Puddings

🇰🇼Kuwait

Elba

ألبة

Milk thickened with starch and perfumed with saffron, cardamom and rose water, set into a soft pudding and scattered with pistachio.

🇮🇩Makassar, Indonesia

Es pisang ijo

Es pisang ijo, banana wrapped in green pandan dough with coconut porridge and syrup over ice, is a named Makassar dessert.

🇬🇧England, United Kingdom

Eton Mess

Crushed meringue, whipped cream and strawberries stirred together so the meringue partly dissolves.

🇼🇫Wallis and Futuna

Faikai Malaulau

Faikai

A sweet Wallisian pudding of tapioca or cassava flour rolled into small balls and simmered in a caramel of sugar and coconut milk, wrapped in banana leaves and baked in the umu for celebrations.

🇫🇷Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Farçon de Séez (Savoyard bread pudding)

Farçon de Séez is a Savoyard sweet-savory potato and bread pudding containing dried fruit, bacon, and local seasoning.

🇸🇪Sweden

Fatost

Fatost is a dessert from Norrland, a sweet finish to the local table.

🇹🇻Outer Islands (Nanumea / Nanumaga / Niutao / Nui / Vaitupu / Nukufetau / Nukulaelae / Niulakita), Tuvalu

Fekei Utanu

Fekei utanu combines mashed coconut sprout with flour and toddy syrup, wraps the mixture in leaves, and cooks it with coconut cream.

🇦🇪United Arab Emirates

Ferni

فرني

Emirati rice pudding, traditional dessert, smooth creamy texture with proper rice consistency and balanced sweetness, cardamom aroma, a beloved and comforting traditional Emirati sweet, daily and festive.

🇨🇦Atlantic Canada, Canada

Figgy Duff

Traditional bag pudding of breadcrumbs, raisins, brown sugar, molasses, butter, and spices, boiled in cloth.

🇦🇿Azerbaijan

Firni

Rice-flour pudding cooked in milk with saffron and rose water, set in a shallow dish and dusted with cinnamon in a pattern.

🇫🇷France

Flan pâtissier

Flan pâtissier is a baked French custard tart with a firm, silky interior set inside pastry.

🇯🇪Jersey

Fliottes

Des Fliottes

Poached dough dumplings cooked in milk, traditionally served on Good Friday; batter of flour, sugar, and eggs dropped into boiling milk with butter; a simple, comforting Lenten dessert of Jersey.

🇮🇪Ireland

Flummery

Flúmaraí

An Irish soft pudding with fruit, cream, and oats, a traditional and festive classic.

🇸🇳Senegal

Fondé

Small millet balls rolled by hand and cooked in sweetened curdled milk with vanilla, eaten warm or cold.

🇷🇸Serbia

Fontoš kolač

Фонтос колач

Fontoš kolač is a layered Banat sheet cake with walnut, jam and a tender baked crumb, kept by the Slovak community around Debeljača.

🇩🇪Frankfurt, Germany

Frankfurter Pudding

Frankfurter Pudding is a dessert from Frankfurt am Main, a sweet finish to the local table. Distinct from food-virsli.

🇵🇪Peru

Frejol Colado

A Chincha black-bean pudding sweetened with chancaca and spices.

🇬🇷Ionian Islands, Greece

Frigania

Φρυγανιά γλυκιά

A soft fried dough of the Ionian islands, pulled into ribbons and drowned in honey and sugar — a Lenten treat eaten straight from the pan.

🇮🇳India

Gajar ka halwa

गाजर का हलवा

Carrot halwa: grated carrots slow-cooked with milk, sugar and ghee, garnished with nuts.

🇺🇸United States

Glorified Rice

A Midwestern dessert 'salad' of rice, whipped cream, pineapple, and marshmallows, chilled.

🇲🇬Madagascar

Godro-Godro

Coconut milk cooked with sugar and starch and set firm into a sliceable white pudding, a coastal and Comorian-influenced sweet.

🇮🇪Ireland

Goody

Warm bread simmered in sweet milk with butter and spice, an old-fashioned Irish children's treat.

🇬🇪Georgia

Grape Must Pudding

Ფელამუში

Grape must thickened with corn flour, poured into moulds and set, then eaten cold with walnuts.

🇬🇩Grenada

Grenadian Sweet Potato Pudding

Sweet Potato Pudding

Traditional Grenadian dessert of grated sweet potato, coconut milk, sugar, spices (nutmeg, cinnamon, ginger), and sometimes raisins; baked until set and golden; a dense, moist pudding; a staple at Church Harvest festivals and family gatherings; the sweet potato pudding of the Spice Isle; spiced with local nutmeg.

🇧🇸Bahamas

Guava Duff

Guava pulp rolled into a sweet dough, wrapped in cloth and boiled or steamed into a log, sliced and covered with a butter-and-rum sauce. BVI Guava Duff folds guava into boiled dough and serves the sliced pudding with butter sauce.

🇬🇳Moyenne-Guinée (Fouta Djallon / Labé), Guinea

Guinean Lait Caillé

Lait caillé

Fermented cow's milk (24-48 hours), creamy with a slightly sour taste; served with couscous as dessert or with rice as a snack; a Fula specialty of the Fouta Djallon.

🇬🇬Guernsey

Gâche Mélée

Gâche mêlaïe

Dense apple cake/pudding made with cooking apples, flour, sugar, milk, suet (or Guernsey butter), cinnamon, and nutmeg; traditional Guernsey apple dessert dating back hundreds of years; heavy, stodgy pudding served warm or cold with Guernsey cream or custard; debate exists whether apples should be chopped or sliced.

🇹🇷Turkey

Güllaç

A traditional Ramadan dessert made with thin layers of cornstarch-based pastry soaked in milk with rose water and sugar, layered with walnuts and garnished with pomegranate seeds. Considered by some historians as a precursor to baklava, güllaç is light and delicate, consumed primarily during the fasting month.

🇩🇴Dominican Republic

Habichuelas con Dulce

A uniquely Dominican Lenten dessert of red kidney beans, coconut milk, evaporated milk, sweet potato, raisins, and spices, pureed into a creamy sweet soup. Served with milk cookies.

🇹🇯Tajikistan

Halvoitar

Ҳалвойтар

Flour toasted in oil and cooked with sugar syrup into a pourable liquid halva, eaten warm by dipping bread into it.

🇸🇦Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Hanini

حنيني

Hanini is a Najd dish of crumbled qursan bread mixed with date paste, melted ghee, saffron, and cardamom.

🇺🇸Hawaii, United States

Hawaiian Coconut Pudding

Haupia

A firm coconut pudding thickened with arrowroot or cornstarch, traditionally cut into chilled squares and served at Hawaiian and wider Polynesian gatherings.

🇳🇱Netherlands

Hung Yogurt

Hangop

Strained yogurt dessert, traditionally hung in a cloth to drain, served with fruit or sugar, a traditional Dutch dessert.

🇲🇹Malta

Imbuljuta Tal Qastan

Imbuljuta tal-qastan

Imbuljuta tal-qastan is a hot Maltese Christmas drink or sweet soup of chestnuts, cocoa, citrus peel, and spices.

🇺🇸United States

Indian Pudding

A New England baked pudding of cornmeal, molasses, milk, and spices, served warm.

🇬🇧England, United Kingdom

Jam Roly-Poly

Suet pastry spread with jam, rolled into a log, wrapped and steamed, then sliced into spirals and served with custard.