Dessert list A to Z
A complete list of desserts from around the world: every one of the 341 traditional sweets on DessertCat, from aebleskiver to zserbó szelet, listed alphabetically by name. Each entry opens a full page covering what the dessert is, where it comes from, the technique that makes it work and a recipe you can cook at home.
The list spans 22 cuisines — steamed coconut and rice-flour cakes from Southeast Asia, milk sweets from India, syrup-soaked pastries from the Middle East, strudels and tortes from Central Europe, steamed puddings from Britain and milk caramels from Latin America. Names are given in their most common English spelling, so chè ba màu appears under C and bûche de Noël under B. Use the letters below to jump, or browse by region:
African · Austrian & German · British & Irish · Chinese · Eastern European · Filipino · French · Indian & South Asian · Indonesian & Malaysian · Italian · Japanese · Korean · Latin American · Mediterranean · Middle Eastern · North American · Oceania · Persian · Scandinavian · Spanish & Portuguese · Thai · Vietnamese
A
- Agar-Agar Jelly — layered pandan and coconut jelly · Chinese
- Ais Kacang — Malaysian shaved ice with red beans, syrup and corn · Indonesian & Malaysian
- Aish el-Saraya — Lebanese 'palace bread' with caramel and cream · Middle Eastern
- Almond Tart — crisp pâte sucrée filled with golden almond cream · French
- Anmitsu — agar jelly with bean paste, fruit, and kuromitsu · Japanese
- Anpan — soft Japanese buns filled with red-bean paste · Japanese
- Anzac Biscuits — oat, coconut and golden-syrup biscuits · Oceania
- Apfelstrudel — Viennese apple strudel · Austrian & German
- Apple Pie — the British double-crust Bramley pie · British & Irish
- Apple Turnover — the French bakery's chausson aux pommes · French
- Apricot Crumble — sharp summer apricots under a buttery almond crumble · British & Irish
- Arroz Doce — Portuguese rice pudding with lemon and cinnamon · Spanish & Portuguese
- Avocado Mousse — silky chocolate mousse with no cream or eggs · North American
B
- Baba au Rhum — a light yeast cake drenched in rum syrup · French
- Babka — the Eastern European enriched yeast cake · Eastern European
- Baci di Dama — Piedmont's hazelnut 'lady's kisses' · Italian
- Badam Barfi — almond fudge made from blanched almonds, milk and saffron · Indian & South Asian
- Baked Alaska — frozen ice cream in a hot, toasted meringue · North American
- Baked Banana Fritters — oven-crisp bananas in a coconut crust · Indonesian & Malaysian
- Bakewell Tart — raspberry jam under almond frangipane · British & Irish
- Balushahi — ghee-flaked sweet pretzels in cardamom syrup · Indian & South Asian
- Banana Cue — caramel-glazed saba banana skewers · Filipino
- Banana Lumpia — crisp banana spring rolls with cinnamon sugar · Filipino
- Bananas Foster — New Orleans' flambéed rum-caramel bananas · North American
- Banh Chuoi — Vietnamese baked banana cake · Vietnamese
- Banh Da Lon — layered tapioca-pandan cake · Vietnamese
- Basbousa — Egyptian semolina cake in syrup · Middle Eastern
- Bastani — Iran's traditional saffron, rose and pistachio ice cream · Persian
- Battenberg Cake — the pink-and-yellow chequerboard in marzipan · British & Irish
- Bebinca — Goa's layered coconut and egg-yolk cake · Indian & South Asian
- Belgian Waffles — deep-pocketed, crisp and light · North American
- Berliner — the German jam doughnut · Austrian & German
- Berry Crumble Tart — a crisp tart shell, jammy berries and a buttery crumble lid · French
- Berry Soufflé — a hot French soufflé made with fruit purée · French
- Bibingka — Filipino Christmas rice cake baked on banana leaf · Filipino
- Bienenstich — German bee sting cake · Austrian & German
- Bingsu — Korean shaved-ice with milk and toppings · Korean
- Black Sesame Ice Cream — intensely nutty Japanese sesame gelato · Japanese
