Nous aimons tous les desserts. Cependant, imaginez visiter un pays anglophone sans savoir comment s’appelle un dessert particulier. Comment répondriez-vous alors à votre douce envie? Alors apprenez les différents types de desserts en anglais dans cet article.
1. Pie [ pahy ]
Meaning: a type of food made with meat, vegetables, or fruit covered in pastry and baked
French: tarte
Can you make me an apple pie? (Pouvez-vous me faire une tarte aux pommes?)
2. Cake [ keyk ]
Meaning – a sweet food made with a mixture of flour, eggs, fat, and sugar
French – gâteau
She baked a chocolate cake for me. (Elle a préparé un gâteau au chocolat pour moi.)
3. Candy[ kan-dee ]
Meaning – a sweet food made from sugar or chocolate, or a piece of this
French – bonbons
Kids wait for Halloween to get candy. (Les enfants attendent Halloween pour avoir des bonbons.)
4. Cookie [ koo k-ee ]
Meaning: a small, flat, sweet food made from flour and sugar
French: – cookie
Her choco-chip cookies are very famous. (Ses cookies aux pépites de chocolat sont très connus.)
5. Doughnut [ doh-nuh t ]
Meaning – a small, circular cake, fried in hot fat, either with a hole in the middle or filled with jam
French – beignets
I don’t like doughnuts that much. (Je n’aime pas trop les beignets.)
6. Ice-cream
Meaning – a very cold, sweet food made from frozen milk or cream, sugar, and a flavour
French – glace
It’s too hot outside, would you like to get some ice cream? (Il fait trop chaud dehors, tu veux de la glace?)
7. Muffin[ muhf-in ]
Meaning – a small sweet cake that often has fruit inside it
French – muffin
He likes muffins better than creamy cakes. (Il aime mieux les muffins que les gâteaux crémeux.)
8. Pudding [ poo d-ing ]
Meaning – a sweet and usually hot dish made with pastry, flour, bread, or rice, and often fruit
French – pudding
Do you make pudding often? (Faites-vous souvent du pudding?)
9. Mousse [ moos ]
Meaning – a light cold food made from eggs mixed with cream
French – mousse
She loves chocolate mousse. (Elle adore la mousse au chocolat.)
10. Waffle [ wof-uh l ]
Meaning – a type of bread or cake made from batter (= a thin mixture of milk, flour, and egg) cooked in a special pan whose surface forms a pattern of raised squares
French – gaufre
A waffle can fill your stomach in no time. (Une gaufre peut remplir votre estomac dans un clin d’œil.)
11. Tart [ tahrt ]
Meaning: an open pastry case with a filling, usually of something sweet such as fruit
French -Tarte
Can you get me an apple tart from the bakery? (Pouvez-vous me procurer une tarte aux pommes de la boulangerie?)
12. Cheesecake [ cheez-keyk ]
Meaning – a cake made from a layer of biscuit, or a sweet pastry base, covered with soft cheese, eggs, sugar, and sometimes fruit
French: cheesecake
I just can’t have any cheesecake ever. (Je ne peux jamais avoir de cheesecake.)
13. Pancake [ pan-keyk ]
Meaning – a thin, flat, round cake made from a mixture of flour, milk, and egg, fried on both sides
French: crêpe
The chocolate pancakes melted in my mouth in no time. (Les crêpes au chocolat ont fondu dans ma bouche dans un clin d’œil.)
Maintenant que vous connaissez la signification de ces mots, assurez-vous de les utiliser quand vous parlez des desserts. Pour plus de vocabulaire anglais, continuez à lire le blog. Apprenez l’anglais en ligne.
