500+ Desserts A to Z

List of Desserts

Looking for desserts from A-Z? I love desserts, so I went on an exhaustive journey and rounded up over 500 desserts in this list! From apple pie to zonker to alll the cakes—I’ve got you covered.

What should I make for dessert tonight? Could I just pay someone to come up with a dessert ideas for me? Yeah, I’ve been there! For you (and for me!) I’ve put together this alphabetical list of desserts from A to Z. They’re all over the map—some are indulgent, and some are healthy-ish.

Here are my absolute best, desserts from A to Z—all in one place!

My best desserts list from A-Z

I’ve been on dessert kick lately, and I’ve gone alphabetical, so I don’t miss anything. 

Without further ado, let’s dive into desserts!

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Desserts That Start With A

Angel Food Cake

This airy cake is made from egg whites, flour, and sugar. Its aerated texture comes from whipped egg white. A slice of heaven in every bite. Give me 3 slices please!

The first detailed recipe of this cake was published in the Boston Cooking School Cook Book in 1884.

Some historians think that the first angel food cakes were baked by African-American slaves from the South.

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Apple Pie

It’s impossible to list desserts without a mention of apple pie, one of the most popular dessert names in American history. And is it fantastic!

Best enjoyed warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream, apple pie is enjoyed at both home and restaurants across America.

Although the patriotic origins of the classic dessert date back to 1600s colonial America — apple pie originated in England.

American Trifle

If you’re looking for some sweet dessert ideas, why not try an American Trifle? They are usually made up of fresh cake layered with fruit, and covered in pudding.

The best part about it is that you can make it with almost any kind of cake and pudding. You can also vary its appearance just by changing around the arrangement or thickness of its layers.

They are amazing served chilled on a hot summer day.

Amish Friendship Cake

Have your pound cake cake and your coffee cake, too. It has characteristics of both!

Amish Friendship Bread is a great bread for the holidays. 

You can give your friends a sample and the starter that made it! Then your friends can make their own and pass it along to their friends.

This is why the bread is called “friendship bread”.

Applesauce Cake

Essentially, applesauce cake is a dessert cake made from apple sauce, flour, sugar, and spices.

This dessert can be served at room temperature or warm with ice cream or whipped cream on top. In addition to being delicious, applesauce cake is also high in fiber. Yum!

Historically, applesauce cake was popular in colonial America.

Every June 6th, America celebrates National Applesauce Cake Day.

Ambrosia

A fruit salad that includes miniature marshmallows, heavy cream and coconut.

Ambrosia began appearing in cookbooks in the late 1800s when citrus fruit became more prevalent in markets across the United States.

Apple Dumplings

A baked or boiled pastry-wrapped apple. The hole from the core may be filled with cinnamon, butter and sugar and sometimes dried fruit such as raisins.

Apple dumplings are believed to be native to the northeastern United States, around Pennsylvania. Often found among the delicious Amish recipes, it is frequently eaten as a breakfast item.

Apple Strudel

There are few dessert names more evocative than strudel. It’s hard not to immediately think of Vienna and its famous apple-filled pastry.

Other fruit-filled examples include apricot, cherry, peach, and pear strudels. There are also savory versions.

Anmitsu

The Japanese traditional cold dessert Anmitsu has been enjoyed by the people of Japan for decades.

“Mitsu” is a dark brown coloured syrup topped with fruits, condensed milk, dango, and azuki bean paste (“an”).

The Japanese dessert anmitsu dates back to the Meiji period.

The cubes are made of agar jelly, a white translucent jelly derived from red algae. It is made by dissolving agar in water.

Alabama Lane Cake

Lane Cake is a well-known Southern cake that originated in Alabama.

Lane cake is a 3-4 layer cake with a thick raisin filling made with bourbon. Egg whites are used for the vanilla layer cake and egg yolks for the custard filling.

The Alabama House of Representatives named lane cake as the official state cake in 2016.

Acorn Squash Pie

An alternative to pumpkin pie, these pies are filled with acorn squash, a delicious yet underused vegetable.

Long before the Old World debut of squash it was cultivated by indigenous people in the Americas.

Anko

In Japan, anko is a sweet red bean paste made of azuki beans.

Red bean paste is a filling that is often found in Japanese sweets.

Sweet bean paste can also be found in many other Asian desserts and pastries.

The literal translation of the word Anko is “small beans”.

Apricot Crisp

A dessert made with a streusel topping. An apple crumble is a dessert of baked chopped apples topped with rolled oats and brown sugar.

A crisp is a type of American dessert, usually consisting of a type of fruit, baked with a crispy topping, hence the name. 

Apricot Crumble

A sweet dessert that contains stewed apricots topped with a crumbly mixture of fat, flour, and sugar.

Crumbles are an American and British tradition during the fall, when apples are plentiful. 

The dessert originated in Britain during World War II.

Aseedah

One of the most popular desserts and traditional dishes in many Arab countries. 

Served for lunch, dinner, or both, aseedah is one of Yemen’s staple dishes.

The ingredients are wholemeal wheat, boiling water, and salt. 

Avocado Cheesecake

This easy no-bake, red & green dessert relies on the smooth, creamy texture of avocado to form a stiff, custardy base — no gelatin required. Top with a red fruit like cherries, strawberries, or raspberries for a festive feel.

Arrowroot Cookies

Arrowroot flour can substitute regular flour in cookies.

Arrowroot is rich in several B vitamins and iron, which makes it beneficial for health. They are also said to sooth the stomach.

Ashure

Ashure is also called Noah’s pudding or Ashura. It is a porridge-like dessert popular in the Middle East.

The dish consists of a mixture of grains, fresh fruit, dried fruit, nuts and various types of grains.

During the month of Muharram, when Ashure Day falls, Sufi Muslims make the dish in the Balkans and Turkey.   

Almond Cookies

With an almond flour base, almond extract, and toasted almond slices, these cookies are buttery, soft, and chewy.

Making these cookies is quick and easy.

Angel Wings

Traditional angel wings are made by twisting dough into thin ribbons, deep-frying them, and then sprinkled with powdered sugar.

Don’t mind eating dessert for breakfast, lunch, or dinner? Me too!

Arctic Roll

The classic, decadent British ice cream cake made of vanilla ice cream, sponge cake, and cranberry sauce between the layers.

Anzac Biscuit

Traditionally, the Anzac biscuit (aka cookie) is made with rolled oats, flour, sugar, butter, golden syrup, baking soda, boiling water, and desiccated coconut.

Anzac cookies are associated with the World War I Australian and New Zealand Army Corps.

Australian Pavlova

A pavlova is a circular meringue cake with an airy interior and a crunchy crust.

Pavlovas are a  meringue-based dessert. Originally from Australia or New Zealand, Pavlovas were named after the Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova in the early 20th century. 

Arroz Con Dulce

Arroz con dulce is a traditional Christmas dessert in Puerto Rico and several other island countries. Festive spices like cinnamon, ginger, and cloves give it that holiday flavor.

Affogato

Affogato, an Italian coffee-based dessert. It usually takes the form of a scoop of gelato or ice cream topped or “drowned” with a shot of hot espresso.

Almond Shortbread Cookies – Part of Christmas tradition in Greece.

Allahabadi Fruit Cake

Allahabadi cake is a Christmas rum cake popularly prepared for consumption during Christmastide by the Christian population of India and Pakistan.

Apfelkuchen

By now you can tell I’m a big fan of apples! This traditional German apple cake is a simple vanilla cake with thinly sliced fresh apples on top. When you slice the apples without cutting all the way through, you get a lovely fanned effect as they bake. The cake looks so pretty and fancy with a fresh dusting of icing sugar on top.

A German apple cake combines sliced, halved, or diced apples with a rich, buttery dough. Depending on where you live, the cake is often covered in cinnamon sugar, topped with flaky streusel, or soaked in vanilla custard.

Sliced apple cake is usually served in the afternoon as a filling dessert with coffee or tea.

Ábrystir

Ábrystir is a deliciously rich and creamy pudding made from cow’s or sheep’s milk that is native to Iceland.

It has a texture similar to that of crème caramel, but with its own unique and delicious taste.

It’s a versatile dessert that can be enjoyed hot, lukewarm or cold, and it’s common to add sugar or cinnamon to enhance its flavor.

Ais Kacang

Ais Kacang is a popular dessert in Malaysia, Singapore and other Southeast Asian countries.

It is a type of shaved ice dessert that is topped with various sweet ingredients such as red beans, sweet corn, and jelly.

This dessert is usually served in a tall glass and the ice is usually finely shaved to give it a smooth texture.

It is often drizzled with syrup such as rose syrup and condensed milk, and can be topped with a scoop of ice cream.

Ais Kacang is a refreshing and delicious dessert that is perfect for hot weather and it is a favorite among locals and tourists alike.

Allerheiligenstriezel

Strietzel, or allerheiligenstriezel, is a braided yeast pastry. In English, it is known as “All Saints’ braid”.

It contains flour, eggs, yeast, shortening or butter, raisins, milk, salt, and decorating sugar or poppy seeds. 

Rum and lemon juice are also used in some regional variations.

Apas

Apas are sugary cookies from the Philippines. with an oblong in shape.

Apa is also the Tagalog word for wafer.

Arany Galuska

Arany Galushka is a traditional Hungarian dessert. 

Butter-rolled balls are rolled in a mixture of sugar and nuts before being assembled into layers, then baked until golden.

Açaí Na Tigela

Açaí na tigela is a Brazilian dessert.

It is made from frozen and mashed fruit of the açai palm. Acai  berries have an “earthy” or creamy flavor.

Alexandertorte

Traditionally eaten as a lunch or dinner dessert, it is made up of pastry strips filled with raspberry preserves or raspberry jam. 

The torte should be made a few days before serving, so that the icing is hard before serving.  

The Alexandertorte is a dessert that was created to commemorate a visit by Tsar Alexander III to Latvia.

Armenian Bakhlava (Pakhlava)

The Armenian version of baklava is simple and delicious. 

Flaky, buttery layers of phyllo dough are layered with cinnamon-spiced chopped walnuts, and a syrup infused with cloves is served on the side. 

Armenian baklava differs in how it is sweetened from Greek baklava, and it is a centerpiece of the Armenian Christmas table.

American-Style Pudding

Pudding was introduced to the American colonies by the English.

The American version of pudding is sweet, with a consistency likened to a custard or mousse.

Angel Delight

Angel Delight is a British powdered dessert. It is combined with milk to make a mousse-like sweet dessert. The Bird’s company released Angel Delight in a strawberry-and-cream flavor in 1967.

Australian Frog Cake

The frog cake is a traditional Australian dessert that is shaped like a frog’s head.

It’s made of sponge cake and cream and covered in fondant.

Around the year 1923, the Balfours bakery came up with the idea, and it quickly became a popular sweet in South Australian households.

Algerian Khobz Mbesses

Algerian khobz mbesses cake is very simple, hearty, and filling dessert.

The crust is chewy and the interior is moist.

Traditionally, it is prepared in a tadjine.

There are baked versions of this cake as well as halwet versions (halva). A tajine is an earthenware pot from North Africa.

Argentinian Chocotorta

This chocotorta cake is extremely simple to make. It’s a traditional Argentina birthday cake layered with dulce de leche and chilled in the fridge. One of the simplest traditional Argentina desserts to make is this no-bake chocolate cake.

The chocotorta Argentina dessert is one of Argentina’s most popular homemade desserts. Chocotorta literally translates to “chocolate cake” in Spanish. It’s a traditional Argentina dessert that’s usually made for special occasions like birthdays.

Amandine

Amandine is a popular “sweetshop” treat in Romania. This cake is traditionally made with alternating layers of chocolate sponge cake and rum-flavored caramel syrup. The whipped cream filling for the cake is made by combining the chocolate buttercream with the marshmallow fondant.

After the layers are assembled, they are coated with a fondant-chocolate-rum or rum essence mixture that is poured over the cake while it is still slightly liquid.

Amandine is a Romanian chocolate cake with numerous layers of chocolate and a filling of chocolate, caramel, and fondant cream. There are times when almond cream is used.

Abnabat

Bnabt is a Persian hard candy made of boiled sugar with added flavors. Abnabat comes in many varieties, including Abnabat Gheichi. Nabat is Arabic for sugar, and ab is Arabic for water. The name literally translates to “sugar water.”

Awwamaat

Awwamaats are small dough balls the size of a walnut that are deep-fried until golden brown and crisp, then soaked in sugar syrup. These sticky doughnuts are a popular snack in the Middle East. They are part of the traditional celebration of Ghtas, Christ’s baptismal night, in Lebanon. These crullers, known as “zalabiya” when in stick shape or “awwamaat” when in dumpling shape, are served during the Christmas season in Lebanon and Syria.

Ammonia Cookie

An ammonia cookie is a type of cookie that uses baking ammonia as a leavener.

They are most typically related with Scandinavian-American cooking in the United States.

Baker’s ammonia is also used in Polish cooking, where it’s called ciasteczka amoniaczki.

Baker’s Ammonia is used in the production of extra-crisp cookies and crackers.

It does not leave an alkaline aftertaste in baked goods, unlike baking powder or soda.

Akanés

Akanes is a Greek dessert similar to loukoumi, however it is flavored with fresh goat’s milk butter instead of fruit essences.

It is produced in the northern Greek town of Serres.

The word akanes comes from the Ottoman period in Greece, when it was known as hakanes halva or royal halva.

The dessert is particularly popular in the Serres regional unit and at delicacy shops throughout Greece.

Almond Jelly

Almond jelly is a Chinese dessert made with almond milk, agar, sugar, pure almond extract, and canned fruits. Some people prefer to use plain cow milk and gelatin.

The most authentic way to make the dessert is with small almonds native to southern China, but almonds of nearly any variety can be used. Almond jelly originated in Southern China but has since spread throughout Asia.

Australian Neenish Tart

The Neenish Tart is a small pastry tart made with alternating layers of jam and imitation cream filling and a two-toned icing topping. In its traditional form, this iconic Australian dessert is distinguished by its distinctive half-and-half icing and very sweet flavor.

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Desserts That Start With B

Baked Alaska

A sponge cake with an ice cream layer, it’s covered completely in meringue, which is either baked or torched to brown.

The name “baked Alaska” was supposedly coined at Antoine’s, a restaurant in New Orleans, Louisiana to honor the acquisition by the United States of Alaska from the Russian Empire in 1867.

Brownies

Brownies are square or rectangular chocolate dessert bars. Brownies may be either fudgy or cakey, depending on their density.

One legend about the creation of brownies is that of a prominent Chicago socialite whose husband owned the Palmer House Hotel. 

Boston Cream Pie

A dessert made with yellow butter cake, custard cream, and chocolate glaze.

A Boston cream pie is a cake with a cream filling.

The dessert acquired its name when cakes and pies were cooked in the same pans, and the words were used interchangeably.

Banana Split

An ice cream dessert made with chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry ice cream sandwiched between two banana halves — it’s drizzled with chocolate and strawberry syrup, sprinkled with nuts, and topped with whipped cream and cherries.

Biscotti

A crispy cookie that’s perfect for dunking.

They are twice-baked, oblong-shaped, dry, crunchy, and may be dipped in a drink, traditionally Vin Santo.

Box Cake

A convenient cake in a box easier than baking it from scratch.

People who are used to box mixes think that scratch cakes are too dense and can seem dry because mixes have that really wet yet at the same time very airy texture.

Scratch cakes tend to have a tighter crumb. It’s all about what you like and what you are used to.

In 1933, P. Duff and Sons, a Pittsburgh molasses company, patented the first cake mix after blending dehydrated molasses with dehydrated flour, sugar, eggs, and other ingredients. 

Banana Bread

A type of loaf made with mashed bananas.

It is often a moist, sweet, cake-like quick bread; however there are some banana bread recipes that are traditional-style raised breads.

Bananas first started to appear in the United States in the late 19th century.

It is believed that the bread was first made in the 19th century when housewives discovered Pearlash, a chemical leavening agent.

Buckle

A charmingly old-fashioned dessert that deserves a comeback, a buckle is a single-layer cake with berries or cut-up fruit in the batter, giving it a “buckled,” or indented, appearance.

The origins of buckle are a bit mysterious. The dish has been in the United States for centuries, suggesting that it may have been developed by colonists.

Blueberry Pie

A pie with a blueberry filling. Blueberry pie is readily made because it does not require pitting or peeling of fruit.

It usually has a top and bottom crust.

The top crust can be circular, but the pie can also have a crumble crust or no top crust.

Bundt Cake

A cake that is baked in a Bundt pan, shaping it into a distinctive doughnut shape.

Typically speaking, bundt cakes are denser in texture without being overly gooey. 

Bundt pans were invented by Minnesota’s Nordic Ware company to recreate traditional kugelhopf—a dense, ring-shaped, German cake.

Blue Velvet Cake

The flavor of blue velvet cake is the same as a red velvet cake—fluffy vanilla cake with a hint of chocolate slathered in tangy cream cheese frosting.

Bomboloni

The bomboloni is a powdered doughnut with a liquid filling.

For the most part, these desserts have nutella filling, but they can also have apricot jam filling, marmalade, and custard.

Black Forest Cake

SO worth the process. A chocolate sponge cake layered with whipped cream and red cherry filling.

Banoffee Pie

A dessert that’s a combination of ripe bananas, toffee, and a cookie crust.

Bailey’s Cheesecake

Baileys Cheesecake has a delicious chocolate cookie crust topped with Irish cream-spiked cheesecake filling and ganache layers.

Brown Betty

A vintage American dessert made from fruit and sweetened crumbs. Similar to a cobbler or apple crisp, the fruit is baked, and, in this case, the sweetened crumbs are placed in layers between the fruit.

It is usually served with lemon sauce or whipped cream.

Betty was a popular baked pudding made during colonial times in America.

Betties are an English pudding dessert. 

Berlingozzo

A simple Italian ring-shaped cake.

It consists of flour, butter, sugar, eggs, milk, and baking soda in its basic variety.

Bananas Foster

A dessert made from bananas and vanilla ice cream, with a sauce made from butter, brown sugar, cinnamon, dark rum, and banana liqueur.

The butter, sugar and bananas are cooked, and then alcohol is added and ignited.

The bananas and sauce are then served over the ice cream.

Bananas Foster originated in New Orleans, Louisiana

Buckeye

Made from a peanut butter fudge partially dipped in chocolate to leave a circle of peanut butter visible.

Buckeyes are similar to peanut butter balls, which are completely covered in chocolate.

Black and White Cookies

A black-and-white cookie, half-and-half cookie, or half-moon cookie is a round cookie iced or frosted on one half with vanilla and on the other with chocolate.

Burnt Custard

A classic, everything a rich, silky custard should be. Comforting, satisfy, and just delicious. 

Bumpy Cake

A rich chocolate cake topped with piped lines of sweet frosting and covered in shiny fudge icing.

The bumpy texture makes for an artful cross-section of cake each time a serving is sliced.

Bee Sting Cake

A traditional German dessert comprised of two thin layers of yeast cake with a creamy filling, and a crunchy, buttery, honey-and-almond topping.

The yeast cake balances out the sweetness of the filling and topping.

Black Bun

Also known as Scotch bun, this fruit cake typically contains raisins, currants, almonds, citrus peel, allspice, ginger, cinnamon and black pepper.

Blackout Cake

Sometimes called Brooklyn Blackout cake, is a chocolate cake filled with chocolate pudding and topped with chocolate cake crumbs. 

Blondie

A variety of dessert bar. It resembles a chocolate brownie, but substitutes vanilla in place of cocoa which gives it a “blonde” in stead of brown color.

Bread and Butter Pudding

A traditional bread pudding popular in British cuisine.

Slices of buttered bread scattered with raisins are layered in an oven dish, covered with an egg custard mixture seasoned with nutmeg, vanilla, or other spices, then baked.

Baked Rice Pudding

This rice pudding is lovely served warm.

This simple old fashioned recipe is easy to make and uses ingredients you may already have on hand!

Broken Glass Jell-O

Also known as Stained Glass Jello. This classic make-ahead dessert recipe looks so lovely on a buffet table and is always a hit at holidays, potlucks, and luncheons!

Butter Pecan Ice Cream

A popular butter flavored vanilla ice cream with roasted pecans.

Butter Cake

A basic cake made with butter, sugar, eggs, flour, and leavening agents such as baking powder or baking soda.

Bear Claw

A bear claw is a sweet, yeast-raised pastry, a type of Danish, originating in the United States during the mid-1920s.

Butterscotch Pudding

A luxuriously creamy and velvet-rich dessert made with salted caramel, fresh whipped cream, and toffee bits.

Budin

A traditional anise-flavored Puerto Rican bread pudding. It is typically served cold.

Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory.

Bread Pudding

A bread-based dessert popular in many countries’ cuisines, made with stale bread and milk or cream, generally containing eggs, a form of fat such as oil, butter or suet, and depending on whether the pudding is sweet or savory, a variety of other ingredients.

Birthday Cake

A cake eaten as part of a birthday celebration.

It is often layered and frosted. Small lit candles are placed on top representing the celebrant’s age.

Buccellato

A Sicilian circular cake. Buccellato contains aniseed, dried figs, dates, raisins, candied fruits, chocolate, and all kinds of nuts — almonds, hazelnuts, walnuts, or even pine nuts.

It is traditionally associated with Christmas in Sicily. It is often sweetened with honey.

Bean Pie

A sweet custard pie whose filling consists of mashed beans, usually navy bean, sugar, eggs, milk, butter and spices. Common spices and flavorings include vanilla, cinnamon and nutmeg.

Bean pies are commonly associated with cuisine of African American Muslims as an alternative to soul foods, except those containing vanilla extract or imitation vanilla extract because they contain alcohol.

Black Bottom Pie

The creamy, bittersweet-chocolate “bottom” of this early-twentieth-century icebox pie rests on a graham cracker crust.

Black bottom pie is a sweet dessert consisting of a chocolate pastry cream that is flavored with rum

Its invention has been claimed by Monroe Boston Strause of Los Angeles.

Blackberry Pie

A pie composed of blackberry filling, usually in the form of either blackberry jam, actual blackberries themselves, or some combination thereof.

Blackberry pie is tart, so it requires more sugar than blueberry pie.

Bob Andy Pie

A sweet pie. It is similar to a custard pie that is spiced with cinnamon and cloves.

It is thought to have originated among the Amish and is named for two legendary gelding workhorses.

Bumbleberry Pie

A Canadian mixed berry pie originating from the Maritimes.

It is made of at least three kinds of berries, but generally refers to a mixed berry pie, as there is no such berry as a “bumbleberry”.

This pie often also contains apple and/or rhubarb.

Buttermilk Pie

It is one of the desperation pies, made using simple, staple ingredients. It is similar to, and sometimes confused with, chess pie, but it does not include cornmeal.

Buttermilk pie is an American cuisine, typically associated with the south.

It is believed to have originated inEngland.

Banbury Cake

A spiced, oval-shaped, currant-filled pastry. Besides currants, the filling typically includes mixed peel, brown sugar, rum, and nutmeg.

Banbury cakes are like a round flakey puff pastry turnover, filled with dried fruits, butter spices and sugar.

Battenberg Cake

A light sponge cake with different sections held together with jam.

The cake is covered in marzipan and, when cut in cross section, displays a distinctive two-by-two check pattern colored pink and yellow.

Buche de Noel

This stupendous, classic holiday dessert is an elegant French dessert — so called because it looks like a log, or bûche.

It’s also known as a yule log.

Butter Tart

Considered one of Canada’s quintessential treats.

The sweet tart consists of a filling of butter, sugar, syrup, and egg, baked in a pastry shell until the filling is semi-solid with a crunchy top. 

Brutti Ma Buoni

These crunchy-chewy cookies, sold at bakeries all over Lazio, are called brutti ma buoni in Italian, or “ugly but good.”

The name pretty much says it all.

Budino

Budino is an Italian pudding. This recipe uses pistachios that are ground and mixed in a food processor before cooking.

Budino is the Italian word for custard or pudding.

It can be thickened with cornstarch or cookies to make it more a soufflé or ganache, and can be sauced with various flavors, including chocolate, caramel, apple, and butterscotch.

Beigli

A traditional Hungarian yeasted bread or roll with a sweet walnut filling and crackly, mahogany-colored crust.

Bavarian Cream

Bavarian cream tastes like rich vanilla custard.

This is mainly due to the fact that the base is made with creme anglaise which is essentially a vanilla custard.

Bingsu

A Korean shaved ice dessert with sweet toppings that may include chopped fruit, condensed milk, fruit syrup, and red beans.

The overall taste is sweet, as the red beans have been simmered with sugar for hours and milk is used to make the shaved milk.

Baklava

Baklava is a sweet dessert made of layers of flaky phyllo pastry filled with crushed nuts and sweetened with honey syrup.

Bon Bons

A bonbon is a small chocolate with a thin shell and an oozy filling that spills out when you take a bite.

They are usually filled with liqueur or other sweet ingredients.

Bubble Tea

A tea-based drink that is accompanied by chewy tapioca balls, but it can be made with other toppings as well.

Bubble tea tastes like a well balanced and sweet milky beverage with a slight twist, boba pearls.

Brittle

A type of confection consisting of flat broken pieces of hard sugar candy embedded with nuts such as peanuts, pecans, or almonds.

