Romanian Cuisine - List of Desserts

List of Desserts

  • Covrigi - pretzel
  • Gogoşi - literally "doughnuts", but more akin to fried dough
  • Halva
  • Rahat - Turkish delight
  • Plăcintă - pie
  • Colivă - boiled wheat, mixed with sugar and walnuts (often decorated with candy and icing sugar; distributed at funerals and/or memorial ceremonies)
  • Cozonac - a kind of Stollen made with leavened dough, into which milk, eggs, sugar, butter, and other ingredients are mixed
  • Pandişpan
  • Orez cu lapte
  • Griş cu lapte
  • Lapte de pasăre - literally "bird's milk", vanilla custard garnished with "floating islands" of whipped egg whites
  • Cremă de zahăr ars
  • Clătite - pancakes
  • Turtă dulce - gingerbread
  • Chec - coffee cake
  • Papanași - a kind of doughnut made from a mixture of sweet cheese, eggs, and semolina, boiled or fried and served with fruit syrup or jam and sour cream
  • Şarlotă - a custard made with milk, eggs, sugar, whipped cream, gelatin, fruits, and lady fingers; from the French Charlotte
  • Prăjituri - assorted pastries
  • Savarine - savarina
  • Amandine - chocolate sponge cake with almond and chocolate filling, glazed in chocolate
  • Joffre cake - invented at the Casa Capşa restaurant in Bucharest
  • Mucenici - sweet cookies (shaped like "8", made of boiled or baked dough, garnished with walnuts, sugar or honey, eaten on a single day of the year, on 9 March)

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