We have several types of desserts.
First, we love to eat cakes and pies, but usually not as desserts, but rather as a seperate meal in the afternoon (comparable to British Afternoon Tea, however mostly served together with coffee). Often, cakes and pies are homemade, but we also buy them at bakeries, cafés or even frozen.
Second, we have traditional desserts which are considered as simple. Most typical are simple puddings, including rice and semolina pudding.
This would be a rice pudding with cinnamon:
Even simpler a desserts based on yoghurt or curd (Quark), beaten, sweetened and flavoured with fruit.
This is what we call “Rote Grütze” (actually red grout), cooked berries, served with vanilla sauce:
Children like to eat Wackelpudding, here with woodruff flavour. American friends, does it look familiar?
Fruit salad is also a popular, simple dessert:
Sometimes, we eat desserts which are more filling, often after a smallish lunch or dinner (like a soup), e.g. pancakes, which are made with eggs in Germany, so they are richer than American breakfast pancakes.
Or, we eat just ice cream.
The third type of desserts are the more fancy ones, reserved for festive meals. Here, we eat everything you would find on international menus, like
- Bavarian cream
- Italian panna cotta
- French mousse aux chocolat
- French crème brulée
- Charlotte russe
- Salzburger Nockerln
- etc.
