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Cottage Cheese Ice Cream with cottage cheese, honey and peanut butter — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAEasy

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Cottage Cheese Ice Cream

The viral high-protein frozen dessert: full-fat cottage cheese blended completely smooth with honey, peanut butter, and dark chocolate, then frozen into a scoopable, cheesecake-like ice cream. No machine, no eggs, no custard — over 20g of protein per serving and none of the graininess, as long as you use full-fat cottage cheese and a liquid sweetener.

15 min285 kcal4 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free🌿Vegetarian

Crema Catalana (Catalan Cream) with egg yolks, milk and heavy cream — Spain recipe

🇪🇸SpainAdvanced

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Crema Catalana (Catalan Cream)

The classic Spanish custard dessert with a silky vanilla and citrus cream base topped with a crackling caramel crust. Made with egg yolks, milk, and cream, it is chilled overnight then caramelized with a kitchen torch just before serving.

240 min250 kcal5 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free

Crème Brûlée with cream, egg yolk and sugar — France recipe

🇫🇷FranceMedium

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Crème Brûlée

Crème brûlée is an exquisite French dessert that combines rich vanilla cream with a crunchy caramel crust — the pinnacle of French pâtisserie.

33 min600 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free

Crêpe Suzette with plain flour, eggs and milk — France recipe

🇫🇷FranceMedium

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Crêpe Suzette

Crêpe Suzette is the most theatrical dessert in the French classical repertoire: paper-thin crêpes folded into quarters and bathed in a sauce of caramelized sugar, fresh orange juice, orange zest, and butter, finished with Grand Marnier poured into the pan and set alight at the table. The blue flames burn for 15 to 20 seconds, cooking off the alcohol while leaving the deep orange-liqueur flavor in the sauce. The dish was invented, by accident or by design, in Monte Carlo in 1895 — legend credits Henri Charpentier, a 14-year-old assistant waiter who accidentally ignited the sauce while preparing it for the Prince of Wales. The Prince, enchanted by both the flames and the result, named the dish after Suzette, a young woman at the table. Whether or not the story is true, the dish has remained the definitive French dessert-as-performance for over a century.

60 min380 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian

Daigaku Imo (Japanese Candied Sweet Potatoes) with sweet potato, sesame seeds and soy sauce — Japan recipe

🇯🇵JapanMedium

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Daigaku Imo (Japanese Candied Sweet Potatoes)

Daigaku imo (大学芋, literally "university potato") is a Japanese snack and bento side of bite-size sweet potato pieces fried until crisp at the edges, then coated in a thin, glossy syrup of sugar, mirin and soy sauce and finished with black sesame. Where the name comes from is not settled: there are several stories, most of them about students, and none is proven. The potatoes are fried in a shallow layer of oil rather than deep-fried, slowly at first so the middle turns soft and sweet, then hotter for a crisp skin. The syrup takes about three minutes and sets into a thin shell as it cools. Active time is about 35 minutes including a 10-minute soak, and the pieces rest another 5 minutes on parchment. Serves four as a snack or a bento side.

35 min220 kcal4 serves

🌱Vegan🌿Vegetarian

Dubai Chocolate Bar with chocolate, pistachio and tahini — Turkey recipe

🇹🇷TurkeyMedium

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Dubai Chocolate Bar

The viral chocolate bar that conquered TikTok and the world. A crispy kataifi pastry filling with pistachio cream and tahini, sealed inside a dark chocolate shell. Born at Fix Dessert Chocolatier in Dubai, now made at home.

60 min380 kcal6 serves

🌿Vegetarian

Dubai Chocolate Tiramisu with mascarpone, pistachio and chocolate — UAE recipe

🇦🇪UAEMedium

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Dubai Chocolate Tiramisu

Classic tiramisu layered with toasted kataifi pastry mixed through pistachio cream and a chocolate ganache on top instead of cocoa. The kataifi adds a crunch that stays for a few hours before softening into the cream. Based on the Dubai chocolate bar that went viral in 2024.

40 min520 kcal8 serves

🌿Vegetarian

Éclair with butter, flour and egg — France recipe

🇫🇷FranceAdvanced

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Éclair

The Éclair is a masterpiece of French pâtisserie — a delicate hollow shell of choux pastry filled with vanilla custard and topped with glossy chocolate glaze.

75 min400 kcal8 serves

🌿Vegetarian

Guriev Porridge with semolina, milk and cream — Russia recipe

🇷🇺RussiaMedium

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Guriev Porridge

Guriev porridge is a Russian dessert of baked semolina layered with sweet milk skins, toasted walnuts and dried apricots, finished with a caramelized sugar crust. It's named after Count Dmitry Guriev, a statesman at the court of Tsar Alexander I in the early 19th century.

40 min738 kcal6 serves

🌿Vegetarian

Halva (Russian Sunflower Halva) with shelled sunflower seeds and flour — Russia recipe

🇷🇺RussiaMedium

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Halva (Russian Sunflower Halva)

Sunflower halva is the crumbly, fibrous sweet that Soviet and Russian childhoods were built on — instantly recognizable by its toasted-seed aroma and the way it flakes into soft layers. Roasted sunflower seeds are ground to an oily paste, bound with a hot sugar syrup, and worked until the mass turns fibrous rather than smooth. Unlike Middle Eastern tahini halva, the star here is the sunflower seed, giving a deeper, nuttier flavor.

60 min520 kcal10 serves

🌱Vegan

High-Fiber Oats with Berries with oats, chia seeds and yogurt — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAMedium

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High-Fiber Oats with Berries

Rolled oats soaked overnight with chia seeds, ground flaxseed, Greek yogurt and milk. Stir it together in 5 minutes, refrigerate, eat in the morning. About 12g of fiber per serving. Keeps 4 days.

10 min380 kcal2 serves

⚡Quick🌿Vegetarian

Japanese Cheesecake (Cotton Soufflé Cheesecake) with cream cheese, eggs and caster sugar — Japan recipe

🇯🇵JapanAdvanced

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Japanese Cheesecake (Cotton Soufflé Cheesecake)

A cloud-light hybrid of cheesecake and soufflé: cream cheese melted into a smooth batter, egg whites whipped to soft peaks and folded in, baked in a water bath at low temperature. The result jiggles when you shake the tin. Not sweet in the American sense — lightly tangy from cream cheese with a breath of lemon. First created at the Plaza Hotel in Osaka. Best warm from the oven for the jiggle, or chilled overnight when it becomes denser and creamier.

100 min260 kcal8 serves

🌿Vegetarian

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