Everyone loves sweets, both children and adults. Of course, there are exceptions; some people are not happy with sugary-sweet dishes. However, there is one fact that unites absolutely everyone - a love for truly beautiful and unusual dessert recipes with photos! I read a lot about various original and unusual desserts and today I want to tell you about them!
Dessert in the form of a drop of water “Mizu Schengen mochi”
Japan has always been famous for original solutions in all areas of life, but Japanese chefs especially distinguished themselves in 2014 when they prepared a dessert in the form of a drop of water. It is prepared using agar-agar, and its taste is almost neutral, so the dessert is served with toppings and additives.
Ice cream in liquid nitrogen
In one of the Philippine restaurants, confectioners dared to take an original step - they prepare ice cream in front of guests using liquid nitrogen. This makes an incredibly strong impression on customers, and also allows you to create ice cream with original flavors, for example, fried bacon.
“Tavuk Göğsü”, chicken breast dessert
The Turkish dessert is made from shredded chicken breast, but if you don’t say it, you’ll never guess that it’s so. A mixture of rice, milk, sugar, flour and butter is added to the breast, and before serving it is generously sprinkled with cinnamon and almonds. During the Ottoman Empire, shahs and sultans were treated to such desserts.
Cherpumple Cake
In 2009, this cake was first prepared in Los Angeles, USA. The essence of it is that three classic American desserts, apple, pumpkin and cherry pies, are combined together. The cakes are stacked on top of each other, held together by cream cheese frosting. A piece of this dessert contains more than 1800 calories.
Sultan's golden cake
Another cake, but it is made in Istanbul. It takes 2 years and 72 hours to prepare. The fact is that all its ingredients are marinated in Jamaican rum for 2 years, and before serving they are covered with edible 23-karat gold flakes. The cake is served in a silver box with a gold seal.
Dessert "English Breakfast"
The complex relationship between the Irish and the English is legendary, but Dublin cook Vicky Macdonald has taken humor to a new, gastronomic level. As a mockery of English breakfast traditions, he prepared a dessert that perfectly replicates breakfast dishes in England. However, the sausage is made from sponge cake, the beans are made from biscuits, and the fried eggs are panna cotta with lemon curd.
Dessert “Ais Kacang”
In Malaysia and Singapore, they make a very fun dessert that consists of shaved ice with beans, corn, green jelly and condensed milk. Other ingredients vary as desired, but shaved ice and beans are always present, resulting in a very bright and unusual-tasting dessert.
Cakes, pastries, muffins, puddings, ice cream - it seems that in every country in the world people cannot do without something sweet after a hearty lunch (or at any other time of the day). Today we will talk about ten amazing and delicious desserts from around the world. If any of them turns out to be unfamiliar to you, we urgently run to the nearest restaurant or store and try to find it! You still haven’t found the desired dessert? Well, this is a great incentive for a new culinary journey!
The name of this dessert most likely comes from the Spanish word "sopaipa", which can be translated as "sweet fried dough". It is a prominent representative of a whole family of desserts - fried buns dipped in oil - which is very common in a number of Latin American countries. Sopapillas first appeared in New Mexico as much as 200 years ago. They can be eaten either separately or dipped in honey, which reveals their taste in a completely new way. You can also sprinkle the sopadiyas with cinnamon to add a special flavor.
9. Churros (Spain)
We owe the invention of churros. These days, they can be found in almost every corner of the world, including Korean movie theaters and American baseball games. Churros are sticks of soft dough, very similar in shape to a star when cut, and made from wheat flour and other special ingredients. They are best enjoyed on cold winter evenings, when the cinnamon flavor of these warm buns is especially pleasant.
8. Tiramisu (Italy)
Sometimes this dessert is called “Tuscan trifle”, and its homeland can be considered Siena, a city in the northwest in the province of Tuscany. It's the opposite of heavy American Pie - light, somewhat reminiscent of tapioca pudding or whipped cream. Tiramisu is made from eggs, mascarpone cheese, ladyfingers, cream, brandy, sugar, rum and grated chocolate or cocoa. Currently, it has won the recognition of sweet tooths all over the world.
