As Muslims, the food you consume while travelling must be halal and follow the Islamic dietary rules. Getting halal food might be a dilemma, especially when you want to try the novel dishes you see while traveling. Desserts are served after the main meal, and they must also be halal. Hence, we’ve compiled five best halal dessert recipes you can enjoy while traveling worldwide.
The desserts come with a description, ingredients, measurements, directions to cook, etc. Also, this list consists of desserts from around the Middle East, Japan, New Zealand, etc. You can check them out below.
1. Lamington
Description
Lamington is a popular Halal dessert in Australia. It’s an Australian cake that’s made from a moist butter sponge and has a chocolate sauce coating. The cake has a distinctive feature and remains a well-known treat across Australia and New Zealand. It’s a good dessert to try out while in Australia. You can even prepare it in your home with the below recipe.
Preparation Time: 10 minutes
Cooking Time: 20 minutes
Serving size: 6
Ingredients
Chocolate sauce
- 1 tablespoon melted butter
- 3 tablespoons boiling water
- 2 tablespoon cocoa
- 150g icing sugar
Other ingredients
- 50g softened butter, salted
- 120g self-raising flour or 1 cup all-purpose flour + 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 2 beaten eggs
- 125g caster sugar
- 85g coconut, desiccated
- Milk
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 180 °C. Use a hand mixer to mix the sugar and butter. Add the eggs and whisk together.
- Add the flour and mix till you get a smooth consistency.
- If the batter is too thick, add milk. Get a 9×9 inches baking tray and lightly grease it with cooking spray.
- Pour the batter into the tray and bake for 15–20 minutes. Insert a wooden skewer, and if it comes out clean, that means the sponge is ready.
- Leave to cool and cut into squares or rectangles.
For the Chocolate Sauce
- Mix the cocoa, icing sugar, butter, and water.
- Place the desiccated coconut into another bowl.
- Get a wire cooling rack and place it over a baking tray.
- Pick a slice of sponge cake and dunk it in the chocolate sauce until it’s completely covered.
- Then, place it in the desiccated coconut before transferring it to the wire rack to dry.
- Repeat for the other cake slices. Leave the lamingtons to dry for about 10 minutes and it’s ready!
2. Pavlova
Description
Pavlova is one of our halal dessert recipes you can enjoy. It’s a gluten-free and light dessert you can use to top off an awesome main meal. It’s a dessert that originates from New Zealand, and it’s slowly getting adopted in the American regions.
The dessert is crispy and gives an explosion of flavors at the first bite. It’s made of whipped egg whites and sugar and topped with fruit or whipped cream. Named after a Russian ballerina, Anna Pavlova, Pavlova is a dessert you must try out during your halal travel or at home. Here’s a detailed recipe for it.
Preparation Time: 45 minutes
Cooking Time: 1 hour 15 minutes
Serving size: 8
Ingredients
- 1 pint heavy cream
- 1 tsp lemon juice
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 tsp cornstarch
- 1 ¼ cups white sugar
- 4 egg whites
- 6 peeled and sliced kiwi or mixed berries (topping)
Directions
- Preheat your oven to 150 °C
- Get a baking sheet and line it with parchment paper. Draw a circle of about 9-inch on the parchment paper.
- Beat the egg white and add sugar gradually — 1 tbsp at a time. Beat well after each addition.
- Continue beating until the mixture is thick and white.
- Add in the cornstarch, lemon juice and vanilla extract.
- Spoon the mixture inside the circle drawn on the parchment paper and spread to the edges.
- The process should leave a small depression in the center. Bake in the oven until the meringue is dry, for about an hour.
- Leave to cool on a wire rack. Beat the heavy cream in a bowl and scoop it onto the center of the meringue.
- Use the kiwi as a topping and enjoy.
3. Scones
Description
Scones originated from Scotland, and they’re perfect for an afternoon or evening special. Originally, they were made with wheat flour or oatmeal with baking powder. It’s also called quick bread, and it’s one of our best halal dessert recipes you can enjoy.
Here’s a detailed scone recipe that might come in handy.
