Ways to use this list
- Weekend baking with the kids: tap Make with kids, spin, and hand over the jobs they love, such as weighing, stirring and decorating.
- Dinner party pudding when everyone says "anything is fine": spin Around the world to match the main course, like tiramisu after pasta or mango sticky rice after a Thai curry.
- Bake-off: every baker spins for the dessert they must make, and the judges score taste, looks and how close it comes to the real thing.
- Treat Friday at home: put five or six family favourites on the wheel, and whoever finished their jobs first that week presses spin.
- Food club or cookery lesson: spin a dessert from Around the world, find its country on a map and talk about the local ingredients, such as mangoes in Thailand or pistachios in the Middle East.
Press Spin the wheel, tap the game or press the Space bar. Change the list in the box as you
like: add your own, delete what doesn't suit you, or write *2 after an entry to give it double the
chance. The game buttons switch the same list to a duck race, hat, claw machine and more.
The full list (52 entries)
- Brownies
- Chocolate chip cookies
- Chocolate mousse
- Chocolate lava cake – a small cake with a runny middle
- Chocolate fondue – melted chocolate with fruit to dip
- Rocky road – no-bake chocolate slab with marshmallows and biscuits
- Brigadeiros – Brazilian fudge balls of condensed milk and cocoa, rolled in sprinkles
- S'mores – toasted marshmallow and chocolate between crackers, a US campfire treat
- Black Forest gâteau – German chocolate sponge layered with cherries and cream
- Profiteroles – choux pastry puffs filled with cream, topped with chocolate
- Cheesecake
- Carrot cake
- Cupcakes
- Banana bread
- Doughnuts
- Tres leches cake – Latin American sponge soaked in three kinds of milk
- Lamingtons – Australian sponge squares dipped in chocolate and coconut
- Apple pie
- Apple crumble – fruit baked under a buttery crumb topping
- Peach cobbler – US fruit bake under a soft, scone-like topping
- Key lime pie – tangy lime filling in a biscuit-crumb crust, from Florida
- Banoffee pie – British pie of banana, toffee and cream on a biscuit base
- Lemon meringue pie
- Tarte Tatin – French upside-down tart of caramelised apples
- Sticky toffee pudding – British date sponge with hot toffee sauce
- Bread and butter pudding – buttered bread baked in custard, often with raisins
- Trifle – British layers of sponge, fruit, custard and cream
- Rice pudding – rice simmered in sweet milk, known as kheer in India
- Tiramisu – Italian layers of coffee-soaked sponge fingers and mascarpone cream
- Panna cotta – Italian set cream, often with a fruit sauce
- Crème brûlée – French baked custard under a crackly caramel top
- Flan – custard with a runny caramel sauce, loved in Spain and Latin America
- Pavlova – crisp meringue with cream and fruit, from Australia and New Zealand
- Mango sticky rice – Thai coconut sticky rice with fresh mango
- Fruit salad
- Ice cream sundae
- Banana split
- Milkshake
- Gelato – Italian ice cream, dense and smooth
- Kulfi – Indian ice cream made from slowly simmered milk, often with pistachio
- Sorbet – smooth iced fruit dessert, usually dairy-free
- Mochi ice cream – ice cream wrapped in soft Japanese rice dough
- Affogato – vanilla ice cream with a shot of hot espresso poured over
- Churros – Spanish fried dough sticks in sugar, often dipped in hot chocolate
- Crêpes – thin French pancakes with sweet fillings
- Pancakes
- Waffles
- Baklava – filo pastry layered with chopped nuts and syrup
- Cannoli – Sicilian fried pastry tubes filled with sweet ricotta
- Gulab jamun – Indian fried milk-dough balls soaked in fragrant syrup
- Macarons – French almond meringue sandwiches with a creamy filling
- Alfajores – soft biscuits sandwiched with dulce de leche, popular in South America
Questions people ask
Can I make a dessert wheel with pictures?
Yes. Open 🖼️ Photos and add pictures named after the desserts (brownies.jpg becomes "Brownies"); they appear on the wheel and the winner card.
Can I add my own desserts?
Of course: edit the list, one dessert per line. Add an emoji in front, like 🍩 Doughnuts, for a picture without a photo.
What other food wheels are there?
The food wheel picks a takeout or restaurant meal, and the dinner ideas wheel picks something easy to cook at home. Spin one for the main course, then come back here for pudding.
What desserts can I make without an oven?
Tap No oven needed: chocolate mousse, rocky road, tiramisu, panna cotta, banoffee pie, rice pudding on the hob, crêpes and anything built on ice cream. Mousse, tiramisu and panna cotta need a few hours in the fridge to set, so make those in the morning.
What is the difference between gelato and ice cream?
Gelato is churned more slowly, so less air is whipped in and it tastes denser. It usually has more milk and less cream than ice cream and is served a little warmer, which keeps it soft and makes the flavours stronger.
What is tres leches cake?
A light sponge soaked in three milks, usually evaporated milk, sweetened condensed milk and cream, then topped with whipped cream. The name is Spanish for "three milks", and it is a favourite celebration cake across Latin America.