If you definitely want to try tiramisu in its historical homeland - in the town of Siena - be sure to go there! Moreover, in addition to desserts, this city has thousands of architectural beauties and culinary delights that make you fall in love with it! It is better to book accommodation in Siena in advance and this can be done.
7. Macaroons (China)
These cookies originally came to us from, but can now be found all over the world. Many Americans, for example, often go to a Chinese restaurant just to buy a box of their favorite sweets. Sometimes these cookies are served as a compliment after a hearty Chinese meal, such as suckling pig or lobster. Do not confuse macaroons with fortune cookies, which also came to us from China - the taste will give fortune cookies a hundred points ahead. And if you wash it down with milk, you won’t find a better dessert.
Where else can you try real Chinese macaroons if not in the capital of China - Beijing? If you suddenly decide to take a culinary trip to China, it is always better to book accommodation in advance in order to minimize the inevitable language barrier here during your search.
6. Fruit salad (Central Africa)
There is nothing healthier than a fruit salad, and what could be better than a dessert that is even healthier than the main course?
In Africa, there is no clear composition for this salad, but most often it includes watermelon, without which no fruit salad would be considered complete.
5. Castle Pudding (England)
It rarely boasts particularly tasty and refined dishes. However, the British clearly made the right decision with this dessert. It's not surprising if some of them are even willing to skip the main course just to quickly get started on this warm, delicious dessert, generously drizzled with strawberry sauce. What sets this pudding apart from the rest is the topping - it's not the pudding itself that hits the taste buds, but the strawberry jam that runs down the sides. They were clearly just made for each other.
4. Pavlova Cake (Australia and New Zealand)
This dessert is very popular in, and. This cake cannot be bought at the corner store or the nearest eatery - it is served only in posh restaurants and the most fashionable stores. In addition, this dessert has no calories at all, so even young ladies on diets can enjoy it. It is made from egg whites and sugar, and the meringue shell must be crispy. The top of the cake is wrapped in whipped cream, and the inside has a marshmallow texture. It is always served with fruit - strawberries, kiwi, raspberries or peach.
3. Baklava (Türkiye)
This out-of-this-world dessert is now commonly associated with Greece, but it first appeared in the Ottoman Empire. At that time, Greeks and Turks actively exchanged ideas and culinary delights, including baklava. To prepare it, phyllo dough is used, which is often difficult to handle because it dries out quite quickly. Melted butter and a syrup made from honey, sugar, lemon juice and orange water are poured over numerous layers of dough. Nuts are laid out on top - most often pistachios.
Oscar Wilde once joked that after a good dinner you can forgive anyone, even your relatives. But only if the meal is completed with a worthy dessert.
Ozhegov’s explanatory dictionary states that dessert is fruit and sweet dishes served at the end of lunch. It is symbolic that the word “dessert” is of French origin, because for centuries, French confectioners have been and remain trendsetters in the production of cakes and pastries. But the best desserts in the world have covered the entire globe with their delicious and intoxicating smells from Foggy Albion to the Middle Kingdom. Let's create our own “dessert” guide and remember how the incredible combinations of tart and bitter, sweet and sour, spicy and velvety tastes of the best dessert masterpieces were born.
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"Peaches Melba"
One of the most delicious desserts was invented by the chef of the Ritz Hotel in Paris, Auguste Escaffet. Once the singer Nellie Melba decided to consult with the great chef about what to serve her friends for dessert - peaches or ice cream. Monsieur Escaffe dispelled the doubts of the charming woman with his skill and imagination. The gallant Frenchman came up with one of the best desserts, which he named after the singer: vanilla ice cream with slices of white peaches and raspberries, decorated with nets of sugar threads.
Pie "Savarin"
An equally famous dessert is the Savarin pie. During the reign of Napoleon Bonaparte, it was invented by Anselm Brillat-Savarin. He said: “Since we are doomed to eat, let us eat well.” This French writer and judicial figure is best known as the author of cookbooks and famous aphorisms about food. The dessert that bears his name is a ring-shaped yeast cake soaked in rum, with a heart filled with various berries and fruits, topped with whipped cream.
