American desserts

sweet food pastry

Custard is a variety of culinary preparations based on sweetened milk, cheese, or cream cooked with egg or egg yolk to thicken it, and sometimes also flour, corn starch, or gelatin. Depending on the recipe, custard may vary in consistency from a thin pouring sauce () to the thick pastry cream ('''''') used to fill éclairs. The most common custards are used in custard desserts or dessert sauces and typically include sugar and vanilla; however, savory custards are also found, e.g., in quiche.

ice cream-based dessert, consisting of a banana cut in half lengthwise with scoops of ice cream, drizzled sauces, crushed nuts, and a maraschino cherry

A ' (; ), also known by the names Napoleon in North America and Post-Soviet countries, vanilla slice in the United Kingdom, and custard slice', is a French dessert made of puff pastry layered with pastry cream. Its modern form was influenced by improvements made by Marie-Antoine Carême.

sweet cake that contains grated carrots as an ingredient

a type of cake associated with Epiphany or Mardi Gras

A sundae () is an ice cream frozen dessert of American origin that typically consists of one or more scoops of ice cream topped with a sweet sauce or syrup and other toppings such as sprinkles, whipped cream, marshmallows, chocolate chips, M&M's, peanuts, cookies, chocolate brownies, maraschino cherries, or other fruits (e.g. bananas and pineapple in a banana split).

dry, cone-shaped pastry, which enables ice cream to be held in the hand

A '''s'more''' (pronounced , or ) is a confection consisting of a toasted marshmallow and chocolate, sandwiched between graham crackers.

dessert dish of ice cream, sponge cake and meringue

Coated, deep-fried dessert

French dessert consisting of a meringue floating on crème anglaise

bread-based dessert popular in many countries' cuisines

Athabaskan dessert

Frybread (also spelled fry bread) is a dish of the Indigenous people of North America that is a flat dough bread, fried or deep-fried in oil, shortening, or lard.

donut-shaped cake

Jell-O (stylized in all caps) is an American brand offering a variety of powdered gelatin dessert (fruit-flavored gels/jellies), pudding, and no-bake cream pie mixes. The original gelatin dessert (genericized as jello) is the signature of the brand. "Jell-O" is a registered trademark of Kraft Heinz, and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

cake on a stick similar to a lollipop

Babka is a sweet braided cake or viennoiserie that originated in the Jewish communities of Poland and Western Ukraine. It is prepared with a yeast-leavened dough that is rolled out and spread with a filling, then rolled up and braided before baking. Traditionally fillings included jam or nuts, though now include chocolate, cinnamon, fruit, or cheese. It can be made with butter, or to remain pareve it can be made with olive oil.

deep-fried batter

fried dessert made from bananas, dough, a buttery sauce, and ice cream

In baking and pastry making, streusel () is a crumbly topping of flour, butter, and sugar that is baked on top of muffins, breads, pies, and cakes. Some modern recipes add spices and chopped nuts. The mixture can also be layered or ribboned in the middle of a cake.

pudding made with bananas

baked dish resembling a pie

Malassada is a Portuguese fried pastry from the Azores. It is a type of doughnut, made of flattened rounds of yeasted dough, coated with sugar and cinnamon or accompanied with molasses.

type of baked pie

confectionery spread made from marshmallow

American baked product

type of fruit salad originating in the southern United States, consisting of pineapple, orange, miniature marshmallows and coconut

American dish

confections made from nuts

US dessert dish of Snickers bars, apples, and whipped cream

type of sweet pudding

Coca-Cola flavored batter that is fried and topped with various toppings

North American fried dough pastry

type of doughnut

dessert from the American Midwest

type of salad

biscuit made up of milk chocolate and marshmallow

one of the yellowish colors in HTML

Doughnut dessert

a dessert made from milk by treating with rennet to coagulate the protein

A cherpumple is a holiday novelty dessert inspired by Turducken, where several different flavor pies are baked inside of several different flavors of cake, and then stacked together. The combined dessert is coated in cream cheese frosting. According to the Cherpumple's creator, pop culture humorist Charles Phoenix, "Cherpumple is short for cherry, pumpkin and apple pie. The apple pie is baked in spice cake, the pumpkin in yellow and the cherry in white."

Desert salad

cake soaked in alcohol

circular tart featuring multiple fruit toppings

dessert food

dessert

traditional American dessert

baked good made from corn, often sweet

Snack food

dessert typically made with apples