Canadian butter tarts
Ten tarts with a crisp pastry shell and a sweet filling of butter, brown sugar, and egg. Hands-on preparation is estimated at 20 minutes; the dough rests for 30 minutes and the tarts bake for 20 minutes.
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Jamaican Coconut Toto
A tender Jamaican coconut cake spiced with cinnamon and nutmeg. Makes 9 servings.
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Ålandspannkaka (Åland pancake)
A thick, aromatic baked dessert made with semolina, milk, eggs, and cardamom. Makes 6 servings.
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American banana bread with walnuts
A moist loaf cake made with ripe bananas and walnuts, with cinnamon and a tender crumb. Makes 12 servings.
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Greek Galaktoboureko
A Greek pie of semolina-and-milk custard wrapped in crisp filo pastry and soaked with lemon syrup.
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Crème brûlée
A French vanilla custard, gently baked and topped with a thin layer of caramelized sugar.
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Martabak manis
A thick, airy Indonesian sweet pancake, cooked without flipping and folded with butter, condensed milk, chocolate, and peanuts.
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Samoan fa'ausi with cassava
A Samoan version of fa'ausi made with grated cassava, coconut cream, brown sugar, and salt. Makes 8 to 12 portions; baking takes 65 to 75 minutes.
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Tunisian Assida Zgougou
A Tunisian dessert of Aleppo pine seed cream, thickened with flour and topped with milk custard and nuts.
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Mozambican Coconut Sweet
A dense, moist coconut cake made with coconut milk and freshly grated coconut.
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Semolina maamoul with dates and olive oil
Lebanese semolina and olive-oil cookies scented with rose and orange blossom water, filled with dates and baked until the bottoms are just lightly golden.
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Mishti doi with jaggery
Sweet fermented yogurt from Bangladesh, made with reduced milk, sugar, jaggery, and plain yogurt as the starter.
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Nabulsieh knafeh
A Levantine dessert of crisp kataifi filled with melting cheese, drizzled with syrup, and finished with pistachio.
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Chilean leche asada
A Chilean milk-and-egg dessert with caramel and a browned top. Makes 5 servings.
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Fijian vakalolo
A Fijian dessert of grated cassava, steamed and served with a coconut and caramelized sugar sauce.
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Nepali rice and milk kheer
A Nepali dessert of rice slowly cooked in milk, sweetened and scented with cardamom and saffron, with nuts and raisins sautéed in ghee.
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Fijian Cassava Cake
A baked cake made with grated cassava, ripe bananas, coconut cream, and sugar.
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Bangladeshi steamed bhapa pitha
Bangladeshi rice-flour cakes steamed with a filling of fresh coconut and date-palm jaggery.
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Tunisian Bambalouni
Tunisian doughnuts made from soft, risen dough, fried into rings and coated in sugar.
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Pakistani Sheer Khurma
A Pakistani dessert of toasted fine vermicelli simmered in milk with dates, nuts, saffron, and cardamom. Serves 6.
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