What is your traditional desserts in your country?!
What is your traditional desserts in your country?
My country is Malaysia and my traditional dessert is cendol, ais kacang, etc. What's yours?
Answers: My country is the U.S., but rather than try to say what's traditional all over this diverse country, I'll stick to what I know best: Pennsylvania Dutch. Wet-bottom shoo-fly pie is the best known, but funny cake is at least as popular among those who grew up with it. It's cake batter poured into a pie shell with chocolate syrup drizzled through the batter to marble it and sink to the bottom.
Fastnachts, which are square doughnuts (usually with potatoes in the dough) made with no hole, fried, and either eaten plain, shaken with powdered sugar, or dipped in honey or syrup. They are traditional for the day before Ash Wednesday, which is where they get their name.
Raised potato cake with crumb topping is my favorite kind of coffee-cake type of pastry. You can actually taste the potatoes, unlike the so-called "potato breads" that you find these days.
Although schnitz (dark-brown dried apple wedges with the skin left on) are usually used for schnitz and knepp, in which they're cooked with a boiled ham and served with dumplings (and, in my family, milk and sugar), another use for schnitz is to make schnitz pie.
Oh yeah, at Thanksgiving, mince pie is usually a staple. The Pennsylvania Dutch cookbook has a recipe for homemade mincemeat made with tongue, but I've always bought Nonesuch, which contains suet or something instead, because I'd rather have my tongue on a plate or in a sandwich where I can taste it (and because I don't have the time to let it ferment in a crock).
Bread pudding, with or without raisins, is another favorite.
Rivel soup, depending whose family it's from, could be a vegetable soup with rivels in it, but in mine, the rivels are cooked in milk and served with milk and sugar (are you beginning to see a pattern here? My grandmother had 13 children and had to make filling foods that were cheap!)
Rivels are made with flour, eggs, and a little milk mixed together with a fork or your hands until it gets to be the shape of those black "rivels" of skin and dirt that you can roll off your arm when it's dusty and sweaty! Yum!
The Moravians settled near the Mennonites and Amish, so there's some of their cuisine that's popular with us too, especially Moravian sugar cakes. Flan.. I'm not sure what it's made out of but it's a Puerto Rican dessert being English I was raised on deserts like
steamed pudding & custard
spotted dick
parkin
and rice pudding
but in NZ I fell in love with
pumpkin pie
pavlova
and fruit salad
now Im in australia and its
fruit salad
sticky date pudding and
strawberries with cream
Ice cream Pecan Pie, Apple Pie, Pumkin Pie, Brownies and ALL Ice Creams. MIDWEST, USA Cherry pie, apple pie, ice cream, cookies, brownies... USA my country is Grand Cayman (Cayman Islands), traditional deserts revolved around making cakes - breadfruit, yam, cassava, coco, we also made alot of jams; mango, guava, sea grape & fruit dishes with brown sugar bunuelos, ( sweet flour tortilla pastry) , arroz con leche, ( rice dessert) and ojarascas cookies. yummy!! Hmm, difficult, let me see.
"Souskluitjies", which is dumplings made in a sauce of sugar and cinnnamon.
Milktart
Malva pudding with custard
Sago pudding with apricot jam and custard.
Bread & butter pudding
and of course the ever trusty ice cream with all kinds of toppings from fruit salad or nuts to chocolate or fudge sauce.
EDIT: Oops, forgot to say I'm from South Africa. I'm an acadian from eastern Canada, and our tradionnal desserts are Poutine à trou - an apple dumpling made with apples and cranberries (and sometimes raisins) with a sugar syrop poured into it or as we like them, with molasses. Another one is a pet de soeur (I won't translate) which is a type of cinnamon bun made with either a tea biscuit dough or leftover pie dough spread with butter and cinnamon rolled up , cut and baked. We have desserts here in Jordan that are 'Kanafa' (pastry that has sweet cheese on it-my favorite); 'Wurbat' (cream pastry), 'Kataif' (small pancakes that are folded in half with different sweet fillings, like dates; walnuts; sweet cheese, and coconut-made only during Ramadan). Talking bout dessert in Singapore
* Kaya - Coconut Egg Jam
* Kueh Dadar (Pandan Pancake With Coconut Filling)
* Pisang Goreng (Banana Fritters)
* Sweet Coconut Rice Balls (Klepon)
* Sentiling (Steamed Cassava Cuts)
* Kuih Pisang (Banana Cakes)
* Kueh Ko Sui
* Huat Kueh (Fatt Koh)
* Toddy Huat Kueh
* Coconut Cendol Kueh
* Bubur Cha-Cha
* Bobochacha
* Sago Pudding
* Durian Green Bean
* Kueh Dadar
* Kueh Lapis
* Kueh Baulu
* Chwee Kueh/Kway
* Soon Kueh
* Kueh Ambon
* Onde Onde
*Hokkien Peanut pancake
* Ketupat (Compressed Rice Cakes)
somehow Singapore and Malaysia is some how have the same desserts I'm in the states, so I would say the most traditional is apple pie. I don’t think eat that as often though. I think what people eat most often is cake- yellow, white or chocolate. There’s always birthday parties, weddings, get-togethers and cakes are the most popular. we have:
leche flan
halo2
bibingka
buco pandan
turon
banana que
saba con yelo
maja blanca
guinataang bilu-bilo
guinataang halo2
guinataang mais
guinataang monggo
suman at mangga
kalamay
biko
at iba pa.... INDIA: we have lots of desserts!
gulab jamun/kala jamun
kulfi
burfi/peda/ladoos
ras malai
gajjar halwa
rasgullas
jelebi
falooda
kheer/payasam
puran poli
shrikhand
modak
mysore pak
kalakhand
malpua
karanji/gujjiyas
basundi
sandesh India is known for its different religions so have many types of desserts,few of them-Kheer-made of rice and milk,Jalebi,Rasgulla,Gulab jamun,Ras malai,Phirni,mung halwa...... I'm American and usually Our desserts are a pie or puddings.On special occasions cake.My favorite is banana pudding any time.... mines a vast country, so the dishes vary from place to place
but some of the famous sweet dishes are-
roshogulla, halwa, dahi, payesh etc
(i'm from India) my country is the PHILIPPINES. and we have:
*leche flan
*bibinka
*cassava
*kutsinta
*palitaw
*suman
to name a few