What is Dessert? Dessert is usually sweet course or dish (as exemplified by pastry or ice cream) usually served at the end of a meal.
Here are a few reasons why we serve and eat desserts and sweets . . .
1. Dessert balances out a meal and gives closure to the meal.
Eating desserts can be an opportunity to be creative.
Dessert isn’t fattening.
Some Examples of Desserts
Halo-Halo Halo-halo is a mélange of crushed ice, nata de coco , beans, sago pearls, jelly, sweetened saba banana, sweet potato, coconut, ube (purple yam) jam, evaporated milk, leche flan, ube ice cream, jackfruit, and fried pinipig (flattened immature rice grains).
Buko Pandan Its most basic recipe only calls for shredded young coconut, pandan ( screwpine ) leaves, gelatin, cream and condensed milk.
Leche Flan Leche flan is the Philippines’ version of caramel pudding.
Puto Spanish-speaking readers, don’t freak out . it’s a sweet steamed rice cake.
Kutsinta Kutsinta , like puto , is a steamed rice cake, but instead of soft and spongy, is sticky and slightly rubbery.
Taho The three-ingredient snack is made by mixing together soft tofu, arnibal (a syrup made of brown sugar and water), and sago pearls.
Turon Slices of saba banana and jackfruit are rolled in brown sugar, wrapped in spring roll wrapper, and deep fried with a little more brown sugar to glaze the entire roll.