- Blackberry Fool — rippled bramble purée and whipped cream · British & Irish
- Blackout Cake — Brooklyn's chocolate-on-chocolate layer cake · North American
- Æbleskiver — Danish round pancake puffs for Christmas · Scandinavian
- Bløtkake — Norway's cream-and-strawberry celebration cake · Scandinavian
- Blue Velvet Cake — red velvet's vivid blue cousin · North American
- Blueberry Muffins — tall, tender and bursting with berries · British & Irish
- Boterkoek — dense, golden Dutch butter cake · Austrian & German
- Brandy Snaps — lacy ginger curls filled with cream · British & Irish
- Bubur Cha Cha — sweet potato, yam and tapioca jellies in coconut milk · Indonesian & Malaysian
- Bûche de Noël — the French Christmas yule log · French
- Buko Pandan — young coconut and pandan jelly salad · Filipino
- Bungeoppang — Korea's fish-shaped red bean pastries · Korean
- Butterfly Pea Flower Pudding — Thai blue-and-white coconut cups · Thai
C
- Canjica — Brazilian sweet hominy with coconut · Latin American
- Caramel Slice — caramel slice / millionaire's shortbread · North American
- Cardamom Bun — Sweden's twisted kardemummabulle · Scandinavian
- Cardamom Rice Pudding — slow-simmered North Indian kheer · Indian & South Asian
- Cendol — pandan jelly in iced coconut milk with palm-sugar syrup · Indonesian & Malaysian
- Chajá — Uruguay's sponge, peach, cream and meringue cake · Latin American
- Chak-Chak — the Tatar and Bashkir honey cake of fried dough · Persian
- Che Ba Mau — three-colour bean and jelly dessert · Vietnamese
- Chhena Poda — Odisha's baked, caramelised fresh-cheese cake · Indian & South Asian
- Chikki — peanut-jaggery brittle (Indian-style) · Indian & South Asian
- Chirimoya Alegre — Chilean cherimoya in fresh orange juice · Latin American
- Choco Pie — Korea's chocolate-coated marshmallow cake · Korean
- Chocolate Coconut Tart — baked coconut frangipane under dark ganache · French
- Chocolate Hazelnut Tart — praline crunch under a gianduja ganache · French
- Chocolate Marshmallow Pie — in the bird's milk tradition · Eastern European
- Chocolate Salami — the no-bake chocolate and biscuit log · Italian
- Chocotone — Brazil's chocolate-chip Christmas panettone · Latin American
- Chocotorta — Argentina's no-bake chocolate biscuit and dulce de leche cake · Latin American
- Cocadas — chewy Latin American coconut sweets · Latin American
- Coconut Jelly — set in the shell of a young coconut · Chinese
- Coconut Rice Cake — Thai sweet coconut sticky rice, pressed and sliced · Thai
- Coconut Tart — a golden, chewy coconut custard tart · French
- Coffee Soufflé — a hot espresso pastry-cream soufflé · French
- Cremeschnitte — the Austrian and German custard slice · Austrian & German
- Cremoso — Argentine layered cream-and-dulce dessert · Latin American
- Croffle — the croissant pressed in a waffle iron · Korean
- Cronut — the croissant-doughnut hybrid · North American
- Cuca — Brazilian crumb-topped fruit cake · Latin American
- Curau — Brazilian fresh sweet-corn pudding · Latin American
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- Dacquoise — nut meringue layers and coffee buttercream · French
- Dadar Gulung — pandan crêpes wrapped around coconut-palm-sugar filling · Indonesian & Malaysian
- Daifuku — soft mochi rounds filled with red-bean paste · Japanese
- Dodol — sticky palm-sugar gold from the archipelago · Indonesian & Malaysian
- Donauwelle — German Danube wave cake · Austrian & German
- Donuts — the classic glazed American yeast doughnut · North American
- Doughnut Ice Cream Cone — a cinnamon-sugar doughnut spiral filled with ice cream · North American
- Dragon Fruit Sorbet — a magenta pitaya ice with lime · North American
- Drømmekage — Danish dream cake with a caramelised coconut top · Scandinavian
- Dulce de Batata — sliceable sweet potato paste from the River Plate · Latin American
