
Pastries
Pastry is the name given to various kinds of baked products made from ingredients such as flour, sugar, milk, butter, shortening, baking powder, and eggs.[2] Small tarts and other sweet baked products are called "pastries."
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- Bakewell pudding
- Baklava
- Bakpia
- Bakpia Pathok
- Bánh pía
- Banitsa
- Banket
- Bear claw
- BeaverTails
- Belekoy
- Belokranjska povitica
- Bethmännchen
- Birnbrot
- Bizcocho
- Blachindla
- Bougatsa
- Boyoz
- Briouat
- Bruttiboni
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- Carac
- ChaSan
- Chorley cake
- Chouquette
- Choux pastry
- Cinnamon roll
- Coca
- Coussin de Lyon
- Cream horn
- Croline
- Cronut
- Cuban pastry
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- Kalács
- Kanafeh
- Kitchener bun
- Klobasnek
- Knieküchle
- Krempita
- Kringle
- Kroštule
- Kueh Pie Tee
- Kürtőskalács
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- Ma'amoul
- Makroudh
- Malsouka
- Mandelkubb
- Mantecadas
- Marillenknödel
- Marry girl cake
- Masan
- Miguelitos
- Milhoja
- Milk-cream strudel
- Mooncake
- Moorkop
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- Pan dulce
- Papanași
- Paper wrapped cake
- Pastel
- Pastizz
- Pastry heart
- Pâté chaud
- Phyllo
- Pionono
- Plăcintă
- Pretzel
- Profiterole
- Puff pastry
- Punsch-roll
- Punschkrapfen
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- Rab cake
- Remonce
- Reuzenbol
- Roti tissue
- Roze koek
- Runeberg's torte
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- Sad cake
- Schnecken
- Schneeball
- Schuxen
- Semla
- Shortcrust pastry
- Şöbiyet
- Sou
- Spanisch Brötli
- Spritzkuchen
- Streusel
- Strudel
- Stutenkerl
- Sufganiyah
- Sweetheart cake
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Pastries with poppy seeds
Pies
A pie is a baked dish which is usually made of a pastry dough casing that covers or completely contains a filling of various sweet or savoury ingredients.
Sweet pies
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- Bakewell tart
- Banoffee pie
- Bean pie
- Bedfordshire clanger
- Black bun
- Blackberry pie
- Blueberry pie
- Bob Andy pie
- Buko pie
- Bumbleberry pie
- Buttermilk pie
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- Shaker Lemon Pie
- Shoofly pie
- Smulpaj
- Snickers pie
- Strawberry pie
- Strawberry rhubarb pie
- Sugar pie
- Sweet potato pie
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Tarts
A tart is a baked dish consisting of a filling over a pastry base with an open top not covered with pastry. The pastry is usually shortcrust pastry; the filling may be sweet or savory, though modern tarts are usually fruit-based, sometimes with custard.
Puddings
Pudding is usually a dessert, but it can also be a savory dish. In the United Kingdom and most Commonwealth countries, pudding can be used to describe both sweet and savory dishes. However, unless qualified, the term in everyday usage typically denotes a dessert. In the United States and Canada, pudding characteristically denotes a sweet milk-based dessert similar in consistency to egg-based custards, instant custards or a mousse.
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- Bakewell pudding
- Banana pudding
- Bánh chuối
- Bazeen
- Bebinca
- Blancmange
- Blodpalt
- Bread pudding
- Brown Betty
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- Capirotada
- Carrot pudding
- Chè
- Cheese pudding
- Chireta
- Chocolate biscuit pudding
- Chocolate pudding
- Christmas pudding
- Clootie
- Cottage Pudding
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- Put chai ko is a popular snack in Hong Kong.
By country
Algeria
Argentina
Australia
Bangladesh
Brazil
Canada
Chile
China
Czech Republic
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hong Kong
Hungary
India
Indonesia
Italy
.
Italian pastries
Japan
Korea
Luxembourg
Malaysia
Mexico
Netherlands
New Zealand
Pakistan
Philippines
Poland
Romania
Romanian pastries
Russia
Scotland
Slovenia
Spain
Sri Lanka
Switzerland
Swiss pastries
Taiwan
Thailand
Turkey
Turkish pastries
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
United States
Uruguay
By region
Latin America
Latin America is a highly diverse area with cuisines that vary from nation to nation. Desserts in Latin American cuisine include dulce de leche, alfajor, rice pudding, tres leches cake, teja and flan.
Southern Africa
In Southern Africa, desserts may simply be fruit, but there are some western style puddings, such as the Angolan cocada amarela, which was inspired by Portuguese cuisine.
South Asia
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A sample of South Asian sweets |
Bengal
By time period
Middle Ages
See also
- Cuisine
- Culinary art
- List of bean-to-bar chocolate manufacturers
- List of breads
- List of custard desserts
- List of dessert sauces
- List of ice cream flavors
References
- ↑ "Dessert". Merriam-Webster. Merriam-Webster Incorporated. Retrieved 15 October 2012.
- ↑ "Pastry". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 3 January 2014.
Further reading
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- Khatau, Asha (2005). Epicure's Delectable Desserts of the World. Popular Prakashan. ISBN 8179912280.