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A dessert is typically the sweet course that, after the entrée and main course, concludes a meal in the culture of many countries, particularly Western culture. The course usually consists of sweet foods, but may include other items. The word "dessert" originated from the French word desservir "to clear the table" and the negative of the Latin word servire.^[2] There are a wide variety of desserts in western cultures, including cakes, cookies, biscuits, gelatins, pastries, ice creams, pies, puddings, and candies. Fruit is also commonly found in dessert courses because of its natural sweetness. Many different cultures have their own variations of similar desserts around the world, such as in Russia, where many breakfast foods such as blini, oladyi, and syrniki can be served with honey and jam to make them popular as desserts.

• Brand name desserts
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  Bird's Custard
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  Pumpkin pie topped with Cool Whip
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  Jell-O

Cake is a form of bread or bread-like food. In its modern forms, it is typically a sweet baked dessert. In its oldest forms, cakes were normally fried breads or cheesecakes, and normally had a disk shape. Modern cake, especially layer cakes, normally contain a combination of flour, sugar, eggs, and butter or oil, with some varieties also requiring liquid (typically milk or water) and leavening agents (such as yeast or baking powder).

• Dessert cakes
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  Battenberg cake is a light sponge cake
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  A birthday cake
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  Gingerbread
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  An ice cream cake
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  Madeira cakes tend to have a firm yet light texture, and are traditionally flavored with lemon
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  Molten chocolate cake
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  Gansito snack cakes, a baked dessert confectionery made with cake and icing
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  Malt loaves are a snack food from the United Kingdom
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  A pineapple upside-down cake
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  Zwetschgenkuchen is a sheet cake or pie made from yeast dough or shortcrust dough that is thinly spread onto a baking sheet and covered with pitted plums
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  Bibingka, a Filipino rice cake with various toppings

Confectionery is related to the food items that are rich in sugar and often referred to as a confection. Candy is a confection made from a concentrated solution of sugar in water, to which flavorings and colorants may be added. Candies come in numerous colors and varieties and have a long history in popular culture.

• Candy (category)

• Confectionery
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  Candy apples
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  Chocolate-covered coffee beans
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  Lemon drops
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  Rock candy
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  Suikerboon
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  Chocolate truffles

In the United States and Canada a cookie is a small, flat, baked treat, usually containing flour, eggs, sugar, and either butter or cooking oil, and often including ingredients such as raisins, oats, or chocolate chips.

• Cookies
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  Christmas cookies
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  Chocolate chip cookies
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  An opened fortune cookie
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  Krumkake, some dusted with powdered sugar
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  Masgati (left) and Koloocheh (right)
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  A plain sugar cookie

Custard is a variety of culinary preparations based on a cooked mixture of milk or cream and egg yolk. Depending on how much egg or thickener is used, custard may vary in consistency from a thin pouring sauce (crème anglaise) to a thick pastry cream (crème pâtissière) used to fill éclairs. Most common custards are used as desserts or dessert sauces and typically include sugar and vanilla. Custard bases may also be used for quiches and other savory foods. Sometimes flour, corn starch, or gelatin is added as in pastry cream or crème pâtissière.

• Custards
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  A bowl of crème anglaise custard, dusted with nutmeg
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  Crème brûlée prepared using a torch
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  A Bavarian cream crumb pastry
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  Coconut custard is a dessert dish consisting of a coconut custard steam-baked in a pumpkin or kabocha.
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  Egg custard tarts

Dessert sauces are used to add flavor and texture to desserts, and tend to be sweet.

• Sauce – dessert sauces

A doughnut, or donut, is a type of fried dough confectionery or dessert food. The doughnut is popular in many countries and prepared in various forms as a sweet snack that can be homemade or purchased in bakeries, supermarkets, food stalls, and franchised specialty outlets.

• Doughnuts
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  A bear claw
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  Glazed doughnuts
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  Fried Coke
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  Smultringer frying
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  Tulumba

Frozen dessert is the generic name for desserts made by freezing liquids, semi-solids, and sometimes even solids.

• Frozen desserts
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  Açaí na tigela
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  Baked Alaska
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  Patbingsu
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  Italian ice

Ice cream is a frozen dessert usually made from dairy products, such as milk and cream and often combined with fruits or other ingredients and flavors. Ice cream became popular throughout the world in the second half of the 20th century after cheap refrigeration became common.

• Ice cream
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  A choc-top
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  A dame blanche
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  Stracciatella gelato
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  Ice cream cones
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  An Ice cream sandwich

Pastry is the name given to various kinds of baked products made from ingredients such as flour, sugar, milk, butter, shortening, baking powder, and eggs.^[3] Small tarts and other sweet baked products are called "pastries."

A pie is a baked dish which is usually made of a pastry dough casing that covers or completely contains a filling of various sweet or savoury ingredients.

• Pies
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  Coconut cream pie
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  Lemon meringue pie
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  Pecan pie
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  Shoofly pie
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  Sugar cream pie

A tart is a baked dish consisting of a filling over a pastry base with an open top not covered with pastry. The pastry is usually shortcrust pastry; the filling may be sweet or savory, though modern tarts are usually fruit-based, sometimes with custard.

Pudding is usually a dessert, but it can also be a savory dish. In the United Kingdom and most Commonwealth countries, pudding can be used to describe both sweet and savory dishes. However, unless qualified, the term in everyday usage typically denotes a dessert. In the United States and Canada, pudding characteristically denotes a sweet milk-based dessert similar in consistency to egg-based custards, instant custards, or a mousse.

• Puddings
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  Almond jelly
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  Flummery
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  Kirschenmichel
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  Put chai ko is a popular snack in Hong Kong.
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  Rice pudding

• Azerbaijani pakhlava
• Badambura
• Shekerbura
• Shorgoghali

• Tufahija

• Chilean cuisine – Sweets, cakes, and desserts

• Kolach
• Míša

• Finnish cuisine – Desserts

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  Crème brûlée
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  Croquembouche
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  Éclairs

• Brenntar

• Quetschentaart
• Verwurelter

• Batik cake
• Bubur cha cha
• Sarawak layer cake
• Ais kacang
• Cendol
• Bubur Kacang

• List of Mexican dishes – Desserts and sweets

• Dutch cuisine – Desserts and puddings

• Picarones
• Turrón de Doña Pepa
• Suspiro a la limeña
• Mazamorra morada

• Khabees

Sweets from the Indian subcontinent

Gulab jamun Rasmalai Jalebi Gujiya Khoya sweets with varaq Bal mithai Khoa and almond mithais Bengal sweets in India Collection in UK Chikki Sohan sweets in India Street sweets in India

A sample of sweets from the Indian subcontinent

• Bengali cuisine – desserts

Latin America is a highly diverse area with cuisines that vary from nation to nation. Desserts in Latin American cuisine include, rice pudding, tres leches cake, teja and flan.

• Po'e
• Poi

In Southern Africa, desserts may simply be fruit, but there are some western style puddings, such as the Angolan cocada amarela, which was inspired by Portuguese cuisine.

• Medieval cuisine – sweets and desserts

• Cuisine
• Culinary art
• Dessert-related lists (category)
• List of bean-to-bar chocolate manufacturers
• List of breads
• List of custard desserts
• List of dessert sauces
• List of ice cream flavors
• Pastry
• List of pastries

• Khatau, Asha (2005). Epicure's Delectable Desserts of the World. Popular Prakashan. ISBN 8179912280.