Florida Key Lime Pie
Florida Key lime pie sets a tangy condensed-milk lime filling in a graham cracker crust for a chilled creamy dessert.
Dessert recipes
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Fresh Fruit Cream
Fresh fruit cream is a chilled Punjabi-style dessert with whipped cream, vanilla and chopped seasonal fruit.
Fruit Trifle Pudding
Fruit trifle pudding is a chilled layered dessert with sponge cake, vanilla custard, fruit, jam and whipped cream.
Fujian Peanut Soup
Fujian Peanut Soup slowly cooks soaked peanuts with rock sugar until buttery-soft in a pale, lightly creamy dessert broth.
Gajar Ka Halwa
Gajar ka halwa cooks grated carrot down in milk until it darkens, then finishes it with ghee and nuts.
Gavhachi Kheer
Gavhachi kheer simmers broken wheat in coconut milk with jaggery until it thickens.
Ghee Mysore Pak
Ghee Mysore pak is a South Indian besan sweet with a porous middle, soft edges and a rich ghee aroma.
Goan Bebinca
Bebinca bakes coconut milk batter one layer at a time, each browned before the next goes on.
Goan Dodol
Goan dodol is a slow-cooked Christmas sweet made with coconut milk, rice flour and dark jaggery until glossy, sliceable and chewy.
Goan Mangane (Chana Dal Payasam)
Goan mangane is a chana dal and sabudana payasam simmered with jaggery, coconut milk, cardamom and cashews.
Gougères (French Cheese Puffs)
Gougères are light French cheese puffs made from choux pastry with Gruyère, butter, eggs, nutmeg, and black pepper.
Granita al Limone
Granita al limone is a Sicilian lemon ice scraped into bright, loose crystals for a refreshing dessert or snack.
Greek Baklava
Greek baklava stacks buttered phyllo with walnuts, pistachios, cinnamon, and honey syrup for crisp, sticky diamond-shaped pieces.
Grilled Pineapple with Vanilla Ice Cream
Grilled pineapple with vanilla ice cream pairs caramelized cinnamon-brown-sugar pineapple with cold ice cream.
Gujarati Adadiya Pak
Adadiya pak roasts split black gram flour in ghee with jaggery and edible gum into a dense Gujarati winter sweet.
Gujarati Doodhpak
Doodhpak simmers rice in milk until thick, thinner than a kheer and served in a bowl.
Gujarati Kansaar
Gujarati kansaar is an auspicious cracked wheat and jaggery sweet finished with hot ghee, cardamom and nutmeg.
Gujarati Kesar Mohanthal
Gujarati kesar mohanthal is a grainy besan fudge enriched with ghee, saffron, cardamom, mace and slivered nuts.
Gujarati Sukhdi
Sukhdi sets roasted wheat flour with jaggery and ghee into squares that keep for weeks.
Gujarati Surti Ghari
Ghari encases a khoya and nut filling in thin pastry and coats it in ghee, made in Surat for Chandani Padvo.
Hayagreeva Maddi
Hayagreeva maddi is a Karnataka chana dal sweet with jaggery, coconut, ghee, cashews and raisins.
Hotteok
Hotteok is a Korean sweet pancake filled with brown sugar, cinnamon, peanuts, walnuts, and sesame, then pan-fried until golden.
Hyderabadi Badam Ki Jali
Badam ki jali shapes almond paste into a lattice, a Hyderabadi sweet made without cooking.
Hyderabadi Double Ka Meetha
Double ka meetha soaks fried bread in saffron milk, the Hyderabadi wedding pudding.
Instant Kharvas
Instant kharvas is a Maharashtrian steamed milk pudding made with milk, condensed milk, hung curd, cardamom and nutmeg.
Instant Poha Ladoo
Poha ladoo binds roasted flattened rice with jaggery and coconut, ready in minutes.
Jain Anjeer Basundi
Anjeer basundi thickens milk with dried figs, made without onion or garlic.
Jain Lauki Ka Halwa
Lauki ka halwa cooks grated bottle gourd in milk until it loses its water and takes the sweetness.
Jain Puran Poli
Jain puran poli is a festive Maharashtrian flatbread stuffed with smooth chana dal, jaggery, cardamom and nutmeg, made without onion or garlic.
Jain Saffron Kopra Pak
Jain saffron kopra pak is a quick coconut fudge with milk, sugar, ghee, cardamom and saffron, made without onion or garlic.
