List of British desserts explained

This is a list of British desserts, i.e. desserts characteristic of British cuisine, the culinary tradition of the United Kingdom. The British kitchen has a long tradition of noted sweet-making, particularly with puddings, custards, and creams; custard sauce is called crème anglaise (English cream) in French cuisine.

British desserts

A

• Apple pie
• Apple crumble
• Arctic roll

B

• Bakewell tart
• Banoffee pie
• Bread and butter pudding
• Brandy snaps
• Biscuits

C

• Carrot cake
• Cherries jubilee
• Chestnut pudding
• Cobbler
• Coconut ice
• Crumble
• Custard tart
• Cookie

E

• Ecclefechan tart
• Eton mess
• Eve's pudding
• English cake

F

• Flapjack
• Flies graveyard
• Flummery
• Fruit fool
• Fudge

G

• Gypsy tart
• Gingerbread

K

• Knickerbocker glory^[1]

L

• Lardy cake

M

• Manchester tart^[2]
• Maids of honour tart
• Mince pie

R

• Raspberry Ripple
• Rice pudding
• Rhubarb crumble

S

• Shortcake
• Shrewsbury cake
• Spoom
• Spotted dick
• Strawberry rhubarb pie
• Syllabub
• Swiss roll
• Sponge cake
• Sussex pond pudding

T

• Treacle tart
• Trifle
• Teacake

V

• Victoria sponge

Y

• Yorkshire Curd Tart^[3]

British cakes

• Angel cake
• Banbury cake
• Battenberg cake
• Caraway seed cake
• Carrot cake
• Chelsea bun^[4]
• Chorley cake
• Colin the Caterpillar
• Date and walnut loaf
• Dundee cake
• Eccles cake
• Fat rascal
• Jaffa Cakes
• Lardy cake
• Madeira cake
• Malt loaf
• Parkin
• Pink Wafer
• Pound cake
• Rock cake
• Sponge cake
• Tottenham cake
• Welsh cake

British puddings

• • • • • • • • • • • • Bread and butter pudding Bread pudding Cabinet pudding Christmas pudding Eve's pudding Figgy pudding Fruit hat Jam Roly-Poly Malvern pudding Queen of Puddings Rice pudding Spotted dick
          • Sticky toffee pudding Suet pudding Summer pudding Sussex pond pudding Treacle sponge pudding Waldorf pudding

Scottish desserts

• Abernethy biscuit^[5]
• Black bun
• Clootie dumpling
• Cranachan
• Deep-fried Mars bar
• Dundee cake
• Empire biscuit
• Fudge doughnut
• Penguin
• Tipsy laird
• Scottish cake

Commercial products

• Vienetta

See also

• British cuisine
• English cuisine
• Scottish cuisine
• Welsh cuisine
• List of desserts

Notes and References

1. Book: Frozen Desserts: The Definitive Guide to Making Ice Creams, Ices, Sorbets, Gelati, and Other Frozen Delights. 1996. St. Martin's Griffin. 978-0-312-14343-5. 29, 33, 185. Carolyn . Liddell . Robin . Weir. 14 August 2011.
2. Web site: Regional Dishes of North-West England . manchester2002-uk . 4 January 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140105092023/http://www.manchester2002-uk.com/eat%26drink/local-dishes.html . 5 January 2014 . usurped .
3. Web site: Yorkshire curd tart. 2020-11-16. BBC Good Food. en.
4. Book: Abbey Cooks Entertain . Pamela Foster . Foster, Pamela . 50 . 0988085909.
5. Book: The Oxford Companion to Food . Oxford University Press . Davidson, Alan . 2006 . 359 . 0191018252.