Baobing

A Chinese shaved ice dessert that is often topped with sweetened condensed milk, fruit, and ice cream.

Bird’s Nest Pudding

A pudding containing apples whose cores have been replaced by sugar.  

The apples are nestled in a bowl created by the crust.  

Also called Crow’s Nest Pudding.

Banana Pudding

A sweet dessert originating from the Southern United States.

It typically consists of layered vanilla custard, sliced bananas, and wafers or ladyfingers. And then topped with either meringue or whipped cream.

This dessert became closely associated with the American South after WWII, when numerous banana pudding recipes started to get published in newspapers.

Bolo Rei Cake

A lightly spiced, fluffy Christmas ring cake filled with fruit and nuts.

A speciality in Portugal, Bolo Rei or Kings Cake, is super easy to bake. 

Biscuits

The British word for cookies. A hard, flat and unleavened flour-based baked food product. They are usually sweet and may be made with sugar, chocolate, icing, jam, ginger or cinnamon.

Blum’s Coffee Toffee Pie

The original San Francisco treat! This pie is frosted with a rich coffee flavored whipped cream.

Sadly, Blums bakery and restaurant closed in the 70’s. But their pie recipe is open for business.

Desserts That Start With C

Crème Brûlée

The most popular dessert in the world.

Crème brûlée, also known as burnt cream or Trinity cream, and virtually identical to the original crema catalana, is a dessert consisting of a rich custard base topped with a layer of hardened caramelized sugar.

Crème brûlée is usually served in individual ramekins.

The custard is made with heavy cream, eggs, sugar, and vanilla.

Discs of caramel may be prepared separately and put on top just before serving, or the caramel may be formed directly on top of the custard immediately before serving.

Chocolate Chip Cookies

A classic cookie for a reason…beloved by all, and easy to make.

Chocolate chip cookies are drop cookies that feature chocolate chips or chocolate morsels as its distinguishing ingredient.

Ruth Wakefield invented chocolate chip cookies in the 1930s in Massachusetts.

Generally, the recipe starts with a dough composed of flour, butter, both brown and white sugar, semi-sweet chocolate chips, eggs, and vanilla.

A chocolate chocolate chip cookie uses a dough flavored with chocolate or cocoa powder, before chocolate chips are mixed in.

Cobbler

Cobblers are an American deep-dish fruit dessert or pie with a thick crust and a fruit filling (such as peaches, apples, berries). Cobblers originated in the British American colonies.

English settlers were unable to make traditional suet puddings due to lack of suitable ingredients and cooking equipment.

Some cobbler recipes, especially in the American South, resemble a thick-crusted, deep-dish pie with both a top and bottom crust.

Cobbler is a dessert consisting of a fruit (or less commonly savory) filling poured into a large baking dish and covered with a batter, biscuit, or dumpling (in the United Kingdom) before being baked.

Note the crisp and crumble differ from the cobbler in that the former’s top layers may also include rolled oats made with oatmeal.

Chocolate Cake

Chocolate cake is made with chocolate. It can also include other ingredients.

A popular Philadelphia cookbook author, Eliza Leslie, published the earliest chocolate cake recipe in 1847 in The Lady’s Receipt Book.

The history of chocolate cake goes back to 1764, when Dr. James Baker discovered how to make chocolate by grinding cocoa beans between two massive circular millstones.

Custard

American custard is made with sweetened milk, cheese, or cream cooked with egg or egg yolk to thicken it, and sometimes also flour, corn starch, or gelatin. The origin of custard is British.

Stirred custard is thickened by coagulation of egg protein, while the same gives baked custard its gel structure.

Starch is sometimes added to custard to prevent premature curdling.

Cookies

Cookies are a baked or cooked food that is typically small, flat and sweet – it usually contains flour, sugar, egg, and some type of oil, fat, or butter, as well as other ingredients such as raisins, oats, chocolate chips, or nuts.

Cookies are often served with beverages such as milk, coffee or tea and sometimes “dunked”, an approach which releases more flavor from confections by dissolving the sugars while also softening their texture.

Cookies are most commonly baked until crisp or just long enough that they remain soft, but some kinds of cookies are not baked at all.

Coconut Cream Pie

Features a thick and creamy coconut filling, crispy homemade pie crust, mounds of sweet whipped cream, and toasted coconut.

The coconut cream pie has been around for over a century. Back in the late 1800s Americans and Europeans were really into their imported tropical fruit like pineapples and bananas, but the coconut hadn’t yet taken off.

One feature of most cream pies is a whipped cream topping. The custard filling is related to crème patissière, a key component of French cakes, and tarts. The crust may be a standard pastry pie crust, or made with crumbled cookies or a graham cracker crust.

Cupcakes

A small cake designed to serve one person, which may be baked in a small thin paper or aluminum cup. Typically topped with frosting, sprinkles and other decorations.

The cake batter used for cupcakes may be flavored or have other ingredients stirred in, such as raisins, berries, nuts, or chocolate chips.

A standard cupcake uses the same basic ingredients as standard-sized cakes: butter, sugar, eggs, and flour. Nearly any recipe that is suitable for a layer cake can be used to bake cupcakes.

Cupcakes may be topped with frosting or other cake decorations. Elaborately decorated cupcakes may be made for special occasions.

Crisps

American crisps are baked with the fruit mixture on the bottom with a crumb topping.

The crumb topping can be made with flour, nuts, bread crumbs, cookie or graham cracker crumbs, or even breakfast cereal.

A Crumble is the British version of the American Crisp.

The basic chips are cooked and salted; additional varieties are manufactured using various flavorings and ingredients including herbs, spices, cheeses, other natural flavors, artificial flavors, and additives.

Crumble

A crumble is a baked dessert made of fresh fruit with a streusel-like topping, typically prepared in a baking dish or casserole dish.

A crumble is a dish that can be made in a sweet or savory version. An example of crumble is to make something into crumbs, or small pieces of bread.

Crumbles became popular in Britain during World War II, when the topping was an economical alternative to pies due to shortages of pastry ingredients as the result of rationing.

Cannoli

Italian pastries consist of tube-shaped shells of fried pastry dough, filled with a sweet, creamy filling usually containing ricotta—a staple of Sicilian cuisine.

They range in size from 9 to 20 centimeters. In mainland Italy, they are commonly known as cannoli siciliani. Cannolis are one of the most famous Italian desserts.

Coffee Cake

Coffee cake may refer to a sponge cake flavored with coffee or, in the United States, a sweet cake intended to be eaten with coffee or tea.

A coffee-flavored cake is typically baked in a circular shape with two layers separated by coffee butter icing, which may also cover the top of the cake.

This particular coffee cake does have espresso powder added to it to give it a coffee flavor, but most coffee cakes do not have coffee added to them.

Carrot Cake

Carrot cake is a sweet American cake which is made with carrots, spices and walnut pieces. It’s commonly topped with cream cheese frosting and marzipan carrots.

Sometimes nuts are added into the cake batter, as well as spices such as cinnamon, ginger and ground mixed spice.

You can also take your batter up a notch with some coconut, lemon zest or orange curd. Chopped nuts work well, also.

For pairings that work well in the batter and can take ordinary carrot cake to the next level, try throwing in some raisins, applesauce or pineapple chunks.

Cherry Pie

A pie baked with a cherry filling. Traditionally, cherry pie is made with sour cherries rather than sweet cherries. Can’t go wrong with a classic.

Traditionally, cherry pie is made with sour cherries rather than sweet cherries. Morello cherries are one of the most common kinds of cherry used, but other varieties such as the black cherry may also be used.

Cake Pops

A form of cake styled as a lollipop.

Cake crumbs are formed into small spheres before being given a coating of icing and attached to lollipop sticks. Cake pops bring the party.

Cinnamon Rolls

A sweet baked dough filled with a cinnamon-sugar filling.

Made with a rich dough leavened with yeast, their characteristic form is due to rolling a dough sheet containing sweetened cinnamon filling.

Caramel Apples

Created by dipping or rolling apples-on-a-stick in hot caramel, sometimes then rolling them in nuts or other small savories or confections, and allowing them to cool.

Caramel apples or toffee apples are whole apples covered in a layer of caramel. In optimal circumstances, you should try and eat your caramel apples as soon as you can so that you can preserve the freshness of the apple.

In times when you cannot do this, you can expect your caramel apples to last for about two weeks before they begin going bad.

Chess Pie

The recipe for a classic chess pie is simple—butter, lots of sugar, flour, milk, cornmeal, eggs, and a dash of vinegar (there are also variations like lemon and chocolate).

Many recipes call for an acid such as vinegar, buttermilk, or lemon juice. Some nut pies, including some pecan, fall under the category of chess pies.

In addition to standard chess pie, other flavor variations include lemon, coconut, and chocolate chess pie.

Coconut Cake

A popular dessert in the Southern region of the United States. It is a cake frosted with a white frosting and covered in coconut flakes.

One popular variation is to pair the coconut with other flavors, particularly by filling the cake with a lemon curd to add a tart flavor to a usually very sweet cake.

Cinnamon Rolls

A big, sweet, fluffy, soft & delicious cinnamon flavored roll.

A cinnamon roll consists of a rolled sheet of yeast-leavened dough onto which a cinnamon and sugar mixture (and raisins or other ingredients in some cases) is sprinkled over a thin coat of butter. Its main ingredients are flour, cinnamon, sugar, and butter, which provide a robust and sweet flavor.

The deep fried version is cinnamon roll or cinnamon bun doughnut.

German settlers around Philadelphia created their own spin on the baked goods, adding brown sugar, honey, and raisins to their buns—a morning-time version of their famous Shoofly Pie.

Cream Pie

A cream pie, crème pie, or creme pie is a type of pie filled with a rich custard or pudding that is made from milk, cream, sugar, wheat flour, and eggs.

Most cream pies are made with a cooked custard filling.

Cream pies are often associated with comedians who use them as a gimmick in their routines, with the pie being pushed against someone’s face.

It comes in many forms, including vanilla, lemon, lime, peanut butter, banana, coconut, and chocolate. One feature of most cream pies is a whipped cream topping.

Cider Cake

Cider cakes were among the first truly American cakes.

Cider cakes are teatime favorites in cider-producing areas and many recipes use bicarbonate of soda as the raising agent.

Apple cider bundt cake is the BEST fall bundt cake! Simple and delicious, this easy spiced apple bundt cake tastes like apple cider doughnuts.

In the late 18th century, Americans began to substitute inexpensive locally-made hard cider in place of costly imported European brandy and wine for the liquid in their newfangled chemically-leavened butter cakes.

Crumb Bun

Crumb cake is known to have a butter, sugar flour crumb mixture that bakes into the top. The crumb layer sits as tall as the cake layer.

Crumb cake or “streuselkuchen” originated in Germany. Many times it is a yeast based cake for the bottom layer, but the New York version is a cake on the bottom.

A crumb bun is a New Jersey original.

Croissants

Crescent-shaped breads have been made since the Renaissance, and crescent-shaped cakes possibly since antiquity but using brioche dough.

Croissants are commonly served alongside coffee for breakfast, aperitivo (a light mid-morning meal), or merienda (a mid-afternoon meal). They are referred to as medialunas (“half moons”) because of their shape and are typically coated with a sweet glaze (medialunas de manteca, “half moons of butter”).

Another variant is a medialuna de grasa (“half moon of lard”), which is not always sweet.

Custard

Custard is a variety of culinary preparations based on sweetened milk, cheese, or cream cooked with egg or egg yolk to thicken it, and sometimes also flour, corn starch, or gelatin.

Depending on the recipe, custard may vary in consistency from a thin pouring sauce (crème anglaise) to the thick pastry cream (crème pâtissière) used to fill éclairs

Crostata

A crostata is a “rustic free-form version of an open fruit tart” that may also be baked in a pie plate.

Traditionally, a crostata consisted of a base, usually three layers, of friable dough “flavoured with clarified fat and butter”.

It is believed to have originated from Neapolitan baking back in the late 1400’s and now stands as a very popular Italian pastry.

Coconut Cake

Coconut layer cake is frosted with a white frosting and covered in coconut flakes.

Coconut cake is a popular dessert in the Southern region of the United States.

It is a Southern Christmas staple contributed by African Americans cooks.

Christmas Pudding

A sweet dried-fruit pudding traditionally served as part of Christmas dinner in Britain and Ireland.

The dish is sometimes known as plum pudding (though this can also refer to other kinds of boiled pudding involving dried fruit). The word “plum” had been used for what we would now call “raisin” since the 18th century, and the pudding does not in fact contain plums.

Chancellor’s Pudding

Also known as cabinet pudding or Newcastle pudding, it’s a traditional English steamed, sweet, molded pudding made from some combination of bread or sponge cake or similar ingredients in custard, cooked in a mold faced with decorative fruit pieces such as cherries or raisins, served with some form of sweet sauce.

Other versions of cabinet pudding might use gelatin and whipped cream.

Christstollen

Also known as weihnachtsstollen, it’s a sweet sourdough bread with a distinct cupola shape, and is traditionally eaten at Christmas.

It contains raisins and candied citrus fruit and is prepared meticulously over several days.

Stollen is a cake-like fruit bread made with yeast, water and flour, and usually with zest added to the dough. Other ingredients, such as milk, sugar, butter, salt, rum, eggs, vanilla, other dried fruits and nuts and marzipan, may also be added to the dough.

Except for the fruit added, the dough is quite low in sugar. The finished bread is sprinkled with icing sugar.

Churros

Churros are long, doughy, crispy deep-fried yeast dough encrusted with sugar.

They are normally eaten for breakfast dipped in champurrado, hot chocolate,dulce de leche or café con leche.

Cinnamon sugar is often sprinkled on top. Churros are fried until they become crunchy, and may be sprinkled with sugar.

The surface of a churro is ridged due to having been piped from a churrera, a syringe-like tool with a star-shaped nozzle. Churros are generally prisms in shape, and may be straight, curled or spirally twisted.

Canestrelli

Canestrelli are a wonderfully delicious Italian Cookie, an almost shortbread type cookie but with a crunch, fast and easy. The perfect afternoon tea cookie. A touch of Lemon makes them irresistible.

Canestrelli are simple, yet delicious Italian butter cookies of ancient origin – they have been prepared since the Middle Ages, often used as a gift on festive occasions such as weddings or religious feasts.

It is an almost shortbread type cookie but with a crunch, fast and easy with coca cola in both the cake and icing.

Clafoutis

The clafoutis is dusted with powdered sugar and served lukewarm, sometimes with cream.

Clafoutis, sometimes spelled clafouti in Anglophone countries, is a baked French dessert of fruit, traditionally black cherries, arranged in a buttered dish and covered with a thick flan-like batter.

Christmas Spice Cutout Cookies

Traditional spiced cookies cutout in the shape of gingerbread men, Christmas trees, stars, candy canes, and other iconic Christmas shapes.

Spice cookies are like a mix between a sugar cookie, snickerdoodle, and a chewy molasses cookie. They’re baked with tons of warm spices, so they have more flavor than a snickerdoodle, but have just a touch of molasses to add that chew.

Desserts That Start With D

What are types of dessert that start with the letter D?

Derby Pie

Derby pie is a chocolate and walnut tart in a pie shell with a pastry dough crust. It is made with walnuts and chocolate chips.

The pie was created in the Melrose Inn of Prospect, Kentucky. The name “derby pie” is a registered trademark of Kern’s Kitchen.

Drop Cookies

As the name implies, you make them by dropping spoonfuls of cookie batter onto a baking sheet.

Some of the most popular cookie recipes, like sugar and oatmeal raisin, are drop cookies.

The batter for these types of cookies is usually soft, but stiff enough to hold their shape when dropped onto the pan.

Dropped or Drop cookies are the easiest and most basic cookies you can make.

The most famous – chocolate chip cookies – were invented in Whitman, Massachusetts. It is a multilayered, glazed, sweet pastry in the viennoiserie tradition.

Dondurma

It is often used to refer to Turkish mastic ice cream in English. Dondurma, which is the Turkish word for “freezing,” refers to the country’s taffy-like ice cream.

Apart from the usual milk and sugar, it contains powdered orchid bulbs, known as salep.

It is believed to originate from the city and region of Maraş and hence also known as Maraş ice cream.

Doberge Cake

Very often the cakes are made with half chocolate pudding and half lemon pudding.They are normally made with six or more layers. Traditional flavors are chocolate, lemon or caramel.

A layered dessert originating in New Orleans, Louisiana, adapted by local baker Beulah Ledner from the Hungarian Dobos torte.

Daifuku

Daifuku is eaten as a dessert or a quick snack and it is usually served accompanied by a cup of refreshing green tea.

Daifuku are a type of wagashi (Japanese sweet) consisting of mochi wrapped around a sweet filling, typically red bean paste.

Daifuku, which translates to “great luck,” were once reserved for special occasions.

Dutch Baby Pancake

A Dutch baby is similar to a large Yorkshire pudding.

Compared to a typical pancake, a Dutch baby is always baked in the oven, rather than being fried on both sides on the stove top, it is generally thicker than most pancakes.

They can be sweet or savory and can be served at any meal.

A Dutch baby pancake, sometimes called a German pancake,a Bismarck, a Dutch puff, or a Hootenanny, is a large American popover.

Dulce de Leche

Dulce de leche is Spanish for “sweet [made] of milk”. Dulce de leche also known as caramelized milk or milk jam in English, is a confection from Latin America prepared by slowly heating sugar and milk over a period of several hours.

Dulce de leche is Spanish for “sweet [made] of milk”.

Other ingredients such as vanilla may be added for flavor.

Death By Chocolate Cake

A chocolate cake with 2 layers of fudgy chocolate cake, lots of mini chocolate chips, a creamy chocolate frosting and a chocolate ganache.

Death By Chocolate Cake-The phrase is trademarked in some countries, and the dessert is a signature dish of Bennigan’s restaurants in the United States.

Death by Chocolate is a colloquial descriptive or marketing term for various cakes and desserts that feature chocolate, especially dark chocolate or cocoa, as the primary ingredient.

Ingredients used in Death by Chocolate cakes may include basic chocolate cake mix ingredients, chocolate pudding, chocolate chips, shaved or grated chocolate, whipped cream and powdered sugar.

Dirt Cake

An American cake made from sandwich cookies (like Oreos), vanilla pudding, and other ingredients to create a dessert that has a resemblance to soil or earth.

Desperation Pie

Desperation pies are pies in American cuisine made using staple ingredients like butter, sugar, eggs and flour, and making use of other ingredients that cooks had on hand to substitute for ingredients that were out of season or too expensive.

These pies were more common before refrigeration and canned pie fillings, and during times of hardship like the Great Depression and rationing of World War II.

Derby Cake

It’s called a brown derby cake because the domed shape is supposed to resemble a derby hat.

A cake with a whipped cream and fruit filling. 

Derby cake was invented in 1927 by a caterer named Harry Baker, in Los Angeles.

Dessert Dumplings

Dessert Dumplings are old-fashioned, desserts that are pure fruity bliss!

Made from a sweet flour-based dough, these fluffy dumplings are cooked in a sweet syrup made from treacle, honey, caramel, maple syrup or golden syrup. 

A great summer alternative to cobbler since you don’t need to turn on your oven.

Dump Cake

A dump cake is an American dessert similar to a cobbler but with a cake-like topping. A prototypical dump cake recipe begins with adding one or more cans of fruit or pie filling to a shallow baking dish. A boxed cake mix is then spread on top.

It is so named because it is prepared by “dumping” ingredients (typically canned fruit or pie filling, followed by a boxed cake mix) into a cake pan without mixing

Danish

Danish Dessert was introduced in the United States in 1939. The texture and consistency are similar to gelatin desserts, but it is not made with any animal products. It is not as stiff as a gelatin dessert, and it cannot be molded.

On the other hand, it is not as soft as pudding. It lies somewhere between the two and is very smooth. Absolutely delicious, it just bursts with a sweet to tart flavor.

A traditional breakfast pastry eaten in America — it has it’s origins in Denmark.

Depression Cake

Depression cake is a type of cake that was commonly made during the Great Depression. Similar cakes are known as “War Cake”, as they avoided ingredients that were scarce or were being conserved for the use of soldiers.

The ingredients include little or no milk, sugar, butter, or eggs, because the ingredients were then either expensive or hard to obtain.

Dove Bar

A mocha whipped cream and dark chocolate coated dessert popsicle perfect for after dinner in the summer.

Dove Bar is an American ice cream bar, created by Leo Stefanos at Dove Candies & Ice Cream on 60th Street and Pulaski Avenue in Chicago in 1956 and introduced nationally in 1984.

The brand, including Dove chocolate as well as the ice cream, was bought by Mars Inc. in 1986, and the Dove Bar today is made by Mars.

Donut Icebox Cake

A dessert that sandwiches salted maple whipped cream between donut slices.

A cake made of layered doughnuts and cream

Icebox cake was first introduced to the United States in the 1930s, as companies were promoting the icebox as a kitchen appliance.

Ding Dongs

A chocolate dessert cake produced and distributed in the United States by Hostess Brands.

It is round with a flat top and bottom, close to three inches in diameter and slightly taller than an inch, similar in shape and size to a hockey puck.

The Ding Dong was originally wrapped in a square of thin aluminum foil, enabling it to be carried in lunches without melting the chocolate glaze.

A white creamy filling is injected into the center and a thin coating of chocolate glaze covers the cake.

Devil’s Food Cake

Devil’s food cake was invented in the United States in the early twentieth century. Devil’s food cake is a moist, rich chocolate layer cake.

It is considered a counterpart to the white or yellow angel food cake. Because of differing recipes and changing ingredient availability over the 20th century, it is difficult to precisely qualify what distinguishes devil’s food from the more standard chocolate cake.

It originated in the southern United States. The first printed recipe appeared in 1902, in Mrs. Rorer’s New Cook Book.

Do Nothing Cake

Do Nothing Cake, also known as Texas Tornado Cake, is an easy, delicious, crowd-pleasing dessert.

Its ingredients include All-purpose flour, baking soda, sugar, vanilla extract, and crushed pineapple. For frosting you’ll need butter, evaporated milk, granulated sugar, walnuts and shredded coconut.

The recipe has been around since the 1940s, and while it’s not really “do nothing” by today’s standards, it’s still an easy, no-mixer-needed cake.

Dairy Queen Hot Fudge Sundae

A vanilla ice cream dessert topped off with hot fudge topping sold by Dairy Queen.

Dairy Queen is an American chain of soft serve ice cream and fast-food restaurants.

Dried Mango Squares

Dried mango is a dehydrated version of its fresh counterpart.

They are prepared in a pan, baked in the oven, and then cut into squares or rectangles.

Dairy Free Banana Split

A simple vegan banana split with bananas, vegan ice cream, nuts, cherries, and coconut whipped cream!

A typical Banana Split dessert but uses alternatives for milk.

Desserts That Start With E

Eclairs

Eclairs is a pastry made with choux dough filled with a cream and topped with a flavored icing.

The icing is sometimes caramel, in which case the desert may be called a bâton de Jacob.

This French dessert pastry filled with fresh cream is very common in America and Europe.

Elephant Ears

Elephant ears are crispy fried circles of dough topped with powdered and/or cinnamon sugar. They’re called elephant ears due to their large size and shape that resembles an elephant’s ear.

Not to be confused with funnel cakes, elephant ears originated in America. Inspired by the fry bread of Native Americans.

Elderberry Pie

The texture of elderberries is much like that of grapes, as both are high in water content. This taste, however, doesn’t diminish the overall flavor, rather adds more heaviness to the flavor making it all the better.

Some parts of the elderberry bush, when harvested and prepared correctly, are completely safe to eat.

Egg Tart

The egg tart is a kind of custard tart found in Chinese cuisine derived from the English custard tart and Portuguese pastel de nata.

The dish consists of an outer pastry crust filled with egg custard.

Egg tarts are often served at dim sum restaurants, bakeries and cha chaan tengs.

Elvis Presley Cake

It’s no wonder this was Elvis’s favorite cake. It’s basically a pineapple poke cake, but in its own way.

Apparently, Elvis used to ask his Grandma to make him this cake every time he visited, for good reason – and that’s it’s called Elvis Presley cake.

Election Cake

Election Day Cake is actually a classic English fruitcake or plum cake.  

The original Election Day Cake included molasses, spice, raisins, and currants were used in this cake.  Later brandy was added.  

Also known as Oak Cake, Hartford Election Cake, and Training Cakes, because another name for Election Day was Training Day.

Election Cake was a highlight of the Puritan celebration of Election Day, one of the important colonial holidays along with Commencement Day and Training Day.

Eggnog

It is traditionally made with milk, cream, sugar, whipped egg whites, and egg yolks and served at Christmas Time.

Eggnog is also homemade using milk, eggs, sugar, and flavorings, and served with cinnamon or nutmeg. Eggnog or eggnog flavoring may also be used in other drinks, such as coffee (e.g., an “eggnog latte” espresso drink) and tea, or to dessert foods such as egg-custard puddings.

It is often served chilled, in some cases it is warmed, particularly on cold days (similar to the way mulled wine is served warm).

During the 1700s, eggnog came to America from England and became a symbol of the holidays.