Napoleon cake"
But there are several versions regarding the origin of the Napoleon cake. Some historians attribute the honor of inventing the airy cream dessert to the Emperor of France, Napoleon. Dean, one of the best desserts in the world, was not the fruit of much thought and experimentation, but appeared as a result of a brilliant impromptu. One day, Bonaparte’s wife, Josephine, was unpleasantly surprised by how indecently close the emperor sat to one young charming woman, whispering something in her ear. Napoleon was not taken aback and said that he was only sharing with his counterpart the recipe for the cake he had invented. And he immediately announced the composition of the ingredients and the baking method.
According to another version, the name of the delicacy comes from the shape of the cake, reminiscent of Napoleon’s famous cocked hat. Allegedly, this multi-layered confectionery delight was invented by Moscow confectioners in 1912 to mark the centenary of the expulsion of the French army from Russia. Later, triangular cakes became large triangular cakes, but the name remained.
It is typical for the history of cooking that the authors of the best desserts in the world were royalty: Catherine de Medici, Louis 14, Marie Antoinette... In many European restaurants you can order “Strawberries a la Romanow”. It turns out that this dessert, familiar from childhood - strawberries with cream - was invented by Peter?
His Majesty "Pudding"
“The taste of the pudding is found in the food,” said the 17th century English poet and playwright Glepthorne Henry. This saying of his eventually became a saying. Of course, pudding is the calling card of Foggy Albion. The famous plum pudding is made from flour, raisins, eggs, nuts and the addition of sherry or cognac. Agatha Christie put into the mouth of her hero Hercule Poirot a real ode to this national dish, which ends with these words: “It’s worth visiting London just to enjoy the sophistication and variety of English puddings.”
"Tiramisu"
The exquisite “Tiramisu” has held the palm among Italian desserts for the fifth century. The airy cake was first prepared at the end of the 17th century for the Tuscan Duke Cosimo de' Medici, who was known as a great lover of sweets. And today, many restaurants and cafes around the world offer this truly best dessert, for the preparation of which mascarpone cheese, Savoyardi cookies and Marsala wine are necessarily used.
You will find the recipe and method for preparing real Italian tiramisu.
"Zabaione"
Marsala wine is the main ingredient of another Italian dessert, Zabaione. Its name translated from Neapolitan means “Divine Foam”. This delicate cream dessert is made from egg yolks with sugar and served hot, and even the bowl must be warmed up before serving.
Sacher cake
It joins the list of the best desserts in the world and is the national pride of the Austrians. Its true taste can only be experienced at the Hotel Sacher in Vienna. The cake bears the name of its creator Franz Sacher, who served as the head of confectioners at the court of Austrian Chancellor Prince Clemens Metternich.
Meringue cake “Anna Pavlova”
The Green Continent also has something to be proud of. Anna Pavlova is the most famous and best dessert in Australia. The fluffy meringue cake got its name not because the great ballerina loved to eat it. During Mrs. Pavlova's tour of Australia in 1929, she performed in Perth. A few years later, the owner of the hotel where the ballerina stayed asked her pastry chef to create an original new dessert. After much experimentation, the pastry chef conjured up a cake with whipped cream, meringue and fruit. Seeing this sweet miracle, the woman impulsively exclaimed: “Oh, this is like light, like... Pavlova!” Initially, the famous dancer's edible meat was prepared with kiwi and passion fruit. Over time, exotic fruits were replaced by strawberries.
The best desserts in the world, created in China and Japan
What we mean by the word "dessert" is missing from the Chinese meal. That doesn't mean the world's largest nation hasn't ticked off the list of the world's best desserts. It’s just that the Chinese use it between meat and fish dishes to highlight their taste. The most common delicacy is “That which stretches.” These are fruits in caramel. One of the most ancient desserts in China - Eight Jewels rice pudding. The role of jewels in the pudding is played by a filling of eight ingredients: walnuts, water chestnuts, raisins, green and red cherries, candied melon pieces, ginger and kumquat (a fruit of the citrus family, which is also called the golden apples of the Hesperides), and ginkgo nuts. They also pay tribute to ice cream, invented by the Chinese five thousand years ago.
It is ice cream that forms the basis of the dessert table in Japan. Made with green tea, this is truly the best dessert in the world, for the Japanese, of course. This ice cream is also served as a sauce for the favorite dish of the emperors of the Land of the Rising Sun - biscuit "Midori". The imagination of the court pastry chefs created a three-layer miracle with fresh pineapples, bananas, custard, decorated with whipped cream and carom.
