Desserts and Sweets
| Name | Image | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Bougatsa | Pastry consisting of custard, cheese, or minced meat filling between layers of phyllo. | |
| Diples | A Christmas and wedding delicacy, made of thin, sheet-like dough which is cut in large squares and dipped in a swirling fashion in a pot of hot olive oil for a few seconds. As the dough fries, it stiffens into a helical tube; it is then removed immediately and sprinkled with honey and crushed walnuts. | |
| Galaktoboureko | Custard between layers of filo. The name derives from the Greek "ghala", meaning milk, and from the Turkish börek, meaning filled, thus meaning "filled with milk." | |
| Halvadopites | A nougat of sesame with almonds in a thin crust. | |
| Karidopita | A walnut cake. | |
| Koulourakia | Butter or olive-oil cookies. | |
| Kourabiedes | Christmas cookies made by kneading flour, butter and crushed roasted almonds, then generously dusted with powdered sugar. | |
| Loukoumades | Similar to doughnuts, loukoumades are essentially fried balls of dough drenched in honey and sprinkled with cinnamon. | |
| Melomakarona | "Honey macaroons", Christmas cookies soaked in a syrup of diluted honey (meli in Greek, thus melomakarona), then sprinkled with crushed walnuts. | |
| Moustalevria | A flour and grape must pudding. | |
| Moustokouloura | Cookies of flour kneaded with fresh grape must instead of water. | |
| Rizogalo | 'Rice-milk' is rice pudding. | |
| Milopita me Pandespani | Apple pie with cinnamon and powdered sugar. | |
| Ravani Basbousa (Arabic), revani (Turkish) |
Sweet cake made of a semolina soaked in syrup. | |
| Soutzoukos | ||
| Spoon sweets (γλυκά του κουταλιού) | Of various fruits, ripe or unripe, or green unripe nuts. Spoon sweets are essentially made the same way as marmalade, except that the fruit are boiled whole or in large chunks. | |
| Tsoureki | A traditional Christmas and Easter sweet bread also known as 'Lambropsomo' (Easter bread), flavoured with "mahlepi", the intensely aromatic extract of the stone of the St. Lucie Cherry. | |
| Vasilopita | Saint Basil's cake or King's cake, traditional for New Year's Day. Vasilopites are baked with a coin inside, and whoever gets the coin in their slice are considered blessed with good luck for the whole year. |
Read more about this topic: List Of Greek Dishes
Famous quotes containing the word sweets:
“Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)