Edy’s Pie

Edy’s Pie (formerly known as Eskimo Pie) is an American brand of chocolate-covered vanilla ice cream bar wrapped in foil. It was the first such dessert sold in the United States. It is marketed by Dreyer’s, a division of Froneri.

Eskimo Pie was invented in 1920 in Onawa, Iowa, when a boy in his store was unable to decide whether to spend his money on ice cream or a chocolate bar.

Entenmann’s Pound Cake

The perfect pound cake with dense crumb and a strong butter flavor with strong vanilla flavor.

Pound cake is a type of cake traditionally made with a pound of each of four ingredients: flour, butter, eggs, and sugar. Pound cakes are generally baked in either a loaf pan or a Bundt mold. They are sometimes served either dusted with powdered sugar, lightly glazed, or with a coat of icing

Entenmann’s is an American company that manufactures baked goods

Eli’s Cheesecake

Entenmann’s is an American company that produces baked goods throughout the United States to supermarkets and other retailers.

Elischeesecake is a third generation family owned bakery specializing in cheesecake and desserts.

Eggo Waffles

Eggo Waffles are a popular toaster oven breakfast treat.

They are typically topped with syrup and butter, similar to pancakes. You could also top it with ice cream or cool whip—your call.

The primary ingredients of Eggo waffles are enriched wheat flour, vegetable oil, eggs and baking soda.

These ingredients are mixed into dough, which is allowed to rise.

Eggo waffles are cooked by the manufacturer before they are packaged, so the customer only needs to heat them.

Desserts That Start With F

What are types of dessert that start with the letter F?

Funnel Cake

Funnel cake is a regional sweet food popular in North America, found mainly at carnivals and amusement parks.

It is made by deep-frying batter. Traditional recipes call for a fairly standard batter: flour, eggs, sugar, milk, baking soda or baking powder.

Funnel cake tastes a lot like a fried doughnut (quite churro-esque), and can be finished with all sorts of toppings, from icing sugar to syrup and ice cream.

They are associated with the Pennsylvania Dutch, German immigrants who came to Pennsylvania in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Fruit Cake

Fruitcake is a cake made with candied or dried fruit, nuts, and spices, and optionally soaked in spirits. Alcohol: medium sherry, dark rum, whisky, brandy or orange-flavored liqueur are the usual flavors for fruit cakes.

Fruitcakes are typically served in celebration of weddings and Christmas.

Fudge Brownies

Fudgy brownies are moist, dense and gooey, with almost the texture of fudge, but not quite as compact.

Fudgy brownies have a higher fat-to-flour ratio than cakey ones. A cakey batch has more flour and relies on baking powder for leavening.

Frozen Yogurt

Frozen yogurt is a frozen product containing the same basic ingredients as ice cream, but contains live bacterial cultures.

Frozen Yogurt can be made with any yogurt you prefer. Frozen yogurt has an ice cream-like texture with a yogurt flavor.

A man named H. P. Hood introduced a soft-serve frozen dessert he dubbed “Frogurt” in Boston (1978).

Friendship Cake

Friendship fruit cake is one of those sworn-by recipes, but preparing one is not for the faint of heart.

Preparations begin a whopping 50 days before you want to eat the cake, so if you plan on it being on your holiday menu, it’s almost time to start prepping.

A ‘friendship cake’. Similar to the Amish friendship bread, the starter is passed from person to person and continues to grow as it contains yeast and lactic acid bacteria.

One starter can, in theory, last indefinitely.

Fig Newtons

Newtons are a Nabisco-trademarked version of a pastry filled with sweet fruit paste. “Fig Newtons” were the most prominent.

They are also fairly healthy.

Figs are well known for having fiber, which helps with digestion, as well as protein and several vitamins and minerals.

To capture Fig Newtons’ unique texture, the batter is made with butter, sugar, orange zest, cinnamon, and honey, creamed until light and fluffy, then blended with a squeeze of orange juice and a few egg yolks.

In 1891, the first Fig Newtons were baked at the F.A. Kennedy Steam Bakery. The company named the pastries after the town of Newton, Massachusetts.

Fritter

A fritter is a portion of meat, seafood, fruit, vegetables or other ingredients which have been battered or breaded, or just a portion of dough without further ingredients, that is deep-fried.

Fritters are prepared in both sweet and savory varieties. Fritters are very similar to donuts: they’re both batter-based, fried desserts.

The difference comes in how each one gets filled: donut batter gets fried all by its lonesome and fillings may get piped into them once they’re done.

They are deep-fried cakes of yeast dough. Fruits can also be added.

Fruit Salad

Fruit salad is a dish consisting of various kinds of fruit, sometimes served in a liquid, either their own juices or a syrup. In different forms, fruit salad can be served as an appetizer, a side salad.

When served as an appetizer, a fruit salad is sometimes known as a fruit cocktail, or fruit cup. In a small bowl whisk together honey, orange juice, and lemon zest.

Funfetti Cake

The cake was created when the Pillsbury Company introduced a new type of cake called “Funfetti” cake, a portmanteau of fun and confetti.

Funfetti cake is a buttery vanilla cake with sprinkles throughout the batter and frosted with vanilla buttercream.

When it comes to vanilla cakes – they fall into 2 categories: yellow cake – which is made with whole eggs to give it a golden yellow color.

The only difference between Funfetti And Confetti Cake is that Funfetti is trademarked and confetti is not. It is simply a matter of ownership.

Funfetti cake is typically a fluffy white cake with sprinkles mixed into the batter. Light and fluffy, this cake is made with a combination of butter (for flavor) and oil (for texture and moisture).

Frangipane Tart

Frangipane Tart-Frangipane is a mixture of butter, eggs, ground almonds, sugar, and usually a small amount of flour.

The word comes ultimately from Italian, named after Marquis Muzio Frangipani or Cesare Frangipani.

Frangipane is an almond filling that is usually made with butter, sugar, eggs, and, of course, ground almonds. It has a creamy, paste-like consistency and a sweet nutty flavor.

Though it can be used in a variety of ways, it’s most associated with tarts.

Fried Pie

Fried pies, also known as Fry pies, are mainly dessert pies that are similar to turnovers, except that they are smaller and fried.

The fruit filling is wrapped in the dough, similar to the dough of a pie crust.

Fried pies come from a long tradition of female home cooks in rural Arkansas. Because they were portable, fried pies could be tucked into a lunch pail and carried by workers to the fields or factory.

The famous Oklahoma fried pies started out as a simple recipe south of the Arbuckle Mountains.

Flourless Chocolate Cake

Flourless Chocolate Cake-Flourless cakes can be baked or unbaked, and are made without flour.

They generally have a creamy or silky texture; it’s because they are just egg foams (usually whole eggs and/or egg yolks) with lots of added fat, from sources such as butter, cream cheese, cream or sour cream.

Unlike regular cakes made of flour, flourless chocolate cake is neither fluffy nor light. It tastes like a rich chocolate truffle. It’s silky, rich, and smooth.

Falooda

An Indian chilled dessert made with vermicelli noodles, basil seeds, rose syrup, and ice cream.

Fried Sweet Potato Pies

Creamy sweet potato filling in a buttery pie crust. Fried sweet potato hand pies are so easy to make homemade from scratch.

It became an African cuisine tradition brought to the United States by slaves, who made it using sweet potatoes and yams, a plant native to Africa, instead of pumpkin.

Ever since, sweet potato pie has been a must-have dish at many African-American family gatherings, especially Thanksgiving

George Washington Carver developed more than 100 uses for sweet potatoes including his own recipe for sweet potato pie.

Fudge Bottom Pie

An icebox pie with a buttery, sweet-salty graham crust, puddle of fudge, silky layer of vanilla custard, and crowning clouds of sweetened whipped cream, it’s a celebration of dairy that lives up to the state’s nickname. It’s also the kind of dessert whose taste lingers long after you’ve devoured a slice.

The historic rivalry that begat this striated pie makes slicing into it even more interesting. Even if you aren’t a University of Wisconsin-Madison alum, this is a pie worth your attention.

The unique recipe was created by a celebrated chef and a civil rights pioneer, Carson Gulley during his long career at UW Dining. 

Flag Pie

A pie that is made to look like a flag of a country.

One example is American flag pie, it is the patriotic centerpiece every 4th of July party needs. Made with blueberries, strawberries and doughy stars and stripes.

Funny cake

Funny cake is a layer of moist vanilla cake with a golden top, floating on a layer of chocolate filling, all nestled into a pie crust.

Legend has it that the “funny” in the name came about because the dessert combines both cake and pie in one.

When you pour the chocolate mix over top of the cake batter, the chocolate layer sinks to the bottom during baking and the fillings form layers with the cake ending up on top.

A Pennsylvania Dutch dessert which is a combination of pie and cake that is made by baking a cake surrounded by pie crust, marbled throughout with chocolate streaks.

Fortune Cookie

A fortune cookie is a crisp and sugary cookie wafer usually made from flour, sugar, vanilla, and sesame seed oil with a piece of paper inside, a “fortune”, usually an aphorism, or a vague prophecy. a cookie containing a message, usually about your future, eaten especially after a Chinese meal.

Most agree that fortune cookies were invented in San Francisco.

Flan de Queso

Flan de Queso is a smooth cream cheese custard topped with a decadent layer of homemade caramel. Serve chilled for a sweet finale to your next family dinner.

Gelatin is used to add a gel-like consistency to Bavarian cream and most mousse recipes. And Mexican flan uses condensed milk and evaporated milk along with eggs.

This dessert is a rich and creamy cheesecake-like baked custard that’s not too sweet thanks to the slight tang of cream cheese.

Flan de Queso is a Puerto Rican dessert (Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory).

Fluffy Oatmeal Muffins

Oatmeal muffins are made from basic ingredients, the sort of ingredients you would have found in your grandmother’s pantry. 

You’ll need traditional rolled oats, milk, butter/oil, brown sugar, flour, baking powder and cinnamon. You can also add vanilla essence as an optional flavoring.

National Oatmeal Muffin Day has been celebrated annually on December 19. Muffins that look like cupcakes are an all-time favorite for many of us. The muffins made with oatmeal are known for its health benefits.

The history, origin, and the person who established this National Oatmeal Muffin Day are unknown. The American muffin or muffin or Quick bread muffin originated in the United States during the mid-19th century.

Desserts That Start With G

Gelatin Mold

Also known as a Jell-O mold, is a brightly colored dessert made of sweetened refrigerated gelatin. It is often layered and displayed before serving to show off its smooth, sculpted shape.

Peter Cooper (1791-1883) secured a US Patent for a gelatin dessert powder called Portable Gelatin, requiring only the addition of hot water.

Gingerbread

Gingerbread refers to a broad category of baked goods, typically flavored with ginger, cloves, nutmeg, and cinnamon and sweetened with honey, sugar, or molasses.

Gingerbread foods vary, ranging from a soft, moist loaf cake to something close to a ginger snap. Originally, the term gingerbread (from Latin zingiber via Old French gingebras) referred to preserved ginger. It then referred to a confection made with honey and spices.

Waves of immigrants brought gingerbread to America (George Washington’s mother is credited with one recipe).

The first known recipe for gingerbread came from Greece in 2400 BC.

Glorified Rice

Glorified rice is a dessert salad popular in the Midwestern cuisine served in Minnesota and other states in the Upper Midwest, United States and other places with Norwegian populations.

It is popular in more rural areas with sizable Lutheran populations of Scandinavian heritage.

The long-established recipe has been the subject of many newspaper articles. In 1995, Janet Letnes Martin and Suzann Nelson authored a humorous book comparing Lutheran and Catholic traditions called They Glorified Mary…We Glorified Rice: A Catholic-Lutheran Lexicon.

Green Tomato Pie

Green tomato pie is a pie in American cuisine that can be made like other fruit pies by sprinkling sugar, flour, cinnamon and other spices or raisins over sliced tomatoes and pieces of butter, or by cooking the ingredients on the stovetop before baking in a pastry lined dish.

It’s a little thinner, we use about three-fourths the amount of cheese and the sauce follows on top.

Flavor wise, this doesn’t make all that much of a difference. Green (unripe) tomatoes are much less juicy than their red counterparts. They have a firm, crunchy texture and a tart, acidic flavor that lend them well to completely different uses.

Galaxy Mirror Glaze Cake

Galaxy mirror glazed ‘box’ cake has a shiny, mirror-like frosting that looks like the stars.

Mirror glaze has a nice taste. It’s sweet but not too sweet and the flavors meld well with the cake and fillings.

It might look a little strange putting gelatin on cake but it tastes delicious. In terms of texture, the glaze is a little gummy – like a cross between fruit leather and jello.

Geode Cake

Geode cakes are stunningly decorated layer cakes meant to mimic the famous natural formation of rock and precious and semiprecious stones.

Pieces of the finished and frosted cake are cut out, and then the cavity is filled with edible crystals made out of rock candy.

While the artful cake looks like it’s just for show, we were most surprised to hear that it’s actually completely edible.

German Chocolate Cake

German chocolate cake is an American innovation. Unlike Black Forest cake which is the most popular chocolate cake from Germany.

Not only is this cake traditionally made with a sweet chocolate, it also has a distinct icing. Instead of having a traditional buttercream or meringue, the icing is representative of a custard.

The base is made of egg yolks & evaporated milk and should always contain pecans & coconut.

Golden Graham S’mores

The s’more, the merrier! Easy no-bake Golden Grahams s’mores are made with cereal, marshmallows, & chocolate chips and take less than 15 minutes to make.

Golden Grahams consists of a graham cracker taste with honey and brown sugar. The cereal is made up of small toasted square shaped cereal pieces made of whole wheat and corn.

No one knows for sure who invented the s’more. However, the first published recipe for “some mores” was in a 1927 Girl Scouts publication.

Giant Cookie Ice Cream Sandwich

Giant Cookie Ice Cream Sandwich-An ice cream sandwich is a frozen dessert consisting of ice cream between two biscuits, skins, wafers, or cookies.

The ingredients are different around the world, with Ireland and Israel using wafers, and North America using chocolate cookies.

Created in New York City in 1978, the original was made up of vanilla ice cream sandwiched by two chocolate chip cookies.

Grilled Apples A La Mode

Grilled Apples A La Mode-Grilled apples make the best summer dessert. Grilled apples don’t need much to taste incredible: just sugar and spices.

These apples are just sweet enough, because they’re designed to be covered in melty ice cream.

Grape Pie

Grape pie is a type of fruit pie made from Concord grape and is part of harvest time traditions in the Finger Lakes region of New York in the United States.

It is particularly sought after at the Naples Grape Festival, and can be found at various shops around town. Most people have not tried grape pie before so they are curious what it tastes like.

Grape pie has the distinctive, amped up flavor of Welch’s grape juice or grape jelly, but with a buttery crust, thick jammy filling, and a little bit of creaminess from the streusel topping.

Gingerbread House

A dessert shaped like a building that is made of cookie dough, cut and baked into appropriate components like walls and roofing. The usual material is a crisp ginger biscuit made of gingerbread.

The purpose of a gingerbread house is two fold-to provide an artistic medium and of course to eat.

Originally, the term gingerbread (from Latin zingiber via Old French gingebras) referred to preserved ginger. It then referred to a confection made with honey and spices.

Gingerbread is often used to translate the French term pain d’épices (literally “spice bread”) or the German term Pfefferkuchen (lit.

Grunt

Grunts are biscuit or dumpling-topped stewed fruit desserts that are cooked on the stovetop in a covered Dutch oven or cast iron skillet.

They were popular New England dishes with a close resemblance to British steamed puddings.

Grunts are very similar to cobblers, but they are STEAMED instead of BAKED. The New England name for a cobbler. Similar to a cobbler, but the biscuit or pie dough is rolled out and placed on top of the fruit.

Gooey Butter Cake

Gooey butter cake is a type of cake traditionally made in St. Louis, Missouri.

It is a flat and dense cake made with wheat cake flour, butter, sugar, and eggs, typically near an inch tall, and dusted with powdered sugar.

The Gooey Butter Cake originated in the 1930s. According to legend, a German baker added the wrong proportions of ingredients in the coffee cake batter he was making.

It turned into a gooey, pudding-like filling. It features two layers – a traditional cake layer made with cake mix, butter and eggs, and a melt-in-your-mouth filling layer with cream cheese and butter.

Some people refer to these as blonde brownies for the texture as well.

Groom’s Cake

A groom’s cake is simply a wedding cake entirely influenced by the groom, representing his tastes and favorite hobbies.

The groom’s cake is typically served at either the rehearsal dinner or alongside the wedding cake at the reception. The groom’s cake is presented as a gift to the groom from the bride and is meant to reflect her knowledge of him and her support of his passions.

A groom’s cake is traditionally designed to be more masculine and incorporate richer flavors than the wedding cake.

Chocolate and liquor-infused cakes are most common for groom’s cakes.

Golden Glow Salad

A type of Jell-O mold salad but is golden in color. It is usually sweet and tangy, sometimes creamy or salty, occasionally crunchy and briny.

Mixed with orange gelatin to get the golden color of the jelly.

Golden glow salad is an salad made with orange flavored gelatin, fruit, and sometimes grated carrots or (more rarely) other vegetables.

Other ingredients may include cottage cheese, cream cheese, marshmallows, nuts, or pretzels. Jello salads were popular in the 1960s and are now considered retro.

Green Leprechaun Shortbread

Leprechaun cookie bites are mini shortbread cookies with festive sprinkles.

Traditionally, shortbread is made from three simple ingredients, butter, sugar and flour.

They’re the perfect St. Patrick’s Day dessert and work just as nicely for Christmas.

Grandma’s Old-Fashioned Strawberry Shortcake

American strawberry shortcake is a delicious dessert, full of strawberries and cream – a treat for special occasions and among the most beloved and enduring of American foods.

Among food historians, the history of strawberry shortcake dessert begins around 1847 in the United States.

The first strawberry shortcake recipe appeared in an English cookbook as early as 1588.

The “short” part of the name “shortcake” indicates something crumbly or crispy, generally through the addition of a fat such as butter or lard. The recipe was popularized by Eliza Leslie of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Golden Oreo Dirt Pudding

This recipe is super simple, but so tasty with cream cheese, pudding, whipped cream, and delicious Golden Oreos.

Dirt pudding, also known as Oreo Dirt Cake or just Dirt and Worms, is an American dessert made of crushed Oreo cookies layered with chocolate pudding that’s been blended with cream cheese and whipped cream.

Gingerbread Men Cookies

A gingerbread man is a biscuit or cookie made of gingerbread, usually in the shape of a stylized human being, although other shapes, especially seasonal themes and characters are common.

Gingerbread is made with the following simple ingredients: brown sugar, flour, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger, cloves, salt, butter, milk, and molasses!

Gingerbread men were first attributed to the court of Queen Elizabeth I, who served the figurines to foreign dignitaries.

Grasshopper Pie

Grasshopper pie is a no bake frozen pie with a chocolate crust and a frozen, minty filling.

It’s typically made with creme de menthe and creme de cacao for flavoring. It’s called grasshopper pie, because of the bright green color from fluorescent crème de menthe.

This American retro, crunchy, mint-chocolate dessert was a favorite of Southern hostesses in the 1950s and 1960s.

The recipe may have been developed by the Knox Gelatine and Heublein Cordial companies as a way to promote their products.

Green Jell-O Salad

Also known as Mormon Jell-O Salad, this retro American dessert is a classic.

Jell-O salad is an salad made with flavored gelatin, fruit, and sometimes grated carrots or (more rarely) other vegetables.

Other ingredients may include cottage cheese, cream cheese, marshmallows, nuts, or pretzels. Jello salads were popular in the 1960s and are now considered retro.

Desserts That Start With H

Hazelnut Brownies

A Hazelnut brownie is a square or rectangular chocolate baked confection brownie mix with hazelnuts.

Brownies come in a variety of forms and may be either fudgy or cakey, depending on their density. Brownies often, but not always, have a glossy “skin” on their upper crust.

Hazelnut Brownies include hazelnuts, frosting, cream cheese, chocolate chips, or other ingredients. A variation made with brown sugar and vanilla rather than chocolate in the batter is called a blond brownie or blondie.

The brownie was developed in the United States at the end of the 19th century and popularized there during the first half of the 20th century.

Halo-halo

A Philippine shaved ice dessert that is often topped with sweet beans, fruit, and ice cream.

Hot Fudge Sundae

Hot fudge sundae is made with creamy vanilla soft serve and smothered in chocolate hot fudge topping.

The hot fudge sundae is a variation on the classic sundae and is often a creation of vanilla ice cream, sprinkles, hot chocolate sauce (hence the “hot fudge”), whipped cream, nuts, and a single bright-red maraschino cherry on top.

That combination of warm, rich chocolate fudge mixing with frozen ice cream and melting it slightly is absolutely irresistible. With a cherry on top.

Soda fountain owner, Ed Berners of Two Rivers, Wisconsin is reputed to have invented the first ice cream sundae in 1881.

Huckleberry Pie

Huckleberries are the perfect balance between sweet and tart. Many describe the taste of huckleberries as a combination of blueberries and cranberries.

Huckleberries are native to the eastern and southeastern United States.

Combine huckleberries, sugar, tapioca, lemon juice, lemon zest, and cinnamon, if using, in a large bowl.

Homemade Butterscotch Pudding

Homemade butterscotch pudding is in its own playing field. It is a combination of caramelized brown sugar and butter with a splash of vanilla and bourbon.

Butterscotch pudding is luxuriously creamy and velvet-rich. Top with salted caramel, fresh whipped cream, and toffee bits for a truly unforgettable dessert. 

Old-fashioned butterscotch pudding has a deep and rich flavor. It is not too sweet, and it has just a bit of a bitter edge from the caramelized sugar and the molasses.

This classic American dessert is prepared with caramelized brown sugar that is blended with a creamy mixture of butter, milk, and eggs.

Although not much is known about the origin of this creamy delicacy, the term butterscotch was originally used to refer to the famous English confectionery created in 1817.

Hoosier Pie

Also known as Indiana sugar cream pie, it’s a single-crust pie with a smooth filling made from flour, butter, salt, vanilla, cream, and brown sugar.

This pie has a creamy, buttery texture. It’s not as soft as a cream pie, rather it’s somewhere in the middle between a cream pie and a custard pie.

Hermits Cookies

The hermit was a cookie that traveled. Dozens of stories suggest that sailors coveted the cookies that would “keep” as they sailed clippers down the Eastern Seaboard and beyond.

Hermit cookies are a soft, spiced cookie filled with raisins, currents or dates, and nuts. Their subtle cinnamon and nutmeg flavors and chewy textures will have you reaching for a third, then maybe a fourth.

They started out in the Champlain Valley of New York.

Holiday Watergate Cake

Watergate cake is made with pistachio pudding mix, whipped topping, and a cake mix. Pecans and coconut add flavor and texture to this classic cake.

The name “came out of the mouths of the people who ate it,” Benjamin says. It probably got its name, “Watergate cake,” from the Watergate break-in scandal of June 17, 1972.

In later printings of the recipe, people joked that the cake earned the name because it, too, had a cover-up.

Hootenanny Pancakes

Hootenanny pancakes are just another term for a Dutch Baby invented by the Pennsylvania Dutch.

A Dutch baby pancake, sometimes called a German pancake, a Bismarck, a Dutch puff, or a Hootenanny, is a large American popover.

A Dutch baby is similar to a large Yorkshire pudding. Unlike most pancakes, Dutch babies are baked in the oven, rather than being fried.

Hawaiian Wedding Cake

Hawaiian Wedding Cake is a basic cake mix cake with three layers on top: a crushed pineapple layer that seeps into the cake, a creamy pudding.

The flavor comes from the traditional New Orleans wedding cake: A white, almond-flavored confection, often with a sweetened pineapple filling and buttercream icing. Hawaiian Wedding Cake is a delicious poke cake oozing with crushed pineapple and coconut bits in every bite and topped with a cool whip frosting.

Happy Cake

Happy cake is a tropical cake made in Hawaii. It is often referred to as Hawaii’s version of a fruit cake.

The Happy Cake is made from pineapple, macadamia nuts, and coconut.

The happy cake debuted in 1967.

Herman Cake

A ‘friendship cake’. Similar to the Amish friendship bread, the starter is passed from person to person and continues to grow as it contains yeast and lactic acid bacteria.

The name Herman is taken from the Amish sweet, cinnamon-flavored bread and the cakes have their origins in the sourdough products made by the early American pioneers.

It is lightly sweet with a hint of cinnamon and tart flavors. The refreshing tart flavors come from the sourdough starter and tart apples

Hot Milk Cake

The hot milk and butter give the cake a distinctive fine-grained texture, similar to pound cake.

The milk is heated with butter until the butter has melted. This hot milk-butter mixture is poured into the batter all at once. The batter is mixed until it cools. Baking powder and vanilla flavor are added at the last stage before the cake is baked.

Hummingbird Cake

Hummingbird cake is a banana-pineapple spice cake originating in Jamaica and a popular dessert in the southern United States since the 1970s.

Ingredients include flour, sugar, salt, vegetable oil, ripe banana, pineapple, cinnamon, pecans, vanilla extract, eggs, and leavening agent.

This Southern classic Hummingbird Cake tastes like a tropical cross between banana bread and pineapple-upside down cake with a texture reminiscent of carrot cake with bursts of pineapple and pecans– sans carrots.

