List of desserts

A dessert is typically the sweet course that concludes a meal in the culture of many countries, particularly Western culture. 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.[2]

An assortment of desserts.
A chocolate-strawberry crumble ball.
Indian confectionery desserts (known as mithai, or sweets in some parts of India). Sugar and desserts have a long history in India: by about 500 BCE, people in India had developed the technology to produce sugar crystals. In the local language, these crystals were called khanda (खण्ड), which is the source of the word candy.[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.

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Brand name desserts

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Cakes
Main article: List of 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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Confectionery and candies
Main article: List of candies
See also: List of confectionery brands, List of chocolate bar brands, and List of bean-to-bar chocolate manufacturers

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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Cookies
Main article: List of 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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  • Gingerbread cookie
  • Ginger nut
  • Guyuria

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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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Dessert sauces
Chocolate syrup on top of ice cream

Dessert sauces are used to add flavor and texture to desserts, and tend to be sweet.

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Italian cuisine

Doughnuts
Main article: List of doughnut varieties
See also: List of fried dough foods

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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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
See also: Ice cream around the world, List of ice cream brands, and List of ice cream parlor chains

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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Pastries
Main articles: List of pastries and List of poppy seed pastries and dishes
See also: Pastry chef

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.[3] Small tarts and other sweet baked products are called "pastries."

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An assortment of pastries and cakes in a pâtisserie

Pastries with poppy seeds

Pies
Main article: List of pies, tarts and flans

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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Tarts
Tarte Tatin

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
Main article: List of 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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By country

Algeria

Argentina
Argentine pionono with dulce de leche
Main article: List of Argentine sweets and desserts

Australia

Azerbaijan
  • Azerbaijani pakhlava
  • Badambura
  • Shekerbura
  • Shorgoghali

Bangladesh
Main article: List of Bangladeshi sweets and desserts
See also: Bangladeshi cuisine – Desserts
Chomchom, traditional Bengali sweet originated from Porabari, Tangail, Bangladesh.

Brazil
Main article: List of Brazilian sweets and desserts

Canada
A pecan butter tart

Chile

China
Main articles: List of Chinese desserts and Chinese desserts

Czech Republic

Finland

France
Main article: List of French desserts

Germany
Main article: List of German desserts

Greece
Main article: List of Greek dishes § Desserts and sweets
See also: Greek cuisine § Desserts and sweets
Loukoumades

Hong Kong

Hungary

India
Chhena Gaja from Pahala, Orissa, India
Main article: List of Indian sweets and desserts
See also: Indian cuisine – Desserts

Indonesia
Main article: List of Indonesian desserts

Italy
Cassatas are popular and traditional Sicilian desserts

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See also: List of Italian dishes § Desserts and pastry, and Sicilian cuisine § Desserts and sweets

Italian pastries

Japan
Hakuto jelly is a seasonal Japanese dessert available in the summer.
Main article: List of Japanese desserts and sweets
See also: List of Japanese dishes § Japanese-style sweets (wagashi, 和菓子); and Japanese cuisine § Sweets

Korea
Main article: List of Korean desserts
See also: Korean cuisine – Sweets

Luxembourg

Malaysia

Mexico

Netherlands

New Zealand
Afghan biscuits

Pakistan
Main article: List of Pakistani sweets and desserts

Peru

Philippines
Main article: List of Philippine desserts

Poland
Main article: List of Polish desserts
Filhos

Portugal

Romania

Romanian pastries

Russia
See also: List of Russian desserts
Russian kartoshka (potato) cake

Scotland

Slovenia
Kremna rezina

Spain
See also: List of Spanish desserts

Sri Lanka
Main article: List of Sri Lankan sweets and desserts

Switzerland

Swiss pastries

Taiwan
A plate of Bàobīng with strawberries and condensed milk

Thailand

Turkey
Main article: List of Turkish desserts

Turkish pastries
Şekerpare

Ukraine
Syrniki with varenye

United Arab Emirates

United Kingdom
Main article: List of British desserts

United States
Main article: List of American desserts

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.

Indian subcontinent
Sweets from the Indian subcontinent
Khoya sweets with varaq
Bal mithai
Khoa and almond mithais
Bengal sweets in India
Collection in UK
Sohan sweets in India
Street sweets in India
A sample of sweets from the Indian subcontinent
Main article: Sweets from the Indian subcontinent

Bengal

Polynesia

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Middle Ages
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See also

References
  1. Elizabeth Abbot (2010). Sugar: A Bitterweet History. Penguin. ISBN 978-1-590-20297-5.
  2. "Dessert". Merriam-Webster. Merriam-Webster Incorporated. Retrieved 15 October 2012.
  3. "Pastry". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 3 January 2014.

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