- Dulce de Leche — the foundational South American milk caramel · Latin American
- Durian Crepe — chilled pancake parcels of durian and cream · Indonesian & Malaysian
- Durian Ice Cream — the king of fruits, frozen with coconut and cream · Indonesian & Malaysian
E
- Eccles Cake — flaky pastry packed with buttery currants · British & Irish
- Egg Waffle — Hong Kong bubble waffle · Chinese
- Es Teler — iced avocado, young coconut and jackfruit · Indonesian & Malaysian
- Espresso Panna Cotta — coffee-infused set cream · Italian
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- Fairy Bread — Australian buttered bread with hundreds-and-thousands · Oceania
- Fattigmann — Norway's paper-thin fried Christmas twists · Scandinavian
- Faworki — Polish carnival angel wings · Eastern European
- Fennel Seed Biscotti — twice-baked Italian biscuits with fennel and almonds · Mediterranean
- Fig and Honey Tart — Provençal figs roasted on almond cream · French
- Fig and Walnut Cake — an olive-oil cake studded with soaked figs and toasted walnuts · Mediterranean
- Fig Newtons — fig-paste filled biscuits · North American
- Figgy Pudding — the steamed fig pudding of the Christmas carol · British & Irish
- Financier — little brown-butter almond cakes shaped like gold bars · French
- Flaugnarde — the clafoutis of every other fruit · French
- Freakshake — the over-the-top loaded milkshake · North American
- Frozen Banana — a chocolate-shelled banana on a stick · North American
- Frozen Custard — the Midwest American egg-yolk-rich soft ice cream · North American
- Frozen Grapes — nature's bite-sized sorbet · North American
- Fruit Parfait — layers of yoghurt, berries and crunchy granola · North American
- Fruit Pizza — a giant sugar cookie with cream cheese and fresh fruit · North American
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- Galaktoboureko — Greek semolina custard pie in filo and syrup · Middle Eastern
- Gata — Armenian sweet bread with a buttery khoriz filling · Persian
- Gâteau de Savoie — the feather-light Savoy sponge · French
- Gâteau Saint-Honoré — a crown of caramel choux on crisp pastry · French
- Gaz — Isfahan's pistachio and rose-water nougat · Persian
- Gerbeaud Cake — the layered walnut slice of a Budapest café · Eastern European
- Ghevar — honeycomb-textured Rajasthani sweet · Indian & South Asian
- Ginger Peach Crisp — summer peaches under a crunchy oat topping · North American
- Golden Sponge — the American yellow butter cake · North American
- Granita — Sicily's ice of lemon, almond and coffee · Italian
- Gulab Jamun — fried milk dumplings soaked in rose and cardamom syrup · Indian & South Asian
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- Halo-Halo — the Filipino 'mix-mix' of shaved ice, beans, fruit and ube · Filipino
- Hazelnut Meringue — toasted-nut meringue layered with cream and raspberries · French
- Hazelnut Mousse — a light praline mousse with caramelised hazelnuts · French
- Hazelnut Praline — caramelised hazelnuts ground to a flowing paste · French
- Helado de Agua — Latin America's fruit water ices · Latin American
- Helado de Paila — Ecuador's hand-spun copper-pan ice · Latin American
- Hojicha Ice Cream — roasted-tea ice cream with deep caramel notes · Japanese
- Honey Almond Cake — flourless almond cake with orange-blossom honey syrup · Middle Eastern
- Honeycomb Candy — the bubbled, shattering sugar sweet · North American
- Hot Milk Pudding — warm cardamom and saffron milk, spoon-thick · Indian & South Asian
- Hotteok — Korean sweet pancakes with a molten sugar centre · Korean
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- Iced Coffee Cake — an espresso layer cake with coffee buttercream · North American
J
- Jaffa Cakes — sponge-orange-chocolate biscuits · British & Irish
- Jam Roly-Poly — steamed jam-and-suet roll · British & Irish
