Unique Desserts From Around The World

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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.

One of the good examples would be the treat that people in Turkey highly enjoy - a dessert treat called tavuk gogsu. You will find that it comes with ingredients uncommonly thought to be those used for desserts as they include chicken breast and milk. Actually, this dessert is a pudding which is cooked by process of shredding or grinding up the chicken which has been boiled and incorporating other ingredients like boiled milk, cinnamon, coffee, salt and sugar.

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.

Perhaps all this talk about desserts would entice you to try out some more amazing American treats so it's time for you to check out the extensive list of offerings at YoKuMon. This Culver City ice cream shop is where they sell ice cream cones, sundaes, shakes and of course their ever-famous treat which is the $2 ice cream sandwich. Don't think that this is just your regular ice cream sandwich because this in fact is a gourmet treat. You'll find two homemade cookies enveloping their creamy, rich ice cream. Apart from these cookies being freshly baked daily, you will also find that there are more than half a dozen of varieties available and you can select any flavor of ice cream and any two varieties of cookie for your sandwich.




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