In each country you will be served your own dessert. It can be light fruit dishes or hearty chocolate treats. Find out what is eaten by sweet people around the world, from Japanese moti to Icelandic ski.
1. France: creme brulee
Popular in France, the dessert is a thick custard with caramel crust. The recipe for its preparation can be found here .
2. America: apple pie
The most that there is an American dessert is an apple pie. Apples in a crisp crust dough can be served with whipped cream, vanilla ice cream or even cheddar cheese. Write down the recipe !
3. Turkey: Baklava
One of the most famous traditional oriental sweets is the Turkish baklava . Puff pastry from the finest layers with a filling of chopped nuts in syrup or honey, cut into small square portions, melts in your mouth, making you feel all the delights of eastern exotics.
4. Italy: gelato
On the streets of Italian cities, here and there they sell gelato - a local version of ice cream, softer than we have. Gelato is prepared with different additives: raspberry, pistachio, rum and chocolate. Try and you !
5. Peru: picarones
Picarones are a kind of Peruvian donuts served with syrup. The dough for picarones is prepared from flour, yeast and sugar with the addition of sweet potato, pumpkin and anise.
6. Russia: sour cream
Cheesecakes - sweet pancakes from curd pastry, served with sour cream, honey or jam. If you want to try classic cheese cakes in a frying pan, use this recipe .
7. Spain: the Tarta de Santiago
Tarta de Santiago is an ancient Spanish pie with a rich history that goes deep into the Middle Ages. For the first time, the almond pie, dedicated to St. James (according to the Spanish version - Santiago), was baked in Galicia in the north-west of Spain.
8. Japan: Mochi
Traditional Japanese dessert got its name from a sort of glutinous rice "motigome", it is pounded in a mortar, turning into a paste from which cakes are made or balls are formed. The dish is especially popular in the Japanese New Year, although they can be enjoyed all year round. Dessert with ice cream ball inside - moti ice cream - is sold not only in Japan, it is popular in some other countries.
9. Argentina: pastelos
A special dish served on the day of Argentina's independence is a kind of puff pastry stuffed with quince or sweet potato, deep-fried and sprinkled with sugar syrup.
10. England: Banoffi Pie
English pie Banoffi is made from bananas, cream, boiled condensed milk, chopped biscuits and butter. Sometimes it is added chocolate or coffee. More detailed recipe here .
11. Brazil: brigadeiro
Popular Brazilian sweets are the main delicacy on the holidays. Like the truffle, brigadeiro is made from cocoa powder, condensed milk and butter. It can be eaten as a paste, but usually it is made from balls and sprinkled with chocolate chips.
12. China: "The Beard of the Dragon"
"Dragon Beard" is not just a dessert, it's a traditional Chinese culinary art. A coconut-like delicacy is made from ordinary and malty sugar syrup with the addition of peanuts, sesame and coconut.
13. Belgium: Belgian waffles
Thick corrugated wafers are sold in Belgium on every corner. Oily delicacy is better to eat warm, sprinkled with powdered sugar or smeared nutella. If you have a waffle iron, you can easily cook them in your kitchen, using this recipe .
14. India: Gulabjamun
Gulabjamun is one of the desserts most loved by Indians, which is also popular throughout southeast Asia. Gulabjamun reminds small donuts in sugar syrup. Sweet balls of milk powder fried in ghee - a variety of purified melted butter.
15. Austria: Sacher
One of the most famous cakes in the world is named after its author - Franz Zacher, who first prepared a famous dessert in 1832, when he was only 16. The cake consists of a biscuit cake with a layer of apricot jam and is covered with chocolate glaze, but the secret of cooking is strictly It is guarded and known only to the confectioners of the Hotel Sacher in Vienna.
16. Australia: Lamington
Lamington is an Australian square biscuit covered with chocolate icing and lapped in coconut shavings.
17. Germany: Black Forest Cherry Cake
Cake "Black Forest" - this is how the name of this world-famous dessert is translated from German - is prepared from biscuit cakes impregnated with kirsch vass (alcoholic tincture made of cherry wort). In the cake put a cherry filling and decorate with whipped cream and grated chocolate.
18. Iceland: skyr
The history of the preparation of the Skyr has more than a thousand years. This dairy product has a consistency of yogurt and sour taste, something between sour cream and cottage cheese mass. Skir can be diluted with milk or added fruit and sugar.
19. Canada: Tiles Nanaimo
The name of the popular Canadian dessert comes from the city of Nanaimo, which is in the province of British Columbia. This three-layer cake does not require baking: the bottom layer is prepared from waffle crumbs, followed by a thick creamy glaze with a taste of custard, and on top everything is poured with melted chocolate.
20. South Africa: Coxister
This South African dessert is called from the Dutch word "koekje", denoting sweet biscuits. Koksister - very sweet twisted bagels - are prepared from dough for donuts, fried in deep-fried and dipped in cold sugar syrup. Traditionally served for tea.
21. Sweden: The Princess
The layered cake "Princess" is covered with a thick layer of marzipan, usually green and decorated with a red rose. Inside the cake - biscuit cakes, smeared with raspberry jam, custard and whipped cream.
22. Egypt: Umm ali
Egyptian desserts are prepared from puff pastry, milk, sugar, vanilla, raisins, coconut flakes and a variety of nuts, all baked and served warm.
23. Poland: roll with poppy seeds
Popular in Poland, rolls with poppy seeds are usually prepared for holidays, but you can try it all year round. Top of the roll can be covered with glaze.
24. Indonesia: Dadar Gulung
"Dadar gulung" in translation means "folded pancake". The dish has an unusual green color due to the fact that the pancake itself is prepared from the leaves of pandanus - a local plant used in Indonesian cuisine. Dadar gulung is started with coconut and palm sugar.