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Sweet Things

Desserts and confections from around the world

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3 chapters · 26 cards
  1. 01
    Chocolate, sugar and confectionery6 cards · ~1 min
  2. 02
    Pastry, cakes and baked desserts11 cards · ~2 min
  3. 03
    Frozen, dairy and other desserts9 cards · ~2 min

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01
Prompt: This sweet's spun sugar strands were made possible by an early electric candy-spinning machine.
Food & DrinkA little curiosity
Dessert · RECALLThis sweet's spun sugar strands were made possible by an early electric candy-spinning machine.Think it. Then flip it.
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Prompt: This sweet, whipped from egg whites and sugar, can be baked crisp or used as a soft topping.
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Dessert · RECALLThis sweet, whipped from egg whites and sugar, can be baked crisp or used as a soft topping.Think it. Then flip it.
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Prompt: This sweet, made by carefully browning sugar, works both as a standalone candy and a flavoring.
Food & DrinkA little curiosity
Dessert · RECALLThis sweet, made by carefully browning sugar, works both as a standalone candy and a flavoring.Think it. Then flip it.
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  1. 01This sweet's spun sugar strands were made possible by an early electric candy-spinning machine.RECALL
  2. 02This sweet, whipped from egg whites and sugar, can be baked crisp or used as a soft topping.RECALL
  3. 03This sweet, made by carefully browning sugar, works both as a standalone candy and a flavoring.RECALL
  4. 04Bees make this sweet food from flower nectar and store it in wax combs.RECALL
  5. 05This South Asian sweet consists of fried milk-solid dough balls soaked in fragrant sugar syrup.IDENTIFY
  6. 06This Brazilian party sweet is made by cooking condensed milk with cocoa and butter, then often rolling it into sprinkle-coated balls.IDENTIFY
  7. 07This familiar type of cake is flavoured by adding cocoa powder to its batter.RECALL
  8. 08These French almond-meringue sandwich cookies usually have a buttercream, ganache or jam filling.RECALL
  9. 09This sweet layers filo dough, nuts, and syrup, popular across the Middle East, Balkans, and Caucasus.RECALL
  10. 10This dessert has a sweet cheese-based filling, often over a crumb or pastry base, and comes in baked and unbaked styles.RECALL
  11. 11This familiar pastry dessert encloses sliced apples, often seasoned with cinnamon, in a crust.RECALL
  12. 12This crescent-shaped French pastry gets its flaky layers from laminated dough and has Austrian baked predecessors.RECALL
  13. 13These sweet fried dough pastries are often ring-shaped, though filled versions have no central hole.IDENTIFY
  14. 14These ridged fried dough sticks are popular in Spain and Latin America, often dusted with sugar.RECALL
  15. 15These dense chocolate baked squares originated in the United States.RECALL
  16. 16This Latin American sandwich-cookie sweet often encloses dulce de leche between two biscuits and may be coated in chocolate or coconut.IDENTIFY
  17. 17This doubled English name is used in Nigeria for small round, deep-fried balls of sweet yeasted dough.IDENTIFY
  18. 18This frozen dairy dessert is usually churned during freezing to limit large ice crystals.RECALL
  19. 19This sweet layers coffee-soaked ladyfingers with mascarpone, its name translating to pick me up.RECALL
  20. 20This sweet's caramelized sugar top is traditionally torched right before the dessert is served.RECALL
  21. 21This Italian word names the frozen dessert style commonly served denser and slightly warmer than American-style ice cream.RECALL
  22. 22This sweet is traditionally made by pounding steamed glutinous rice into a sticky, chewy paste.RECALL
  23. 23This sweet tops a creamy custard with soft caramel, a dessert especially popular in Spain and Latin America.RECALL
  24. 24This sweet, a crisp-shelled meringue dessert, was named after a famous Russian ballerina.RECALL
  25. 25This dense South Asian frozen milk dessert is traditionally made by reducing milk and freezing it without churning.IDENTIFY
  26. 26These Chinese glutinous-rice balls, often filled with sesame or peanut paste, are served in liquid and associated with family reunion.IDENTIFY

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