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. |
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“The morning rose, that untouched stands
Armed with her briars, how sweet she smells!
But plucked and strained through ruder hands,
Her sweets no longer with her dwells,
But scent and beauty both are gone,
And leaves fall from her, one by one.”
—Sir Robert Ayton (1570–1638)