Cooks around the world are constantly experimenting with different flavors and presentation of their dishes. They expand the boundaries of what they used to call dessert, apply a scientific approach and try to surprise us with a new unexpected taste. Here are 10 unusual and strange desserts that may surprise you.
Cherpumple cake, Los Angeles, USA
This dessert was created in 2009 by an American comedian who decided to stack three classic American pies: apple, cherry and pumpkin on top of each other, sealing them together with cream cheese frosting. Then all the pies are baked inside one huge spice cake. A slice of this cake can immediately add 1800 calories to you.
Green dysentery, Taiwan
In Taipei, the capital of Taiwan, you can find many exotic establishments. In one of them, at the Modern Toilet restaurant, all dishes are served in toilet-shaped bowls, and dessert in the form of excrement fits very organically into it. In fact, the ingredients in these dishes are absolutely normal. If the names don’t scare you, you can order “Green Dysentery” - a dessert based on ice cream with kiwi sauce, or a version with “blood”, tinted with strawberry sauce.
Ice cream in liquid nitrogen, Philippines
Food for astronauts has long been prepared using ultra-fast freezing, but not all restaurants dare to use molecular gastronomy technology. For example, in one of the restaurants in Manila they prepare Nitro ice cream. In this case, fresh cream is taken and quickly frozen in front of visitors using liquid nitrogen. Here you can try ice cream with unusual flavors such as lavender, rose, osmanthus and even bacon and eggs.
Dessert "English Breakfast", Ireland
If you visit Dublin, you can order an unusual dessert from local popular chef Vicky McDonald, which looks like a real English breakfast with scrambled eggs, sausage, baked beans and bacon.
In fact, all the ingredients are sweet. The sausage is made from a peanut butter sponge cake, the beans are made from biscuits and white chocolate floating in orange-strawberry puree, and the scrambled eggs are none other than panna cotta with lemon curd.
Dessert “Ais Kacang”, Malaysia and Singapore
A quite popular dessert in Malaysia and Singapore is a mixture of shaved ice flavored with red beans, corn, green jelly and condensed milk, giving it a very colorful appearance. The base of this dessert is always shaved ice and red beans, and the remaining ingredients range from palm seeds, foul-smelling durian fruit to red gelatin.
Chicken breast dessert, Türkiye
A traditional Turkish dessert called Tavuk Göğsü is made from chicken breast, although you will hardly taste it. Finely shredded chicken breast is sweetened with a mixture of rice, milk, sugar, flour and butter, then generously sprinkled with cinnamon and almonds. During the Ottoman Empire, this pudding-shaped dish was served as a dessert to the sultans at Turkey's Topkapi Palace.
Dark chocolate piñata, Chicago, USA
When you order this dessert at Chicago's Alinea restaurant, you can prepare for a real performance. The server paints intricate designs on the tabletop with red lingonberry syrup and yellow butternut squash sauce, followed by reduced sweet beer sauce. The whole experience ends with the breaking of large chocolate balls the size of bowling balls, which are filled with cotton candy, dried sweet buns, ice cream and other surprises.
Milk Devil Cake, Los Angeles, USA
Three Milks Cake is a classic dessert made from three types of milk, which is very popular in Latin America. However, at the Los Angeles restaurant Chego, they decided to add a little spice to this dish. To do this, pour a mixture of condensed milk, seasoned with cinnamon and hot cayenne pepper, onto the sponge cake, add tapioca pudding and roasted spicy peanuts.
Sultan's golden cake, Istanbul, Türkiye
The five-star luxury Ciragan Palace Hotel in Istanbul offers its visitors an exclusive dessert that takes 72 hours to prepare. The dessert, made from figs, apricots, quinces and pears, is marinated in Jamaican rum for 2 years, then added rare French Polynesian vanilla, sprinkled with caramelized black truffles and topped with edible 24-karat gold flakes. The cake itself is served in a silver box with a gold seal.
