Maria’s Advice – World Desserts

Hello My Fellow Vegan Travelers!
Every country you visit will be proud of their local desserts. I am including a list of popular desserts for various countries and regions. Just verify that the restaurants in which you dine have the vegan versions of these desserts.

Canada:
Tire sur la Neige
– maple syrup taffy

Costa Rica:
dulce de leche – syrup of boiled milk and sugar
flan – caramel custard
melcocha – candy made from raw sugar
torta chilena – multilayered cake filled with dulce de leche

Mexico:
flan – caramel custard
fruit empanadas
sapotes dulces – sweet fruit mixed with sugar, orange juice
cajeta – caramelized milk (alone, on pastry, or with grilled bananas). Soymilk version ?
Mexican hot chocolate – with nuts or churros

Chile:
alfajores – pastry filled with manjar, covered in coconut or chocolate
cachos – pastry filled with manjar

Argentina:
dulce de leche
churros – pastry with sugar

Peru:
Arroz con Leche – rice with milk. Soymilk version at vegan restaurants ?
Turrón de Chocolate – heavy, chocolate cake with nuts
Ranfañote – bread pudding. It is syrupy, sweet, chunky pudding made of bread cubes, molasses, anise seeds, orange peel, cloves, nuts.

Brazil:
Bolos – cakes with chocolate or fruit filling
Brigadeiro – similar to chocolate truffles
Pe de moleque – sweet made with molasses and peanuts

Kenya:
Coupe Mount Kenya – ice cream. Soymilk version ?
Maandazi – sweet donut
Tropical Fruit Dessert
Coconut and Sweet Potato Pudding

South Africa:
Custard Melkkos – pudding
Melktert – tart. Soymilk version ?

Morocco:
kaab el ghzal – pastry stuffed with almond paste and topped with sugar.
Halwa shebakia – it is honey cake, pieces of dough deep-fried and dipped into honey and topped with sesame seeds. Vegan version with honey substitute ?
Zucre Coco – coconut fudge cakes.

Egypt:
Basboosa – Egyptian semolina cake
creme caramel
Qamar El Din Pudding
rice pudding
Konafa – thin, half-cooked pastry

Ghana:
bananas Ghana – bananas with cinnamon, orange juice
accra banana peanut cake – cream made of mashed bananas, peanuts and cinnamon
kele wele– bananas, onions, garlic, ginger, olive oil
fool – fruit puree mixed into custard or whipped cream

Australia:
pavlova – cake is served with tropical fruits such as passionfruit and pineapple, and whipped cream
Golden syrup dumplings

New Zealand:
Anzav Biscuits
pavlova

Vietnam:
Sinh To Bo
– avacado smoothie

Thailand:
Khao Niao Mamuang – sweet coconut rice with mangoes

Japan:
mochi: – a rice cake beaten into a paste then filled stuffed with sweet bean paste

China:
red bean cake
grass jelly

Malaysia:
Bubur cha-cha – sweet potato and yam cubes cooked in coconut milk.
Pulut hitam – black glutinous rice with sago, longan, gula melaka and pandan leaves

India:
Besan Laddu – Indian sweet chickpea flour balls
Gajar Halwa – Indian sweet carrot pudding

Tibet:
dreysil – Sweet saffron rice with nuts and raisins
Carrot Barfi – Carrot Fudge Dessert
Khir – Himalayan Rice Pudding

Turkey:
Kadayif – shredded pastry baked in syrup filled with pistachio nuts, walnuts
Revani – a sweet made from semolina
Hanim göbegi” and “Sekerpare” (two kinds of small sweet cake)

Greece:
baklava
Galaktobouriko – phylo dough with with custard

Italy:
Torta di Mele – apple torte
Torta di Noci – walnut cake

France:
Clafouti – cherry flan
crepes – with fruit

Sweden:
Bärkräm – berry cream pudding

Denmark:
Pandekager– crepe-like pancakes with strawberry jam
Rødgrød med fløde – stewed, thickened, strawberries with cream

Holland:
zoute drop – licorice drops
Stroopwafel – A thin wafer with a light caramel syrup.

Belgium:
Tarte Au Flan – pie

Germany:Pflaumenkuchen – plum tart

Austria:
linzertortes
Apfelstrudel

Spain:
flan
churros
sweet spanish fritters

Jamaica:
Plantain Fritters

Remember…Ask the restaurants if they have a vegan version of these desserts!

One thought on “Maria’s Advice – World Desserts”

  1. You’re very welcome, Ruth!!
    Keep checking back. Every week I try to post travel tips under the category “Maria’s Advice”.
    I also post entries on my various weekend trips across North America or lengthy global vacations.
    I post these under the category name of the country.

    Check back also, as I will be arranging to have free contest giveaways for vegan snacks and am constantly adding more of my past vacation travel photos!!

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