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- Kaiserschmarrn — torn Austrian pancake with stewed plums · Austrian & German
- Kaju Katli — cashew fudge diamonds with silver leaf · Indian & South Asian
- Kakigōri — Japan's snow-fine shaved ice · Japanese
- Kardinalschnitten — Vienna's striped meringue and sponge slices · Austrian & German
- Käsekuchen — German quark cheesecake · Austrian & German
- Kataifi — shredded-pastry rolls with walnuts and syrup · Middle Eastern
- Kazandibi — Turkish milk pudding with a caramelised base · Middle Eastern
- Khanom Chan — Thai nine-layer pandan and coconut cake · Thai
- Khanom Krok — Thai coconut-rice pancakes · Thai
- Khao Tom Mud — banana and sticky rice tied in banana leaf · Thai
- Klejner — Danish twisted Christmas crullers · Scandinavian
- Klepon — pandan rice balls with molten palm sugar · Indonesian & Malaysian
- Koeksisters — plaited doughnuts soaked in ice-cold syrup · African
- Kourabiedes — Greek almond butter cookies in icing sugar · Middle Eastern
- Kremna Rezina — the Bled cream cake · Mediterranean
- Kremówka — Polish puff pastry and vanilla custard slice · Eastern European
- Kue Apem — soft yeasted rice and coconut cakes from Java · Indonesian & Malaysian
- Kue Bangkit — tapioca and coconut cookies that melt on the tongue · Indonesian & Malaysian
- Kue Cubit — Indonesian pinch cakes with a soft centre · Indonesian & Malaysian
- Kue Lapis — layered Indonesian steamed rice-flour cake · Indonesian & Malaysian
- Kue Lumpur — soft potato and coconut-milk 'mud' cakes · Indonesian & Malaysian
- Kue Putu — pandan rice cakes steamed in bamboo tubes · Indonesian & Malaysian
- Kunafa — hot cheese pastry in orange-blossom syrup · Middle Eastern
- Kutsinta — chewy brown steamed rice cakes with coconut · Filipino
- Kuzumochi — translucent jelly with kuromitsu and kinako · Japanese
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- Lamingtons — chocolate-dipped, coconut-coated sponge squares · Oceania
- Lava Donut — a yeast doughnut with a molten chocolate heart · North American
- Leche Merengada — Spanish frozen cinnamon milk with meringue · Spanish & Portuguese
- Lemon Basil Sorbet — bright green Thai-herb sorbet · Thai
- Lemon Meringue Pie — sharp lemon filling under a golden meringue · British & Irish
- Lemon Posset — cream set by nothing but lemon · British & Irish
- Lime Coconut Pie — Key lime pie with a tropical coconut edge · North American
- Linzer Torte — the spiced nut-and-jam lattice tart of Linz · Austrian & German
- Luqaimat — honey-soaked fritters, golden and crisp · Middle Eastern
- Lychee Sorbet — a floral, rose-scented fruit ice · North American
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- Maamoul — date- or nut-filled semolina shortbread · Middle Eastern
- Macarons — Parisian almond meringue sandwiches · French
- Magic Cake — one batter that bakes into three layers · Eastern European
- Mákos Guba — Hungarian poppy-seed bread pudding · Eastern European
- Malabi — rosewater milk pudding with rose syrup · Middle Eastern
- Mandazi — East African cardamom and coconut doughnuts · African
- Mandelbrot — Jewish twice-baked almond biscuits · Eastern European
- Mango Cheesecake — no-bake cheesecake with a glossy mango top · Italian
- Manjar Blanco — South American milk caramel · Latin American
- Mantecados — Andalusian Christmas lard biscuits · Spanish & Portuguese
- Maple Bacon Donut — maple-glazed yeast doughnut with crisp bacon · North American
- Maple Pecan Pancakes — buttermilk pancakes, toasted pecans, warm maple syrup · North American
- Marble Cake — vanilla and chocolate swirled in one loaf · North American
- Marzipan — the almond-and-sugar paste of Lübeck · Austrian & German
- Matcha Roll Cake — green-tea sponge rolled around whipped cream · Japanese
- Mazamorra Morada — Peruvian purple-corn pudding · Latin American
