Fractured Fattening Foods - But Who Cares Quiz

Answer: Tiramisu

Tiramisu is an Italian dessert made initially from a layer of coffee flavoured finger shaped sponge biscuits. These are then topped with a filling which is a combination of eggs, sugar, soft creamy Italian cheese and cocoa. It is uncertain just when it was invented. Argued dates go back to the 17th century right up to the 1960s - but why bother arguing about that? Have some more tiramisu instead.

Answer: Baumkuchen

Baumkuchen is a traditional layered German pastry/cake that has found its way into many other European countries. It takes quite a while to make this cake (which makes it rather expensive) because of the various layers it comprises. Each of those layers has to dry before the next layer is added, but when finally cooked, the slices come with lovely levels of different colours which many people liken to tree rings.

Answer: Pavlova

Pavlova is a dessert named in honour of a famous Russian ballerina, Anna Pavlova. It has a crispy meringue base and sides, a soft sweet centre, and is topped with thickened beaten cream, and various fruits - such as sliced peaches, slices of kiwi fruit, or whatever else takes your fancy.

It's overly sweet in a way, but really delicious and the perfect dessert following a baked dinner. Or, if you're feeling really self-indulgent, just as a treat on its own.

Answer: Bibingka

Bibingka is a baked cake from Indonesia and the Philippines. It is made from rice, and, somewhat unusually for the western idea of cakes, it is eaten for breakfast. India has a pudding similar in name to Bibingka, but it looks entirely different and is spelled Bibinca. Rice is prepared for Bibingka by being soaked overnight, with the addition of wild yeast and palm wine to allow it to ferment. On the following morning, the rice is ground into a flavored paste and then cooked.

This traditional treat, which is always consumed around Christmas time, has been known in these two nations for a very long time.

Answer: Bread and Butter Pudding

This is not a fancy dessert, but a lovely old fashioned treat that uses up bread that is beginning to go stale. Buttered sliced bread is placed along the bottom of a dish, with a few currants and sultanas sprinkled on top. This is then covered with a combination of beaten egg, milk and a dash of vanilla. Lightly sprinkled cinnamon is placed on top of this, and the whole lot is baked in an oven for the required time.

This treat has been around for years and is just perfect after a home cooked meal.

Answer: Cherries Jubilee

This dessert is made with cherries and liqueur - and apparently one made from morello cherries is the recommended flavouring. That combination is then flambeed (flamed) and served with vanilla ice cream. It is believed to have been created for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee celebrations in 1897. Sixty years on the throne for that wonderful old queen, but it's possible she ate too many delicious dishes like this, as she was quite chubby by the end of her reign.

Answer: Flummery

Flummery is both an English and Australian dessert. The English version has been around since the 17th century, and made from boiled and thickened oatmeal with assorted additions. So bland was its taste that it gave rise to meaningless, boring talk also being described as flummery.

The Australian version of flummery is delicious, and just perfect for those recovering from ill health. It's made from evaporated milk, sugar and gelatine. Dished up, say, with sliced peaches and a dob of cream, this good old dessert, can also be enhanced with food colouring mixed in before it sets, especially to tempt the appetite of very frail children.

Answer: Knickerbocker Glory

Knickerbocker glory sounds positively sinful. A very tall glass is filled with alternating layers of ice cream, fruit, cream and meringue. Then, it is finished off with nuts, whipped cream, flavouring, and, for artistic effect, finished off with a cherry placed on top.

This treat has to be eaten with a very long handled spoon. Absolutely guaranteed to bring on either a gall bladder or an indigestion attack - or both. But most definitely worth it.

Answer: Trifle

After all those fancy foods, good old trifle is always easily prepared when you have unexpected visitors arriving on your doorstep. This dessert is made in a large round dish and comprises of layers of leftover cake (usually sponge), assorted fruit, chopped up jelly, and custard - topped off by a generous layer of cream. You can decorate this with more fruit if you're into eating something remotely healthy to salve your conscience.

Some people soak the sponge with wine before putting it in this dish, but too much ruins the taste of this popular dessert.

Answer: Banana Pudding

Banana pudding sounds relatively simple to make, but more than delightful to consume. It's made by combining layers of vanilla custard, biscuits (cookies) and sliced banana in a dish, which is then topped with cream. Sometimes meringue is added as a top layer as well, but it just sounds delicious as is.

This recipe was created in the southern states of the US before spreading nation-wide. It was first recorded in a Kentucky cookery book by Mary Harris Frazer in 1903.