1. Flour
   Whipped cream
2. Sugar
   Egg whites

Angel food cake gets its volume from whipped egg whites. That's what creates the light, fluffy texture that you wouldn't get from a cake with more flour or leavening agents. Cooling it upside down helps keep the height, as well.

1. Blondie
   Shortbread
2. Crumble bar
   Magic custard

Blondies are essentially the same thing as a brownie, but they replace the cocoa with vanilla flavoring, hence their lighter color and name. It also contains brown sugar to give its signature color and caramel-like flavor.

1. Vanilla pudding
   Cream
2. Orange jelly
   Brittle

A classic Jaffa cake consists of a Genoise sponge, a layer of orange flavored jam and a thin layer of chocolate only on the top. They are named after Jaffa oranges, hence orange being the classic flavor.

1. Butter
   Bread
2. Meringue
   Ice cream

Meringue is made up of beaten egg whites mixed with either a sugar syrup or regular sugar, and is either cooked or not cooked, depending on which variety you're making. They all serve different purposes, but are all delicious.

1. It tastes sour
   It looks like butter
2. It'll turn yellow
   It will not taste sweet

Butter is made of cream just like whipped cream is, but when cream is beat until the milk solids separate from the liquid, you have butter. For whipped cream, look for fluffy, white peaks that stand up from your whisk but is still homogenized.

1. Coconut candy
   Apple candy
2. Sugar plum
   Lemon drops

These candies are not flavored like plums, but instead references their small spherical shape. The Nutcracker was a big aid in these candies being associated with Christmas because of the Sugar Plum Fairy, as well as the book "The Night Before Christmas."

1. Lady fingers
   Vanilla wafers
2. Sugar cookies
   Crackers

Tiramisu is an Italian dessert consisting of a base of lady finger cookies soaked in coffee liquor, mascarpone cream, and usually topped with whipped cream and cocoa powder or espresso powder.

1. King cake
   Beignets
2. Bead cake
   Whisky cake

A tradition for Mardi Gras is to make a King cake, hide a tiny plastic baby in it, and whoever finds the baby is supposed to have good luck for the year. The cake is decorated with icing and green, purple and yellow sprinkles.

1. Black and white cookie
   Butter cookie
2. Pizza cookie
   Snickerdoodle

The black and white cookie was founded in New York City by Bavarian immigrants and has different varietals based on location. It is a shortbread based cookie where one half is iced with white icing and the other half is chocolate, hence the name.

1. Crazy milkshakes
   Dippin' Dots
2. Cupcake
   Cake pop

Cake pops are cake crumbles mixed with either frosting or cream cheese so that it can be shaped into a ball. Those balls are then covered in chocolate, sprinkles and other fun decorations. They're sweet and delicious.

1. Traditionally, they look like truffles dug out of the dirt
   I thought chocolate truffles were the original truffle
2. Truffles are brown
   They look like pigs

Truffles are fungus that are found around the base of trees and are so rare and expensive because it takes a certain breed of pigs to sniff them out. Chocolate truffles when formed by hand and rolled in cocoa powder look like the real thing.

1. Tassies
   Macaron
2. Pizzelle
   Jumble

Macaron are made with almond meal and whipped egg whites, while macaroons are made of coconut, sugar and eggs. Macaron get filled with ganache, custard, or another kind of cream and are a sandwich cookie.

1. Kleicha
   Gypsy cookies
2. Psychic cookie
   Fortune cookie

Fortune cookies are thin and crispy with a sweet flavor that you most often get from Chinese takeout restaurants. Inside (usually) is a piece of paper with some kind of fortune on it. The papers can also include a popular Chinese phrase with a translation.

1. Nerds
   Chocolate frogs
2. Every flavor beans
   Gobstopper

The word "gob" refers to the mouth in the United Kingdom and Ireland. This candy consists of many layers that dissolve as you suck on it. They come in various sizes and colors, but the flavor is just sugar.

1. Shortbread cookies
   Caramel Delites
2. Thin Mints
   Peanut Butter Cremes

Thin Mints are one of the various cookies sold by the Girl Scouts of America. While some cookies have different names based on location, Thin Mints are Thin Mints no matter where you go. It's a crisp, minty chocolate cookie covered in more chocolate.

1. Pie dough
   Puff pastry
2. Hot water crust
   Phyllo dough

Puff pastry, or rough puff, is a dough that is folded many times with butter to create those signature flaky layers. If not folded correctly, or the butter is the wrong temperature, or it is proved too much or too little, you will end up with something resembling a croissant, but not.

1. Jelly beans
   Rock candy
2. Taffy
   Divinity

Divinity originated in the United States and is a nougat-like confection. Other things can be added like nuts and dried fruit, and if the regular sugar is replaced with brown sugar it becomes a candy called sea foam.

1. Funnel cake
   Corn dog
2. Fried oreos
   Twinkies

Funnel cake is a sweet, fried batter in a swirl shape that is served up at festivals, fairs, carnivals and theme parks. The dessert dates back to medieval Persian times, and then was picked up by the Pennsylvania Dutch who brought a similar treat, Drechderkuche, to America.

1. Olive oil
   Margarine
2. Coconut oil
   Butter

When cold, coconut oil gets hard, as opposed to the soft or even liquid consistency of room temperature. This is why it's the oil added to Magic Shell sauce that gives it the quality to harden over ice cream.

1. Tres leches
   Churros
2. Rice pudding
   Paleta

Churros are made of choux pastry and are fried to golden brown perfection before being covered in cinnamon sugar. They are normally eaten for breakfast and are dipped in hot chocolate, dulce de leche or coffee with milk.