Originally, it was called the “Doctor bird cake”, a nickname for a Jamaican variety of hummingbird called the Red-billed Streamertail.

The name came from the way the bird’s long beak probes flowers, like a doctor inspecting a patient.

Hello Dolly Bars

The Hello Dolly name is a reference to the Broadway musical “Hello, Dolly!” which was a popular musical when these bars were created in the mid-1960s.

The bars are also known as magic cookie bars, or 7 layer bars. With the combination of pecans, chocolate chips, toasted coconut, and a graham cracker crust, you can’t go wrong.

Holiday Snowflake Cake

The coconut sprinkled on this old-fashioned, fluffy white cake gives the impression of snow, without the cold. It’s a beautiful dessert that is fitting for the Holidays.

Cake is made of traditional cake that consist of flour, vanilla, baking powder, sugar, egg and milk.

Hawaiian Shave Ice

Shave ice or Hawaiian shaved ice is an ice-based dessert made by shaving a block of ice and flavoring it with syrup and other sweet ingredients.

On the Big Island of Hawaii, it is also referred to as “ice shave.” In contrast, a snow cone, a similar American dessert, is made with crushed ice rather than shaved ice.

Distinct from a snow cone which uses crushed ice, the ice for Hawaiian shaved ice is thinly shaved to create a unique texture that is more powdery and snow-like.

Additionally, the thin ice shavings can absorb syrups better than crushed ice.

Desserts That Start With I

Ice Cream

Ice cream is a sweetened frozen food typically eaten as a snack or dessert.

It may be made from milk or cream and is flavored with a sweetener, either sugar or an alternative, and a spice, such as cocoa or vanilla, or with fruit such as strawberries or peaches ice cream, frozen dairy food made from cream or butterfat, milk, sugar, and flavorings.

Frozen custard and French-type ice creams also contain eggs. Hundreds of flavors have been devised, the most popular being vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry ice cream.

Vanilla ice cream was introduced to the United States when Thomas Jefferson discovered the flavor in France and brought the recipe to the United States. Thomas Jefferson wrote his own recipe, which is housed at the Library of Congress.

Instant Pudding

A no-cook pudding made by Jell-O. It contains sugar, flavoring agents and thickeners as primary ingredients. My favorite flavor is pistachio.

The fundamental difference between cooked and instant pudding is the preparation. With cooked pudding, you must apply heat to the cold milk and pudding powder mixture on a stovetop or in a microwave. It must be brought to a boil (with constant stirring along the way), then cooled to set.

Icebox Pie

An icebox pie consisting of lemon juice, eggs, and condensed milk in a pie crust, frequently made of graham crackers and butter. It is a variant of key lime pie.

An Ice Box Pie is a delicious classic southern dessert that was named after the ice box that these pies were kept cool in.

These IceBox Pie were quick and easy to make, required no cooking in the heat of summer, and could be stored in the icebox until it was served.

Flavor-wise, it exudes a cookies and cream vibe (actually the cream moistened cookies, a.k.a cake, remind me of the taste and texture of Good Humor chocolate ice cream sandwich cookies–in the very best way.)

Indian Pudding

Indian pudding is a baked custard with milk, butter, molasses, eggs, spices, and cornmeal.

The name is likely derived from the cornmeal, which was known as indian meal way back when.

Indian pudding includes molasses and oftentimes ginger and nutmeg as additional flavorings.

Island Pecan Pie

Island Pecan Pie is loaded with pineapple, coconut, and pecans in a delicious creamy filling. A tropical twist on a pecan pie classic!

Pecan pie tastes like a mix of sweet, buttery crunch with a savory nutty aftertaste that will make you want just one more slice.

There are some who believe that the pecan pie originated in New Orleans. Early pecan recipes first appeared in Texas cookbooks in the 1870s and 1880s.

Ice Cream Sandwich

An ice cream sandwich is a frozen dessert consisting of ice cream between two biscuits, skins, wafers, or cookies.

The ingredients are different around the world, with Ireland and Israel using wafers, and North America using chocolate cookies.

From country to country, this dessert picks up many different nicknames: giant sandwich, chipwich, cream between, vanilla slice, slider, and more.

Whatever you call it, one thing’s for sure: the ice cream sandwich is one of the best inventions of all time.

Indiana Sugar Cream Pie

Also known as Hoosier pie, it’s a single-crust pie with a smooth filling made from flour, butter, salt, vanilla, cream, and brown sugar.

Probably no other dessert conjures up nostalgia in a Hoosier like the rich, creamy dessert.

It’s believed the recipe was brought to eastern Indiana around 1810 by North Carolina Quakers, who settled in the Richmond, Winchester, New Castle and Portland areas.

Sugar cream pie is the state’s unofficial state pie. Sugar cream pie gained early popularity because it’s what’s known as a desperation pie.

You could make it year-round because it doesn’t require fresh fruit. And the few ingredients it needs were things most people already had in their pantries.

Sugar Cream Pie tastes like vanilla custard with a hint of cinnamon and nutmeg. With a simple, rich vanilla flavor, this pie is great served with fresh fruit.

Instant Pot Cobbler

Instant Pot Berry Cobbler is filled with tender, orange-infused berries packed on top of a spiced crust.

You can bake this recipe in either an Instant Pot or an oven. And since it’s made with just three ingredients (eggs + cream cheese + milk chocolate), you really can’t go wrong.

Cobbler is a dessert consisting of a fruit filling poured into a large baking dish and covered with a batter, biscuit, or dumpling before being baked.

Some cobbler recipes, especially in the American South, resemble a thick-crusted, deep-dish pie with both a top and bottom crust.

Icebox Cakes

An icebox cake is a dairy-based dessert made with cream, fruits, nuts, and wafers and set in the refrigerator.

One particularly well-known version is the back-of-the-box recipe on thin and dark Nabisco Famous Chocolate Wafers.

Icebox cake gets its name from the icebox, a non-mechanical form of refrigeration that was popular during the early 20th century.

Flavor-wise, it exudes a cookies and cream vibe (actually the cream moistened cookies, a.k.a cake, remind me of the taste and texture of Good Humor chocolate ice cream sandwich cookies–in the very best way.)

Icebox cake was first introduced to the United States in the 1930s, as companies were promoting the icebox as a kitchen appliance.

Ice Cream Bars

An ice cream bar is a frozen dessert on a stick or a candy bar that has ice cream in it.

The coating is usually a thin layer of chocolate used to prevent the melting and dripping of ice cream. This is also known in the UK as a Choc ice. Crunchy toppings such as chopped nuts, sprinkles, crumbled Heath bar, crushed Oreos and mini chocolate chips.

They were invented in Iowa.

Iced Donuts

Baked donuts rolled in cinnamon or drizzled with icing. Ingredients used are the typical used for donuts such as butter, milk, vanilla, flour, egg and other baking ingredients and icing materials.

In the United States, the donut’s roots date to the 1700s with the Dutch settlers’ olykoek (oil cake), the “grandpa of the donut”.

In the early 19th century, donuts were mentioned in American food chapters of English cookbooks.

Ice Cream Cake

An ice cream cake is a cake with ice cream as the filling for a swiss roll or a layer cake.

A simpler no-bake version can be made by layering different flavors of ice cream in a loaf pan.

The dessert is very popular at birthday parties and similar celebrations in North America, although some believe that it originated in England.

Its popularity caught on during the 19th century, when ice cream was considered a luxurious item reserved only for the well-off.

Desserts That Start With J

What are types of dessert that start with the letter J?

Jelly Slice

Classic jelly slices are made of three layers: crushed biscuit base, sweetened condensed milk filling and a jelly top.

Aeroplane Jelly is Australia’s favorite jelly brand! Jelly slices originated in Australia, and are popular desserts especially around Christmas and Easter time, although they are also eaten throughout the year.

Despite its popularity in Australia and New Zealand the dessert is not found around other parts of the world, but other countries have similar style desserts.

The secret to achieving perfect layers with your Jelly Slice, is to make sure you let the cheesecake layer cool in the fridge and begin to set before pouring the COOLED jelly over the top.

Jumpin’ Jimmy Coffee Cake

The batter is made with coffee and the glaze is made with espresso powder. You get a double shot of caffeine and chocolate in every bit.

Jumpin’ Jimmy Coffee Cake is a coffee lover’s dream come true.

The coffee cake is made using yellow cake mix, eggs, cold coffee, butter, chocolate sprinkles, powdered sugar and milk.

Judy’s Strawberry Pretzel Salad

This three-layer salad includes a pretzel crust, cream cheese center, and strawberry top.

With its many different variations, the strawberry pretzel salad seems to be amongst the most popular. The recipe is believed to have originated in the 1960s when the Joys of Jell-O cookbook was published.

Strawberry Pretzel Dessert Salad – This sweet “salad” features layers of strawberry jello, fresh berries, cream cheese fluff, and crunchy pretzels.

It’s a classic southern treat that’s perfect for potlucks and dinner parties!

Jam Thumbprint Cookies

These classic cookies are made with a simple sugar cookie dough, rolled in sparkling sugar, and then indented and filled with jam.

In the United States they are known as thumbprint cookies. These classic thumbprint cookies are made with a simple sugar cookie dough, rolled in sparkling sugar, and then indented and filled with your choice of jam! These are an all-time favorite cookie recipe, and the filling options are absolutely endless!

Jefferson Davis Pie

Jefferson Davis Pie, a variation of the Southern Chess Pie, is one of the most rich and decadent pies you will ever eat. It is made up of dates, raisins, and pecans, spices, and an insanely creamy custard.

If you remember your history, Jefferson Davis was the first President of the Confederacy.One of these Kentucky custard pies has a pre Civil War History – the Jefferson Davis – and is named after the former President of the Confederacy.

Easy to make, this is a fabulously rich pecan pie without the pecans. The topping is an incredible whipped bourbon cream.

Jelly Roll Cake

Soft, sweet, and full of jam, this sponge cake is easy to roll and makes for a simple yet impressive dessert!

The earliest published reference for a rolled cake spread with jelly was in the Northern Farmer, a journal published in Utica, New York, in December 1852. Called “To Make Jelly Cake”, the recipe describes a modern “jelly roll” and reads: “Bake quick and while hot spread with jelly.

Americans typically refer to rolled cakes as jelly rolls, while British bakers refer to rolled cakes as Swiss rolls. In Switzerland, people use the French name for rolled meats and pastries, roulade.

Jailhouse Cake

Aka Oat cake is an easy cake spiced with cinnamon and a caramel coconut topping.

Well, here’s something that inmates enjoy for dessert and is fairly easy to make. The Correctional Cake consists of Oreo cookies, M&M’s and peanut butter. With no real cooking utensils, you have to use things like trash bags and sharpened spoon handles.

Junket

Junket evolved from an older French dish, jonquet, a dish of rented cream in which the whey is drained from curdled cream, and the remaining curds sweetened with sugar.

Junket is a milk-based dessert, made with sweetened milk and rennet, the digestive enzyme that curdles milk. Some older cookery books call the dish curds and whey. describes the Junket-pudding as having a flavor more like cottage cheese than that of a sweet custard.

A milk-based dessert, made with sweetened milk and rennet, the digestive enzyme that curdles milk. Some older cookery books call the dish curds and whey.

In medieval England, junket was a food of the nobility made with cream and flavored with rosewater, spices and sugar.

Java Chip Bundt Cake

This cake is loaded with coffee and chocolate flavor. A white chocolate glaze on top adds the perfect touch.

Java Chip Bundt Cake is the perfect dessert for those coffee lover’s in your life.  Or for you, if you need that extra caffeine boost.

Any kind of cake baked in a bundt pan is considered a bundt cake. These special pans are more than a simple baking dish; they are like cake molds that come in all kinds of sizes and designs. After the cake is baked and turned out of the pan, it will not need much decoration because it is already in a decorative shape.

Jello Mold

Jello salad is an American salad made with flavored gelatin, fruit, and sometimes grated carrots or (more rarely) other vegetables. Other ingredients may include cottage cheese, cream cheese, marshmallows, nuts, or pretzels.

Jello salads were popular in the 1960s and are now considered retro.

The “salad” theme is more pronounced in variants containing mayonnaise, or another salad dressing. When the dish has plain gelatin instead of sweetened gelatin, the use of vegetables is more common (e.g. tomato aspic).

Making a jello mold is as simple as setting almost any liquid with a little bit of gelatin. You barely even have to turn on the stove.

Jam Squares

Jam squares or bars or slices consist of a shortbread biscuit base topped with jam and finished with a crumbled shortbread mixture.

If you like thumbprint cookies filled with jam or jelly, you will definitely like these. These jam slices are made without oatmeal or eggs.

An American “bar cookie” that has the texture of a firm cake or softer than usual cookie. They are prepared in a pan and then baked in the oven. They are filled with fruit jam and cut into squares/rectangles.

Jalapeno Brownies

These at first glance are just a gluten free and vegan chocolate chip cookie recipe. BUT with one little twist, these become my favorite healthy halloween cookies of all time.

Heating things up on a hot summer day with the jalapeno brownies. Serve them with dairy-free whipped cream or vegan vanilla ice cream for cool contrast.

Jell-O Raspberry Bundt Cake

Raspberry Bundt Cake is a cake baked in Bundt Pan with the combining one of the most famous ingredients of cake which is chocolate and Raspberry.

Jell-O is blended with chunks of angel food cake, raspberries, and whipped cream, then set in a bundt pan or mold of your choice. The result is truly heavenly!

A Bundt cake is a cake that is baked in a Bundt pan, shaping it into a distinctive doughnut shape. The shape is inspired by a traditional European cake known as Gugelhupf, but Bundt cakes are not generally associated with any single recipe.

The style of mold in North America was popularized in the 1950s and 1960s, after cookware manufacturer Nordic Ware trademarked the name “Bundt” and began producing Bundt pans from cast aluminum. Publicity from Pillsbury saw the cakes gain widespread popularity.

Jar Desserts

Aka party in a jar, these fun, individual serving desserts layers your favorite cake, frosting, fruit, sprinkles, and/or ice cream served in a mason jar.

Jar with single serving pies, parfaits and other treats are perfect for a party or an intimate dinner.

Jeweled Gelatin Torte

A holiday dessert featuring colorful Jell-O cubes and dainty ladyfingers.

Gelatin desserts (also Jelly, Jello, Jinkington, or Jinkies) are desserts made with a sweetened and flavored processed collagen product (gelatin).

Jicama Apple Pie

A lot of recipes call for apple pie filling, which isn’t low carb. You can use a jicama filling instead which is much lower in sugar.

Ideally, you can substitute jicama with any relatively sweet vegetable with similar texture and crunchiness. People even substitute it with crisp green apples and Asian pears which are fruits with significantly different properties.

Jaboticaba Ice Cream

An ice cream dessert flavored with jaboticaba fruit. Jaboticaba berries are both sweet and acidic, with tough, tart skin and a pale, fleshy center that’s incredibly sweet.

Jaboticaba Ice Cream-Jabuticaba is the edible fruit of the jabuticabeira (Plinia cauliflora) or Brazilian grapetree. The purplish-black, white-pulped fruit grows directly on the trunk of the tree.

It is eaten raw or used to make jellies, jams, juice or wine.

Jaboticaba first made their way to Santa Barbara, California around 1904. Today Jaboticaba trees can be found growing in various Southern California.

Jackfruit Upside-Down Cake

Jackfruit upside down cake replaces pineapples for a Filipino twist on a classic American dessert. Jackfruit provides a tropical sweetness.

An upside-down cake is a cake that is baked “upside-down” in a single pan, with its toppings at the bottom of the pan. It’s made with jackfruit instead of traditional pineapple.

Desserts That Start With K

Key Lime Pie

Key lime pie is an American dessert pie. It is made of lime, egg yolks, and sweetened condensed milk.

It may be served with no topping, topped with a meringue topping made from egg whites, or with whipped cream; it may be cooked in a pie crust, graham cracker crust, or no crust.

The main difference seems to be that it requires a lot more of that aromatic Key lime juice to make the famous pie sing. It is worth the elbow grease, though, to get that true floral Key lime flavor—unless, of course, you can’t find Key limes.

Looking for even more desserts that start with the letter K? Read my 42 Desserts that Start with K.

Kentucky Derby Pie

It is made with walnuts and chocolate chips. It is often associated with the Kentucky Derby.

Derby pie is a chocolate and walnut tart in a pie shell with a pastry dough crust. It is made with walnuts and chocolate chips.

The pie was created in the Melrose Inn of Prospect, Kentucky, United States, by George Kern with the help of his parents, Walter and Leaudra.

King Cake

The name “king cake” comes from the Biblical story of the three kings who bring gifts to Baby Jesus.

A blend of coffee cake and cinnamon roll, king cake is usually iced in yellow, green and purple – the colors of Mardi Gras — and is frequently packed with fruit fillings and decadent cream cheeses.

A miniature plastic baby, which symbolizes baby Jesus, is placed inside of each cake to signify the Epiphany. King cake is a ring of sweet pastry that’s covered in lots of icing and purple, yellow, and green sprinkles or luster dust.

Some folks make their king cake more like a bread and others prefer a more cake-y version—there’s no right or wrong way.

Karo Pecan Pie

The Karo Syrup Pecan Pie recipe is the orginal pecan pie recipe.

This classic pie combines eggs, corn syrup, vanilla, lots of pecans, and is baked to a burnished golden brown. See other recipes by Karo Corn Syrup.

Kakigori

A Japanese shaved ice dessert that is often flavored with syrups such as matcha, strawberry, and lemon.

Kiss Cookies

Hershey’s Kiss Cookies are soft and chewy chocolate cookies topped with a Kiss.

A cookie is a baked or cooked snack or dessert that is typically small, flat and sweet. It usually contains flour, sugar, egg, and some type of oil, fat, or butter. It may include other ingredients such as raisins, oats, chocolate chips, nuts, etc. 

Kiwi Squares

Kiwi squares are made by combining flour, confectioners sugar, and cold butter in a bowl with toppings as made of kiwi toppings. Kiwi toppings consist of eggs, sugar, flour, salt and KIWI.

In summary it is a rich and buttery dessert bar paired with a kiwi topping, the contrast of rich butter and slightly sweet and tart kiwi filling is magic.

Kolache

A kolach is a type of sweet pastry that holds a portion of fruit surrounded by puffy dough.

It is made from yeast dough and common flavors include Quark, a dairy product, spread, fruit jam and poppy seeds mixed with powidl. K

olaches are often associated with Cedar Rapids and Pocahontas in Iowa where they were introduced by Czech immigrants in the 1870s.

They are served at church suppers and on holidays but also as an everyday comfort food. Recipes are usually passed down with some including spices like mace or nutmeg.

They can be filled with a combination of prune, apricot, cream cheese, poppy seed or assorted other fillings.

Kalamai

This traditional pudding from Guam (a U.S. terriroty) is made with corn (masa harina), sugar, water, and coconut milk in the original version, while cornstarch was added later as a thickening agent.

It can be flavored with vanilla or cinnamon.

The dessert is traditionally left to cool off, and it is then sliced into squares and served.

Keto Cheesecake

This keto cheesecake has a silky smooth and creamy filling on a buttery shortbread cookie crust with a fresh fruit topping.

Kentucky Butter Cake

An insanely moist pound cake with a sweet, buttery sauce that soaks through the cake.

Kentucky Butter Cake starts with a super whipped butter pound cake batter. It has notes of vanilla and Rum.

After it’s baked, holes are poked into and then drenched in vanilla rum-flavored buttery syrup.

Kite Cookies

A high-flying kite shaped dessert perfect for celebrating springtime or an uplifting occasion. Top with sprinkles and frosting.

For the kite cookie, any diamond shaped cutter will work.

Kue Cubit

Traditionally made in a cake mold pan and cooked over a stove top, these mini pancakes require only the simplest baking ingredients to make.

Kue cubit is a Southeast Asian snack, originating from Indonesia. It is a common snack food served in many Indonesian cities.

It is a cake, around 4 centimeters in diameter. The sellers of this snack usually operate near schools or traditional markets.

Kue cubit uses flour, baking powder, sugar and milk as its primary ingredients. The liquid dough is poured into a steel plate with several small round basins so that it will form a round shape when cooked, and poured with meises (chocolate sprinkles) on top of it.

Kentucky Bourbon Cake

It’s much like a pound cake given its, er, obscene amount of butter and its tender, perfect crumb.

The crumb was dense and moist with a lovely golden brown exterior. The bourbon both inside the cake and in the glaze provided a wonderful rich bourbon flavor with the burn of the alcohol. It is easy to come together and bakes in under an hour.

Kulfi

An Indian ice cream that is made from sweetened condensed milk, cream and flavored with cardamom, saffron, pistachio, and other ingredients.

Desserts That Start With L

Lemon Bars

The lemon bar, also called lemon square, is a popular type of dessert bar in the United States consisting of a thin, shortbread crust and a lemon curd filling.

Its a popular type of dessert bar in the United States consisting of a thin, shortbread crust and a lemon curd filling.

The first widely published lemon bar recipe was printed in the Chicago Daily Tribune on August 27, 1962, and submitted by Eleanor Mickelson. 

Recipes vary slightly, but lemon bar recipes call for lemon juice, and many suggest fresh squeezed. Other ingredients include butter, white sugar, flour, eggs, and salt. 

Many recipes also list confectioners sugar, also called powdered sugar, for dusting on the top after the bars are baked.[12] Many variations of lemon bars also exist.

However, mentions of lemon bars and lemon squares can be found in earlier community cookbooks or small local newspapers.

Lamington

A lamington is an Australian cake made from squares of butter cake or sponge cake coated in an outer layer of chocolate sauce and rolled in desiccated coconut. The thin mixture is absorbed into the outside of the sponge cake and left to set, giving the cake a distinctive texture.

Lamingtons remain a popular treat across Australia and New Zealand, and 21 July was designated as National Lamington Day in Australia. 

Lamingtons are often sold at fundraisers for schools or charity groups, known as “lamington drives”. Some Australians shorten the name to “Lammo” (singular) or “Lammos” (plural).

Lava Cake

Also known as molten chocolate cake, or chocolate moelleux it’s a popular dessert that combines the elements of a chocolate cake and a soufflé.

Lava cakes characteristically contain five ingredients: butter, eggs, sugar, chocolate, and flour. 

The butter and chocolate are melted together, while the eggs are either whisked with the sugar to form a thick paste, producing a denser pastry, or separated, with the white whipped into a meringue to provide more lift and a lighter result. A tablespoon of strong coffee is sometimes added to enhance the chocolate flavor. Vanilla extract, salt, and cinnamon are additionally recommended in some cases to add extra flavor.

The Chocolate Lava Cake is known to have invented in 1987 in New York.

Its name derives from the dessert’s liquid chocolate center.

Lane Cake

Lane cake, also known as prize cake or Alabama Lane cake, is a bourbon-laced baked cake traditional in the American South.

The cake has a reputation as being difficult to make, but modern equipment and ingredients have simplified the process. 

When the recipe originated, there were no stand or electric hand mixers. Even hand-crank eggbeaters were not widely available. Bakers put in much hard labor beating the egg whites to frothy soft peaks.

The cakes had to be watched carefully during baking because the wood-fired ovens had no thermostats. The pecans, raisins, and coconut were chopped by hand or put through a meat grinder.

Lebkuchen

Also known as honigkuchen or pfefferkuchen, is a honey-sweetened cake molded cookie or bar cookie that has become part of Germany’s Christmas traditions.

These cookies are either rectangular or round, they have a sweet, slightly nutty taste, and their aroma is spicy, a bit like nutmeg and allspice. They are usually soft with a slight crunch from chopped nuts.

It is similar to gingerbread.

Lemon Chess Pie

A simple combination of eggs, sugar, butter, and lemon. With the tiniest bit of flour or cornmeal for thickening.

Chess Pie is a cheeseless cheesecake. You’ll need a pre-made pie crust, eggs, whole milk, granulated sugar, lemon juice, lemon zest (two whole lemons should provide you enough juice and zest), cornmeal, flour, salt, and some unsalted butter.

The flaky pie crust and sweet and tangy, custardy filling reminiscent of lemon curd will satisfy even the most demanding palates.

Little Old Lady Pound Cake

Little Old Lady Lemon Pound Cake is an old-fashioned recipe for a cake that’s full of lemon flavor with just the right amount of sweetness.

Pound cake is a type of cake traditionally made with a pound of each of four ingredients: flour, butter, eggs, and sugar.

Pound cakes are generally baked in either a loaf pan or a Bundt mold. They are sometimes served either dusted with powdered sugar, lightly glazed, or with a coat of icing.

Adding a touch of lemon to a classic pound cake gives it that extra something.

Layer Cake

A layer cake or sandwich cake is a cake consisting of multiple stacked sheets of cake, held together by frosting, jam, or other filling.

Layer cakes as we know them first appeared around the latter half of the 1800’s in the United States.

Historically, layer cakes originated in Europe in the mid-19th century.

The title “Layer Cake” refers to the layers or levels anyone in business goes through in rising to the top. What is revealed is a modern underworld where the rules have changed.

Lemon Squares

A popular type of dessert bar in the United States consisting of a thin, shortbread crust and a lemon curd filling.

Lemon bars should be stored in an airtight container and refrigerated in order to prevent bacterial growth or foodborne illness.

