Colorful, sticky, extremely gooey, and delicious. Quindim (coconut egg custard) is one of the most appreciated Brazilian desserts. It can be found in all churrasquerias (Brazilian steakhouses).
Dessert Recipes
Looking for a unique sweet treat? These recipes for international desserts are sure to please your sweet tooth and give you an experience of desserts around the world.
Travel with your sweet tooth!
Brigadeiro are bite-sized chewy truffles and they are the most popular sweets in Brazil. The recipe for brigadeiro is quick to make and has very few ingredients. People serve them at all birthday parties, dinner parties, and weddings across South America.
Alfajores Marplatenses are well-known chocolate alfajores cookies. Chocolate sandwich cookies, filled with rum-infused dulce de leche, covered in chocolate.
These ricotta and chocolate filled ravioli dolce, sweet ravioli, are a special treat for Carnival in Italy.
Sopa borracha (drunken soup) from Panama is neither a soup nor a savory recipe. It is a delicious, sweet, rum cake dessert.
Milk powder barfi is a fudge-like, Indian dessert. This barfi recipe is made with ghee and milk powder, flavored with cardamom.
Peruvian arroz zambito, “brown rice pudding,” gets its brown color from chancaca or panela, a dark, natural sugar used in many Peruvian desserts.
Tarte tatin is a classic French apple tart that is both rustic and elegant.
Use fresh figs to make Fig Newton cookies! These fig rolls feature an easy to make homemade fresh fig jam!
Marquesa de Chocolate is a Venezuelan chocolate no-bake dessert that is made up of layers of cookies alternating with a homemade chocolate pudding.
Rožata is a Croatian version of a caramel flan baked custard, with a golden top over a creamy, orange and vanilla flavored custard.
Espumilla is a meringue cream dessert that looks like ice cream (but is much easier to make) and is often sold as street food in Ecuador.
Brazilian corn pudding, curau de milho, is an easy and tasty dessert made with just three ingredients.
Chilenitos are traditional Chilean sandwich cookies filled with dulce de leche or jam and rolled in coconut, cookie crumbs, or meringue.
Kahk are traditional Eid cookies originating from Egypt.
Mahalabia (Muhallebi) is a creamy milk pudding from the Middle East.
Jazz up regular dates with this simple recipe for cream cheese stuffed dates.
Tembleque is a traditional Puerto Rican dessert. This firm coconut and cinnamon infused pudding or custard is widely enjoyed at Christmas time.