List of British desserts

This is a list of British desserts, i.e. desserts characteristic of British cuisine, the culinary tradition of the United Kingdom. The British kitchen has a long tradition of noted sweet-making, particularly with puddings, custards, and creams; custard sauce is called crème anglaise (English cream) in French cuisine.

English desserts

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Banoffee pie is an English dessert pie made from bananas, cream and toffee from boiled condensed milk (or dulce de leche), either on a pastry base or one made from crumbled biscuits and butter.
Cherries jubilee is prepared with cherries and liqueur (typically Kirschwasser), which is subsequently flambéed, and commonly served as a sauce over vanilla ice cream.
A blackberry and apple crumble
A custard tart is a pastry consisting of an outer pastry crust filled with egg custard and baked.

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Knickerbocker glory^[3]

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Lardy cake

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The Manchester tart is a traditional English baked tart consisting of a shortcrust pastry shell, spread with raspberry jam, covered with a custard filling and topped with flakes of coconut and a Maraschino cherry.
Mince pie is a small British fruit-based mincemeat sweet pie traditionally served during the Christmas season.

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Raspberry ripple consists of raspberry syrup injected into vanilla ice cream.
Rhubarb pie

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Victoria sponge

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Yorkshire Curd Tart^[4]

Syllabub is an English sweet dish described by the Oxford English Dictionary as "A drink or dish made of milk (freq. as drawn from the cow) or cream, curdled by the admixture of wine, cider, or other acid, and often sweetened and flavoured."
Treacle tarts are prepared using shortcrust pastry, with a thick filling made of golden syrup, also known as light treacle, breadcrumbs, and lemon juice or zest. Pictured is a treacle tart with clotted cream.
Trifle is an English dessert dish made from layered custard, fruit, sponge cake, fruit juice or jelly, and whipped cream.

English cakes

Caraway seed cake is a traditional British cake flavoured with caraway or other flavourful seeds. Caraway seeds have been long used in British cookery.
Malt loaf is a common snack food in the United Kingdom.
Welsh cakes are made from flour, sultanas, raisins, and/or currants, and may also include such spices as cinnamon and nutmeg.^[6]

English puddings

Scottish desserts

A cranachan is a traditional Scottish dessert.
Empire biscuits are a sweet biscuit popular in the United Kingdom, particularly Scotland, and other Commonwealth countries.

Commercial products

Vienetta

References

^ Famous Bakewell Tart & Pudding Archived 2013-10-03 at the Wayback Machine, bakewellderbyshire.com, 2013. Retrieved 19 July 2013. Archived here.
^ ^a ^b "Regional Dishes of North-West England". manchester2002-uk. Archived from the original on 5 January 2014. Retrieved 4 January 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
^ Liddell, Carolyn; Weir, Robin (1996). Frozen Desserts: The Definitive Guide to Making Ice Creams, Ices, Sorbets, Gelati, and Other Frozen Delights. St. Martin's Griffin. pp. 29, 33, 185. ISBN 978-0-312-14343-5. Retrieved 14 August 2011.
^ "Yorkshire curd tart". BBC Good Food. Retrieved 2020-11-16.
^ Foster, Pamela. Abbey Cooks Entertain. Pamela Foster. p. 50. ISBN 0988085909.
^ "Traditional Welsh cake recipe". Visit Wales, Welsh Government. Retrieved 12 September 2013.
^ Davidson, Alan (2006). The Oxford Companion to Food. Oxford University Press. p. 359. ISBN 0191018252.

External links

Media related to Cakes of England at Wikimedia Commons
Media related to Cakes of Northern Ireland at Wikimedia Commons
Media related to Welsh cakes at Wikimedia Commons

[1] Famous Bakewell Tart & Pudding Archived 2013-10-03 at the Wayback Machine, bakewellderbyshire.com, 2013. Retrieved 19 July 2013. Archived here.

[Manchester-2] "Regional Dishes of North-West England". manchester2002-uk. Archived from the original on 5 January 2014. Retrieved 4 January 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)

[3] Liddell, Carolyn; Weir, Robin (1996). Frozen Desserts: The Definitive Guide to Making Ice Creams, Ices, Sorbets, Gelati, and Other Frozen Delights. St. Martin's Griffin. pp. 29, 33, 185. ISBN 978-0-312-14343-5. Retrieved 14 August 2011.

[4] "Yorkshire curd tart". BBC Good Food. Retrieved 2020-11-16.

[5] Foster, Pamela. Abbey Cooks Entertain. Pamela Foster. p. 50. ISBN 0988085909.

[6] "Traditional Welsh cake recipe". Visit Wales, Welsh Government. Retrieved 12 September 2013.

[7] Davidson, Alan (2006). The Oxford Companion to Food. Oxford University Press. p. 359. ISBN 0191018252.

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