easy dessert recipes

 

Desserts & recipes from around the world: On any table, in any home, the mere mention of dessert is a sure recipe for bringing in smiles. We may individual preferences but there’s hardly anybody who doesn’t love dessert in some form or the other. Dessert recipes might sound intimidating and complicated, but the truth is that there is such huge range of desserts that it won’t be hard to find some that are simple, yet delicious.

Dessert could include pastries, ice-cream, fried sweets or just plain, juicy fruit. The recipe could be something as simple as chopping up fruits in artistic arrangements or as complicated as a combination of baking, frying, embellishing and freezing. In practical terms, you could refer to dessert as any sweet-dish, although the word comes from the French term ‘disservir’.

The origin lies in the fact that the sweet dishes were served at the end of a meal.In modern times, the desserts we know of are mostly drawn from all over the world. What we call biscuits, and Americans call cookies, are the same as Italian biscotti. What the English called caramel custard, is crème caramel or Mexican Flan. The English pancake is the French Crepe, with minor variations. You might be familiar with words like Torte, truffle, soufflé, cheesecake, mousse, tarts, fudge – they are all European terms for variations on dessert recipes. Many of them are not very different from Indian recipes at a basic level. The world over, a dessert recipe uses flour or rice, in combination with sugar, dairy products like cream or butter or milk or even cheese, and fruits or nuts.

 Some are regional specialities, depending on the local crop. In Arabic desserts, for instance, dates are used as natural sweeteners, like jaggery is used in India. 

Another combination that works wonders is chocolate with coffee. So you could drink coffee with chocolate in it, or eat chocolate tinged with coffee.

The bittersweet taste will linger a long time. Some people like to experiment with chocolate in every dish – with cheese, with fruit, with custard and so on. Whether the combination will work or not in a dessert depends on individual tastes, of course.

Sherbets and fruit syrups (called Syroppi) flavouring crushed ice are also popular in Italy. In India, the version is popular in the form of kala-khatta.


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