A variety of national cuisines would be incomplete without desserts. Of course, in every country in the world, the attitude to sweet dishes varies: somewhere they prefer sugary desserts, literally burning with their sweetness, and somewhere they love less sweet desserts, revealing their complex multi-faceted taste. Some of them have reached literally cult status and have become popular all over the planet.
We recommend you the 10 most delicious desserts from around the world - easy and quick recipes. Simple dishes for every day and for the festive table.
List
- 10. European pancakes, France
- 9. Kaiserschmarrn, Austria
- 8. Red Krupa, Great Britain
- 7. Crema Catalana, Spain
- 6. Baklava, Turkey
- 5. Trifle, USA
- 4. Pudding, UK
- 3. Nanaimo, Canada
- 2. Brigadeiro, Brazil
- 1. Tiramisu, Italy
10. European pancakes, France
Pancakes - This is a quick dessert, which, according to legend, was first served in France. For this reason, it belongs to French national cuisine.
Countless varieties of sweet foods made from flour, eggs, milk and lots of sugar exist around the world. Including our vast homeland.
Pancakes with stewed apples and vanilla sauce are very popular in Europe. They can be made from 300 grams of flour, 3 eggs, 800 milliliters of milk, baking soda and baking starch.
The ingredients are mixed into a smooth dough and baked in medium-sized pancakes with a diameter of about 20 centimeters. Bring a little milk to a boil with vanilla pod and mix in soy cream or whipped cream. Add one egg yolk and let the sauce cool. Prepare apples, cut into slices and pour with lemon juice, and then stew in butter and sugar.
Fold the pancakes twice and place them on a dessert plate along with caramelized apple slices and vanilla sauce. As a side dish for pancakes, chocolate cream, fruits, honey or fruit puree are also suitable. There are many options.
9. Kaiserschmarrn, Austria
Airy dough made from eggs, flour, milk and sugar - all this kaiserschmarrn. This delicious dessert comes from Austria. It is believed that he was a favorite dessert of the Austrian emperor Franz Joseph I. The main ingredients in this dish are cane sugar, lean cottage cheese and vanilla.
Just like pancakes, kaiserschmarrn can be served with various additives. Stewed apples or stewed plums are just as popular as apple sauce or other fruit sauce.
8. Red Krupa, Great Britain
So-called "Red groats”Is now served in many restaurants, although in fact this dish is not related to cereal dishes. In fact, this dish is very similar to the kissel known to all of us.
To prepare this dish, mainly red berries are used, for example, strawberries, currants and cherries, as well as blackberries and raspberries.
To prepare the “Red Cereal” dessert, designed for four people, you will need 600 grams of berries, 400 milliliters of fruit juice, sugar to taste and food starch.
After brief boiling, a third of the fruit mass in fruit juice is passed through a sieve. Then mix food starch with a little water, heat and add to the fruit mass.
Add the remaining fruits, season with sugar, vanilla. Add a little lemon zest to taste and let cool. “Red grits” is especially good with whipped cream or with vanilla sauce.
7. Crema Catalana, Spain
Spanish Crema Catalana - A traditional cream dish coated with a hard caramel layer. It is made from egg yolks, milk, sugar and bay leaf.
200 milliliters of milk is first mixed with 65 grams of food starch and refrigerated. Beat eight yolks with a whisk or a hand blender, along with 3 tablespoons of sugar until frothy, then add a mixture of milk and starch. Boil 6 bay leaves with 800 milliliters of milk and add to the mass with lemon zest.
Stir over low heat in a saucepan until a creamy mass forms. Pour the resulting mixture into cups and refrigerate in the refrigerator. After a few hours, sprinkle with cane sugar and caramelize with a gas flame.
6. Baklava, Turkey
An oriental sweet dish of puff pastry, nuts and honey is very popular in Turkey and neighboring countries. Countless variations of baklava are possible. In the preparation of this dessert, it is possible to use different varieties of honey.
