Senegalese Thiakry
A Senegalese dessert of millet couscous mixed with evaporated milk, milk, and sweetened plain yogurt, with a touch of vanilla sugar.
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Cuban Flan
A flan made with condensed and evaporated milk, topped with caramel, pressure-cooked, and chilled before unmolding.
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Georgian Gozinaki with Walnuts and Honey
A crisp Georgian sweet of toasted walnuts and honey, cut into diamond shapes. This version uses 360 g walnuts, 270 g honey, and a little sugar.
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Australian pavlova
Baked meringue, crisp on the outside and soft inside, topped with whipped cream and fresh fruit.
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Apple tarte Tatin with shortcrust pastry
An upside-down French tart of caramelized apples, covered with shortcrust pastry and turned out to serve.
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Samoan Fa'ausi (Fa'apapa with Coconut Caramel)
Baked coconut fa'apapa bread, cut into cubes and coated with coconut caramel.
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Flour maamoul with dates and walnuts
Maamoul cookies made with a flour-and-butter dough and filled with dates, walnuts, and citrus aromas. Makes 28.
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South African Melktert
A South African milk tart with a shortcrust pastry shell and a creamy filling of milk, eggs, vanilla, and cinnamon.
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Traditional Polish Sernik with Twaróg
Polish twaróg cheesecake with a biscuit base, baked and served chilled.
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Fijian steamed purini
Fijian steamed pudding made with flour, sugar, and coconut cream, flavored with nutmeg, cinnamon, and cloves.
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Japanese Dorayaki with Anko
Two soft Japanese pancakes make each dorayaki, enclosing a filling of anko, a sweet azuki bean paste.
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Indonesian Klepon
Indonesian glutinous-rice sweets filled with palm sugar and coated in grated coconut. This recipe makes approximately 12–14 pieces.
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Sri Lankan Wattalappam
A spiced coconut-milk and palm-sugar custard, baked in a water bath and finished with cashews.
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Mexican tres leches cake
An airy sponge soaked with condensed milk, evaporated milk and cream, then topped with whipped cream.
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Rice kheer
A creamy Indian dessert of rice slowly cooked in milk with cardamom, saffron, raisins, and nuts.
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Polish Pączki
Polish yeasted doughnuts, fried until golden, filled with raspberry jam, and finished with a light glaze.
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Saffron bastani sonnati
Traditional Iranian ice cream with milk, egg yolks, saffron, rosewater, pistachios, and pieces of frozen cream.
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Bangladeshi Chhana Roshogolla
Spongy chhana sweets cooked in light syrup with fine semolina. Makes about 18–20 pieces.
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ANZAC Biscuits
Australian oat and coconut biscuits, baked until golden and made without eggs. Makes 12.
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Egyptian Umm Ali with croissants
An Egyptian dessert of croissants soaked in cinnamon-scented milk, enriched with coconut, almonds, pistachios and raisins, then browned in the oven with cream and brown sugar.
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