The filling in lemon bars is made with eggs and can become a breeding ground for bacteria if it’s kept in the danger zone (between 41 and 153 degrees F).

The lemon bars have a subdued lemon flavor.

Lady Baltimore Cake

A Lady Baltimore cake is an American white layer cake with fluffy frosting and a fruit and nut filling.

The cake is believed to have been created in the Southern United States in the early 20th century, but its exact origins are disputed.

Laplanders

Also known as popovers, they are an American version of Yorkshire pudding.

A Laplanders is a light roll made from an egg batter similar to that of Yorkshire pudding, typically baked in muffin tins or dedicated popover pans, which have straight-walled sides rather than angled.

Laplanders may be served either as a sweet, topped with fruit and whipped cream; or, butter and jam for breakfast; or, with afternoon tea; or, with meats at lunch and dinner.

The first cookbook to print a recipe was M. N. Henderson, Practical Cooking, 1876.

Lemon Chiffon Cake

Soft and light with incredible lemon flavor! I topped it with a sweet lemon buttercream frosting to make the perfect Spring dessert!

Chiffon cake is a hybrid between a sponge cake and a butter cake.

Unlike most sponges, chiffon cake does contain both baking powder and oil; however, like a sponge cake, chiffon cakes are built on a foundation of separated, whipped egg whites and yolks.

Chiffon cake was invented by an insurance agent, Harry Baker, in Los Angeles.

Love Heart Cupcakes

Cupcakes that are customized to shape like heart.

A cupcake is a small cake designed to serve one person, which may be baked in a small thin paper or aluminum cup.

A standard cupcake uses the same basic ingredients as standard-sized cakes: butter, sugar, eggs, and flour.

Nearly any recipe that is suitable for a layer cake can be used to bake cupcakes. The cake batter used for cupcakes may be flavored or have other ingredients stirred in, such as raisins, berries, nuts, or chocolate chips.

Lemon Meringue Pie

Lemon meringue pie is a type of dessert pie, consisting of a shortened pastry base filled with lemon curd and topped with meringue.

Homemade lemon meringue pie features a delicious homemade pie crust, tart and smooth lemon filling, and fluffy toasted meringue topping.

The lemon meringue filling is thickened with cornstarch.

This beautiful dessert can be enjoyed either warm or cold, although if you’re serving it warm, let it cool slightly first so as not to burn your guests’ mouths!

Limber

A limber is a frozen ice pop originating in Puerto Rico. It is made in different flavors.

Coming in many flavors, limber is named after the pilot Charles A. Lindbergh, who landed on the island in 1928.

He was greeted with this delicious frozen dessert, which came to be called limber, it’s said, after how many on the island pronounced the pilot’s name.

Lighter Ambrosia

Lighter Ambrosia can be classified as the “nectar of the Gods,” minus the guilt! The sweet, creamy and fruity flavors are practically unbeatable.

This lighter Ambrosia Salad, full of fresh fruit, whipped cream, walnuts, and marshmallows, is the perfect Spring or Summer dessert. Oranges, pineapple, pecans, and coconut in a yogurt based creamy dressing.

This Lightened Ambrosia Salad is a refreshing holiday side dish.

Rumored to have begun in the southern U.S. in the 1800s, with the earliest written reference of the salad published in a cookbook from 1867, Dixie Cookery by Maria Massey Barringer.

Little Layer Chocolate Cake

A stately layer cake can be found at all Southern gatherings-this incredible and height-defying chocolate cake is anything but little – the 18 layers used are thin and perfectly baked.

The title “Layer Cake” refers to the layers or levels anyone in business goes through in rising to the top.. A layer cake (US English) or sandwich cake (UK English) is a cake consisting of multiple stacked sheets of cake, held together by frosting or another type of filling, such as jam or other preserves. Most cake recipes can be adapted for layer cakes; butter cakes and sponge cakes are common choices.

Desserts That Start With M

Mochi

Mochi are small cakes made out of glutinous rice, are an important part of Japanese cuisine.

Although its origins are Chinese, mochi has been associated with Japan for centuries.

Mochi is a Japanese rice cake made of mochigome, a short-grain japonica glutinous rice, and sometimes other ingredients such as water, sugar, and cornstarch.

The rice is pounded into paste and molded into the desired shape. In Japan it is traditionally made in a ceremony called mochitsuki.

The cakes, known as mochi, are cute round buns made of soft and chewy rice. On its own, mochi tastes like rice but has a sticky, stretchy, soft, and chewy texture.

Mousse

This light, fluffy, creamy dessert originated in 18th-century France.

The word mousse itself means foam in French.

A mousse is a soft prepared food that incorporates air bubbles to give it a light and airy texture. It can range from light and fluffy to creamy and thick, depending on preparation techniques.

A mousse may be sweet or savory. A mousse may be sweet or savory. Chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, choco vanilla etc.

Sweet mousses are typically made with whipped egg whites, whipped cream, or both, and flavored with one or more of chocolate, coffee, caramel, puréed fruits, or various herbs and spices, such as mint or vanilla.

Muffins

Also known as “American muffins” in Britain, or just “muffins” in the U.S.

These are baked, individual-sized, cupcake-shaped foods with a “moist, coarse-grained” texture.

Muffins are available in sweet varieties such as blueberry, corn, chocolate chip, lemon or banana flavors.

Madeleines are very small sponge cakes with a distinctive shell-like shape acquired from being baked in pans with shell-shaped depressions.

A muffin is an individually portioned baked product, however the term can refer to one of two distinct items: a part-raised flatbread that is baked and then cooked on a griddle, or a quickbread that is chemically leavened and then baked in a mold.

Muffins contain flour, liquid, egg, sugar, salt, shortening, and baking powder.

Millionaire Pie

Millionaire pie is a no-bake American pie. This pie is a dish from the Southern United States and originally from South Carolina. Because it was so rich, it gave rise to the name.

Mandarin oranges or canned peaches in place of all or some of the crushed pineapple. A topping of toasted shaved coconut. Cookie crust made with vanilla wafers or shortbread cookies.

Skip the pecans, or substitute with walnuts, almonds, or cashews.Blend condensed milk and cream cheese together in a large bowl; gently fold in whipped topping. Stir in crushed pineapple and pecans.

Pour filling into prepared pie crusts; refrigerate for 3 to 4 hours.

Mississippi Mud Pie

A chocolate-based dessert pie that is likely to have originated in the U.S. state of Mississippi, hence the name.

Mississippi mud pie is a chocolate-based dessert pie that is likely to have originated in the U.S. state of Mississippi, hence the name.

It contains a gooey chocolate sauce on top of a crumbly chocolate crust. It is usually served with ice cream. The name Mississippi mud pie derives from the pie’s appearance, which could remind casual observers of Mississippi River mud.

Out of the oven, this dense chocolate dessert looks like Mississippi River clay that the sun has parched, crusted, and cracked.

Marble Cake

A cake with a streaked or mottled appearance achieved by very lightly blending light and dark batter. It can be a mixture of vanilla and chocolate cake.

Marble cake made its way to America with German immigrants before the Civil War. Originally the cakes were marbled with molasses and spices.

A marble cake is a cake with a streaked or mottled appearance achieved by very lightly blending light and dark batter.

The idea of marbling two different colored batters into a cake originated in nineteenth-century Germany.

Maple Syrup Bars

Made with real maple syrup so every single bite is insanely rich and delicious.

Maple Syrup Bars-As the heated maple syrup cools, sugar molecules (the smallest particles of the sugar) can form crystals.

The amount of crystals that form depends on how concentrated the sugar is. This same principle is used to turn maple syrup into different types of sugary candies.

Molten Chocolate Cake

Molten chocolate cake is a popular dessert that combines the elements of a chocolate cake and a soufflé.

Its name derives from the dessert’s liquid chocolate center, and it is also known as chocolate moelleux, chocolate lava cake, or simply lava cake.

Molten Chocolate Cakes, also known as Lava Cakes, are warm individual-size chocolate cakes with oozing chocolate centers.

Most recipes will simply have you undercooking a chocolate cake batter, so the outside is set like cake but the inside is raw batter that pours out like lava when you cut into it.

Its name derives from the dessert’s liquid chocolate center, and it is also known as chocolate moelleux, chocolate lava cake, or simply lava cake.

Montgomery Pie

A Pennsylvania Dutch pie with a buttery crust with a gooey molasses and lemon filling and a buttermilk cake topping.

This is a traditional Pennsylvania Dutch dessert but not as well-known as the quintessential wet-bottom Shoofly Pie.

Montgomery Pie differs from shoofly’s bold molasses bottom layer and crunchy upper layer of crumbs in that Montgomery Pie features a molasses and lemon laced bottom layer and a light buttermilk-cake top.

Mint Julep Cake

A delicious, moist chocolate bourbon cake with a mint swiss buttercream and chocolate ganache drip.

Mint juleps are pure summer in a glass—minty and cooling, a little sweet, and just enough booze to help you forget how hot you are.

Like so many classic cocktails, the magic of a mint julep is the result of a triumvirate of flavors working together: Whiskey: Specifically bourbon.

Marsala Panettone Pudding

A version of pudding that has added marsala and buttery panettone.

Pudding is a type of food that can be either a dessert or a savoury dish that is part of the main meal.

The original pudding was formed by mixing various ingredients with a grain product or other binder such as butter, flour, cereal, eggs, and/or suet, resulting in a solid mass. These puddings are baked, steamed, or boiled. Depending on its ingredients, such a pudding may be served as a part of the main course or as a dessert.

Marshmallow Fudge Sundae

A sundae topped with marshmallows and fudge.

This Ultimate Hot Fudge Marshmallow Sundae is the epitome of ice cream with a topping and is great by itself or as the end of a summer meal.

Mascarpone Cheesecake

This no-bake cheesecake incorporates whipped heavy cream and mascarpone cheese for a silky, creamy texture.

To use mascarpone instead of cream cheese in a cheesecake, add some lemon juice to give the cheesecake its characteristic acidity.

Using mascarpone can yield a more decadent cheesecake. Mascarpone may be better as a substitute for cream cheese in unbaked cheesecakes, such as Nigella’s Cherry Cheesecake.

The taste of mascarpone is similar to that of cream cheese, ricotta cheese, creme fraiche, or clotted cream, but with a little more sweetness and acidity. This makes it a versatile cheese for both sweet and savory dishes.

Meringue Pie

A pie, consisting of a shortened pastry base and topped with meringue, a mixture of stiffly beaten egg whites and sugar that is used in confections and desserts.

Meringues are eaten as small “kisses” or as cases and toppings for fruits, ice cream, puddings, and the like. The pastry is slightly sweet but not too sweet.

It’s light and buttery which is what you want in a pie crust.  

Mile High Deep Dish Apple Pie

This extra thick, mile-high apple pie has a buttery crust double stacked with apples.

It’s simple and classic— just a pile of apples spiced with cinnamon, baked into a homemade butter pie crust.

Mango Sorbet

This sorbet is the next-easiest thing: puréed mango, sugar, lime juice, and salt. Tastes like frozen mango nectar.

Sorbet was love at first bite and accurately resembles the taste of a perfectly just-fell-off-the-tree– ripe mango.

What summer dreams are made of: intense mango flavor, a touch of lime for acidity.

Mini Chocolate Cakes

Miniature chocolate cakes baked in ramekins and decorated with vanilla frosting and fresh berries or sprinkles.

Mirror Glaze Cake

Mirror cakes are glossy and gorgeous. A thick, shiny glaze is poured over a cake, only to harden into a mirror-like reflective smooth shell.

Mirror glaze is made from sweetened condensed milk, a little chocolate, water and gelatin and sometimes flavorings and colors.

Mirror glaze sets because of the gelatin but not hard. It is pretty sticky stuff.

Mulled Wine Jelly Candies

Jelly candies mix with mulled wine.

Jelly sweets/candies are a broad category of gelatin-based chewable sweets. Gummi bears, Sour Patch Kids, and Jelly Babies are widely popular and are a well-known part of the sweets industry.

Mulled wine is an old European beverage of wine steeped in spices and served warm, often around holidays.

Maple Syrup Pie

Maple syrup pie is sometimes also called maple syrup sugar pie, maple pie, or just sugar pie. It’s a sweet pie made using pure maple syrup, butter, flour, cream, and eggs. Occasionally people will also make it with maple sugar or even dark brown sugar.

Folks in New Hampshire apparently appreciate maple syrup almost as Vermont. These pies are popular at diners and restaurants.

Mahogany Cake

America’s first chocolate cake depended more on the science of baking for its color than a little bottle of dye. It’s a throwback boiled milk frosting.

 Mahogany cake got a fantastically soft and fine crumb, created by the unique combination of vinegar or buttermilk and baking soda.

This combination of ingredients was a late Victorian-era technique for creating “velvet cakes,” in reference to their super-soft, velvety interiors — a grand departure from the heavier, denser cakes that had previously defined the era.

Mahogany cake dates back to the late 1800s in America, and is the first “chocolate cake” on record, appearing in major cookbooks of the day such as Sarah Tyson Rorer’s The Philadelphia Cookbook, published in 1886.

As it happens, Mahogany cake is also an awesome study in the subject of baking chemistry — and the alchemy of the ingredients creating not only a lofty rise, but also a phenomenal texture and a beautiful, unique reddish-brown color as well. In many ways, Mahogany cake was the gateway cake to the technicolor Red Velvet.

Molded Gelatin

Making a jello mold is as simple as setting almost any liquid with a little bit of gelatin. You barely even have to turn on the stove.

Gelatin molds are often used to make desserts. Gelatin molds are molds which are designed to be used with gelatin, aspic, and other jellies to produce a variety of savories and desserts.

They range from simple ring molds to fun-loving molds in shapes like brains, hearts, or flowers, with varying levels of detail.

Mamie Eisenhower’s Chocolate Fudge

This was the go-to recipe for fudge in the 1950s and 60s. It took advantage of packaged products from the grocery store, such as chocolate chips, evaporated milk, and a jar of marshmallow cream.

This recipe calls for semisweet chocolate morsels, German’s sweet chocolate, marshmallow cream, white sugar, salt, butter, canned evaporated milk and nuts.

Mayonnaise Cake

Mayonnaise Cake has to be one of the most decadent, delicious and easy ever! Simply combine mayonnaise into your cake batter, pour into a pan and bake.

Mayonnaise replaces the oil that’s traditionally used in chocolate layer cakes. You can’t taste any mayo-ness at all; it merely serves to give the cake a wonderfully velvety texture and perfectly moist crumb.

Molasses Cookies

Molasses cookies are chewy, perfectly spiced – and are always a holiday favorite.

Molasses cookies have a very distinct spice flavor. This comes from the use of ground cinnamon and ginger, as well as the rich flavor of dark molasses.

They taste somewhat like a gingersnap cookie, however, they are more subtle and soft instead of crisp. If your molasses cookies spread in the oven, the cookie dough (and/or your kitchen) may have been too warm.

Warm butter is very soft and will melt quickly when the cookie dough hits the oven. This means the cookies spread and your molasses cookies will be flat.

Milkshake

The modern milkshake was born in 1922, when an employee at a Chicago Walgreens, Ivar “Pop” Coulson, was inspired to add two scoops of ice cream to malted milk.

A milkshake is a sweet beverage made by blending milk, ice cream, and flavorings or sweeteners such as butterscotch, caramel sauce, chocolate syrup, fruit syrup, or whole fruit into a thick, sweet, cold mixture.

 According to the American Heritage College Dictionary, a milkshake is a “a beverage that is made of milk, ice cream, and often flavoring and is blended or whipped until foamy.”

Unless you live in New England, where a milkshake would never include ice cream. Adding ice cream makes it a “frappe” drink.

Monkey Bread

A soft, sweet, sticky pastry served in the United States.

It consists of pieces of soft baked dough sprinkled with cinnamon. It is often served at fairs and festivals.

According to conventional lore, the fanciful term monkey bread comes from its appearance – said to resemble a barrel of monkeys.

Monkey bread is a soft, sweet, sticky pastry served in the United States for breakfast or as a treat.

It consists of pieces of soft baked dough sprinkled with cinnamon. It is often served at fairs and festivals. Monkey bread is a sweet, gooey Bundt cake made from balls of dough rolled in cinnamon sugar.

Arrange the dough balls in a Bundt pan, then top it all with a buttery brown sugar sauce before baking.

Monkey bread gets its name by the method in which it is eaten: picking off chunks of buttery, gooey dough with your fingers not unlike a monkey grooming his buddy (which is actually a weird thing to name a food after, if you really think about it.)

Microwave Cheesecake

With its Graham cracker crumb crust, cheesecake filling, and fresh fruit topping, you’ll never need to turn on your oven again to make a satisfying dessert.

Usually, the flavour profile of cheesecakes lies in between sweet and sour. There are various types and flavors of cheesecakes which also influence their taste.

The crumb of the cheesecake typically has a sweet but bland taste. The cream cheese filling has a tangy yet sweet taste to it.

Mormon Jell-O Salad

Mormon Jello Salad is made with lime jello, cottage cheese, crushed pineapple, evaporated milk and chopped nuts.

Since Utah is the home to many of the Mormon faith, and this salad is something that has been enjoyed by many of their families, it gained the title.

This Green Jello Salad recipe started making waves around 1960 and had different variations. Some Mormon Jello Salads were made with carrots, marshmallows, nuts or pretzels, and some only had chopped walnuts and cottage cheese, along with the other main ingredients.

Although these “retro” jello salads were most popular in the ’60s, they still get people excited for a nostalgic moment when you make them today.

Maple Spice Cake

Maple spice cake is a New Hampshire variation that adds maple syrup or flavoring.

An incredibly moist, flavored mixture of spices, with a texture that almost melts in your mouth! It’s quick and easy to make.

Spice cake is like the ultimate fall cake. It combines cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves & ginger. Spice cake is traditionally flavored with a mixture of spices.

Predominant flavorings include spices such as cinnamon, cloves, allspice, ginger, and nutmeg.

Maraca Pie

Maraca pie, also known as devil’s rice pie, is a Floridian dessert pie made from sticky rice pudding and bananas inside a pastry base.

Some versions of the recipe also include various different spices or fruits.

It was created in 1957 by the Moline brothers of Tallahassee, Berham and Jackson.

Monmouth Pudding

A traditional British dessert, consisting of a baked, breadcrumb-thickened mixture, spread with jam and topped with meringue. Similar recipes are called Queen of Puddings and Manchester Pudding.

Mixture of soaked breadcrumbs, sugar, eggs and butter, with jam or fruit puree, baked or boiled.

Milk Punch

Historically also known as egg nor or an egg milk punch when alcoholic beverages are added. It is traditionally made with milk, cream, sugar, whipped egg whites, and egg yolks and served at Christmas Time.

Milk punch is a drink made with brandy or bourbon, milk, sugar, and vanilla extract.

In 1711, housewife Mary Rockett recorded the earliest-known clarified milk punch recipe.

Moravian Sugar Cake

A sweet coffee cake that is often made in areas around Moravian Church settlements, particularly in Pennsylvania and North Carolina.

Moravian sugar cake is a sweet coffee cake that is often made in areas around Moravian Church settlements, particularly in Pennsylvania and North Carolina.

It is made with a sweet yeast dough enriched with mashed potatoes. Moravian sugar cake is a centuries-old culinary specialty of the Winston-Salem, North Carolina, region.

Folklore holds that the original Moravian male settlers to the area sought women with big fingers because that meant that more buttery sweetness would make it into the nooks and crannies of the cake

Macarons

French Macarons are small cookies, typically made from ground almonds, coconut or other nuts, with sugar and sometimes flavorings, food coloring, glacé cherries, jam or a chocolate coating.

French macaron bakeries became trendy in North America in the 2010s.

A macaron or French macaron is a sweet meringue-based confection made with egg white, icing sugar, granulated sugar, almond meal, and food coloring.

Their bite-sized nature, bright colors, and tempting textures make them hard to resist.

Made with meringue, sugar, and almond flour, these cookies have a crunchy exterior and a soft filling, typically made of a ganache, buttercream, or jam.

These cookies are available in a variety of flavors.

Magic Cookie Bars

This magic bar recipe is an old fashioned favorite made with chocolate chips, nuts, and coconut in a caramelized layer above a graham cracker crust.

As for “Magic Bar,” the name likely stems from Eagle Brand Sweetened Condensed Milk, who published a recipe for these dessert cookie bars on the back of their condensed milk cans in 1964.

The bars, also known as hello dolly bars, or 7 layer bars, feature a combination of pecans, chocolate chips, toasted coconut, and a graham cracker crust.

Magnolia Cupcakes

The original Magnolia Bakery was opened in 1996 in New York City by Jennifer Appel and Allysa Torey.

The bakery began making cupcakes with leftover cake batter.

The cupcakes that made Magnolia Bakery famous around the world. Adorned with our signature buttercream swirl.

Make Ahead Apple Pie

An apple pie that you can also bake in advance, cool it, and pop it in the freezer.

An apple pie is a pie in which the principal filling ingredient is apples. The earliest printed recipe is from England. Apple pie is often served with whipped cream, ice cream, or cheddar cheese. It is generally double-crusted, with pastry both above and below the filling; the upper crust may be solid or latticed.

Molasses Crumb Cake

Also known as Shoo-fly cake. This is a quick and easy version of a Pennsylvania Dutch classic.

Molasses can be used as a sugar replacement. Molasses is a liquid and therefore makes baked goods more moist with a chewy texture.

While some people confuse crumb cake for coffee cake, there’s actually a pretty big difference between the two.

Traditionally, coffee cake is topped with a layer of crumbly streusel, while crumb cake is essentially half crumb, half cake.

Microwave Mug Cake

This chocolaty fudgy treat is truly decadent and great for nights when I need a yummy dessert that is ready in less than 10 minutes!

The unfortunate rubbery texture of some mug cakes usually comes from either too much oil or from overcooking the cake itself.

Most recipes call for some sort of milk as well. Mug cakes are safe to eat as long as you microwave them long enough to thoroughly cook the flour and any egg that may be in the recipe.

This mug cake recipe is 100% vegan, so eggs aren’t a concern, but you will want to make sure you cook it thoroughly because raw flour can be dangerous.

Marshmallow Cake

This is a relatively light cheesecake, but it still tastes great! A perfect recipe for people looking for something sweet to top off a meal.

It can be eaten plain or with fruit on top, but it goes especially well with fresh strawberries and whipped cream.

The cake has a marshmallow flavor that really comes through when you eat it.

Marshmallow Cake, soft, moist cake recipe, with caramel and marshmallows and topped with a fresh whipped cream frosting. Great for celebrations, parties and dessert

McDonald’s Baked Apple Pie

McDonald’s Baked Apple Pie features 100% American-grown apples, and a lattice crust baked to perfection and topped with sprinkled sugar.

McDonald’s Baked Apple Pie recipe features 100% American-grown apples, and a lattice crust baked to perfection and topped with sprinkled sugar.

Many pie fillings are made with a processed thickening agent that keeps the filling jelly-like and in place.

But McDonald’s uses a dehydrated apple powder. The powder not only thickens the filling, but it also adds that extra apple taste that you love.

Desserts That Start With N

New York Cheesecake

The larger, richer and more indulgent cousin of the traditional cheesecake.

Regular cheesecake relies on heavy cream and sour cream to thin the batter and create a silkier, creamier texture.

New York cheesecake is heavy on the cream cheese which is why it’s so dense and rich. Extra cream cheese isn’t the only thing that makes New York cheesecake so special.         

Nougat

An after-dinner sweet with coffee, crumble it over ice cream or use it in desserts and puddings. It’s made of whipped egg whites, sugar and/or honey, and nuts.

Nougat is a family of confections made with sugar or honey, roasted nuts, whipped egg whites, and sometimes chopped candied fruit.

The consistency of nougat is chewy, and it is used in a variety of candy bars and chocolates.

The word nougat comes from Occitan pan nougat, seemingly from Nougat originated in Mediterranean countries, where honey, together with almonds or other nuts, was beaten into egg whites and then sun-dried.

Nazareth Cookies

Also known as sugar cookies, they are believed to have originated in the mid-1700s in Nazareth, Pennsylvania.

The sugar cookie is believed to have originated in the mid-1700s in Nazareth, Pennsylvania.

German Protestant settlers created a round, crumbly and buttery cookie that came to be known as the Nazareth Cookie.

Nut Brittle

A confectionery dessert consisting of flat broken pieces of hard sugar candy embedded with nuts such as pecans, almonds, or peanuts, which are usually less than 1 cm thick.

Brittle is a type of confection consisting of flat broken pieces of hard sugar candy embedded with nuts such as pecans, almonds, or peanuts, which are usually less than 1 cm thick.

A type of confection prepared with sugar, corn syrup, peanuts, and butter that has the flavor of buttery, caramelized sugar surrounding a flat layer of peanuts.

New Hampshire Fried Pie

Historically in the American South, fried pies were known as “Crab Lanterns”, a term that dates back to at least 1770, and may originate from crab apple pies that had slits for ventilation, thus resembling a lantern.

New Hampshire fried pies were popular with U.S. president Franklin Pierce.

Fried pies, also known as Fry pies, are mainly dessert pies that are similar to turnovers, except that they are smaller and fried. The fruit filling is wrapped in the dough, similar to the dough of a pie crust.

