British desserts

type of pie filled with apples

custard dessert with hard caramel top

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.

dessert made with gelatin

steamed pudding

sweet cake that contains grated carrots as an ingredient

dessert

Blancmange (, from , ) is a sweet dessert popular throughout Europe commonly made with milk or cream, and sugar, thickened with rice flour, gelatin or corn starch, and often flavoured with almonds.

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

Trifle is a layered dessert of English origin. The usual ingredients are a thin layer of ladyfingers or sponge cake soaked in sherry or another fortified wine, a fruit element (fresh or jelly), custard and whipped cream layered in that ascending order in a glass dish. The contents of a trifle are highly variable and many varieties exist, some forgoing fruit entirely and instead using other ingredients, such as chocolate, coffee or vanilla. The fruit and sponge layers may be suspended in fruit-flavoured jelly, and these ingredients are usually arranged to produce three or four layers. The assem

French dessert consisting of a meringue floating on crème anglaise

British sweet pie, filled with a mixture of dried fruits and spices, traditionally served during the Christmas season

bread-based dessert popular in many countries' cuisines

A crumble (British English) or crisp (American English) is a dessert with a crumbly cake-like topping, sometimes with oats, baked over a fruit filling. Apple and rhubarb are two popular varieties. Savoury fillings such as meat, cheese or vegetables may alternatively be used. As a dessert, crumbles are traditionally served with custard, cream, or ice cream.

English dessert pie

Shortcake generally refers to a dessert with a crumbly scone-like texture. There are multiple variations of shortcake, most of which are served with fruit and cream. One of the most popular is strawberry shortcake, which is typically served with whipped cream. Other variations common in the UK are blackberry and clotted cream shortcake and lemon berry shortcake, which is served with lemon curd in place of cream.

English dessert

baked dish resembling a pie

English confection consisting of a shortcrust pastry with a layer of jam and a sponge using ground almonds

open pie

baked dessert consisting of an egg custard-filled pastry crust

pie with a rhubarb filling

thumb|An 18th-century syllabub glass Syllabub is a sweet dish made by curdling cream or milk with an acid such as wine or cider. It was a popular British confection from the 16th to the 19th centuries. The holiday punch, sweet and frothy, was often considered a ladies' drink.

type of French ice cream dessert

English dessert

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British desert

Flummery is a starch-based, sweet, soft dessert pudding which originated in Great Britain during the early modern period. The word has also been used for other semi-set desserts.

dessert made with cherries, ice cream and liqueur

British dessert

brand of imitation custard powder

type of ice cream

biscuit made up of milk chocolate and marshmallow

Biscuit confectionery

flavour of ice-cream

traditional English baked tart

English baked tart

English biscuit or cake

type of confectionery

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

Tart that Originated in Kent, United Kingdom

suet pastry

Spoom is a type of frothy sorbet made with a lighter sugar syrup than that required for a true sorbet. As it begins to set, it is mixed with half its volume of Italian meringue. Like sorbet, it is made from fruit juice, wine, sherry or port and served in a tall glass (with a few tablespoons of champagne spooned over it). The name comes from the Italian word , meaning 'foam'. In Italy, spumoni is a light frothy ice cream made with egg whites, a flavouring and whipped cream.