Kada Prasad (Aate Ka Halwa)
Kada prasad roasts wheat flour in an equal weight of ghee, the offering made in every gurdwara.
Kaju Katli (Cashew Fudge)
Kaju katli is a smooth North Indian cashew fudge made with fine cashew powder, sugar syrup, cardamom and optional rose water.
Kaju Pista Roll
Kaju pista roll rolls cashew paste around a pistachio centre and cuts it into pieces.
Kashmiri Shufta
Shufta tosses paneer with nuts and dried fruit in syrup, a Kashmiri festive sweet.
Kerala Unniyappam
Unniyappam fries a rice, banana and jaggery batter in a dimpled pan.
Kesar Pista Shrikhand
Shrikhand strains yoghurt overnight and sweetens it with saffron and pistachio.
Klepon (Indonesian Palm Sugar Rice Cakes)
Klepon are Indonesian chewy rice flour balls filled with molten palm sugar and rolled in lightly salted grated coconut.
Kluay Tod (Thai Banana Fritters)
Crisp Thai banana fritters with a rice flour, coconut milk and sesame coating.
Kuih Seri Muka (Pandan Layered Rice Cake)
A Malaysian kuih seri muka with a glutinous rice base and soft pandan coconut custard layer.
Kuler Ladoo
Kuler ladoo binds roasted pearl millet flour with jaggery and ghee.
Künefe (Turkish Cheese and Kadayif Dessert)
A Turkish Hatay-style cheese dessert with crisp kataifi pastry, stretchy unsalted cheese, lemon syrup, and pistachios.
Lapsi Kheer (Broken Wheat Kheer)
Lapsi kheer is a Rajasthani broken-wheat milk pudding sweetened with jaggery and scented with cardamom.
Lauki Ki Kheer
Lauki ki kheer simmers grated bottle gourd in milk instead of rice.
Leche Flan (Filipino Caramel Custard)
Filipino leche flan is a smooth caramel custard steamed gently with eggs, condensed milk, evaporated milk, and vanilla.
Maharashtrian Anarsa
Maharashtrian anarsa is a Diwali faral sweet made with soaked rice, jaggery and poppy seeds, fried into a lacy porous disc.
Maharashtrian Chirote
Maharashtrian chirote are layered Diwali pastries rolled with rice-flour paste, fried crisp and dusted with powdered sugar.
Maharashtrian Dink Ladoo
Dink ladoo binds roasted wheat flour and puffed edible gum with jaggery, a winter sweet from Maharashtra.
Maharashtrian Rava Ladoo
Rava ladoo binds roasted semolina with sugar syrup and ghee.
Makhana Kheer
Makhana kheer simmers fox nuts in milk until they soften and thicken it.
Marillenknödel (Austrian Apricot Dumplings)
Austrian marillenknödel are tender potato-dough dumplings wrapped around fresh apricots and rolled in buttery sweet breadcrumbs.
Mazamorra Morada (Peruvian Purple Corn Pudding)
A classic Peruvian purple corn pudding with pineapple, apple, cinnamon, cloves, and cornstarch.
Mississippi Mud Pie
Mississippi Mud Pie layers a chocolate cookie crust, fudgy baked filling, and whipped cream into a chilled Southern dessert.
Mixed Fruit Custard
Mixed fruit custard is a chilled Indian party dessert with silky vanilla custard and fresh diced fruit.
Moong Dal Halwa
Moong dal halwa roasts ground mung dal in ghee for the better part of an hour, which is what gives it its depth.
Mughlai Ande Ka Halwa
Mughlai ande ka halwa is a rich winter egg dessert slowly roasted with milk, ghee, cardamom, saffron and nuts.
Nariyal Ladoo
Nariyal ladoo binds desiccated coconut with condensed milk, needing no cooking down.
New York Cheesecake
New York cheesecake bakes cream cheese, sour cream, vanilla, and lemon over a graham cracker crust for a dense chilled slice.
Nolen Gurer Ice Cream
Nolen gurer ice cream is a Bengali no-churn ice cream flavored with date palm jaggery, milk and whipped cream.
Nolen Gurer Sabudana Payesh
Nolen gurer sabudana payesh simmers tapioca pearls in milk sweetened with date palm jaggery.
North Indian Meethi Mathri
North Indian meethi mathri is a crisp fried biscuit dipped in cardamom sugar syrup until it sets into a white crackly glaze.