- Medovik — Russian layered honey cake · Eastern European
- Melomakarona — Greek honey-dipped Christmas cookies · Middle Eastern
- Melonpan — soft buns under a crisp cookie crust · Japanese
- Meringue Kisses — tiny crisp piped meringues · North American
- Mexican Chocolate Cake — dark chocolate, cinnamon and a whisper of chilli · Latin American
- Millet Pudding — Rajasthani pearl millet kheer with jaggery · Indian & South Asian
- Milo Dinosaur — iced Milo with a crown of dry malt powder · Indonesian & Malaysian
- Mishti Doi — Bengal's caramel-sweet yoghurt set in clay pots · Indian & South Asian
- Mitarashi Dango — grilled rice dumplings in sweet soy glaze · Japanese
- Mochi — Japan's pounded glutinous-rice cake · Japanese
- Mochi Cheesecake — cream cheese baked with sweet rice flour · Japanese
- Mochi Ice Cream — ice cream wrapped in soft mochi · Japanese
- Mochi Mousse — whipped cream with a soft mochi bounce · Japanese
- Mochi Rice Balls — ohagi, half-pounded sticky rice with red-bean paste · Japanese
- Mohanthal — Gujarat's grainy, ghee-roasted gram-flour fudge · Indian & South Asian
- Mohnkuchen — German poppy-seed cake with streusel · Austrian & German
- Mohnstriezel — twisted poppy-seed yeast loaf · Austrian & German
- Monaka — crisp rice wafers around sweet red-bean paste · Japanese
- Mont Blanc — meringue, whipped cream and chestnut vermicelli · French
- Mung Bean Cake — pressed sweet mung bean pastries · Chinese
- Mysore Pak — gram flour, sugar and ghee, cooked into a golden, porous fudge · Indian & South Asian
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- Napoleon Cake — the Russian many-layered custard cake · Eastern European
- Nazook — flaky Armenian sour-cream pastry with a sweet vanilla filling · Persian
- Nian Gao — brown-sugar sticky rice cake for Lunar New Year · Chinese
- Nutmeg Pie — an old-fashioned egg custard pie scented with fresh nutmeg · British & Irish
O
- Oliebollen — Dutch New Year's Eve doughnuts · Austrian & German
- Onde-Onde — sesame-coated mung-bean dumplings · Indonesian & Malaysian
- Orange Mousse — a light citrus mousse with Grand Marnier · French
P
- Paletas — Mexican ice pops packed with real fruit · Latin American
- Palmiers — puff-pastry elephant ears · French
- Papaya Pudding — a soft, coral-coloured tropical cream · North American
- Paris-Brest — the bicycle-wheel choux ring with praline cream · French
- Parkin — Yorkshire's sticky oatmeal gingerbread · British & Irish
- Pashmak — Persian floss spun from sesame and sugar · Persian
- Pavê — Brazil's layered biscuit-and-cream Christmas dessert · Latin American
- Payasam — the South Indian milk-and-jaggery pudding · Indian & South Asian
- Pear Tart — the Parisian tarte Bourdaloue · French
- Pedha — soft milk fudge rounds from reduced milk · Indian & South Asian
- Persian Saffron Ice Cream — chewy, egg-free and studded with frozen cream · Persian
- Pestiños — Andalusian fried pastries glazed with honey · Spanish & Portuguese
- Petha — the translucent candied ash gourd of Agra · Indian & South Asian
- Phirni — chilled ground-rice pudding set in clay bowls · Indian & South Asian
- Pineapple Cake — Australian upside-down pineapple sponge · Oceania
- Pineapple Coconut Tart — coconut frangipane and caramelised pineapple · French
- Pineapple Upside-Down Brownie — caramelised pineapple over fudgy chocolate · North American
- Pionono — thin rolled sponge filled with dulce de leche · Latin American
- Pistachio Gelato — Sicily's nutty, olive-green gelato · Italian
- Pistachio Rosewater Cake — a Persian-flavoured cake of pistachio, rose, cardamom and saffron · Persian
- Pomegranate Tart — almond tart with pomegranate glaze and seeds · Middle Eastern
- Poppy Seed Strudel — Austrian Mohnstrudel · Austrian & German
- Praline Tart — Lyon's shocking-pink tarte aux pralines · French
