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Desserts from Around the World
Gooey buns, fluffy donuts, eggy tarts, light cakes; each country has their own idea on what a dessert should be. I made it my mission to find out. You will find a clickable list of desserts per country further down in this post. What started as a lockdown project has now turned into a lifelong hobby. Every week I would challenge myself to bake a dessert from a random country. Time was spent researching their desserts and sourcing the ingredients and baking tools, giving me something to focus on that wasn’t pandemic related. The only difference now is the frequency of the bakes, I now bake once a fortnight. The…
Italy By Rail: The Journey Where I Get Sick
Travelling Italy by train has been on my bucket list since March 2016. Needless to say, I was giddy with excitement when I finally was able to get it off the list and make it a reality. I had dreams…
Solomon Islands – Cassava Snacks
The Solomon Islands’ cuisine comprises of fresh fish caught in their surrounding blue oceans and colourful tropical local fruits. This island country is also home to European and Chinese migrants whose influence can be found on the Solomon Islander dining…
Kiribati – Buatoro
Kiribati’s cuisine is primarily based on seafood, coconut, breadfruit, and rice. Therefore, when came to finding a traditional dessert from this Pacific island nation I wasn’t expecting to find anything. My initial search brought up a recipe for a dessert…
Norfolk Island – Passion Fruit Pie
There is not a lot about the Norfolk Island’s Passion Fruit Pie out there in big world wide web. All I could find was a recipe shared on the Norfolk Island Tourism Facebook page plus an archived copy of The…
Oceanian Desserts
Beyond New Zealand and Australia there isn’t a lot of information about Oceanian cuisine, especially desserts. Having grown up in New Zealand, desserts from New Zealand and Australia are heavily influenced by British culture and has evolved over the years…
European Desserts
Europe was late to the dessert game. Desserts have been a staple part of the Asian and the Middle Eastern diet for over a thousand years or longer, sweet desserts only started to become popular in Europe during the Middle…
Asian Desserts
Asia takes the concept of desserts to a whole new level. Traditional East Asian desserts use rice flour and sweet bean pastes instead of the Western flour and sweet fillings such as chocolate. Over in India where dessert is an…
Desserts of the Americas
Desserts in the Americas are heavily influenced by their various European colonisation. You have your American classics such as Apple Pie, Baked Alaska, Chocolate Chip Cookies, and Peach Cobbler. Whereas the sweetness and gooeyness of dulce de leche can be…
African Desserts
There is no concept of dessert in Africa, most desserts you see in this post are influenced by former European colonies for that country. Over the years, each country has made these desserts their own. So don’t be surprised in…
Belize: Caye Caulker – Things that go Bump in the Night
Orange Walk to Caye Caulker – A Wet and Wild Ride Just as I was getting use to my surroundings in Orange Walk it was time to leave. Orange Walk had exceeded my expectations, I left wishing I had planned stayed…
Senegal: Cinq Centimes
Cinq centimes, or five cent cookies, are popular peanut cookies sold in Senegalese markets. They are named so because they were originally small in size just like French coins (centimes). There aren’t that many recipes to be found on the…