No-Bake Cheesecake

A no-bake cheesecake “sets” by chilling in the fridge. The no-bake version is a lot softer and almost mousse-like.

Cream cheese was invented in 1872 by American dairyman William Lawrence of Chester, New York.

The textures of these two cheesecakes are totally different. The no-bake version is a lot softer and almost mousse-like. Both are absolutely delicious.

Nectarine Upside-Down Cake

An upside-down cake is a cake that is baked “upside-down” in a single pan, with its toppings at the bottom of the pan.

It’s made with nectarines instead of traditional pineapple.

Nectarines have a very smooth, thin skin that doesn’t need to be removed before baking, though you can remove it with a knife or a vegetable peeler, if you prefer.

The skin typically comes off more easily than fuzzy peach skins do. As with peaches, there are two types of nectarines: freestone and clingstone.

This simple cake consists of cake batter poured over pineapple, brown sugar and butter usually in a skillet. Sometimes nuts and maraschino cherries are added.

It is then baked and flipped out onto a platter so the bottom becomes the top. Hence the name “upside down”.

Nesquik Chocolate Brownies

In general, Nesquik can be used instead of cocoa powder as a substitute. These brownies made with Nesquik are baked in an 8 inch pan. They are dense and fudgy and sweet.

A chocolate brownie or simply a brownie is a square or rectangular chocolate baked confection. Brownies come in a variety of forms and may be either fudgy or cakey, depending on their density. Brownies often, but not always, have a glossy “skin” on their upper crust.

New England Spider Cake

Cornmeal, sweet syrup, and heavy cream are the building blocks of this simple dessert. Cleverly named for the leggy cast iron skillet that was used to set on top of open fires, it’s a cream-soaked sweet cornbread sensation.

Some recipes claim the name comes from the spider-like veins of cooked cream that run through the finished cake, but according to Kathy and Keith Stavely, the duo behind America’s Founding Food: The Story of New England Cooking the cake, like many other cornbread cousins, was traditionally cooked in a cast iron vessel known as a spider.

As the Stavelys explain, “A ‘Spider’ is an eighteenth-century name for a skillet that had three long legs so it could sit above the coals of a hearth fire.”

No-Bake S’mores

These No-Bake S’mores Treats only have 4 ingredients and taste just like S’mores. Golden grahams taste just like graham crackers with marshmallows and chocolate.

No Bake S’mores Bars are made with Golden Grahams, melted chocolate and marshmallows. This delicious no bake dessert recipe comes together in just a few minutes and tastes just like s’mores, without the mess or the campfire!

Nutmeg Muffins

These are baked, cupcake-shaped foods flavored with nutmeg.

Also known as “American muffins” in Britain, or just “muffins” in the U.S.

Muffins are available in other sweet varieties such as blueberry, corn, bran, lemon or banana flavors.

The nutmeg provides a nice change of pace from other muffins that are seasoned with cinnamon.

Desserts That Start With O

Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

Typically include flour, sugar, eggs, salt, and spices. A descendant of the Scottish oatcake, the oatmeal raisin cookie has become one of the most popular cookies in the United States.

An oatmeal raisin cookie is a type of drop cookie made from an oatmeal-based dough with raisins. Its ingredients also typically include flour, sugar, eggs, salt, and spices.

A descendant of the Scottish oatcake, the oatmeal raisin cookie has become one of the most popular cookies in the United States.

A freshly baked oatmeal raisin cookie on a napkin. Cookies aren’t exactly healthy snacks. Although they do provide quick energy and contain some beneficial nutrients, the amounts of saturated fat and processed sugar in most cookies are enough to outweigh their nutritious qualities.

Ohio Lemon Pie

Also known as shaker lemon pie, is a fruit pie typical of the Midwestern United States.

Also known as Ohio lemon pie, this dessert with a marmalade-like filling was considered a speciality of the Ohio Shaker community, which no longer exists. Lemons were difficult to grow in the American midwest, so these pies were prized offerings.

Oreo Cake

A decadent cake is chock full of creamy, crunchy chopped Oreos, and the whole thing is crowned with a rich chocolate ganache!

Mixing crushed Oreo cookies into lightly sweetened whipped cream is a simple, flavorful filling and frosting for the chocolate layer cake.

One of the most famous pies in Oklahoma is the Arbuckle Mountain Fried Pies. If you’re traveling on Adventure Road through Davis, Oklahoma, you’ve got to make a stop at beloved local establishment Arbuckle Mountain Fried Pies.

Oklahoma Fried Pies

Fried pies are mainly dessert pies that are similar to turnovers, except that they are smaller and fried.

The famous Oklahoma fried pies started out as a simple recipe south of the Arbuckle Mountains.

Historically in the American South, fried pies were known as “Crab Lanterns”, a term that dates back to at least 1770, and may originate from crab apple pies that had slits for ventilation, thus resembling a lantern.

Old Fashioned Buttermilk Pie

This traditionally southern buttermilk pie with a flaky crust filled with a custard-like filling.

Buttermilk pie is a pie in American cuisine. Associated with the cuisine of the Southern United States, it is one of the desperation pies, made using simple, staple ingredients. It is similar to, and sometimes confused with, chess pie, but it does not include cornmeal.

Oklahoma Strawberry Shortcake

Strawberry Shortcake is typically made with strawberry, flour, sugar, baking power or soda, salt, bunner, milk or cream, and sometimes egg.

The dry ingredients are blended, and then the butter is cut in until the mixture resembles cornmeal. The liquid ingredients are then mixed in just until moistened, resulting in a shortened dough.

The dough is then dropped in spoonfuls onto a baking sheet, rolled and cut like baking powder biscuits, or poured into a cake pan, depending on how wet the dough is and the baker’s preferences.

Then it is baked at a relatively high temperature until set.

Shortcake generally refers to a sweet cake or crumbly biscuit in the American sense. Shortcakes, particularly layered with strawberries and whipped cream, are now found world-wide, but generally considered to be North American in origin.

Over the Moon Chocolate Pie

This mile-high chocolate pie is inspired by a Southern classic: the MoonPie. With a graham cracker crust, a Tennessee whiskey-chocolate filling.

Orange Sorbet

A frozen dessert made with fresh squeezed orange juice, orange zest, sugar, and water are all you’ll need. Plus, the orange flavor, much like French sorbets, is both intense and refreshing.

Sherbet contains dairy while sorbet has no dairy. Sherbet (not “sherbert” as it’s often mispronounced) incorporates a small amount of dairy, such as milk, cream or buttermilk, which give scoops a richer, creamier consistency as with this Raspberry Buttermilk Sherbet recipe.

Oatmeal Pudding

Also known as white pudding or mealy pudding, it’s a meat dish popular in Scotland, Ireland, Northumberland, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland.

White pudding, oatmeal pudding or mealy pudding is a meat dish popular in Ireland, Scotland, Northumberland, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland.

Orange Tart

A sweet twist on the classic citrus tart sold in pastry shops everywhere. A little less sharp and a lot sweeter than the lemon version.

Orange Tart Recipe combines a Sweet Shortcrust Pastry and a simple Orange Cream Filling. A perfect Winter Dessert!

Ozark Pudding

A cake-like pudding made with apples and pecans for flavor.

Ozark pudding is a cake-like fruit pudding with pecans. The dish probably originated in Missouri or Arkansas.

Bess Truman made her famous Ozark pudding with a similar list of ingredients, but with granulated sugar and black walnuts or pecans. A dash of rum to her whipped cream for the topping.  

Oh Henry Bars

Oats bound with peanut butter and salted butter are topped with a chocolate peanut butter topping.

OH HENRY candy bar is made with big crunchy peanuts, creamy caramel, chewy fudge, covered with a chocolaty coating.

OH HENRY, the candy bar is made with big crunchy peanuts, creamy caramel, chewy fudge, covered with a chocolaty coating.

Oval Cake

A cake shaped like an oval, rather than a circle or rectangle.

Cake is a flour confection made from flour, sugar, and other ingredients, and is usually baked. In their oldest forms, cakes were modifications of bread, but cakes now cover a wide range of preparations that can be simple or elaborate, and which share features with desserts such as pastries, meringues, custards, and pies.

The most common ingredients include flour, sugar, eggs, fat (such as butter, oil or margarine), a liquid, and a leavening agent, such as baking soda or baking powder.

Common additional ingredients include dried, candied, or fresh fruit, nuts, cocoa, and extracts such as vanilla, with numerous substitutions for the primary ingredients.

Cakes can also be filled with fruit preserves, nuts or dessert sauces (like custard, jelly, cooked fruit, whipped cream or syrups), iced with buttercream or other icings, and decorated with marzipan, piped borders, or candied fruit.

One Bowl Banana Bread

Super easy to make in one bowl in just a few minutes. Then just pop in the oven to bake.

Bread usually doesn’t have icing or frosting like cake often does. Then, the less obvious: Banana bread can incorporate heavier flours, like all-purpose flour and whole wheat flour, while banana cake sometimes calls for pastry flour or cake flour, which is lighter.

Okra Cupcakes

A cupcake with added okra in its ingredients.

A cupcake is a small cake designed to serve one person, which may be baked in a small thin paper or aluminum cup. As with larger cakes, frosting and other cake decorations such as fruit and candy may be applied.

Orange Jello Salad

Orange Jell-O Salad tastes like a Creamsicle. Bright orange flavor with a creamy, mousse-like texture. A sweet addition to any meal.

While gelatin has no additives, jello contains artificial flavors, artificial sweeteners, and food coloring and sugar. Orange Jello.

Desserts That Start With P

Parfait

Parfait is a frozen dessert made from a base of egg yolks, sugar, and whipped cream, and can be flavored with fruit, nuts, or coffee.

Parfait means perfect in French.

Parfait is either of two types of dessert. In France, where the dish originated, parfait is made by boiling cream, egg, sugar and syrup to create a custard-like puree.

The word “parfait” actually means “perfect” in French. The origin of parfait can be traced back to references of a dessert in French cuisine in 1894.

They’re most often prepared in tall glasses known as parfait glasses and are typically made with layers of ingredients.

Pudding

American pudding is a sweet, milk-based dessert similar in consistency to egg-based custards.

Pudding is a type of food that can be either a dessert or a savory dish that is part of the main meal.

In the United States, puddings are nearly always sweet desserts of milk or fruit juice variously flavored and thickened with cornstarch, arrowroot, flour, tapioca, rice, bread, or eggs.

The rarer savory puddings are thickened vegetable purées, soufflé-like dishes, or, like corn pudding, custards.

Pineapple Upside-Down Cake

This simple cake consists of cake batter poured over pineapple, brown sugar and butter usually in a skillet. Sometimes nuts and maraschino cherries are added.

It is then baked and flipped out onto a platter so the bottom becomes the top. Hence the name “upside down”.

Pavlova

Named for the Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova, this dessert is an airy meringue topped with fruits.

Pavlova is a meringue-based dessert. Originating in either Australia or New Zealand in the early 20th century, it was named after the Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova.

Taking the form of a cake-like circular block of baked meringue, pavlova has a crisp crust and soft, light inside.

Meringue and pavlova have both require egg whites to be whipped into a foam, with sugar mixed in, and are then baked at a low temperature until dry.

However, meringue is crispy and dry throughout, while pavlova is crispy on the outside, but fluffy, soft and marshmallow-like on the inside.

Peach Cobbler

Peach Cobbler Day was created by the Georgia Peach Council in the 1950s to sell canned peaches.

The rough look of the pie gives the dish its name. It looks “cobbled” together.

Cobbler is a dessert consisting of a fruit filling poured into a large baking dish and covered with a batter, biscuit, or dumpling before being baked.

Some cobbler recipes, especially in the American South, resemble a thick-crusted, deep-dish pie with both a top and bottom crust. Cobbler: A fruit dessert made with a top crust of pie dough or biscuit dough but no bottom crust.

Crisp/crumble: In Alberta, the terms are mostly interchangeable. Both refer to fruit desserts similar to cobbler but made with a brown sugar streusel topping sometimes containing old-fashioned rolled oats.

Panna Cotta

Panna cotta is an Italian dessert of sweetened cream thickened with gelatin and molded. The cream may be aromatized with coffee, vanilla, or other flavorings.

Panna cotta is an Italian dessert of sweetened cream thickened with gelatin and molded. The cream may be aromatized with coffee, vanilla, or other flavorings.

Panna cotta means “cooked cream” in Italian, and that’s essentially what the base is—heated heavy cream (often with a little half-and-half or whole milk) mixed with gelatin powder and flavored with vanilla extract or vanilla bean paste.

The mixture is then poured into ramekins or small molds and chilled.

Pie a La Mode

Pie served with ice cream originated in New York in the late 1890s.

Pie à la Mode is pie served with ice cream.

The term à la mode is French for a dessert topped with ice cream, while Wikipedia reveals that Pie à la Mode literally means “pie in the current fashion” or “fashionable pie,” which is pretty adorable if you ask me.

Pumpkin Pie

Pumpkin pie is the quintessential American Thanksgiving dessert.

Early American settlers of the Plymouth Colony in southern New England (1620-1692), may have made pumpkin pies, of sorts, without crusts.

Pumpkin pie is a dessert pie with a spiced, pumpkin-based custard filling. The pumpkin and pumpkin pie are both a symbol of harvest time, and pumpkin pie is generally eaten during the fall and early winter.

The best pumpkins for pie are heirloom culinary varieties with dense, sweet flesh that’s not watery or stringy.

Some of the best pumpkins for making pumpkin pie include Fairytale Pumpkins, Jarrahdale Pumpkins, Dickinson Pumpkins, Long Pie Pumpkins, and Red Kuri Squash.

Persimmon Pudding

Persimmon pudding is a traditional American dessert made with persimmons.

It is similar to a traditional English dessert. And evolved from a Native American bread made from a type of persimmon fruit.

Persimmon pudding is a traditional American dessert made with persimmons.

Although American, persimmon pudding is similar to traditional English dessert puddings, such as Christmas pudding or quince pudding.

This style of pudding is generally either steamed or cooked in an oven with a water bath.

Sweet but subtle, persimmon pudding often contains hints of nutmeg or cinnamon, added spices that some say resemble the natural taste of the fruit.

Pandowdy

Pandowdy dates back to American colonial times.

It is a sort of pie made with sliced fruit — usually apples — sweetened with sugar or molasses, then topped with a rolled biscuit dough, or according to some old recipes, a pastry dough.

Pandowdy, or pan dowdy, is a dessert whose origin is uncertain, although some suggest European settlers of the Americas created it, originally using apples.

Apple pandowdy remains the most common rendition. a deep-dish spiced apple dessert sweetened with sugar, molasses, or maple syrup and covered with a rich crust.

Prize Cake

Also known as lane cake or Alabama lane cake, is a bourbon-laced baked cake traditional in the American South.

Lane cake, also known as prize cake or Alabama Lane cake, is a bourbon-laced baked cake traditional in the American South.

According to food scholar Neil Ravenna, the inventor was Emma Rylander Lane, of Clayton, Alabama, who won first prize with it at the county fair in Columbus, Georgia.

Peanut Butter Cookies

A peanut butter cookie is a type of cookie that is distinguished for having peanut butter as a principal ingredient.

The peanut butter cookie was invented in the 1910’s, when George Washington Carver of Alabama’s Tuskegee Institute published a peanut cookbook.

A peanut butter cookie is a type of cookie that is distinguished for having peanut butter as a principal ingredient.

The cookie originated in the United States, its development dating back to the 1910s. If crunchy peanut butter is used, the resulting cookie may contain peanut fragments.

Pecan Logs

Pecan log rolls are fluffy, cherry-laced nougat wrapped in fresh caramel and pecans.

Pecan Logs-Traditional nougat, such as white nougat, is made from egg whites, sugar, honey, and nuts.

Nougat is enjoyed on its own as it contains the nuts already, but the nougat for these pecan log truffles is more like the nougat in a candy bar, and slightly fluffier.

Peppernuts

A traditional German cookie often made in Mennonite communities in the US.

They are a kind of biscuit, baked from flour mixed with honey, sugar or syrup, larded with pepper and other seasonings.

German for “pepper nut,” Pfeffernüsse is named for the pinch of pepper added to the dough before baking.

The dainty, big-flavored cookies we now call “peppernuts” were originally baked in European kitchens as a part of yuletide celebrations.

Pulled Taffy

Entrepreneurs Enoch James and Joseph Fralinger are the most famous names in taffy making and both claim to have invented the original recipe in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

The recipe includes salt and water, as well as sugar, corn syrup, butter, cornstarch, flavoring, and coloring.

One of the most prevalent types of 19th-century parties was called the candy pull or taffy pull, which involved buttering one’s hands and pulling the molasses candy repeatedly.

The parties were commonly held at colleges and at churches. As it turns out, pulling taffy aerates it, or incorporates many tiny air bubbles throughout the candy. This makes it lighter and chewier.

Taffy isn’t the only candy out there that gets pulled this way.

Plum Cake

Plum cake in the United States originated with the English settlers.

The terms “plum cake” and “fruit cake” have become interchangeable.

Plum cake refers to a wide range of cakes made with either dried fruit or with fresh fruit. Plum cake refers to a wide range of cakes made with either dried fruit (such as currants, raisins, or prunes) or with fresh fruit.

It is not clear, however, how it came to be called the plum pudding, or plum cake. Some believe that raisins, or currants, were also referred to as plums (or plumb) in England.

Pecan Pie

Pecan pie may be a variant of chess pie, which is made with a similar butter-sugar-egg custard.

Pecans are native to the United States and grow in a wide swath from Illinois down throughout the South.

Pecan pie is a pie of pecan nuts mixed with a filling of eggs, butter, and sugar.

Variations may include white or brown sugar, cane syrup, sugar syrup, molasses, maple syrup, or honey. It is popularly served at holiday meals in the United Pecan Pie is Southern baking at its finest.

Popovers

The popover is an American version of Yorkshire pudding. Typically baked in muffin tins or dedicated popover pans.

The first cookbook to print a recipe for popovers was M. N. Henderson, Practical Cooking, 1876.

A popover is a light roll made from an egg batter similar to that of Yorkshire pudding, typically baked in muffin tins or dedicated popover pans, which have straight-walled sides rather than angled.

Patbingsoo

A Korean shaved ice dessert that is often topped with sweetened condensed milk, fruit, and ice cream.

Pistachio Pudding

Pistachio pudding is smooth and creamy, intensely nutty — and green.

The Jell-O brand, which introduced a line of pistachio pudding mix in 1976.

Pistachio pudding is a green pudding made from pistachio nuts and occasionally contains small chunks of almonds. This pudding is also an ingredient in certain types of cakes, pies, muffins, pastries, and pistachio salad.

It’s nothing like the boxed stuff. For one thing, it’s made from actual pistachios. This pudding is smooth and creamy, and intensely nutty.

During the course of things it loses it’s subtly green hue, and turns a rather unattractive brown color.

Pillsbury Crescent Rolls

Sweet and pillow-soft, crescent rolls are more a borderline savory cake than a dinner roll or a flaky butter-spiked croissant.

Pillsbury was founded in 1869 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Crescent rolls may refer to. Croissant, a crescent-shaped puff pastry.

Pillsbury Crescents, a type of premade puff pastry dough made by The Pillsbury Company invented in the United States in the 1960s.

The spongy dough, the prefabricated demarcations for separating each piece into its own obtuse triangle, the saccharine smell as they bake off, puffing up higher and higher until the layers finally congeal and toast to the perfect golden color.

Peanut Brittle

A sweet treat made with sugar, corn syrup, peanuts, and butter that has the flavor of buttery, caramelized sugar surrounding a flat layer of peanuts.

Peanut brittle made with corn syrups and nuts began appearing in cookbooks around the 19th century.

Peanut brittle recipes most commonly appear in American cookbooks — starting around the 19th century — it is generally recognized as American.

Peanut Brittle is a hard but breakable confection made from mainly sugar and peanuts. This is considered a good treat for the Christmas Season.

PieCaken

PieCaken is a three-layer cake with two pies inside. The bottom layer of this dessert is sweet pecan pie, followed by a layer of pumpkin pie and finally a spice cake layer. Both pie layers even have real pie crust.

A rich and silky cinnamon frosting runs through each layer and covers the entire cake.

The dessert was developed in 2015 for a hotel restaurant in Manhattan.

Popcorn Sundae

It’s a sundae topped with a handful of caramel corn and a drizzle of salted caramel sauce.

Soda fountain owner, Ed Berners of Two Rivers, Wisconsin is reputed to have invented the first ice cream sundae in 1881.

This buttered popcorn ice cream combines these two amazing movie snacks, light, buttery popcorn and delicious creamy ice cream.

And it’s fun watching the popcorn magically shrink when you pour the hot ice cream mix over the popcorn.

Prune Bars

They have an oatmeal crumble crust, and are filled with prune paste made from fresh California Prunes.

Prune bars are similar to fig newtons, which were invented in Florida.

On the savory side, prunes are especially good in sauces with soy and ginger flavors, such as Japanese Tonkatsu Sauce, and in sauces with tomato, like classic barbecue sauce.

Prunes are also a reliable match with pork, as seen in this recipe for pork chops with prune pan sauce.

Poor Man’s Cookies

They are the BEST oatmeal cookies and are made without eggs, butter, milk or nuts!

In the 1930s, producers of a popular Ohioan radio program called Jake and Lena invited listeners to write in for this recipe.

These poor man’s cookies are an old family recipe – spiced bar cookies with plump raisins and chopped walnuts.

Peppermint Pattie Brownies

A dark chocolate brownie with a strong peppermint flavor.

The York Peppermint Pattie was first produced in Pennsylvania in 1940 and sold in the Northeastern United States.

Peppermint Patties are candy made from a simple recipe of butter, powdered sugar, corn syrup and peppermint extract.

Potato Candy

A traditional Philadelphia confection.

It arrived in recipe form – possibly memorized rather than written – with German immigrants.

The candy consisted of two main ingredients: potato and sugar.

It arrived in recipe form – possibly memorized rather than written – with immigrants. The candy consisted of two main ingredients: potato and sugar.

Palmer House Brownie

Brownies are sweet and rich, fudgy squares, topped with walnuts.

The first reference to the “brownie” in America appears in the Sears Roebuck Catalog published in Chicago in 1898.

Specifically at the direction of Bertha Palmer, the brownie was created in the Palmer House Kitchen in the late 19th century.

Potluck Cake

A good cake can bring people together and be the centerpiece of any banquet. Bringing a cake to a potluck is sure to be a hit.

Potluck sheet cake is an easy dessert to feed a crowd.

Potlucks are believed to have originated in the 1860s, when Lutheran and Scandinavian settlers in the Minnesota prairies would gather to exchange different seeds and crops.

Panocha

In New Mexico and southern Colorado, Panoch is a pudding made from ground sprouted wheat and piloncillo.

The sprouted-wheat flour is called “panocha flour” or simply “panocha”, as well.

In southern Arizona, Sonora, and Sinaloa, is the word for piloncillo.

It is traditionally eaten during Lent.

Poppy Seed Muffins

Poppy seed Muffins are perfectly sweet and full of bright texture. They are light and airy and the absolute best breakfast food.

Muffins are known as “American muffins” in England. English muffins are more bread-like and are toasted on both sides.

They contain antioxidant properties and some important nutrients as well.

Poppy seeds are rich in oleic and linoleic acids; their husks are a good source of fiber, and they are an excellent source of B-complex vitamins, including thiamin and folic acid.

Poor Man’s Cake

Also known as war cake. It’s an easy to make, simple raisin spice cake using common ingredients to create a moist and delicious version of this timeless classic.

Known as “poor man’s cake,” this recipe was first created in the 1930s, during the Great Depression.

A deliciously moist fruited cake from the days of rationing when eggs and butter were in short supply.

Since poor man’s cake typically requires little to no butter or milk, it relies on other basic pantry ingredients for flavor, tenderness and moisture, like brown sugar, raisins, cinnamon and cloves.

It also contains one special vintage ingredient you likely have never heard of (or tried): watermelon rind preserves.

Desserts That Start With Q

Quickbread Muffins

Also known as “American muffins” in Britain, or just “muffins” in the U.S.

These are baked, individual-sized, cupcake-shaped foods with a “moist, coarse-grained” texture.

Quick breads are called “quick” because they have to be baked or cooked immediately after being mixed.

Quick breads use the chemical leavening agents of baking powder and/or baking soda.

They can be large or small, savory (salty) or sweet. The major thing that identifies them is the fact that they are, as their name implies, quick to make.

Quick breads cover a wide range, from biscuits and scones, which are made from a dough, to muffins and loaves that are made from a batter.

Quaker Oats Cookies

Quaker’s Oatmeal Cookies taste just like grandma used to make. This classic cookie is full of flavor with a hint of cinnamon and nutmeg.

Oatmeal cookies have a high fiber content compared to normal sugar cookies.

Compared to sugar cookies, oatmeal cookies also have less calorie content.

Oatmeal cookies contain significant amount of minerals like calcium, iron, magnesium and potassium, all of which are needed for overall physical health.

Quince Pie

Quince is a very aromatic, almost floral-tasting fruit that resembles a cross between an apple and a pear.

Quinces are used in the same manner as apples in pies.

The quince is a hard, yellow, fragrant fruit that looks like a cross between an apple and a pear.

