Dessert consists of variations of tastes, textures, and appearances. There are a wide variety such as cakes, cookies, biscuits, gelatins, pastries, ice-creams, pies, puddings and candies. Fruit is also commonly found in dessert courses as of its natural sweetness. Many different cultures have their own variations of similar desserts around the world as in modern times, the
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Phil Mickelson said an Australian chef invented pavlova. Mickelson, a three-time Masters champion, is competing at the major at Augusta that starts on Thursday (Friday NZ time). There has been a long-held dispute between Australians and Kiwi about pavlova. In 2008 Professor Helen Leach’s
The Pavlova Story: A Slice of New Zealand s Culinary History said the first true recipe was Pavlova Cake from New Zealand in 1929. A dessert named after the famous Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova, from a book published in 1926, was actually a four-layered jelly with no meringue at all. Australia had long claimed that Herbert Bert Sachse created the pavlova at Perth s Esplanade Hotel in 1935,