List of British desserts
This is a list of British desserts, i.e. desserts characteristic of British cuisine, the culinary tradition of the United Kingdom. The British kitchen has a long tradition of noted sweet-making, particularly with puddings, custards, and creams; custard sauce is called crème anglaise (English cream) in French cuisine.
British desserts
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- Banoffee pie is an English dessert pie made from bananas, cream and toffee from boiled condensed milk (or dulce de leche), either on a pastry base or one made from crumbled biscuits and butter.
- Cherries jubilee is prepared with cherries and liqueur (typically Kirschwasser), which is subsequently flambéed, and commonly served as a sauce over vanilla ice cream.
- A blackberry and apple crumble
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- Ecclefechan tart
- Eton mess
- Eve's pudding
- English cake
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- The Manchester tart is a traditional English baked tart consisting of a shortcrust pastry shell, spread with raspberry jam, covered with a custard filling and topped with flakes of coconut and a Maraschino cherry.
- Mince pie is a small British fruit-based mincemeat sweet pie traditionally served during the Christmas season.
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- Yorkshire Curd Tart[4]
- Syllabub is an English sweet dish described by the Oxford English Dictionary as "A drink or dish made of milk (freq. as drawn from the cow) or cream, curdled by the admixture of wine, cider, or other acid, and often sweetened and flavoured."
- Treacle tarts are prepared using shortcrust pastry, with a thick filling made of golden syrup, also known as light treacle, breadcrumbs, and lemon juice or zest. Pictured is a treacle tart with clotted cream.
British cakes
- Angel cake
- Banbury cake
- Battenberg cake
- Caraway seed cake
- Carrot cake
- Chelsea bun[5]
- Chorley cake
- Colin the Caterpillar
- Date and walnut loaf
- Dundee cake
- Eccles cake
- Fat rascal
- Jaffa Cakes
- Lardy cake
- Madeira cake
- Malt loaf
- Parkin
- Pink Wafer
- Pound cake
- Rock cake
- Sponge cake
- Tottenham cake
- Welsh cake
- Caraway seed cake is a traditional British cake flavoured with caraway or other flavourful seeds. Caraway seeds have been long used in British cookery.
- Welsh cakes are made from flour, sultanas, raisins, and/or currants, and may also include such spices as cinnamon and nutmeg.[6]
British puddings
Scottish desserts
- Abernethy biscuit[7]
- Black bun
- Clootie dumpling
- Cranachan
- Deep-fried Mars bar
- Dundee cake
- Empire biscuit
- Fudge doughnut
- Penguin
- Tipsy laird
- Scottish cake
- Empire biscuits are a sweet biscuit popular in the United Kingdom, particularly Scotland, and other Commonwealth countries.
Commercial products
References
- Famous Bakewell Tart & Pudding Archived 2013-10-03 at the Wayback Machine, bakewellderbyshire.com, 2013. Retrieved 19 July 2013. Archived here.
- "Regional Dishes of North-West England". manchester2002-uk. Archived from the original on 5 January 2014. Retrieved 4 January 2014.
- Liddell, Carolyn; Weir, Robin (1996). Frozen Desserts: The Definitive Guide to Making Ice Creams, Ices, Sorbets, Gelati, and Other Frozen Delights. St. Martin's Griffin. pp. 29, 33, 185. ISBN 978-0-312-14343-5. Retrieved 14 August 2011.
- "Yorkshire curd tart". BBC Good Food. Retrieved 2020-11-16.
- Foster, Pamela. Abbey Cooks Entertain. Pamela Foster. p. 50. ISBN 0988085909.
- "Traditional Welsh cake recipe". Visit Wales, Welsh Government. Retrieved 12 September 2013.
- Davidson, Alan (2006). The Oxford Companion to Food. Oxford University Press. p. 359. ISBN 0191018252.
External links
- Media related to Cakes of England at Wikimedia Commons
- Media related to Cakes of Northern Ireland at Wikimedia Commons
- Media related to Welsh cakes at Wikimedia Commons
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