Quince may be roasted, stewed, pureed, jellied, poached, baked, grilled, and more.

The tough part is preparing the fruit, which is very hard and can be woody on the outside and at the core but spongy and unmanageable in the remainder of the fruit.

They were cooked and conserved.

Queque

A Spanish sponge cake.

These Portuguese mini lemon-orange cakes, called queques, are sweet, buttery, citrus-infused bites perfect for snacking or breakfast.

It is either a bit dry, too firm, or overly sweet.

Queques are mini Portuguese cakes that can be flavored with most anything: vanilla, lemon, orange — even savory bits such as chicken, chouriço, or presunto.

Quick Chocolate Pudding

Chocolate puddings are a class of desserts in the pudding family with chocolate flavors.

There are two main types: a boiled then chilled dessert, texturally a custard set with starch, commonly eaten in the U.S., Canada, Germany, Sweden, Poland, and East and South East Asia; and a steamed/baked version, texturally similar to cake, popular in the UK, Ireland, Australia, Germany and New Zealand.

The U.S./Canada and Asian version is one of the most common varieties of sweet or dessert pudding served in these countries.

It is usually eaten as a snack or dessert. It is also used as a filling for chocolate (pudding) pie or black bottom pie.

Quik Chocolate Brownies

These brownies are made with Nestle’s Quik Chocolate Drink powder instead of cocoa powder

Quartz Cake

Also known as a geode cake, this cake is designed to look like a crystallized rock structure. They are typically crafted with rock candy and can be made in different sizes and colors.

Quartz Cake or Geode cakes are stunningly decorated layer cakes meant to mimic the famous natural formation of rock and precious and semiprecious stones.

Pieces of the finished and frosted cake are cut out, and then the cavity is filled with edible crystals made out of rock candy.

The crystals are then painted multiple colors to emulate the look of real geodes

Quark Chocolate Mousse

Quark is a light, creamy cheese – very similar in texture to a Greek yogurt or sour cream.

A high-protein, low-fat chocolate mousse made with quark. A rich, decadent, delicious dessert you can enjoy guilt free.

Quinoa Pudding

Like rice pudding. Nutritious superfood quinoa is the star of this creamy, coconut milk-based Quinoa Pudding, which tastes like a cross between rice pudding and tapioca.

It is a great basic pudding recipe to take in whatever direction you choose.

This quinoa pudding is made with bananas, milk, and vanilla.

This deliciously creamy quinoa pudding is a healthier alternative to traditional rice pudding. High in protein and ready in 20 minutes

Quick Bread

Quick breads include many cakes, brownies and cookies—as well as banana bread, beer bread, biscuits, cornbread, muffins, pancakes, scones, and soda bread.

Quick bread” most probably originated in the United States at the end of the eighteenth century.

Quick breads include many cakes, brownies and cookies—as well as banana bread, beer bread, biscuits, cornbread, muffins, pancakes, scones, and soda bread.

An advantage of quick breads is their ability to be prepared quickly and reliably, without requiring the time-consuming skilled labor and the climate control needed for traditional yeast breads.

Quick bread is any bread leavened with a chemical leavening agent rather than a biological one like yeast or sourdough starter.

Quinault Strawberry Shortcake

A sweet cake in the American sense is a crumbly bread that has been leavened with baking powder or baking soda. Made with quinault strawberries.

They produce abundantly during these two seasons, but may also produce a little bit of fruit throughout the summer.

The Quinault strawberry is a cultivar that was selected for its ability to produce two harvests per year: in the late spring or early summer and again in the fall.

Desserts That Start With R

Red Velvet Cake

Red velvet cake is traditionally a red, red-brown, crimson, or scarlet-colored chocolate layer cake, layered with ermine icing. Velvet cake is thought to have originated in Maryland

Traditional recipes do not use food coloring, with the red color due to non-Dutched, anthocyanin-rich cocoa.

Common ingredients include buttermilk, butter, cocoa, vinegar, and flour.

The legend goes that a chef at the Waldorf Astoria created the recipe for red velvet cake and it became a popular dessert at the hotel.

Raisin Bread

Raisin bread is a sweet bread often served as a dessert.

Thoreau experimented frequently with his bread. When he added raisins to the dough, it was said that he became the inventor of raisin bread.

Some recipes include honey, brown sugar, eggs, or butter. Variations of the recipe include the addition of walnuts, hazelnuts,pecans or, for a dessert, rum or whisky.

Robert Redford Pie

A decadent, creamy, pudding-like pie. It has thick chocolate filling, thick cream cheese filling, a butter/nut crust, and is topped with whipped cream.

This layered pudding Robert Redford dessert is a classically great dessert to have in your recipe base.

Rhubarb Pie

A strawberry rhubarb pie is a type of tart and sweet pie made with a strawberry and rhubarb filling. Sometimes tapioca is also used.

The pie is usually prepared with a bottom pie crust and a variety of styles of upper crust.

This pie is a traditional dessert in the United States. It is part of New England cuisine.

Europeans introduced rhubarb first to the New England region in the 1820s. Sometime in the nineteenth century it made its way south and became very popular among southerners.

Rocky Road Ice Cream

Rocky road ice cream is a chocolate flavored ice cream. Though there are variations from the original flavor, it traditionally comprises chocolate ice cream, nuts, and whole or diced marshmallows.

The original Rocky Road ice cream used chocolate ice cream with no chocolate chip pieces.

William Dreyer, of Dreyer’s Ice Cream, is thought to be the original concoctor of Rocky Road.

Rainbow Cookies

Rainbow cookies are typically composed of layers of brightly colored, almond-based sponge cake, apricot and/or raspberry jam, and a chocolate coating.

Rainbow cookies were first introduced by Italian-American bakeries in the late 19th or early 20th Century. They are particularly popular at Christmas.

Commonly referred to as a “cookie,” their composition is closer in many ways to a layered cake or petit four. The original rainbow cookie featured layers with colors representing the Italian flag: white, red and green.

Rice Krispies Treats

Rice Krispies Treats are a confection commonly made with Kellogg’s Rice Krispies cereal or another crisp rice cereal together with butter or margarine and marshmallow.

Rice Krispies Treats were invented in 1939 by Malitta Jensen and Mildred Day. Though they are traditionally home-made, Kellogg’s began to market the treats themselves in 1995.

Desserts That Start With S

Soufflé

A baked egg-based dish originating in France in the early eighteenth century.

Combined with various other ingredients it can be served as a savory main dish or sweetened as a dessert.

Soufflés are typically prepared from two basic components: a flavored crème pâtissière, cream sauce or béchamel, or a purée as the base and egg whites beaten to a soft peak.

Soufflés are generally baked in ramekins or soufflé dishes: these are typically glazed, flat-bottomed, round porcelain containers with unglazed bottoms, vertical or nearly vertical sides, and fluted exterior borders

Sponge Cake

American sponge cake calls for cake flour – unlike the European version that uses self-rising flour.

The American sponge cake also does not require butter and it has more eggs in it. The yolks and whites are separately beaten–resulting in a spongier and finely-textured cake.

The resulting product is light and airy because of the air beaten into the eggs.

Although sponge cake is usually made without butter, its flavor is often enhanced with buttercream, pastry cream or other types of fillings and frostings.

Sponge cake covered in boiled icing was very popular in American cuisine.

Sherbet

Sherbet (pronounced “shur-bit”) is the standard American spelling for the frozen mixture made from fruit and an additive of either milk, egg white, or gelatin.

Sherbet is the fruitier cousin of ice cream. It’s got a pastel color and rich, creamy texture.

Shortbread

A traditional Scottish biscuit usually made from one part white sugar, two parts butter, and three to four parts plain wheat flour.

Unlike many other biscuits and baked goods, shortbread does not contain any leavening, such as baking powder or baking soda.

These cookies are made all over the world, and often appear as a winter holiday treat in the United States.

The Scottish cookies have a distinctly different texture (crisper, firmer and crunchier) and flavor.

Snickerdoodle

A type of cookie made with butter or oil, sugar, salt, and flour, and rolled in cinnamon sugar. Eggs may also sometimes be used as an ingredient, with cream of tartar and baking soda added to leaven the dough.

Not only is there ample cinnamon-sugar coating on every cookie, but the cinnamon also adds the tiniest hint of spice that balances the sweetness of the cookies really well.

Snickerdoodles are an American classic.

Soda Bread Pudding

Soda Bread turned pudding dessert.

Soda bread is a variety of quick bread traditionally made in a variety of cuisines in which sodium bicarbonate is used as a leavening agent instead of the traditional yeast. The ingredients of traditional soda bread are flour, baking soda, salt, and buttermilk.

Sour Cream Pound Cake

Sour cream pound cake is a popular American variation of the British pound cake.

It involves the substitution of sour cream for some of the butter, which also is intended to produce a moister cake with a tangy flavor.

The creamy texture of sour cream makes baked goods more moist than if you used milk. This makes sour cream an excellent choice for recipes that are known to have drier results, like sponge cakes.

Extra sugar or leavening causes a cake to fall; extra flour makes it dry.

Slump

A slump is a fruit dessert traditionally served on America’s east coast that is a combination of a pie and a cobbler.

But it’s baked on the stove top in a skillet.

A slump is similar to a cobbler or a grunt. It is a dessert made with different kinds of fruit covered with dough and baked in the oven.

This rustic fruit dessert takes your favorite seasonal fruit and pairs it with a biscuit batter.

Strawberry Shortcake

American strawberry shortcake is a delicious dessert, full of strawberries and cream – a treat for special occasions and among the most beloved and enduring of American foods.

Among food historians, the history of strawberry shortcake dessert begins around 1847 in the United States.

The first strawberry shortcake recipe appeared in an English cookbook as early as 1588.

Sugar Cookies

They are commonly decorated with additional sugar, icing, sprinkles, or a combination of these. A sugar cookie is a cookie with the main ingredients being sugar, flour, butter, eggs, vanilla, and either baking powder or baking soda.

Sugar cookies may be formed by hand, dropped, or rolled and cut into shapes. These easy no-spread sugar cookies are great for cutouts and decorating with icing, they’re perfectly sweet, and totally delicious.

The sugar cookie is believed to have originated in the mid-1700s in Nazareth, Pennsylvania.

German Protestant settlers created a round, crumbly and buttery cookie that came to be known as the Nazareth Cookie.

Sundae

The original sundae consists of vanilla ice cream topped with a flavored sauce or syrup, whipped cream, and a maraschino cherry.

The classic sundae is traditionally served in a tulip-shaped, footed glass vase.

Classic sundaes are typically named after flavored syrup employed in the recipe: cherry sundae, chocolate sundae, strawberry sundae, raspberry sundae, etc.

Due to the long association between the shape of the glass and the dessert, this style of serving dish is generally now known as a sundae glass.

Soda fountain owner, Ed Berners of Two Rivers, Wisconsin is reputed to have invented the first ice cream sundae in 1881.

Sweet Potato Pie

It is made in an open pie shell without a top crust. It is often served during the American holiday season, especially at Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Sweet potato pie (also known as sweet potato casserole) is a traditional dessert, originating in the Southern United States among the African American community.

Sweet potato pie appears in the southern United States from the early colonial days.

In the early 20th century, George Washington Carver, a black scientist and inventor, came up with his own recipe for sweet potato pie, which featured sliced rounds instead of the typical mash.

Sonker

It was a dessert large enough to feed a big family or farmhands who’d spent the day working in the fields.

Although much debated, sonker is a deep-dish pie, juicier than cobbler, and typically served in a rectangular baking dish.

It was often baked in a bread pan that fit inside a wood-burning stove.

An Appalachian term for a deep-dish pie similar to a cobbler served in many flavors including strawberry, peach, sweet potato, and cherry.

It is a dish unique to North Carolina.

Sweet Rolls

Also called a sweet bun or breakfast roll (chiefly US) – can refer to a variety of sweet, yeast-leavened breakfast breads or dessert foods.

They may contain spices, nuts, candied fruits, etc., and are often glazed or topped with icing.

Compared to regular bread dough, sweet roll dough generally has higher levels of sugar, fat, eggs, and yeast.A sweet roll or sweet bun refers to any of a number of sweet, baked, yeast-leavened breakfast or dessert foods.

They may contain spices, nuts, candied fruits, etc., and are often glazed or topped with icing.

S’mores

A s’more is a campfire treat popular in the United States, consisting of toasted marshmallows, and a layer of chocolate sandwiched between two pieces of graham cracker.

They can also be made at home over the flame of a wood-burning fireplace, in an oven, over a stove’s flame, in a microwave, with a s’mores-making kit, or in a panini press.

No one knows for sure who invented the s’more. However, the first published recipe for “some mores” was in a 1927 publication called Tramping and Trailing with the Girl Scouts.

Scones

American scones are rich and sweet.

They’re typically made with a healthy amount of butter and heavy cream and are often enriched further with the addition of an egg.

The texture is dense, crumbly, and tender.

A scone is a baked good, usually made of either wheat or oatmeal with baking powder as a leavening agent, and baked on sheet pans.

The griddle scone (or “girdle scone” in Scots) is a variety of scone which is cooked on a griddle (or girdle) on the stove top rather than baked in the oven.

Southern Tea Cakes

Traditional Southern Tea Cakes are an old-fashioned classic, buttery sugar cookie that is as well-loved as any cookie in the south.

In some families they were served only on holidays. In others, they were especially for children.

Tea cakes originated in Britain and were served, as the name implies, with afternoon tea.

These are easy and addictive Southern baked treats slightly sweetened with faint notes of nutmeg, vanilla, and lemon zest. So easy to make yet fancy and tasty.

Sandwich Cake

Also known as layer cake. It’s a cake consisting of multiple stacked sheets of cake; held together by frosting, jam, or other filling.

The sandwich cake is excellent for receptions and parties since it is served cold and can be prepared in advance.

The sandwich cake is a very rich sandwich with so much filling it resembles a cake.

Strawberry Pretzel Salad

Old-fashioned Strawberry Pretzel Salad consists of a salty pretzel crust topped with a creamy and sweet cream cheese layer and a strawberry Jell-o topping filled with fresh strawberries.

A pretzel crust topped with a sweet cream cheese layer and a strawberry topping.

Strawberry Pretzel Salad is an easy dessert with a buttery pretzel crust, a rich cream cheese layer, and fresh strawberries on top.

Shoofly Pie

Shoofly pie is a type of American pie made with molasses associated with Pennsylvania Dutch cuisine.

The modern form of shoofly pie as a crumb cake served in pie crust was a post-Civil War innovation, when cast iron cookware and stoves made pie crust more accessible for home cooks.

It is also known as molasses crumb pie. The name “Shoofly pie” is taken from a brand of molasses that was popular in parts of the US.

It was traditionally served not as a dessert pie, but as a breakfast food with hot coffee.

Related to the Jenny Lind pie, it may have originated among the Pennsylvania Dutch in the 1880s as molasses crumb cake.

Swiss Rolls

It is a rolled variant of the traditional Filipino sponge cakes (mamón) and similarly originally has a very simple filling of sugar and butter (or margarine).

A Swiss roll, jelly roll, roll cake, cream roll, roulade or Swiss log is a type of rolled sponge cake filled with whipped cream, jam, or icing.

Roll Sandwich or Swiss Pudding appears in the second edition of The complete biscuit and gingerbread baker’s assistant in 1854.

Called “To Make Jelly Cake”, the recipe describes a modern “jelly roll” and reads: “Bake quick and while hot spread with jelly. Roll carefully, and wrap it in a cloth. When cold, cut in slices for the table.”

In the U.S., commercial versions of Swiss rolls are widely known under brand names like Ho Hos, Yodels, and Swiss Cake Rolls.

Snickerdoodle

A type of cookie made with butter or oil, sugar, salt, and flour, and rolled in cinnamon sugar.

Eggs may also sometimes be used as an ingredient, with cream of tartar and baking soda added to leaven the dough.

Snickerdoodles are often referred to as “sugar cookies”. However, traditional sugar cookies are often rolled in white sugar whereas snickerdoodles are rolled in a mixture of white sugar and cinnamon.

Snickerdoodles have been around since the late 1800s. They probably originated in New England and are either of German or Dutch descent.

Shave Ice

Shave ice or Hawaiian shave ice is an ice-based dessert made by shaving a block of ice and flavoring it with syrup and other sweet ingredients.

Shave ice is characteristically served in a conical paper or plastic cup with flavored syrups poured over the top with additional elements like ice cream, azuki beans, or condensed milk.

Shave ice in its simplest form is composed of thinly shaved ice and syrup served in a cup, paper cone, or bowl.

Seven-Layer Bars

7 Layer Bars get their name since there are typically seven layers of flavors to them.

They are butter, cookie crust, chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, nuts, coconut, and the sweetened condensed milk topping.

Southern Pecan Pie

Pecans are native to the United States and grow in a wide swath from Illinois down throughout the South. Though many other southern states have pecans.

Put simply, pecan pie tastes like a mix of sweet, buttery crunch with a savory nutty aftertaste that will make you want just one more slice.

Some pies are best served hot or at least warm. In the case of pecan pie, they are best served cooled down to room temp or even out of the fridge. You want that filling to set up like a pudding inside.

Sugar Cream Pie

Sugar cream pie is a single-crust pie with a smooth filling made from flour, butter, salt, vanilla, cream, and brown sugar.

The name “finger pie” for the dessert was due to stirring the pie during baking with one’s finger; it was stirred this way to avoid breaking the crust.

The dish is the unofficial state pie of Indiana, where it is believed to have originated with Quaker settlers who came from North Carolina in the early 19th century, and thereafter settled in east-central Indiana, particularly around the cities of New Castle, Portland, Richmond, and Winchester.

Seven-Layer Gelatin Salad

Traditional 7 layer salad is a cookout favorite! Seven colorful layers of fruit gelatin, some made opaque with evaporated milk, are frosted with whipped topping in this time-consuming, yet easy, dessert.

Stack Cake

Also called apple stack cake, are stacked cakes layered with filling.

The cake batter itself is made with molasses, and makes a crisp cake, similar to shortbread or biscuit.

Traditionally the cakes are made in a cast iron skillet, but they can be baked as well.

Squiche

Also known as a sweet quiche, it’s the newest trend to hit the brunch table. It’s a close cousin to a custard tart, but less sweet and with the density of a savory quiche.

It’s called a squiche (sweet quiche) and it’s definitely not just a custard tart because that’s what a sweet quiche actually is.

It’s totally unique and you have to try it.

Slow Cooker Peach Cobbler

With the flavors of brown sugar, cinnamon, and peaches lofting in the air, this slow cooker peach cobbler will have your mouth watering just waiting to enjoy its buttery goodness. This works with frozen and fresh peaches.

Ingredients includes Peaches, Brown sugar, cinnamon, yellow cake mix and butter.

The biggest difference is that a cobbler is so easy to make (easier than pie!). While a pie is made with a bottom crust and often a top crust, the dough and the fruit filling cook together in a cobbler.

Scotcheroos

Dessert bars with chocolate, butterscotch, peanut butter, and Rice Krispies. They are popular in the Midwestern United States, especially Iowa.

Scotcheroos got their name after one of the key ingredients used in the preparation process – butterscotch.

The recipe was originally printed on the Rice Krispies box in the mid-1960s. They are popular in the Midwestern United States, especially Iowa.

Smith Island Cake

Smith Island cake is the official dessert of Maryland. This stunning cake features 9 delicious yellow cake layers and chocolate icing layers.

At its core, a Smith Island cake is a cake made of many thin, pancake-like layers of yellow cake separated by decadent fudge icing.

Today, the cake is famous in Maryland, where it’s especially popular as a holiday dessert. It’s somewhat like a crepe cake but with fewer, thicker layers.

Sopaipilla

A sopaipilla, sopapilla, sopa pipa, or cachanga is a kind of fried pastry and a type of quick bread served in several regions with Spanish heritage in the Americas.

The word sopaipilla is the diminutive of sopaipa, a word that entered Spanish from the Mozarabic language of Al-Andalus.

It is a usually puffy piece of deep-fried dough often sweetened with honey

Strawberry Delight

A dessert salad in the South and more rural areas of Minnesota.

It’s made from milk, whipped topping, cream cheese, strawberries and strawberry gelatin over a graham cracker crust.

This delightful strawberry poke cake made with sweetened condensed milk, strawberries, and whipped topping is a sweet treat for any occasion.

An incredibly fresh and delicious dessert bursting with berry and cream cheese filling flavors you will love.

Snickers Salad

A dessert salad consisting of a mix of Snickers bars, Granny Smith apples, whipped cream and often pudding or whipped topping served in a bowl.

It is sometimes included in church cookbooks.

The recipe for Snickers salad was included in a 2009 article “Salads worthy of a church picnic” in The Indianapolis Star.

Stump de Noel

Stump de Noël is just as festive as the Bûche de Noël, but perhaps a little easier to make.

This stupendous holiday dessert, a twist on the classic, elegant French bûche de Noël (so called because it looks like a log, or bûche).

Shaker Lemon Pie

Also known as Ohio lemon pie, is a fruit pie typical of the Midwestern United States.

Shaker lemon pie uses the entire lemon, from yellow peel through white pith and all the way to the interior seeds.

Shaker Lemon Pie is a bright citrus pie bursting with lemony goodness and has a texture that’s like a cross between lemon curd and marmalade.

The classic lemon shaker pie is a juicy, simple lemon pie that uses the entire lemon, including the peel, pith, and inner flesh in the filling.

Sponge Fingers

It is also known as Lady Fingers or Baby Fingers which are low density, dry, egg-based, sweet sponge cake biscuits roughly shaped like a large finger.

They are typically soaked in a sugar syrup or liqueur, or in coffee or espresso for tiramisu.

Plain ladyfingers are commonly given to infants, being soft enough for teething mouths, but easy to grasp and firm enough not to fall apart.

Sour Cream Coffee Cake

A tender crumb cake with cinnamon pecan topping. You won’t be able to stop at just one piece.

The creamy texture of sour cream makes baked goods more moist than if you used milk. This makes sour cream an excellent choice for recipes that are known to have drier results, like sponge cakes.

Desserts That Start With T

Tiramisù

It is made of ladyfingers (savoiardi) dipped in coffee, layered with a whipped mixture of eggs, sugar, and mascarpone cheese, flavored with cocoa.

The recipe has been adapted into many varieties of cakes and other desserts.

Its origins are often disputed among Italian regions Veneto and Friuli Venezia Giulia.

The original shape of the cake is round, although the shape of the biscuits also allows the use of a rectangular or square pan.

Its name stems from the phrase tirami sù, an Italian expression which literally means pick me up, a reference to the uplifting effects of sugar, liquor, and coffee.

Tapioca Pudding

It is a sweet pudding made with tapioca and either milk or cream. Coconut milk is also used in cases in which the flavor is preferred or in areas in which it is a commonplace ingredient for cooking.

The pudding can be made from scratch using tapioca in a variety of forms: flakes, coarse meal, sticks, and pearls.

According to the MINUTE® Tapioca Company, it originated in Boston in 1894.

Tteok

Tteok is a class of Korean rice cakes made with steamed flour made of various grains, including glutinous or non-glutinous rice.

In some cases, tteok is pounded from cooked grains.

Some Japanese mochi varieties are very similar to certain chapssal-tteok varieties. Both may be made by steaming and pounding soaked glutinous rice.

Tipsy Cake

Also known as Tipsy Parson and Tipsy Squire in America.

The dish as prepared in England would typically have several small cakes stacked together, with the cracks between bristling with almonds.

A tipsy cake is a sweet dessert cake, made originally of “fresh sponge cakes soaked in good sherry and good brandy”.

Tipsy cake originated in the mid-18th century. It came to the American colonies via the British, who settled in the coastal south.

The name refers to the amount of alcohol used in the dessert.

The English call versions of this cake a Tipsy Hedgehog or pudding.

Texas Sheet Cake

Texas Sheet Cake is an amazing chocolate cake recipe made in a jelly roll pan and covered in warm chocolate frosting.

It is the easiest chocolate cake to make, and perfect for a party or potluck.

Sheet cakes may be made in any flavor, with chocolate and vanilla being the two most common.

Toffee

Toffee is a confection made by caramelizing sugar or molasses (creating inverted sugar) along with butter, and occasionally flour.

It is available in both chewy and hard versions. Heath bars are a brand of confection made with an English toffee core.

American toffee is a hard substance, synonymous with brittle; while British toffee is more the consistency of what we call taffy—a hard, chewy candy made of brown sugar or molasses and butter.

Other sources say that British toffee is hard, and American toffee is a softer recipe.

Tin Roof Sundae

Tin roof sundaes are traditionally made of vanilla ice cream topped with chocolate sauce and a scattering of red-skinned Spanish peanuts.

Tin roof sundaes are traditionally made of vanilla ice cream topped with chocolate sauce and a scattering of red-skinned Spanish peanuts.

Created in 1916, in Potter, Nebraska. Harold Dean “Pinky” Thayer, worked in the soda fountain as a teenager and is credited for inventing the ice cream dessert.

Tandy Cake

Tandy Cake is a well-known packaged snack from Tastykake baking company in Philadelphia.

This vintage cake combines chocolate and peanut butter.

