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.

Do you want to see or taste more exotic dessert treats like chocolate-covered insects maybe, as they are highly popular in some countries around the world? For example, in Thailand one of their popular and favorite treats include chocolate-coated crunchy fried crickets and sometimes you'll even see tasty scorpions made into lollipops. Why some countries may even serve you with chocolate grasshoppers or chocolate ants and these items are considered to be a delicacy that is highly acclaimed.

Iran's special dessert is one that is called Faloodeh. This one uses corn starch, rose water and sugar syrup in making thin noodles used in this treat. This may be considered one of the oldest known cold desserts in the world as it has been eaten for more than 2,000 years now. In some cases you will find this dessert served with a topping of sour cherry syrup or some pistachios. Ice cream shops in Iran definitely will serve this popular treat being that it is was invented in ancient Persia.

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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