Puddings

🇬🇪Georgia

Tatara

Ტატარა

A Georgian dessert of grape must thickened with cornflour or flour, served warm or set cold, similar to pelamushi but often eaten softer.

🇨🇳China

Tau Suan

豆爽

Split mung beans steamed until they hold their shape, suspended in a thin pandan-scented starch syrup and eaten hot with fried dough sticks broken in.

🇹🇷Turkey

Tavuk göğsü

Tavuk gogsu, the milk pudding thickened with pounded chicken breast, is a genuinely singular Ottoman dessert and one of the most distinctive foods in Turkish cuisine.

🇵🇷Puerto Rico

Tembleque

Coconut milk set with cornstarch into a white pudding, turned out of its mould and dusted with cinnamon.

🇬🇲The Gambia

Thiakry

Caakiri

Steamed millet couscous stirred into sweetened curdled milk with vanilla and nutmeg, served cold.

🇳🇴Norway

Tilslorte Bondepiker

Tilslørte bondepiker

Apple trifle with whipped cream and kavring crumbs.

🇨🇳China

Tofu Pudding

豆腐花

Barely set soy curd scooped in soft sheets, served sweet with ginger syrup in the south or savoury with soy, chilli and pickles in the north.

🇨🇳Guangdong, China

Tong Sui

糖水

A Cantonese sweet soup or dessert, served warm or cold, made with ingredients like red beans, mung beans, lotus seeds, sweet potato or tapioca in a sugary broth.

🇬🇧England, United Kingdom

Trifle

Sponge soaked in sherry layered with fruit, custard and whipped cream, assembled in a glass bowl so the strata show through the side.

🇳🇴Norway

Trollkrem

A Norwegian dessert of whipped cream with lingonberries and sugar, fluffy and pink, a national and festive classic. A national and autumn staple, sweet and tart treat, a unique and fluffy cream, a dessert, a pudding.

🇧🇦Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Tufahije

Whole apples poached in sugar syrup, hollowed and packed with ground walnuts, served cold in a glass under whipped cream and their own syrup.

🇹🇳Tunisia

Tunisian Asida

عصيدة

A sweet Tunisian gruel pudding of roasted flour or semolina, butter and honey, served on religious holidays and special occasions.

🇧🇩Bangladesh

Tusha Shinni

তুশা শিন্নি

Wheat flour toasted in ghee with sugar, nuts and raisins into a dense halwa, cooked for religious offerings and shared out.

🇫🇲Federated States of Micronesia

Uht Kekihn

Uht Kekihn forms grated banana into balls simmered in coconut milk, creating a soft pudding served across FSM.

🇪🇬Egypt

Umm Ali

أم علي

Egyptian-origin bread pudding made with puff pastry, milk, cream, and nuts, popular during Ramadan in UAE, warm comforting pudding with crispy pastry pieces and balanced nuts and raisins, a beloved dessert.

🇿🇼Bulawayo, Zimbabwe

Umxhanxa

Ndebele dish of pumpkin boiled together with dried maize kernels until both soften, sweetened lightly and eaten warm.

🇦🇸American Samoa

Vaisalo

Vaisalo is a Samoan coconut-and-starch pudding or porridge cooked until soft, lightly sweet, and fragrant with fresh coconut.

🇻🇨Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Vincentian Black Pudding

Black Pudding

Sausage made with pig's blood, rice, and spices; also known as boudin; a traditional Vincentian street food; a popular snack or breakfast item; served like a sausage; the black pudding of Saint Vincent; a Creole street food; a bold, savoury snack.

🇷🇸Vojvodina, Serbia

Vojvođanski koh

Војвођански кох

Vojvođanski koh is a yeast-raised streusel coffee cake reflecting the region’s German and Central European baking.

🇫🇯Fiji

Vudi Vakasoso

Cooking bananas boiled and mashed with coconut cream and sugar until they take a caramel colour.

🇺🇸United States

Watergate Salad

A 1970s Midwestern dessert 'salad' of pistachio pudding, whipped topping, marshmallows, and pineapple.

🇫🇮Finland

Whipped Porridge

Vispipuuro

Sweet wheat semolina porridge with berries (usually lingonberries), whipped to mousse-like consistency, a traditional dessert.

🇺🇦Ukraine

Yabchanka

Ябчанка

Chilled apple-and-curd dessert whipped with egg whites into a light mousse and set cold, a Jewish-Ukrainian sweet.

🇸🇧Solomon Islands

Yam Pudding in Bamboo

Grated yam mixed with coconut cream and salt, stuffed into a bamboo tube (70cm), sealed with banana leaves, and cooked over a fire; the bamboo is split open to serve; a traditional cooking method that infuses the pudding with bamboo flavour.

🇷🇺Russia

Zapekanka

Запеканка

Baked tvorog (farmer's cheese) casserole loosened with egg, semolina and raisins, cut in slabs for school lunches and home breakfasts alike.

🇹🇷Turkey

Zerde

زردة

A traditional saffron rice pudding sweetened with sugar and enriched with pine nuts and currants. Its distinctive yellow color comes from saffron, one of the world's most expensive spices. Zerde is served at weddings, circumcisions, and religious celebrations, especially during Ramadan.

🇮🇹Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Zuppa Inglese

Emilian trifle of savoiardi soaked in Alchermes liqueur, layered with vanilla and chocolate crema pasticciera. Despite the name, it is Italian.

🇹🇷Aegean Region, Turkey

İncir uyutması

Incir uyutmasi, milk set inside a fresh fig without any culture, is a singular technique-dessert of the Aegean fig harvest.

🇸🇰Slovakia

Šúľance s Makom

Rolled potato-dough logs the size of a finger, boiled, then coated in butter, ground poppy seed and sugar.

🇨🇿Czech Republic

Žemlovka

Žemľovka

A Czech apple and bread pudding with milk, eggs, and cinnamon, a home and daily classic