jeudi 30 janvier 2014

Finding Exceptional Desserts Across The Globe

By Marquerite Velasquez


In the United States we have apple pie, chocolate chip cookies and ice cream and these are some of our most popular dessert treats. Around the world, however, there are many other interesting favorite desserts and here are just a few of the more unique offerings.

For example, people in Turkey love a special dish known as tavuk gogsu. The ingredients include chicken breast and milk, and the latter certainly isn't an ingredient that instantly springs to mind when you think of a dessert. The dish is actually a pudding created by finely shredding boiled chicken and mixing it with boiled milk, sugar, salt, coffee and cinnamon.

One more dessert that would interest anyone is one that uses ingredients which appear likely to be found in some savory dish and it has a name "crme de abacate." Such a dessert is actually Brazilian and it is a concoction using a mixture of avocado, sugar, lime and really heavy cream or condensed milk. So when you are in Brazil, don't be surprised if you see ice cream or any other cold and sweet drinks made from avocadoes as they even use this crme de abacate as filling for cakes or in smoothies.

Chocolate-covered insects are a popular treat in several different countries. In Thailand, for instance, you might find crunchy fried crickets coated in chocolate or perhaps a lollipop with a scorpion. In other countries, chocolate grasshoppers or chocolate ants might be sold for consumption.

If you happen to be in Iran then you must be introduced to their special dessert, Faloodeh. Using corn starch, sugar syrup and also rose water, this dessert is actually made into thin noodles. Having been popularly consumed for the past 2,000 years up to present, this perhaps is one of the oldest cold desserts in existence. You will find it topped with pistachios or sour cherry syrup at times. Most every ice cream shop in Iran definitely is sure to serve customers this common treat.

If you want some amazing American favorites, head down to YoKuMon and enjoy and check out their extensive list of treats. This Culver City ice cream shop not only sells ice cream cones, sundaes and shakes; their signature treat is a $2 ice cream sandwich. This is no ordinary ice cream sandwich, but rather a gourmet treat. Their creamy, rich ice cream is sandwiched between two homemade cookies. The cookies are baked freshly throughout the day, and there are more than a half dozen varieties to consider.




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