Weekend Special: Fruit-Based Desserts that are quick, healthy & delicious

Introduction:

Desserts are the most essential part of the meal. On every special occasion, desserts are a necessary part. Without this no special occasion is complete, it makes sweet memories with our loved ones. Generally, it comes at the end of the meal. We can say that dessert concludes the meal.

Dessert is a usually sweet course or dish. There are wide varieties of desserts like in Western culture Cakes, Cookies, Biscuits, Ice Cream, Candies, and pudding. Fruit is also a dessert because fruit has a natural sweetness.

Invention of Dessert:

In the 17th century, the word dessert came, this word was derived from the “desservir” which is a French verb. The meaning of desservir is “Serve”. In 18^th and 18^th century it considered to highlight meal. Sweet items are initially not common as they were to become later.

Delicious and Rich recipes of Desserts:

Section 1:

• Biscuits: Biscuits are generally made denser than cake, however, they also are a soft texture and crispy or also hard to chew. Biscuit is the variety of baked things.
• Cookies: They are made from sugar and flour. They are generally small, flat and have a round shape. For sandwich cookies, you just need to place a small amount of cream or jam in two cookies. Cookies also have different shapes; they are perfect for different events and seasons.
• Cakes: They are the most popular dessert of all time. They made from eggs, butter, oil, flour and sugar, milk or water and a pinch of baking powder. Cakes are topped with fruits and sweet creamy icing.

• Fruits: They also considered desserts because they are naturally sweet and also good for health. You can make fruit salad as a dessert dish.

Section 2:

• Candies: Confections, also known as candy. Candy is usually made from sugar or honey. There are varieties of candies like Fudge, Caramel, Gummies & Hard candies. Chocolate also known as the type of candy it is made from cocoa butter, Cocoa, sugar or honey & milk.
• Pastries: Pies, cobblers and anything that is made with light and flaky bread are known as pastries. Often, they are filled with fruits, nuts, chocolate or anything according to taste.
• Puddings & Custards: They made with milk or cream. Custards and puddings known as the same there is a little bit of difference between them. Custards thickened with the help of eggs and puddings thickened with the help of cornstarch.
• Deep-Fried: Desserts also made with deep-fried batter or dough. Churros are deep-fried and topped with a cinnamon & sugar combination. Donuts also made with deep-fried batter, this batter made from flour, oil, milk, eggs and a pinch of baking powder. They topped with chocolate or can be filled with chocolate or sweet cream.
• Frozen: Frozen are cold, creamy & delicious, they include ice cream, frozen yogurt, shaved ice, gelato and much more. The main difference between ice cream and gelato is ice cream uses less milk and more cream, and gelato uses more milk and less cream as a result gelato is a little bit denser than ice cream.

7 Types of Desserts:

There are many types of dessert generally they are classified into 7 types:

1. Baked dessert
2. Cold dessert
3. Puddings and Custard
4. Fried dessert
5. Frozen dessert
6. Dessert Drink
7. Pastries/ Cobblers

Importance/Benefits of dessert:

• When you eat something sweet it reduces your cardiovascular that prevents you from high blood pressure.
• When we eat the same food in our daily routine it reduces our hunger, when we eat something sweet it increases our hunger.
• When you eat something sweet it gives a signal to your mind that feels like everything going to be alright.
• Some desserts that make with fruits are healthier that provides vitamin to your body that is important for you.
• It protects you from stroke.
• It can improve your mood. When you have a bad day eating a small piece of something that is sweet will surely make you forget most of your problems and troubles.

Pro tips for desserts to taking next level:

• If you think your sponge cake can be dry add more milk after adding flour. Milk make sur that you cake not tends to dry.
• Use corn oil instead of butter. Corn oil have neutral flavor & corn oil is use less than butter so it’s saved your health.
• Use dark chocolate instead of milk chocolate. Dark chocolate has less calories and rich in taste more than milk chocolate.
• For beautiful curvy topping use vegetable peeler.
• If you don’t have unsweetened chocolate use cocoa powder oil or butter.
• Measure the ingredients with weight instead of cups because it’s less messy & more accurate.
• Don’t use any toothpick or other stick for checking cake is done; instead, press the cake lightly& if it should spring out back it’s ready.

Most popular desserts in world:

• Apple Pie (USA): This dessert makes with crisp crust and filled with apple. Apple is fruit that’s good for health. For topping whipped cream, Vanilla ice cream, or cheddar cheese are common.

• Mochi (JAPAN): It’s a Japanese traditional dish. It’s makes with rice. Rice put in mortar and pounded than it’s turned into paste. It served with a scoop of ice cream.
• Cream Brulee (FRANCE): It’s introduced in 17th century by Francois Massialot, a chef of a kitchen of a Duke of Orlean. This creamy pastry topped with thin caramel layer that referred as cream brulee.
• Gulab Jamun (INDIA): They made with milk and deep-fried in desi ghee. They topped with saffron and green cardamom and for royalty added rose water. They are introduced by Mughals.

• Dadar Gulung (INDONESIA): Dadar Gulung is called pancakes cousin. The meaning of Dadar Gulung is roll. These Pancakes roll with green color that makes with Pandan leaves and filled with sweet grated coconut.

Conclusion:

Dessert is sweet dish that conclude the meal. They are also good for health and also improve mood. Dessert is generally eaten with help of spoon or fork. There are also some drinkable desserts available. You also can create recipes by adding something new into the batter.