Sweets & Desserts

🇺🇸United States

Apple Crisp

A baked dessert of cinnamon apples topped with a crumbly streusel of flour, butter, oats, and brown sugar.

🇲🇶Martinique

Bananas Flambé

Banane Flambée

Bananas caramelized in butter and sugar, then flambéed with rum. Martinique's banane flambée uses rhum agricole, while Bermuda's Flaming Bananas commonly uses Gosling's Black Seal and may arrive with vanilla ice cream or crème fraîche.

🇲🇽Mexico

Camotes Enmielados

Sweet potatoes simmered in a piloncillo syrup, sometimes with cinnamon or guava — a street-side treat.

🇸🇴Somalia

Coconut Confection

Gashaato

A coconut-based Somali confection; listed in Wikipedia's Somali cuisine; a sweet treat made from coconut, sugar, and spices; often served at celebrations and alongside xalwo; a popular Somali dessert; the coconut sweet of Somalia; found at weddings, holidays, and sweet shops.

🇸🇹Sao Tome and Principe

Coconut Sweets

Açucarinhas

Traditional Santomean sweets prepared from coconut and sugar; formed into small, sweet treats; a popular dessert and snack; found at markets and bakeries; simple, sweet, and coconutty; the coconut candy of Sao Tome; a traditional treat for children and adults.

🇸🇹Sao Tome and Principe

Fried Banana

Bobofrito

Banana fried in coconut oil until crispy on the outside; palm sugar occasionally added for extra sweetness; a popular dessert or snack in Sao Tome and Principe; eaten after a meal or as a street treat; sweet, crispy, and tropical; the banana fritter of the Chocolate Islands.

🇸🇨Seychelles

Ladob

Seychelles' signature dessert — ripe plantains and sweet potatoes (or cassava, breadfruit, or corosol) boiled with coconut milk, sugar, nutmeg, and vanilla pod until the fruit is soft and the sauce is creamy; also made as a savoury dish with salted fish, plantain, cassava, and breadfruit (with salt instead of sugar, no vanilla); an echo of French daube.

🇰🇲Comoros

Ladu

Coarsely ground raw rice cooked in ghee until browned, then mixed with powdered sugar, cardamom, and coarsely ground black pepper; shaped into balls or bricks; a distinctive sweet-spicy Comorian sweet.

🇲🇽Mexico

Mangos a la canela

Mango slices poached in a cinnamon syrup, served chilled.

🇸🇨Seychelles

Moutay

Traditional Seychellois sweet made from rice flour, similar to Indian jalebies; a deep-fried sweet soaked in syrup; reflects the Indian influence on Seychellois cuisine; a popular treat at festivals and celebrations.

🇲🇽Mexico

Piloncillo

Unrefined cane sugar pressed into cones, the backbone of Mexican sweets and drinks.

🇬🇹Guatemala

Plátanos en Mole

A Guatemalan dessert of sweet plantains in a rich chocolate mole sauce with sesame seeds, a cultural heritage and Semana Santa classic

🇵🇦Panama

Plátanos en Tentación

Panamanian ripe plantains baked in a sweet brown-sugar sauce with cinnamon, often topped with cheese.

🇬🇹Guatemala

Rellenitos de Plátano

A Guatemalan fried sweet plantain ball stuffed with sweetened black beans, a dessert and snack classic

🇺🇸United States

S'mores

S'more

A campfire treat of toasted marshmallow and chocolate square sandwiched between graham crackers.

🇲🇦Morocco

Sellou (Sfouf)

سلو

Roasted flour mixed with almonds, sesame, honey, and spices into a crumbly Moroccan energy paste.

🇸🇹Sao Tome and Principe

Sonhos de Banana

Light and airy fried dough balls made with banana; a Portuguese-influenced dessert adopted into Santomean cuisine; crispy outside, fluffy inside; sweet and banana-flavored; the name translates to dreams of banana; a TasteAtlas-listed dessert; a popular treat during festive times.