Cooking baklava simple enough, and the taste is simply excellent. A dessert for 4 will require 250 grams of Turkish puff pastry, 250 grams of almonds, walnut kernels and pistachios, 2 tablespoons of honey, some cinnamon, a little pink water, 125 grams of sugar and 2 tablespoons of lemon juice.
Leaves of the dough are cut into square pieces. Nuts, honey, rose water, hard whipped egg whites (from one egg) are mixed into a homogeneous mass, which is placed on the leaves of the dough.
Sugar is boiled in syrup with lemon juice and a little water. Bake stuffed dough in the oven at a temperature of 200 degrees for about 30 minutes, and then, having taken out, soak it in sugar syrup. Tasty and very sweet dessert.
5. Trifle, USA
This is a popular sweet dish from the USA. It consists of three layers of chocolate cream: a layer of white chocolate cream, a layer of whole milk chocolate cream and a layer of dark chocolate cream.
To make a dessert, you need about 600 ml of milk, several tablespoons of food starch, 40 grams of chocolate, 3 eggs, 80 to 100 grams of sugar and a little orange liquor.
Chocolate must be boiled with milk and mixed with it starch mixture. The yolks are separated from the proteins. Egg whites are beaten to hard peaks and mixed with chocolate mass. Chocolate masses are poured into jars in three layers and cooled in the refrigerator. Visually tribal very attractive and very sweet dessert.
4. Pudding, UK
Chocolate pudding, vanilla pudding or fruit pudding served with whipped cream or a suitable sauce as a dessert.
Those who want to abandon ready-made mixtures can independently prepare pudding from eggs, milk and food starch.
A classic among pudding fans is chocolate pudding with vanilla sauce. Traditional plum pudding is prepared in the UK during the holidays.
3. Nanaimo, Canada
This is an incredibly delicious three layer dessert. Recipe Nanaimo simple enough. However, the taste of these cakes will impress the most sophisticated sweet tooth.
To make this Canadian dessert you need to melt 100 g of butter. Add 50 g of sugar and 5 tbsp. l cocoa powder. Mix everything thoroughly.
Add 1 egg and vanillin to the resulting mass and remove from the stove. Add 1.5 tbsp. wafer crumbs, 1 tbsp. coconut flakes, half a glass of chopped walnuts. Mix well. Transfer the resulting mass to a greased drain. oil shape and compress. We send it to the refrigerator for half an hour.
Getting to the cream. To do this, beat 70 g of softened butter to a soft cream. To it we add powder for preparation of vanilla pudding, milk and powdered sugar. Pour the cream onto the base and put it in the refrigerator again.
Next, pieces of chocolate and the remaining butter must be melted and slightly cooled. Pour the resulting chocolate-butter mass into the mold and send to the refrigerator until the chocolate hardens.
2. Brigadeiro, Brazil
Brigadeiro - This is probably the most famous Brazilian dessert. Outside the homeland, Brigadeiro is called “Brazilian truffle“. This dish got its name thanks to the famous politician and military leader Eduard Gomez.
To prepare the classic Brigadeiro version, you need 1 tbsp. butter, 4 tbsp. cocoa powder or as much grated dark chocolate. All of the above must be combined in a saucepan with a non-stick bottom. Stir well and put on medium heat. Boil. The finished mass should be thick.
Remove from heat. Let cool. After that, put it in the refrigerator for 1 hour. From the finished mass we make sweet balls. At the end, roll them in chocolate chips.
1. Tiramisu, Italy
Tiramisu - This is a well-known and beloved Italian dessert in the world. Its main ingredients are: mascarpone cheese, espresso and savoyardi cookies.
There are alternative variations of tiramisu, where, for example, savoyardi cookies are replaced with a classic biscuit, espresso with fruit syrup, or amaretto. In addition, some versions of this Italian dessert may look more like English pudding or a cupcake.