1. Fondant
   Marzipan
2. Sugar paste
   Frangipane

Marzipan consists of honey or sugar and almond meal. It can be coated in chocolate, but it is most commonly used to shape, as it is stiff enough to hold its shape but pliable enough to mold.

1. Cherry ice cream
   Cherry pie
2. Cherry cordial
   Cherries jubilee

Cherries jubilee is a sauce that consists of cherries and a liqueur, normally Kirsch, that is then flambéed (lighting it on fire off of direct heat until the alcohol burns off). It is then used as a common topping for vanilla ice cream.

1. Hummingbird cake
   Shoofly pie
2. Moon pie
   Caraway seed cake

Hummingbird cake is a pineapple and banana spiced cake that originated in Jamaica and is popular in the southern region of the United States. It is usually covered in a cream cheese frosting and is named after the island of Jamaica's national bird.

1. Italy
   Poland
2. Germany
   Switzerland

Kuchen is a German cake and is popular to serve when you have guests over for an afternoon coffee. The term "kuchen" is used in many other countries to describe cakes like coffee cake, but in Germany it is a specific dessert.

1. Rainbow cookie
   Unicorn treat
2. Pizzette
   Pesto cookies

Also called seven layer cake, Napoleon cookies, tricolor cookies and a few others, these cookies are layered treats colored red, green and white, like the Italian flag. They were most likely created by Italian communities in the United States.

1. Frothy sorbet
   What you eat ice cream with
2. A cookie?
   Sounds like a futuristic weapon

Spoom is like sorbet, except that once it's about to set, you mix in half the volume's worth of Italian meringue. This makes it lighter than sorbet. It is made from fruit juice, wine sherry or port.

1. The ice cream has a stabilizer in it that prevents it from melting
   I honestly don't know
2. It never has for me
   The ice cream has to be really frozen and you have to work quickly

A baked Alaska is an ice cream dessert with a toasted meringue on the outside. In order for the ice cream to not melt while the meringue is toasting, the ice cream has to be solid and completely covered with meringue. An alternative is to toast the meringue with a blow torch.

1. Banana and coffee
   Cookie butter and banana
2. Banana and toffee
   Caramel and coffee

Banoffee pie is a traditional dessert in England and is the flavor combination of bananas, usually caramelized, and a toffee filling. The sweet dessert has some kind of cookie, or biscuit if you're across the pond, crust and cream topping.

1. Fruit juice
   Milk
2. Espresso
   Hot chocolate

Affogato is an Italian dessert that combines gelato and pours a shot of espresso over it. It's the perfect after dinner treat as it serves as the dessert and the coffee. You can pretty much use any flavor of gelato, but vanilla is traditional.

1. Kouign Amann
   Bear claw
2. Palmiers
   Jalebi

Palmiers, or elephant ears, are pastries made of laminated puff pastry, similar to that of a croissant, but there is no yeast in palmier dough. It gets rolled out, rolled into itself and baked. Once baked, in comes the cinnamon and sugar coating.

1. Nigiri
   Taiyaki
2. Uni
   Hatachi

These fish-shaped cakes are all over Instagram, and you'll see people putting soft-serve ice cream in them, or having them stuffed with traditional fillings like red bean paste or custard, or even sweet potato. They are native to Japan.

1. Berliner
   Charlotte Russe
2. Kissel
   Cheesecake

Charlotte cakes use sponge cake, lady fingers or another type of moist cookie to line the outside of a bowl or trifle container. It is then filled with some kind of custard or mousse and then a fruit puree.

1. It has no sugar
   It doesn't need a pan to bake in
2. It has no flour
   It uses vegetable oil

The trick to a good chiffon cake is that the egg whites have to have so much air beaten into them, and then folded into the other combined ingredients until mixed. This is because vegetable oil as opposed to other fats is hard to beat directly into batters.

1. Bostonians got confused
   Pies and cakes used to be baked in the same pan
2. Cake means pie in New England
   No one really knows

Back when cakes and pies were baked in the same pan and the terms were used interchangeably, the Boston Cream Pie was invented. It is a butter cake layered with custard and topped with chocolate ganache. There are doughnut version of this dessert, and also actual pie versions.

1. Gelato is Italian for ice cream
   Contains less air and more flavoring
2. It uses milk instead of cream
   They're the same

Gelato is an Italian frozen treat that is made with milk, cream, sugar and no eggs. It differs from traditional ice cream because it has less air and a higher percentage of butterfat. It was invented in Florence, Italy.

1. Melted chocolate
   Coffee
2. Cocoa powder
   Less flower

There is something about adding coffee to chocolate desserts that give those desserts a deeper chocolate flavor. You can use brewed and cooled coffee, espresso powder or instant coffee. All will work fine in brownies, cakes and cookies.

1. Horseshoe pie
   Guy Ferocious pie
2. Legend cake
   Bob Andy pie

Bob Andy pie is a popular Amish dessert that is similar to a custard pie spiced with cinnamon and cloves. It was supposedly named by an Amish farmer said that the pie was as good as his two workhorses, Bob and Andy.

1. Kogel mogel
   Babka
2. Chrusciki
   Pierogi

The Polish dessert kogel mogel is an egg-based dessert that is similar to eggnog. It is classically served chilled or at room temperature, but it can also be served warm and used a home remedy for sore throats.

1. Jaffa cake
   Eccles cake
2. Newton
   Chorley cake

Chorley cake is very similar to Eccles cake and a thing called Sad cake, but there are significant differences between all of them. Chorley cakes aren't as sweet as its friends and uses shortcrust pastry, as opposed to puff pastry.

1. Crème brûlée
   Flan
2. Pot de créme
   Crème anglaise

This French dessert, for whatever reason, has a much looser consistency than other custards like the ones listed above. It is made like any other custard, but instead of being baked can also be made without milk and frozen.