- Prinsesstårta — Sweden's green marzipan princess cake · Scandinavian
- Prinzregententorte — Bavaria's seven-layer chocolate cake · Austrian & German
- Punschkrapfen — Vienna's pink rum-punch cakes · Austrian & German
- Puran Poli — Maharashtra's jaggery-and-lentil stuffed flatbread · Indian & South Asian
- Puto — steamed rice-flour cupcakes · Filipino
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- Qamar al-Din — apricot pudding and drink of Ramadan · Middle Eastern
- Queen Cake — small currant butter cakes · British & Irish
- Queen of Puddings — lemony bread custard, jam and meringue · British & Irish
- Quesillo — Venezuela's caramel custard with tiny holes · Latin American
- Quindim — Brazil's glossy golden coconut-yolk custards · Latin American
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- Rainbow Sherbet — orange, lime and raspberry in one scoop · North American
- Rasgulla — spongy balls of fresh chhena cooked in light syrup · Indian & South Asian
- Rasmalai — soft chhena discs soaked in saffron and cardamom milk · Indian & South Asian
- Raspberry Sorbet — sharp, smooth and intensely fruity · North American
- Rava Kesari — South India's saffron-orange semolina sweet · Indian & South Asian
- Rødgrød med Fløde — Danish red berry pudding with cold cream · Scandinavian
- Red Bean Buns — Chinese steamed buns with sweet bean paste · Chinese
- Red Bean Mochi — soft rice dough around homemade azuki paste · Japanese
- Religieuse — stacked choux 'nun' pastry · French
- Revani — semolina sponge soaked in lemon syrup · Middle Eastern
- Ricciarelli — soft almond biscuits of Siena · Italian
- Rice Pudding — everyday creamy kheer, and its cousins around the world · Indian & South Asian
- Risalamande — Danish Christmas rice pudding with cherry sauce · Scandinavian
- Rocky Road Ice Cream — American chocolate-marshmallow-almond ice cream · North American
- Rosca de Coco — coconut ring cake · Spanish & Portuguese
- Rosca de Reyes — Three Kings' Day ring bread · Spanish & Portuguese
- Rose Petal Jam Tart — almond cream, rose preserve and pistachio · French
- Rose Pistachio Cake — an eggless Indian semolina cake with gulkand and cardamom · Indian & South Asian
- Rosewater Semolina Cake — an Indian rava cake soaked in rose and cardamom syrup · Indian & South Asian
- Rosquillas — Spanish anise-scented ring doughnuts · Spanish & Portuguese
- Rum Balls — no-bake chocolate truffles laced with dark rum · North American
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- Sago Gula Melaka — chilled sago pearls with palm syrup and coconut milk · Indonesian & Malaysian
- Sandesh — Bengal's delicate sweet of fresh chhena cheese · Indian & South Asian
- Sankaya — Thai coconut custard steamed in a pumpkin · Thai
- Sans Rival — dacquoise with cashew buttercream · Filipino
- Sapin-Sapin — layered Filipino glutinous rice cake · Filipino
- Sbrisolona — the crumbly almond and cornmeal cake of Mantua · Italian
- Schnecken — German snail buns with cinnamon and nuts · Austrian & German
- Schneeballen — Rothenburg's fried pastry snowballs · Austrian & German
- Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte — the original Black Forest gâteau · Austrian & German
- Semla — Sweden's cream-filled cardamom bun for Shrove Tuesday · Scandinavian
- Serabi — Indonesian coconut pancakes from a clay pan · Indonesian & Malaysian
- Seri Muka — pandan custard over coconut sticky rice · Indonesian & Malaysian
- Sernik — Polish baked cheesecake · Eastern European
- Sesame Brittle — Levantine simsmiyeh, glassy and crisp · Middle Eastern
- Sesame Honey Candy — Greek pasteli made with honey alone · Middle Eastern
- Seven Layer Bars — the American potluck classic · North American
- Sfogliatelle — Naples' shell-shaped layered pastries · Italian
- Shahi Tukda — fried bread soaked in syrup under saffron rabri · Indian & South Asian