Preparation Time: 15 minutes
Cooking Time: 20 minutes
Serving size: 8
Ingredients
- ¼ tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp salt
- ⅓ cup sugar
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- ½ cup raisins
- ½ cup sour cream
- 1 large egg
- 1 tsp white sugar
- 8 tsp frozen butter
- 1 tsp baking powder
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 200 °C and place the oven rack in the lower-middle position.
- Get a baking tray and line it with parchment paper.
- Mix the baking powder, salt, flour, ⅓ cup sugar and baking soda in a bowl.
- Use a box grater to grate the butter into the flour mixture. Mix and add the raisins.
- Get a bowl and whisk the egg and the sour cream together. Add the cream mixture to the flour mix and stir.
- Use a fork until the mixture forms large dough clumps. Shape the dough into a ball and place it on a lightly floured surface.
- Shape into a flat circle that’s about 3 inches thick—Sprinkle 1 tsp sugar on it.
- Cut into eight equal triangles and arrange onto the baking tray.
- Bake in the oven for 15–17 minutes. Leave to cook for about five minutes and serve.
4. Baklava
Description
Baklava is a traditional dessert in the Mediterranean areas and the Middle East. It holds special meaning and is often served during occasions like promotions, weddings, parties, etc. It also made our list of halal dessert recipes because it’s a sweet pastry made with layers of phyllo filled with nuts and glazed with syrup.
Baklava is common in Greek, Turkish, and Lebanese restaurants, and they’re prepared slightly differently. Here’s a detailed recipe on how to prepare and enjoy Bakalava during your halal travels.
Preparation Time: 30 minutes
Cooking Time: 50 minutes
Serving size: 36
Ingredients
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 lb. nuts, chopped
- 1 cup melted butter
- 1 cup white sugar
- ½ cup honey
- 1 tsp lemon zest, grated
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 16-oz package of phyllo dough
- 1 cup water
Directions
- Preheat your oven to 175 °C. Get a 9×13 inches baking dish and lightly grease it with butter.
- Mix cinnamon with nuts. Unroll the phyllo and cut it in half. Cover with a damp fabric to prevent it from drying out.
- Arrange two sheets of phyllo at the bottom of the baking dish. Brush with melted butter, sprinkle 2-3 tbsp of nut mixture.
- Repeat the layers until all the ingredients are used, using about six sheets of phyllo at the end.
- Cut the assembled baklava into four vertically and diagonally nine times to get 36 shaped.
- Bake in the oven until it’s golden brown.
- Mix sugar and water in a pan over medium to high heat and boil. Add vanilla, honey, and lemon zest and leave to simmer for 20 minutes.
- Pour the syrup over the baklava immediately after it’s out of the oven. Let it cool before serving.
5. Baumkuchen
Description
Baumkuchen is a German came that’s popular in Japan. The slices resemble tree rings, and it’s made from flour, honey, sugar, etc. The dessert is well known, and it’s halal. You can give it a try while travelling.
Preparation Time: 20 minutes
Cooking Time: 20 minutes
Serving size: 6
Ingredients
- 70ml milk
- 80g icing sugar
- 3 eggs separated into yolks and white
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 100g plain flour
- 30g butter, unsalted
- ½ tablespoon honey
- Oil
Directions
- Refrigerate the egg white and leave the yolk at room temperature. Sieve the flour and baking powder and set aside.
- Add milk, butter, and honey in a bowl and cover with a plastic wrap.
- Microwave for a minute till the butter dissolves totally. Beat the egg white with ⅓ of the sugar. Add another ⅓ of sugar and beat again.
- Add all the egg yolks and beat. Fold in the flour at three different intervals.
- Take a scoop of the mixture and add it to the butter mixture.
- Mix very well and pour back into the flour mixture and stir to prepare the batter.
- Heat a crêpe pan with oil and scoop the batter into it. Spread flat or use a rectangle shape.
- Flip when bubbles form and cook briefly. Remove and place on the chopping board. Roll with a lightly floured rolling pin over the edge.
- Do the same for the remaining batter. And remove the center with a tin. Leave it to cool and slice to serve.
Conclusion
We’ve highlighted some of the best halal dessert recipes you can try out while travelling around the world. We’ve also added a description and a step-by-step recipe in case you’d like to try them out. This article will provide you with delicious halal desserts you can prepare at home or while travelling.