9 Different Types of Dessert
Last Updated on 05/27/2021 by Jamie
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A dessert is typically the sweet line that closes a meal in the culture of many countries in the
world, including the western world. The track typically consists of sweet foods, but may include
other items.
The word “dessert” originated from the French word desservir meaning “to clear the table” and
the negative of the Latin word servire. So grab your fork (or spoon), here are some of the most
popular types of dessert eaten today.
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Types of Dessert
1. Cake
Cake is a form of bread or bread-like food. In its current forms, it is usually a sweet baked
dessert. In its oldest forms, cakes were usually fried breads or cheesecakes.
Modern cake, particularly layer cakes, normally contain a combination of flour, sugar, eggs, and
butter or oil, with some varieties also requiring liquid (naturally milk or water) and leavening
agents (such as yeast or baking powder). Even liquor can be added into a cake.
A pound cake is usually baked in a loaf or Bundt pan. Many chocolate cakes, sour cream cakes,
and fruit crumb cakes are dissimilarity of pound cake.
Cake is frequently served as a special dish on ceremonial occasions, for example anniversaries,
weddings, and birthdays. There are numerous cake recipes; some are bread-like, some rich and
elaborate, and several are centuries old.
Cake making is no longer a difficult procedure; while at one time significant labor went into cake
making (predominantly the whisking of egg foams), baking utensils and instructions have been
simplified so that even the most amateur cook may bake a cake.
2. Cookie
Cookies is a sweet baked food that is usually small, flat, and round and is made from flour and
sugar although oatmeal cookies are quite popular as well. In some English-speaking countries
except for the US and Canada, crisp cookies are called this as biscuits.
Chewier biscuits are sometimes referred cookies even in the UK. Several cookies may also be
called by their shape, such as date squares or bars.
Cookies or biscuits may be mass-produced in the factories, bake in small bakeries or home-
made. Biscuit or cookie variants include sandwich biscuits for example Custard creams, Oreos,
Bourbons and Jammy Dodgers, with marshmallow or jam rich and sometimes dipped in
chocolate or another sweet coating.
Cookies are often served together with beverages like tea, chocolate, coffee, and milk. Factory-
made cookies are sold in grocery stores, convenience stores and as well in vending machines.
Fresh cookies are commonly sold at bakeries and coffeehouses, such as Starbucks.
3. Biscuit
Biscuit is a word used for a different variety of baked, usually flour-based food goods. The word
is applied to two distinct products in North America and in the Commonwealth of Nations and in
Europe.
The North American biscuit is typically a soft and sometimes spongy, leavened quick bread, and
is covered in the article Biscuit (bread). This entry tackles the other kind of biscuit, which is
usually hard, flat and unleavened.
Early biscuits were hard, dry, and unsweetened. They were most frequently cooked following
bread, in a cooling bakers’ oven; they were an inexpensive form of food for the poor.
4. Gelatin
Gelatin is a protein acquired by boiling skin, tendons, ligaments, and/or bones with water. It is
frequently get from cows or pigs. Gelatin is used in candies, marshmallows, cakes, ice cream,
and yogurts; and nowadays they used it in vitamins as a coating and as capsules, and it is
occasionally used to assist in “clearing” wines.
Gelatin is not vegan. Though, there is a product called “agar agar” that is occasionally marketed
as “gelatin,” however it is vegan. It is derived from a kind of seaweed.
Most likely best known as a gelling agent in cooking, different kinds and grades of gelatin are
used in a large range of food and nonfood products: general examples of foods that contain
gelatin are gelatin desserts, aspics, trifles, marshmallows, candy corn, and confections like Peeps,
gummy bears and jelly babies.
The worldwide production total of gelatin is about 375,000–400,000 tons per year
5. Pastry
Pastry is dough of flour, water and shortening that may be savory or sweetened. The term
“Pastries” advises many kinds of baked products prepared from ingredients like flour, sugar,
milk, butter, water, egg, shortening, and baking powder.
Small tarts and other sweet baked products are called pastries. Usual pastry dishes include pies,
quiches and pasties. Pastry chefs make use of a mixture of culinary skill and creativity in baking,
preparation, decoration, and flavoring together with ingredients. Presentation is an main phase of
pastry and dessert preparation.
6. Ice Cream
Ice cream (named from earlier iced cream or cream ice) is a sweetened frozen food usually eaten
as a snack or dessert. It is typically prepared from dairy products, like milk and cream, and
frequently mixes together with fruits or other ingredients and flavors available in the market such
as vanilla.
It is naturally sweetened by sucrose, corn syrup, cane sugar, beet sugar, and other sweeteners.
Usually, flavorings and colorings are added in addition to stabilizers.
The combination of ingredients is stirred to incorporate air spaces and cooled under the freezing
point of water to avoid detectable ice crystals from forming. The ice cream becomes more
malleable as its temperature increases.
7. Pie
No, it’s not good for a diet but Thanksgiving just wouldn’t be complete without a slice of
pumpkin pie. Apple, cherry, pecan, banana cream, and lemon meringue are other popular types
of pies.
Pies are described by their crusts. A filled pie has pastry lining the baking dish, and the filling is
located on top of the pastry but left open. Pies can be a selection of sizes, ranging from bite-size
to ones considered for numerous servings.
A top-crust pie has the filling in the bottom of the dish and is covered with a pastry or other
covering prior to baking.
8. Pudding
Pudding is a type of food that can be both a dessert and a savory dish. The term pudding is said
to come from the French word boudin, originally from the Latin botellus, which means “small
sausage”, referring to covered meats used in Medieval European puddings.
The original pudding was prepared by combination of assorted ingredients with a grain product
or other binder such as butter, flour, cereal, eggs, and/or suet, resulting in a solid mass. It usually
baked and steamed.
9. Candy
Candy, also referred sweets or lollies, is a confection that features sugar as a principal ingredient.
Example of candies available is chocolate, chewing gum, and sugar candy.
Vegetables, fruit, or nuts which have been glazed and covered with sugar are assumed to be
candied.
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2 thoughts on “9 Different Types of Dessert”
1. Georgia
June 26, 2021 at 2:18 pm
Great, now I’m craving apple pie!
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2. Shayla
August 8, 2021 at 10:40 pm
This got me thinking hard!
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