- Sholeh Zard — Persian saffron rice pudding with rose water · Persian
- Shortbread — Scotland's three-ingredient butter biscuit · British & Irish
- Shrikhand — sweet strained yoghurt with saffron and cardamom · Indian & South Asian
- Skolebrød — Norway's custard-filled coconut school buns · Scandinavian
- Smultring — Norwegian cardamom doughnut rings · Scandinavian
- Snow Cones — crushed ice and bright syrup in a paper cone · North American
- Soan Papdi — flaky threads of pulled sugar and ghee-roasted gram flour · Indian & South Asian
- Somlói Galuska — Hungarian sponge trifle with rum and chocolate · Eastern European
- Sooji Halwa — golden semolina roasted in ghee, the halwa of prasad and puri · Indian & South Asian
- Sour Cherry Clafoutis — cherries baked in a soft vanilla custard batter · French
- Speculaas — Dutch spiced biscuits pressed in carved moulds · Austrian & German
- Spiced Date Cake — Gulf-style date, cardamom and saffron cake · Middle Eastern
- Spiced Fig Cake — a dark, moist loaf of figs, brown sugar and warm spice · North American
- Spiced Pear Tart — red-wine pears in spiced almond cream · French
- Spiced Pumpkin Tart — silky pumpkin custard in crisp French pastry · French
- Spotted Dick — steamed currant suet pudding · British & Irish
- Spumoni — layered Italian-American ice cream · Italian
- Sticky Date Pudding — dark date sponge under hot toffee sauce · British & Irish
- Sticky Rice Dumplings — sweet zongzi wrapped in bamboo leaves · Chinese
- Sticky Rice with Durian — coconut sticky rice with warm durian sauce · Indonesian & Malaysian
- Strawberry Shortcake — buttery biscuits, juicy berries, soft cream · British & Irish
- Sugar-Free Chocolate Cake — moist, dark and sweetened without sugar · North American
- Sugarloaf — Portugal's tall, soft-centred pão de ló sponge · Spanish & Portuguese
- Suksessterte — Norway's almond cake with golden yolk cream · Scandinavian
- Suman — Filipino sticky rice wrapped in banana leaf · Filipino
- Summer Pudding — a dome of bread soaked in red berry juice · British & Irish
- Suspiro Limeño — Lima's milk-caramel cream under port meringue · Latin American
- Syllabub — whipped cream with wine, lemon and nutmeg · Mediterranean
- Szarlotka — Polish apple cake · Eastern European
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- Taho — warm silken tofu with brown-sugar syrup and sago · Filipino
- Tangerine Tart — a French citrus tart with reduced tangerine cream · French
- Tangyuan — sweet glutinous rice balls in ginger syrup · Chinese
- Taro Cake — sweet steamed taro and coconut cake · Chinese
- Tartufo — ice-cream truffle · Italian
- Toasted Marshmallow Fudge — smoky campfire flavour in a chocolate slab · North American
- Topfenstrudel — Vienna's quark-and-raisin pastry · Austrian & German
- Torrija — Spanish Holy Week fried bread · Spanish & Portuguese
- Treacle Tart — golden syrup, breadcrumbs and lemon in crisp pastry · British & Irish
- Tub Tim Krob — 'crisp rubies' in iced coconut milk · Thai
- Tufahije — Bosnian syrup-poached apples stuffed with walnuts · Persian
- Turkish Delight — rose-scented lokum dusted in sugar · Middle Eastern
- Turon — caramel-glazed banana and jackfruit rolls · Filipino
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- Ube Ice Cream — Filipino purple yam ice cream · Filipino
- Umm Ali — Egyptian pastry pudding with milk and nuts · Middle Eastern
V
- Vanilla Chai Pudding — masala chai spices in a silky vanilla custard · Indian & South Asian
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- Zabaione — warm Marsala custard whisked to a foam · Italian
- Zenzai — sweet red-bean soup with toasted mochi · Japanese
- Zserbó Szelet — Hungarian walnut, apricot and chocolate slice · Eastern European
- Zucchini Bread Pudding — spiced courgette loaf baked in custard · North American