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Ais Kacang
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Shaved ice with sweet corn, red beans, grass jelly, syrup.
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Alaska, United States
Akutaq
An Alaska Native dessert of whipped animal fat or shortening folded with berries, sometimes with fish, roots, or snow, served frozen.
Indonesia
Avocado Mixed-Ice Dessert
Es Teler
Refreshing dessert with avocado, jackfruit, young coconut, condensed milk, syrup, and shaved ice.
Pará, Brazil
Açaí na Tigela
A frozen, purple açaí palm-fruit purée served in a bowl and topped with banana, granola and guaraná syrup. A beach and juice-bar staple from Pará, now found across Brazil.
United States
Banana Split
An ice cream sundae built on a split banana, with three scoops of ice cream, syrups, whipped cream, nuts, and a cherry.
United States
Bananas Foster
A New Orleans dessert of bananas flambéed in butter, brown sugar, rum, and banana liqueur, served over vanilla ice cream.
Senegal
Banane Glacée
Banana purée frozen with sugar and milk in a small plastic sachet, bitten open at the corner and eaten frozen.
Bissau, Guinea-Bissau
Baobab Frozen Dessert
Sorvete di Cabaceira
Frozen dessert made with baobab fruit pulp; the baobab gives a tangy, citrusy flavour and a creamy texture when frozen; a Guinean-Bissau treat using the locally abundant baobab fruit; sold as street ice cream and made at home.
Iran
Bastani Sonnati
بستنی سنتی
Saffron and rose water ice cream thickened with salep, studded with frozen chunks of clotted cream and pistachio.
United States
Blue Moon
A Wisconsin ice cream treat: vanilla ice cream with an orange-flavored topping, named for its appearance.
Bonaire
Bonaire Li Ice Cream
Li
A typical local ice cream that is a cross between water ice and ice cream; made in different flavors including peanut butter, pistachio, pineapple, and fruit mix; sold at Toko's or by locals from home
Damascus, Syria
Booza
بوظة
Mastic and salep-stretched ice cream pounded with a wooden pestle in a chilled drum until elastic, then rolled in pistachio.
Ireland
Brown Bread Ice Cream
Vanilla ice cream rippled with crunchy caramelized brown-bread crumbs, a modern Irish classic.
France
Cafe Liegeois
Café liégeois is chilled coffee ice cream layered with sweet coffee, whipped cream, and sometimes chocolate.
Zulia, Venezuela
Cepillado
Cepillado is Zulia shaved ice packed into a cup and drenched with fruit syrup, sometimes finished with condensed milk.
Mexico
Chamoyada
A slushy of chamoy, chile, and fresh fruit, often served in a cup with a tamarind candy straw.
Valle del Cauca, Colombia
Cholado
Valle del Cauca's fruit monument: shaved ice piled with banana, strawberry, pineapple, blackberry, lulo and raisins, drowned in condensed milk, fruit syrup and topped with a wafer and shredded coconut. Half dessert, half drink, born in Jamundí.
Guadeloupe
Coconut Sorbet
Sorbet Coco
Coconut sorbet; a traditional Guadeloupean frozen dessert; made with coconut milk, sugar, and vanilla; refreshing in the tropical heat; the sorbet coco that is a Guadeloupean treat.
Philippines
Corn Ice Dessert
Mais Con Yelo
A dessert-drink of shaved ice, sweet corn kernels, milk, and sugar, a simple and refreshing summer treat.
Brazil
Creme de Papaia
A Brazilian dessert of blended papaya with vanilla ice cream, topped with cassis liqueur. Sweet, smooth and classic in restaurants and home kitchens.
Peru
Cremolada
Frozen fruit dessert between sorbet and shaved ice, lucuma and passionfruit flavors
Oran, Algeria
Créponné
كريبوني
Lemon sorbet churned to a dense, almost chewy texture, invented in Oran and sold by the scoop from ice-cream parlours.
United States
Cupcone
A novelty dessert of cupcake batter baked directly inside an ice cream cone, then frosted.
Belgium
Dame Blanche
Dame Blanche is vanilla ice cream covered with warm chocolate sauce, a Belgian dessert-shop classic.
Turkey
Dondurma
Turkish ice cream made with milk, sugar, salep (orchid root powder), and mastic, giving it a uniquely stretchy, chewy texture that resists melting. Vendors perform theatrical tricks with the ice cream, stretching and flipping it with long metal paddles. The Kahramanmaraş region is particularly famous for its high-quality dondurma.
Asmara, Eritrea
Eritrean Gelato
Gelato
Italian-style gelato served in Asmara's gelaterias; a legacy of the colonial period; creamy, dense, and available in tropical fruit flavors; found in parlors along Asmara's boulevards; a sweet reminder of the city's Italian past.
Indonesia
Es puter
Es puter is made with coconut-milk ice churned in a hand-turned wooden bucket and sold from carts.
Shiraz, Iran
Faloodeh
فالوده
Frozen dessert of thin starch noodles set in rose water and lime syrup, scraped into a bowl and eaten with more lime squeezed over.
Philippines
Filipino Street Ice Cream
Sorbetes
A traditional carabao milk ice cream sold by street vendors (sorbeteros) in colorful carts, in unique flavors.
Christiansted, U.S. Virgin Islands
Fraco
Virgin Islands version of a snow cone; heaping cup of crushed ice topped with generous pours of flavored syrup in banana, almond, tamarind, coconut, or passion fruit; a cooling treat in the tropical heat. Fraco is the Virgin Islands snow-cone tradition: shaved ice drenched in brightly flavored syrup and eaten from a cup.
Haiti
Fresko
Ice shaved by hand from a block with a metal plane, packed into a cup and drenched in coloured fruit syrups and condensed milk.
Midwestern United States, United States
Frozen Custard
A dense, silky frozen dessert made with egg yolks in addition to cream and sugar — richer than ice cream.
Florence, Italy
Gelato
Italian ice cream churned slower and warmer than American ice cream, with less fat and air. Denser, silkier, and more intensely flavored.
Sicily, Italy
Gelato al Pistacchio
Pistachio gelato, the connoisseur's flavor. The best uses pistachios from Bronte, Sicily, prized for their deep emerald color and resinous aroma.
Piedmont, Italy
Gelato alla Nocciola
Hazelnut gelato, made with Piedmontese Tonda Gentile hazelnuts. A close cousin of stracciatella and gianduja flavors.
Sicily, Italy
Granita
Sicilian semi-frozen dessert of water, sugar, and fruit or nuts (lemon, coffee, almond, mulberry). Eaten for breakfast with brioche in summer.