Dessert Recipes

French & German & Italian Desserts

Dessert is the part of the meal that many people absolutely like best. That comment holds true whether you are having dessert after a big meal, a special meal, or simply a small, at-home family dinner.

Europeans have a special love of desserts. From Italian desserts to the special treats known as German and French desserts, you simply want to taste forever when you wrap your taste buds around these heavenly flavors.

You can’t beat the satisfaction that comes from enjoying something sweet after a meal. If your meal was very light you may have room for a heavy dessert like what is favored in Europe. If on the other hand your meal was heavy you don’t necessarily want to put a heavy European dessert on your stomach. Something lighter and perhaps fruity would be best after a heavy meal.

The French desserts being served today do tend to be lighter in nature, but Italian and German desserts are still rather heavy. They tend to be rich in sugar, fat and are often very high in calories. These desserts tend to be much heavier than what you will experience from most cultures throughout the world today.

French desserts today typically include a lot of fruit and fruit flavors. You may also find the French serving cheese and wine or crepes for dessert. It is when you go the country sides and takes the country French desserts that you start to get heavier concoctions that are bursting with flavor as well as fat and calories.

French country cooking offers desserts such as the amazing Apple Tart Tatin, a mouthwatering mingling of real butter, vanilla bean, French brandy, green apples and puff pastry that is sure to please even the most discriminating dessert fan.

While the heavier Italian desserts are reserved for the evening meal, you can find lighter desserts being served during the day with earlier meals as well. Tiramisu is one of the heavier desserts that would be reserved for an after dinner treat. This Italian dessert features layered pound cake with cream and mascarpone. Simple delicious! Another of the more popular Italian desserts is affogato, which just means “drowned” in Italian. This dessert incorporates Italian ice or sometimes ice cream topped with hot espresso.

German desserts tend to be rather simple to make but they tend to hit the stomach and sit there rather heavily. While the flavors incorporated by the Germans are loved all over the world, you have to note that they are heavier in nature than many desserts from other cultures. One German favorite is Kuchen. This just means cake in German and there are many different ways to make this dessert. For instance, many people will make the cake with a filling of sugar and cinnamon while others may incorporate only sugar as a filling and then cover the entire thing in custard sauce with a sweet taste.  One thing that ties most German desserts together is their super sweet taste.

Do you think Italian, German or French desserts sound amazing? You can find some great recipes in all of these cultures online for free. Experiment with authentic recipes from the European cultures and you are bound to find many you fall in love with.

A “Dessert” is a meal course that usually comes after dinner. Most often Dessert foods are of sweet food but can also be of a strongly flavored food, such as cheese, like cheese cake. The world dessert comes from the Old French word “desservir”, which means ‘to clear the table’. Often times in the English language dessert is confused with the word desert(note only one “s”), which is a baren peice of land normally with sand as soil.

It wasn’t until after the 19th-century where the rise of the middle class, and the mechanization of the sugar industry, brought the privilege of sweets into the general public and unreserved it exclusively for the aristocracy, or as rare holiday treat. This was because sugar became cheaper and more readily available to the general public. As sugar was widely spread, so was the development and popularity of desserts.

In today's culture dessert recipes have become a popular item for discussion, as they are a winning way to win people over at the end of any meal. This is partly because if you serve a mediocre meal, with an excellent dessert, people will remember you for the dessert and forget about the meal.

Most cultures, have a seperate final distinction between the main course, and the sweet course. This is not true however in some cultures such as Chinese, who will mix in sweet and savoury dishes throughout the entire meal. Dessert is, often times seen as a separate meal or snack, rather than a course, and can be eaten some time after the meal by many individuals. Because of it’s wide spread popularity there are even some restaurants that specialize in desserts.

Some of the most common desserts are:
- Biscuits or cookies
- Ice creams
- Meringues
- Fruit
- Cakes
- Crumbles
- Custards
- Gelatin desserts
- Puddings
- Pastries
- Pies or tarts

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