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British · Desserts and sweets

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British
Manchester raspberry and coconut tart
A tart layered with raspberry jam, vanilla custard and coconut.
25 min active time
British
Jam roly-poly
A soft suet pastry roll filled with raspberry jam and baked in a steamy parcel.
15 min active time
British
Cragside singing hinnies
Thick griddle cakes with currants, butter and lard.
25 min active time
British
Gypsy tart
A crisp tart filled with a baked mousse of evaporated milk and dark muscovado sugar.
35 min active time

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Canadian
Nanaimo chocolate bars
Biscuit, walnut and coconut squares with a vanilla cream layer and a chocolate topping.
15 min active time
Canadian
Butter and maple syrup tartlets
Crisp tartlets with maple syrup and pecans. One serving is one tartlet.
1 h active time
Canadian
Canadian date and oat squares
A lemony date filling between crisp oat and brown sugar layers.
20 min active time
Canadian
Pets-de-sœur — hazelnut pastry spirals
Puff pastry spirals filled with hazelnut spread and toasted hazelnuts.
10 min active time
Canadian
Pouding chômeur — brown sugar pudding
A tender cake baked over a brown sugar and cream syrup.
20 min active time

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Italian
Piedmontese cocoa and amaretti bonet
A Piedmontese cocoa, amaretti and amaretto custard, baked in a water bath over caramel and served cold.
40 min active time
Italian
Mantuan sbrisolona
A very crumbly Italian cake with wheat flour, fine maize flour and almonds, broken into pieces once cool.
20 min active time
Italian
Marsala zabaglione
A warm Italian foam of egg yolks, sugar and Marsala, whisked over a water bath and served immediately.
20 min active time
Italian
Chocolate and almond torta caprese
A dense, moist Italian chocolate and almond cake, lightened with whipped egg whites and made without added flour.
35 min active time
Italian
Sienese panforte
A dense Tuscan cake of honey, almonds and candied peel, seasoned with spices and served in small slices.
38 min active time

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Malaysian
Bubur gandum — pearl wheat, sago and coconut
A spoon dessert of tender wheat, sago pearls and pandan-scented coconut milk.
25 min active time
Malaysian
Kuih bahulu — little egg cakes
Light little egg and vanilla cakes with golden baked edges.
20 min active time
Malaysian
Seri muka — glutinous rice and pandan custard
Steamed cake pieces with a coconut glutinous rice base and pandan egg custard.
30 min active time
Malaysian
Huat kuih — steamed pumpkin cakes
Soft pumpkin cakes steamed until their tops split open.
25 min active time
Malaysian
Bubur pulut hitam with red beans
A creamy dessert of black glutinous rice and red beans with sago and coconut milk.
25 min active time

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Mediterranean
Lemon granita
Refreshing lemon granita made without an ice cream maker.
25 min active time
Mediterranean
Raspberry panna cotta
Vanilla cream set with gelatine and served with a raspberry coulis.
20 min active time
Mediterranean
Apricot jam tart
An Italian tart with apricot jam and sweet shortcrust pastry.
35 min active time

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Welsh
Snowdon pudding with lemon and honey
A steamed Welsh breadcrumb and suet pudding with raisins and lemon marmalade, finished with honey.
25 min active time
Welsh
Bara brith — tea-soaked fruit loaf
A spiced dried-fruit loaf softened by soaking the fruit in tea.
10 min active time
Welsh
Cyflaith — Welsh golden syrup toffee
Welsh cane sugar and salted butter toffee, poured onto baking paper and broken into pieces.
15 min active time
Welsh
Teisen lap with orange marmalade
A shallow Welsh sultana cake made by rubbing butter into flour, then glazed with marmalade.
15 min active time
Welsh
Welsh cakes
Small cakes with dried fruit, cooked on a griddle.
45 min active time