Deep fried sweets, Scotland
The idea of frying candy began in Scotland when someone decided to fry a Mars bar. Since then, deep-fried candy has become a popular snack in fast food restaurants and is often served with French fries. This dish can be prepared at home by dipping it in batter and dipping it into deep fat. However, for those who watch their figure, such a delicacy is a real “calorie bomb”.
1. Marshmallow. The usual name for this sweet is marshmallow or marshmallow. You've probably seen more than once films in which teenagers fry white mastic on sticks over a fire in the forest - this is marshmallow. The recipe for the delicacy came to us from Ancient Egypt, but it was the American Alex Doumak who came to mind to bring the matter to industrial production in the late 40s of the last century. Interestingly, these sweets were originally used to treat sore throat.
2. Donuts Donuts. Who doesn't know the famous Homer Simpson and his pink donuts that he enjoys at work? And who hasn’t heard jokes about the love of American police for these sweets (“Bad cop, you won’t get any donuts!”)? The birthplace of this delicacy was the state of Massachusetts, where more than half a century ago Bill Rosenberg opened his first Donuts store. Now Dunkin' Donuts is one of the favorite cafes of US residents.
3. M&m's. Chocolate dragees in multi-colored glaze with the signature letter M appeared in the USA in 1941 - confectioner Forrest Mars noticed chocolate balls from Spanish soldiers that did not melt in their hands thanks to the glaze. Forrest arranged the supply of sweets to American employees, and this made the delicacy popular throughout the country. The dragees got their name thanks to the financial alliance of Forrest Mars with investor Bruce Murier (that is, M&M means that the company belongs to Murier and Mars). A separate story is the colors of the candies. Each shade corresponds to its own character with its own character.
4. Peanut butter. It is called one of the symbols of America and is used in almost every dish, for example, not only to make delicious sandwiches, but also for onion and bacon sandwiches (Ernest Hemingway was one of the fans of peanut butter and onion toast). And the 20th US President James Abram Garfield even said: “A man cannot live on bread alone, he must also have peanut butter.”
5. Soda Dr. Pepper. The drink was first offered to customers at Morrison's Old Corner pharmacy in Texas in 1885, then it was a cherry liqueur mixed with medicinal herbs. According to one version, the aspiring pharmacist Charles Alderton was in love with the daughter of Dr. Pepper, but he did not want to give his daughter to a poor young man. However, this love failure inspired Alderton to create a drink that became famous throughout the world.
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1. Oreo cookies. In 1912, Nabisco released the first batch of its famous Oreo cookies in Manhattan. It was a completely new treat - two chocolate cookies embossed with a wreath design and a delicate filling between them. Oreo even got into the Guinness Book of Records as the first brand to get more than one hundred thousand “likes” in 24 hours on Facebook in 2011.
2. Baskin Robbins Ice Cream. The history of foreign ice cream began in 1945, after Irwin Robbins opened the first ice cream store in Glendale (California). Irwin expanded the range of the time's traditional chocolate, vanilla and strawberry ice creams by adding pumpkin pie, blueberry cheesecake and melon flavors. He also became the author of the famous motto “31 days” - customers were invited to try 31 varieties of ice cream for a month, changing flavors on each day of the week.
3. Candy cane lollipops. These cane-shaped Christmas candies, despite their New Year's name, are available any day of the year. In Europe, these mints were used as Christmas tree decorations, along with baubles and garlands. This treat has religious significance: the white color of the candy symbolizes the sinless essence of Christ, the hardness symbolizes the Savior as the reliable foundation of human life, the J-shape indicates Jesus the Good Shepherd, and the red stripes represent the holy blood shed on the cross.
4. Twinkies. The first Twinkies appeared in 1930 thanks to baker James Dewar. At the beginning of its rise to popularity, the cupcake had a banana filling, but during World War II, due to a limited supply of bananas, the company was forced to switch to vanilla cream. This change brought real popularity to the cake. Today the filling has vanilla and banana flavors. Fans of zombies are familiar with this delicacy firsthand, because they are the ones hunted by the hero of the film “Zombieland” Tallahassee.
5. Jelly Beans marmalade. Jelly beans are the most common and favorite type of jelly in America. These are small and bright bean-shaped candies in a hard, sweet shell. American President Ronald Reagan confessed his love for this sweetness - during his reign, he declared Jelly Beans the national pride of the United States.
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