Custards

🇨🇴Colombia

Flan de Arequipe

A Colombian caramel flan made with arequipe (dulce de leche) instead of caramel, giving it a richer, milkier flavor. Served chilled with cream.

🇩🇴Dominican Republic

Flan Dominicano

Dominican caramel flan of eggs, milk, sugar, and vanilla, baked in a caramel-lined mold until jiggly. Served chilled with caramel syrup, a classic dessert.

🇫🇷France

Floating Island

Île flottante

Île flottante pairs poached meringue with cold vanilla custard and caramel threads.

🇭🇺Hungary

Floating Island

Madártej

Floating Island is a poached meringue islands floating in vanilla custard, light and elegant Hungarian dessert, firm meringue clouds with silky custard.

🇷🇸Vojvodina, Serbia

Floating Islands

Шненокле

Poached meringue clouds floating in a pool of vanilla custard, served cold in a large dish and spooned out.

🇪🇸Spain

Fried Milk

Leche frita

A northern Spanish dessert of milk thickened with flour, sweetened, chilled, cut into pieces, breaded, and fried, then dusted with sugar and cinnamon.

🇹🇭Thailand

Ho mok maphrao on

ห่อหมกมะพร้าวอ่อน

Ho mok maphrao on: steamed red-curry fish custard set in a banana-leaf cup.

🇮🇩Manado, Indonesia

Klappertaart

Klappertaart, the Dutch-colonial young-coconut custard tart of Manado, is a named regional dessert with a documented colonial lineage.

🇲🇾Malaysia

Kuih Seri Muka

Kueh Salat

Two-layer kuih with glutinous rice bottom and pandan custard top, firm rice layer with smooth custard and bright green color.

🇷🇴Romania

Lapte de pasăre

Poached meringue islands floating in vanilla custard, a Romanian dessert whose name means bird's milk.

🇬🇺Guam

Latiya

Latiya is a Guam custard pudding finished with cinnamon, combining a soft set layer with a lightly spiced, milky top.

🇵🇪Peru

Leche Asada

A Peruvian baked milk custard with a caramelized top, similar to flan but without the caramel pool. Sweet, creamy and homey.

🇸🇻El Salvador

Leche Poleada

A Salvadoran cornstarch pudding of milk, sugar, and cinnamon, thick and creamy, served warm.

🇵🇹Northern Portugal, Portugal

Leite de Creme

A silky egg custard with lemon and cinnamon, finished with a brûléed sugar top.

🇷🇸Serbia

Meringue Slice

Шампита

A tall block of cooked egg-white cream between two sheets of puff pastry, lighter and paler than the custard version beside it.

🇱🇦Laos

Mok Pa

ໝົກປາ

Fish mixed with dill, lemongrass, shallot, chilli and padaek, wrapped in banana leaf and steamed until it sets like a savoury custard.

🇺🇦Ukraine

Molozyvo

Молозиво

Baked beestings, the first milk of a fresh cow, set into a rich custard-like pudding with sugar and eggs.

🇧🇷Brazil

Mousse de Limão

A bright, tangy Brazilian lemon mousse made with fresh lime juice, sweetened condensed milk and cream, whipped until light and set in the refrigerator.

🇧🇷Brazil

Mousse de Maracujá

A light, airy passion fruit mousse made with condensed milk, cream, and fresh passion fruit pulp, chilled until set.

🇲🇿Mozambique

Mozambican Pudim

Pudim

A caramel-lined egg custard set in a mould, made here with coconut milk in place of some of the dairy.

🇨🇴Colombia

Natilla

A Colombian Christmas custard of milk, cornstarch, panela, and cinnamon, cooked until thick and sliceable. Served with buñuelos, the holiday dessert icon.

🇨🇺Cuba

Natilla al ron (Rum custard)

Natilla al ron

A Cuban rum custard, silky and lightly set, flavored with rum, vanilla, and cinnamon.

🇮🇹Piedmont, Italy

Panna Cotta

Piedmontese 'cooked cream' set with gelatin and flavored with vanilla, served inverted with a caramel or berry coulis. Silky and trembling.

🇵🇹Portugal

Papo de anjo

Egg-yolk pastrys soaked in sugar syrup.

🇸🇧Solomon Islands

Pia Sua

Coconut cream custard thickened with cocoyam starch (or cornflour), cooled and served in chunks; a traditional Solomon Islander dessert; the cocoyam gives a smooth, silky texture distinct from gelatin-based custards.

🇳🇮Nicaragua

Plátanos en Gloria

A Nicaraguan sweet ripe plantains in milk custard with cinnamon, a Lenten and daily classic

🇨🇴Bogotá, Colombia

Postre de Natas

A Bogotá dessert of milk skins (natas) folded into a sweet egg-yolk syrup with raisins and rum. A labor-intensive Holy Week classic of the highlands.

🇵🇹Braga, Portugal

Pudim Abade de Priscos

Braga crème caramel made with bacon and Port.

🇲🇿Mozambique

Pudim de Laranja

A fragrant Mozambican orange custard pudding with caramelised top.

🇱🇦Laos

Pumpkin Custard

ສັງຂະຫຍາໝາກອຶ

Coconut and egg custard poured into a hollowed kabocha squash and steamed until set, then cut into wedges.

🇯🇵Japan

Purin

プリン

Japanese crème caramel, a silky steamed custard with a dark caramel sauce, smoother than the French version.

🇻🇪Venezuela

Quesillo

Caramel-lined custard of whole eggs and condensed milk, baked in a bain-marie and turned out with holes running through it.

🇩🇴Dominican Republic

Quesillo de Coco

A Dominican coconut flan with a caramelized sugar top, creamy and dense.

🇧🇷Brazil

Quindim

A baked custard dessert made from egg yolks, sugar, and coconut, with a glossy golden top and a dense, jelly-like texture.

🇰🇭Cambodia

Sankhya Lapov

សង្ខ្យាល្ពៅ

Steamed pumpkin filled with a coconut milk and egg yolk custard, sliced into wedges to show the orange pumpkin shell and yellow custard inside.

🇪🇸Andalusia, Spain

Sky Bacon

Tocino de cielo

A dense, rich dessert from Andalusia made only of egg yolks and sugar syrup, with an intense yellow color and a smooth, fudgy texture.