Tandy Cake is a yellow cake with a layer of peanut butter and a hard chocolate glaze.I

t’s a white cake with a layer of peanut butter and chocolate on top. It is TastyKakes most popular cake and now there are more flavors to experience than just peanut butter.

Three Kings Cake

Shaped like a large crown this tasty cake is covered with crystallized fruit and sugar.

The cake is a reenactment of Epiphany, with a bean or baby figurine baked into the cake to symbolize Christ and is eaten throughout Carnival festivities.

There’s usually a baby hidden inside as well, though it has a more overtly religious connotation than that of the king cake.

Tomato Soup Spice Cake

A classic cake spiced with cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves, as well as the secret ingredient of Campbell’s Condensed Tomato soup.

The homemade cream cheese frosting gives a great sweet and tangy texture and flavor that pairs well with the flavors of the spice cake. It’s a really moist and tender cake.

You won’t’ be able to taste tomato soup in this cake which means there won’t be a battle for sweet and savory.

The recipe was created by the Campbell’s Soup Company in the 1920’s.

Thin Mints Cookies

Thin mint cookies are crisp, chocolaty cookies made with natural oil of peppermint.

Thin mint cookies are essentially a crunchy mint and chocolate flavored cookie coated in chocolate.

It usually comes together using my chocolate sugar cookies recipe, a splash of peppermint extract, and a divine coating of chocolate.

Thin Edge of the Wedge (Chocolate Pudding)

It is a voluptuous chocolate pudding, perfect for eating in the privacy of your own bed.

This dessert comes from the cookbook The Eating in Bed Cookbook (MacMillian, 1962).

Toasted Marshmallow S’mores

Toasted s’mores are made with graham crackers, marshmallows, & chocolate.

Toasted Marshmallow S’mores-S’mores are usually made by the campfire.

Marshmallows are roasted over the fire until they’re gooey.

Then graham crackers with pieces of a chocolate candy bar are used to sandwich the gooey roasted marshmallow.

Many kids mash the combination together so that the heat from the marshmallow will melt the chocolate.

No one knows for sure who invented the s’more. However, the first published recipe for “some mores” was in a 1927 Girl Scouts publication.

The Palmer House Brownie

Brownies may be either fudgy or cakey, depending on their density.

The brownies are sweet and rich, fudgy and topped with walnuts and an apricot glaze.

The brownie is an American invention. The Palmer House created this delicious confection for the 1893 World’s Fair.

One legend about the creation of brownies is that of a prominent Chicago socialite whose husband owned the Palmer House Hotel.

Tahini Cookies

Made of tahini, flour, sugar and butter and usually topped with almonds or pine nuts.

Tahini is a great substitute for butter in easy cookie recipes like this.

This healthy cookie recipe calls for seven ingredients: flour, sugar, baking soda, salt, chocolate chips, milk of choice, and sesame seed paste.

The cookies are naturally egg free and dairy free, and the recipe can be both vegan and gluten free as well. It is soft and chewy chocolate chip cookies

Trinity Creme

Also known as crème brûlée, burned cream, or burnt cream, it’s a dessert consisting of a rich custard base topped with a layer of hardened caramelized sugar.

It is normally served slightly chilled; the heat from the caramelizing process tends to warm the top of the custard, while leaving the center cool.

The custard base is traditionally flavored with vanilla in French cuisine, but can have other flavorings. It is sometimes garnished with fruit.

Thumbprint Cookies

These classic thumbprint cookies are made with a simple sugar cookie dough, rolled in sparkling sugar, and then indented and filled with your choice of jam.

Thumbprint cookies are buttery little cookies filled with jam and rolled in nuts. They’re a classic cookie recipe to make for any holiday party or cookie exchange.

Twinkie

A Twinkie is an American snack cake, described as “golden sponge cake with a creamy filling”.

The cake itself softens and warms, nearly melting, contrasting with the crisp, deep-fried crust in a buttery and suave way.

The pièce de résistance, however, is a ruby-hued berry sauce, adding a tart sophistication to all that airy sugary goodness.

James A. Dewar, a manager of the Continental Baking plant in Illinois, concocted the Twinkie by filling a shortcake with a sugar and cream mixture.

Tembleque

This creamy pudding is a Puerto Rican (U.S. territory) specialty. Made by cooking coconut milk with cornstarch and sugar, then topping the concoction with cinnamon.

The name tembleque means wiggly, referring to a slight wiggle when the pudding is shaken.

Tembleque is made by cooking coconut cream, coconut milk, heavy cream (optional), salt, cornstarch, sugar, frequently orange blossom water, and garnished with ground cinnamon.

In Spanish, the word tembleque is an adjective used to describe something that shakes, or a noun to describe the shakes themselves.

The dessert, due to its Jell-O-like gel texture, trembles, shivers, and shakes if it has been prepared correctly.

Desserts That Start With U

Upside Down Cake

A cake that is baked “upside-down” in a single pan, with its toppings at the bottom of the pan. When removed from the oven, it is flipped over and de-panned onto a serving plate.

An upside-down cake is a cake that is baked “upside-down” in a single pan, with its toppings at the bottom of the pan.

Usually chopped or sliced fruits — such as apples, cherries, peaches, or pineapples— butter, and sugar are placed on the bottom of the pan before the batter is poured in, so that they form a baked-on topping after the cake is inverted.

Uraró

In the Philippines, arrowroot flour is used to make uraró, also known as araró or arrowroot cookies.

The flour is then mixed with rendered lard, duck egg yolks, sugar, and milk. They are then baked in a pugon, the traditional Filipino clay ovens.

Its texture is dry and powdery, and it is usually shaped like a flower. These are native to southern Luzon.

Utah Scones

Utah scones are almost identical to sopaipillas, said to have originated 300 years ago in what is now Albuquerque, N.M.

In Utah though, scones are pieces of fried dough served hot and finished with a myriad of sweet toppings.

These scones are a cross between donuts and Fry Bread.

Utah scones are a deep-fried, puffy bread, eaten with powdered sugar and honey and butter

Umbrella Cupcakes

Cupcakes served with miniature umbrella pin on top.

A cupcake is a small cake designed to serve one person, which may be baked in a small thin paper or aluminum cup. As with larger cakes, frosting and other cake decorations such as fruit and candy may be applied.

Utterly Deadly Southern Pecan Pie

Southern Pecan Pie is made with a flaky pie crust, real butter, dark corn syrup, a touch of cinnamon and fresh pecans.

Pecan pie is a pie of pecan nuts mixed with a filling of eggs, butter, and sugar. Variations may include white or brown sugar, cane syrup, sugar syrup, molasses, maple syrup, or honey.

Once you’ve made a pecan pie in a cast-iron skillet, you may never go back to a pie plate. Simply press a refrigerated pie crust into the skillet, sprinkle with sugar, top with the pecan mixture, and bake. Serving it in the skillet is also easy and makes the dish even more Southern.

Unglazed Donuts

A plain donut sometimes topped with nuts, sprinkles, powdered sugar, or other ingredient that isn’t glaze.

The quintessential American donut was brought to early New York by Dutch settlers.

These Old Fashioned Glazed Donuts are a true delight – a flavorful cake donut baked until golden and dipped in a sweet glaze.

Ultimate Chocolate Cake

Often served as beautifully moist, rich and fudgy

Chocolate flavored Cake is a flour confection made from cocoa, flour, sugar, and other ingredients, and is usually baked.

Cake in their oldest forms, cakes were modifications of bread, but cakes now cover a wide range of preparations that can be simple or elaborate, and which share features with desserts such as pastries, meringues, custards, and pies.

Unicorn Sundae

This fun unicorn sundae that incorporates both popcorn and rainbow sprinkles.

The Unicorn Sparkle Ice Cream also has purple frosting swirls and candy confetti pieces. To add to the fun, the candy pieces are shaped like stars.

Target’s unicorn ice cream is sour and fruity while Walmart’s is cake-flavored.

Try chocolate or vanilla ice cream, if you like or feel free to experiment with any of your favorite flavors.

Desserts That Start With V

Volcano Cake

The cake should look like a smooth cone without the pointed top. Carved buttercream technique cake to look like hot lava.

Molten chocolate cake is a popular dessert that combines the elements of a chocolate cake and a soufflé.

Its name derives from the dessert’s liquid chocolate center, and it is also known as chocolate moelleux, chocolate lava cake, or simply lava cake.

Two chefs claim to have invented it. Jean-Georges Vongerichten at the Drake Hotel in New York City. And Michel Bras, debuted his chocolate coulant (French for “runny”) at his restaurant in Laguiole, France six years earlier.

Vanilla Cream Pie

Vanilla cream pie is rich, silky, and indulgent yet so light and dreamy. Creamy vanilla custard topped with lots of whipped cream.

Cream pies originated in the United States.

A cream pie, crème pie, or creme pie is a type of pie filled with a rich custard or pudding that is made from milk, cream, sugar, wheat flour, and eggs. It comes in many forms, including vanilla, lemon, lime, peanut butter, banana, coconut, and chocolate. One feature of most cream pies is a whipped cream topping.

Vintage Strawberry Shortcake

Old-fashioned Strawberry Shortcake is easy to make—no rolling or cutting involved. And the difference in taste is well-worth the tiny bit of extra work.

Strawberry cake tends to be layered and large. It also has the strawberries cooked into it whereas strawberry shortcake layers the uncooked berries with cream between cooked layers of shortcake.

Shortcake is typically made with flour, sugar, baking powder or soda, salt, butter, milk or cream, and sometimes eggs.

Among food historians, the history of strawberry shortcake dessert begins around 1847 in the United States.

The first strawberry shortcake recipe appeared in an English cookbook as early as 1588.

Vinegar Pie

Vinegar Pie may sound weird but it’s actually very unique and super tasty. It’s a classic pie originating in the North and Midwest back in the 19th century.

Vinegar pie has a custard-like filling that’s sweet and tangy. It rests inside a flaky pie crust and then gets topped with whipped cream, honey, and cinnamon.

The acidity in the vinegar actually gives the pie a flavor that is reminiscent of lemon.

This old-fashioned pie recipe might surprise you. While apple cider vinegar is an unusual ingredient, it works out very well.

Vanilla Pudding

This homemade pudding made with milk, sugar, cornstarch, vanilla, and butter is a delectable dessert.

Creamy and flavorful homemade Vanilla Pudding is easy and delicious! Serve alone or with cookies, berries or whipped cream.

General Foods in the U.S. introduced pudding mix in the 1930s.

Velveeta Cheesecake

Velveeta Cheesecake is a sweet dessert consisting of one or more layers. The main, and thickest, layer consists of a mixture of a soft, velveeta cheese, eggs, and sugar.

If there is a bottom layer, it most often consists of a crust or base made from crushed cookies, graham crackers, pastry, or sometimes sponge cake.

Vanilla Wafers

A round, thin, light wafer cookie made with flour, sugar, shortening, and eggs.

The recipe for vanilla wafers or sugar wafers was first invented in the late 19th century by German-American confectioner Gustav A. Mayer on Staten Island.

A wafer is a crisp, often sweet, very thin, flat, light and dry biscuit, often used to decorate ice cream, and also used as a garnish on some sweet dishes. Wafers can also be made into cookies with cream flavoring sandwiched between them.

Vanilla Ice Cream

Vanilla ice cream, like other flavors of ice cream, was originally created by cooling a mixture made of cream, sugar, and vanilla above a container of ice and salt.

Ice cream is flavored by artificial or natural vanilla flavoring. Artificial flavorings contain 100% vanillin, the main ingredient that contributes to natural vanilla extract’s flavor.

It was introduced to the United States when Thomas Jefferson discovered the flavor in France and brought the recipe to the United States. Thomas Jefferson wrote his own recipe, which is housed at the Library of Congress.

Vanilla Milkshake

Vanilla Milkshake, world’s favorite milkshake, is a smooth and creamy concoction of vanilla ice cream, milk, vanilla extract topped up with whipped cream and chocolate vermicelli for irresistible looks.

The modern milkshake was born in 1922, when an employee at a Chicago Walgreens, Ivar “Pop” Coulson, was inspired to add two scoops of ice cream to malted milk.

Vanilla Cupcake

A variation of cupcake that is vanilla flavored.

A cupcake is a small cake designed to serve one person, which may be baked in a small thin paper or aluminum cup. As with larger cakes, frosting and other cake decorations such as fruit and candy may be applied.

Amelia Simmons invented the cupcake. And if that wasn’t enough for the history books, when she first published her cookbook in 1796, she cemented herself as the author of what is now recognized as the first American cookbook.

Viennetta Frozen Dessert

The original Viennetta consists of several rippled layers of ice cream separated by thin layers of sprayed-on compound chocolate.

Viennetta is a British brand of ice cream cake made by Unilever and sold under the various Heartbrand brands around the world.

Good Humor Vanilla Viennetta is a wavy vanilla ice cream between crisp chocolate layers.

Desserts That Start With W

What are types of dessert that start with the letter W?

Wagashi

Japanese dessert made from natural, plant-based ingredients such as grains and azuki beans.

Wagashi are traditional Japanese confections that are often served with green tea, especially the types made of mochi, anko (azuki bean paste), and fruit.

Washington Cake

Washington Cake was a sandwich cake of two yellow sponge layers filled with jam and dusted with powdered sugar, later evolving into the better known chocolate-covered pastry cream filled version.

Some modern variations use a vanilla cream filling topped with cherry pie filling and whipped cream.

The sugar can be sprinkled using a lace doily to create a decorative pattern. Raspberry jam was a common choice, though any type of jelly could be used.

Additional flavorings like kirsch or rosewater could be added.

Mary Simpson, also known as Mary Washington, claimed to be one of George Washington’s slaves who he freed upon leaving New York City for Philadelphia.

Wanting everyone to remember her former master’s birthday (February 22, 1732), she celebrated by preparing Washington cake.

Whoopie Pies

An American baked product that may be considered either a cookie, pie, sandwich, or cake.

It is made of two round mound-shaped pieces of usually chocolate cake, or sometimes pumpkin, gingerbread or other flavored cakes, with a sweet, creamy filling or frosting sandwiched between them.

White Boxed Cake

Cake is a flour confection made from flour, sugar, and other ingredients, and is usually baked. In their oldest forms, cakes were modifications of bread, but cakes now cover a wide range of preparations that can be simple or elaborate, and which share features with desserts such as pastries, meringues, custards, and pies.

The most common ingredients include flour, sugar, eggs, fat (such as butter, oil or margarine), a liquid, and a leavening agent, such as baking soda or baking powder.

Common additional ingredients include dried, candied, or fresh fruit, nuts, cocoa, and extracts such as vanilla, with numerous substitutions for the primary ingredients.

Cakes can also be filled with fruit preserves, nuts or dessert sauces (like custard, jelly, cooked fruit, whipped cream or syrups), iced with buttercream or other icings, and decorated with marzipan, piped borders, or candied fruit.

Wacky Cake

Also called crazy cake, Joe cake, wowie cake, and WW II cake, is a spongy, cocoa-based cake.

This wacky cake, created during the Depression, is made with simple ingredients without milk or eggs for a delicious, easy-to-make chocolate cake.

The eggless batter means that the structure of the cake is entirely supported by gluten, which is strengthened by the acidic vinegar and salt.

Active ingredients in wacky cake include flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking soda, vegetable oil, white vinegar, salt and vanilla extract.

Watergate Cake

Watergate Cake brings together pistachio, coconut, and pudding in a delicious layer cake! And a light whipped frosting and pecans.

This vintage Watergate Cake is a pistachio, pecan, and coconut dessert that’s topped with a creamy whipped frosting.

Hatcher suggests it was called Watergate “because of all the nuts that are in it.” In later printings of the recipe, people joked that the cake earned the name because it, too, had a cover-up.

Walnut Cupcakes

Walnut cupcakes is a type of cupcake with fresh chopped walnuts and sweetened with maple syrup on top.

A cupcake is a small cake designed to serve one person, which may be baked in a small thin paper or aluminum cup. As with larger cakes, frosting and other cake decorations such as fruit and candy may be applied.

Amelia Simmons invented the cupcake. And if that wasn’t enough for the history books, when she first published her cookbook in 1796, she cemented herself as the author of what is now recognized as the first American cookbook.

White Chocolate Cake

White chocolate is incorporated into the cake layers, the frosting, and the drip for a stunning monochrome effect.

The consensus is that Nestle started the production of white chocolate commercially in 1936.

Whiskey Glazed Brownies

Because the only way to improve on a fabulously decadent frosted brownie is to add whiskey, of course!

According to legend, brownies were invented at the Chicago Palmer House Hotel.

White Chocolate Mousse

Simply elegant is a fitting description for this smooth treat. Whipped cream teams up with white chocolate to make this easy dessert in a cup.

In 1977, New York chef Michel Fitoussi created a white chocolate mousse.

Waffles

There are many variations based on the type of waffle iron and recipe used.

A waffle is a dish made from leavened batter or dough that is cooked between two plates that are patterned to give a characteristic size, shape, and surface impression.

Waffles may be made fresh or simply heated after having been commercially cooked and frozen.

Waffles for dessert? Yes please! Just add whipped cream and layer. Top with fresh fruit.

War Cake

It is unique in that unlike most pastries and desserts, no eggs, butter or milk are used to make the cake batter.

The ingredients include little or no milk, sugar, butter, or eggs, because the ingredients were then either expensive or hard to obtain.

They avoided ingredients that were scarce or were being conserved for the use of soldiers.

Walnut Brownies

Walnut Brownies is a type of brownies with fresh chopped walnuts on top.

A brownie is a square or rectangular chocolate baked confection. Brownies come in a variety of forms and may be either fudgy or cakey, depending on their density. Brownies often, but not always, have a glossy “skin” on their upper crust.

They are typically eaten by hand, often accompanied by milk, served warm with ice cream (a la mode), topped with whipped cream, or sprinkled with powdered sugar and fudge.

In North America, they are common homemade treats and they are also popular in restaurants and coffeehouses.

One legend about the creation of brownies is that of a prominent Chicago socialite whose husband owned the Palmer House Hotel.

Wendy’s Frosty Cookie Sundae

At Wendy’s fast food chain you can get either a vanilla (game-changer!) or chocolate Frosty, and then top that sucker with chocolate chunk cookie bites and Ghirardelli chocolate sauce.

Soda fountain owner, Ed Berners of Two Rivers, Wisconsin is reputed to have invented the first ice cream sundae in 1881.

Wowie Cake

Also called crazy cake, Joe cake, WWII cake, wowie cake, and wacky cake is a spongy, cocoa-based cake. It is unique in that unlike most pastries and desserts, no eggs, butter or milk are used to make the cake batter.

Wheat Muffins

Also known as “American muffins” in Britain. Sweet muffins are single-serving quick breads, which rise with the help of baking soda or baking powder and eggs instead of yeast.

They tend to be sweet and somewhat moist, but heavier than a cake or cupcake.

These muffins are very moist and full of spice. Whole wheat flour adds fiber without taking away any flavor.

Desserts That Start With X

What are types of dessert that start with the letter X?

Xmas Cake

Christmas cake is a type of cake, often a fruitcake, served at Christmas time in many countries.

Cake is a flour confection made from flour, sugar, and other ingredients, and is usually baked.

In their oldest forms, cakes were modifications of bread, but cakes now cover a wide range of preparations that can be simple or elaborate, and which share features with desserts such as pastries, meringues, custards, and pies.

The most common ingredients include flour, sugar, eggs, fat (such as butter, oil or margarine), a liquid, and a leavening agent, such as baking soda or baking powder.

Common additional ingredients include dried, candied, or fresh fruit, nuts, cocoa, and extracts such as vanilla, with numerous substitutions for the primary ingredients. 

Xmas Cookies

X-mas (Christmas) cookies/biscuits are traditionally sugar cookies or biscuits cut into various shapes related to Christmas.

A cookie is a baked or cooked snack or dessert that is typically small, flat and sweet. It usually contains flour, sugar, egg, and some type of oil, fat, or butter. It may include other ingredients such as raisins, oats, chocolate chips, nuts, etc.

Xylocarp Cupcakes

Delicious cupcakes featuring xylocarp fruit.

Xylocarp cupcakes is a unique name for coconut cupcakes.

Amelia Simmons invented the cupcake. And if that wasn’t enough for the history books, when she first published her cookbook in 1796, she cemented herself as the author of what is now recognized as the first American cookbook.

Desserts That Start With Y

Yellow Layer Cake

Yellow Cake dates back to the 19th century when leavening agents such as baking powder replace yeast or egg whites to incorporate air into the batter.

Rich and buttery yellow cake smothered in a decadent chocolate buttercream.

It is known in the US as a celebration cake and is thought to be derived from the English pound cake.

Yodels

Yodels are frosted, cream-filled cakes made by the Drake’s company in Ohio.

Yodels are distributed on the East Coast of the United States.

They are similar to Hostess Brands’ Ho Hos and Little Debbie’s Swiss Cake Rolls.

Year-Round Cherry Pie

This cherry pie recipe is made with tart cherries and it’s perfect all year-round.

Cherry pies are known for being tart, sweet, and full of juicy goodness. Serve with fresh whipped cream or vanilla ice cream.

Enjoy the flavor of cherry pie all year long with frozen, tart cherries.

Pie came to America with the first English settlers.

Yellow Key Lime Pie

Key lime pie was invented in Florida in the late 1800s.

It is believed to have first been baked in Florida. An authentic Key Lime Pie is yellow not green.

The color comes from the key limes and the egg yolks used in the filling.Key limes are smaller and have a higher acidity (and a more tart, more bitter flavor) than regular limes.

Desserts That Start With Z

Zebra Domes

Originating at Disney theme parks.

It’s an Amarula Cream Liqueur mousse surrounded by a layer of white chocolate, which is drizzled with chocolate and chocolate shavings. And underneath it all is a thin base of cake.

The Zebra Domes have a nice sweet taste to them. They do have a mild flavor of the alcohol, much like a tiramisu would have.

Zonker

An Appalachian term for a deep-dish pie similar to a cobbler served in many flavors including strawberry, peach, sweet potato, and cherry.

Zonker is a deep-dish pie, juicier than cobbler, and typically served in a rectangular baking dish. It was a dessert large enough to feed a big family or farmhands who’d spent the day working in the fields.

It was often baked in a bread pan that fit inside a wood-burning stove.

Also known as sonker in Surry County, North Carolina. 

Zucchini Bread

Zucchini bread tastes like the combination of spices you add to the batter. This zucchini bread, however, also tastes like vanilla and brown sugar.

The zucchini bread was first made in America in the 19th century when housewives used pearlash as a chemical leavening agent.

Usually, zucchini bread is a slightly sweet quick bread (similar to a muffin), with a hint of cinnamon. It’s often punctuated with tender bits of walnut.

The zucchini itself is so mild, you don’t even really taste it at all.

Zebra Cakes

This classic snack is made with moist yellow cake, layered with cream, covered in white icing and then it’s decorated with delicious fudge stripes.

This snack is more than 300 calories and is packing 14 grams of fat. It has no fiber, which means you’ll be hungry again not too long after eating these, as fiber is what contributes to whether a food will actually leave you full and satisfied.

Yellow cake with creme filling, covered in white icing, and decorated with fudge stripes.

Zingers Hostess Cakes

Zingers are flavored vanilla cakes with icing. Zingers come in chocolate, vanilla, and raspberry flavors.

They’re filled with tasty crème that will leave your taste buds dancing.

Zingers is a snack cake produced and sold by Dolly Madison and Hostess, snack food brands owned by Hostess Brands.

ZAGNUT Peanut Butter and Coconut Candy Bar

Zagnut is a candy bar produced and sold in the United States. Its main ingredients are peanut butter and toasted coconut.

The Zagnut bar was launched in 1930, by the D. L. Clark Company of western Pennsylvania, which also made the Clark bar. Clark changed its name to the Pittsburgh Food & Beverage company and was acquired by Leaf International in 1983. The Zagnut brand was later part of an acquisition by Hershey Foods Corporation in 1996.

Ways to Use an Alphabetical List of Desserts

For preschool and elementary school teachers, introducing different desserts, a list in alphabetical order can help to integrate the desserts with the letter of the alphabet being studied. Homeschool parents may want to bake A desserts, when learning the letter A.

Types of Dessert

Desserts refer to sweet dishes or confections that are usually served after a meal.

They can come in many forms such as biscuits, cakes, cookies, custards, fruit salads, ice creams, gelatins, macaroons, mousse, pastries, pies, puddings, sweet soups, and tarts.

Desserts can be grouped into several categories, including:

  • Baked goods: which include cakes, cookies, pastries, and pies.
  • Frozen desserts: which include ice cream, sorbet, and gelato.
  • Custards and puddings: which include custards, puddings, and pastry creams.
  • Fruit-based desserts: which include fruit pies, tarts, crisps, cobblers, and fruit salads.
  • Chocolate desserts: which include chocolate cakes, brownies, and chocolate mousse.
  • Frozen Desserts: desserts that are served cold and frozen, such as ice cream, sorbet, and gelato.
  • Pastry Creams: desserts made with a custard-like mixture of milk, sugar, and eggs, often used as a filling for cakes and pastries.
  • Mousse: a light, airy, and creamy dessert made from whipped cream and eggs, and often flavored with chocolate, fruit, or coffee.
  • Other: which include cheesecake, truffles, macarons, and other desserts.

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