My sweet tooth has been in overdrive lately, so tonight’s trivia is dedicated to the wonderful world of desserts.
1. What is the difference between ice cream, frozen custard and gelato?

2. What is a petit four and what does “petits fours” actually mean?
3. What is the main ingredient in marzipan?
4. Where would you find Rainbow Balls in Coconut Cream?
5. What is Frog Cake?
6. Which one would you most likely have for dessert: Spotted Dick, Bubble and Squeak, or Inky Pinky?
7. What are Bisteeya, Pyrih, Vlaai, and Zelnik?
8. How old is cheesecake?
9. Where are most cacao (chocolate) beans grown?
14 replies on “Super Sweet Tuesday Trivia”
1. Frozen custard uses a heavier cream than ice cream, while gelato uses very little milk and is mostly fruits and ice
2. petits fours actually means little ovens- no idea what it is though!
3. Almonds
6. Spotted dick
8. Very?
9. Cote d’Ivoire, I think
1. Ice cream and frozen custard are egg-containing (and the latter is just a marketing phrase), and gelato is non-egg??
2. A petit four is a little cake. I know petit means little in french, at least.
3. Marzipan = almonds
4. This sounds like a Thai dessert to me. I know there is something called rubies in coconut milk or something from that part of the world.
5. I have no clue what frog cake is… is it green?
6. Spotted dick.
7. Bisteeya is a curious and delicious sweet/savory chicken pie. North African. Don’t know what the others are.
8. My guess is that it is about 100 years old.
9. Central and South America
1. What is the difference between ice cream, frozen custard and gelato?
Cream, egg, and milk.
2. What is a petit four and what does “petits fours†actually mean?
‘Small oven’.
3. What is the main ingredient in marzipan?
almond paste
4. Where would you find Rainbow Balls in Coconut Cream?
In my mouth.
5. What is Frog Cake?
The opposite of number four.
6. Which one would you most likely have for dessert: Spotted Dick, Bubble and Squeak, or Inky Pinky?
Spotted Dick … and it is delish!
7. What are Bisteeya, Pyrih, Vlaai, and Zelnik?
Pie!
8. How old is cheesecake?
Um … really, really old.
9. Where are most cacao (chocolate) beans grown?
South America?
I hope #4 isn’t a trick question and I just answered something incredibly rude. :)
Oh, and I missed the first part for #2. Tiny cake-ity treats.
Marzipan is clearly made of this: http://www.hrwiki.org/w/images/0/09/marzipan.png
Is it possible she lives in Marzipan City?
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Ha! I was going to paste the exact same image!
1) The difference is gelato and frozen custard have more of the good stuff (AKA fat maiking calorie overload stuffs) and taste better
2) Tiny little cakes used for tea parties at least that’s what I used them for when I was little
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5)Dunno but maybe it will explain why we had a frog shaped cake pan in my house growing up which nobody could explain its reason for existing
6) Spotted dick? I think it’s a pudding of some sort if my memory of Bridget Jones is correct.
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9) On Earth,more specifically in the Southern Hemisphere
Marzipan is made of hate and tears.
I prefer to think it is made of deception and disappointment. I grew up in a neighborhood with a number of wonderful Italian bakeries, and they all had gorgeous marzipan fruit displays. Growing up I thought they must be the pinnacle of sweet wonderfulness. They are pretty, but they do not taste good at all. Not at all.
MARZIPAN IS LIES AND GLUE.
I’m pretty sure that “______ IS LIES AND GLUE” will be the new super-secret catch-phrase around my house this week.
Petit fours are little tiny chocolate treats layered with cake, filling and other good stuff. They’re about an inch square, and they’re perfection.
Marzipan is made of almond paste and drywall compound.