✔ Updated · 63 desserts, sorted by category
Desserts that start with E include eclairs, Eton mess, Eccles cakes, egg tarts, elephant ears, English trifle and Esterházy torte.
E is a tricky letter for sweets, so this list sticks to real, named desserts and skips padding like flavor swaps: cakes, cookies, pies, puddings, frozen treats, pastries and candy, plus favorites from Greece, Lebanon, India, Indonesia, the Philippines and Hong Kong. Each entry explains what the dessert is and where it comes from.
Desserts that start with E, from everyday favorites to rare finds. The most popular:
Cakes That Start With E
Layer cakes, sheet cakes and celebration cakes that start with E.
Esterházy Torte
A Hungarian and Austrian cake of almond meringue layers with buttercream, topped with white fondant and a feathered chocolate pattern.
Eclair Cake
An American no-bake icebox cake of graham crackers layered with vanilla pudding and topped with chocolate frosting, like a giant eclair.
Earthquake Cake
A gooey chocolate cake baked over coconut and pecans with a cream cheese swirl that cracks the top like an earthquake.
Election Cake
A historic New England yeast cake rich with dried fruit and spices, baked in huge batches for voters on election days.
Elvis Presley Cake
A Southern sheet cake made with crushed pineapple and topped with cream cheese frosting and pecans, named after the singer.
Eierschecke
A cake from Saxony, Germany, with a yeast or shortcrust base, a layer of quark cheesecake and a golden egg custard top.
Earl Grey Loaf
A loaf cake flavored with Earl Grey tea, often made with dried fruit soaked in the tea overnight, sliced and buttered.
Elderflower Cake
A light lemon sponge flavored with elderflower syrup and buttercream, made famous as a royal wedding cake in 2018.
Entremet
A modern French layered mousse cake with sponge, crunchy and creamy layers, finished with a glossy mirror glaze.
Eplekake
Norwegian apple cake: a simple buttery cake topped with sliced apples, cinnamon and sugar, served with whipped cream or vanilla sauce.
Cookies & Biscuits That Start With E
Cookies and biscuits that start with E. I keep the makings for at least one in my pantry.
Empire Biscuits
Scottish sandwich cookies of two shortbread rounds joined with jam, topped with white icing and a glacé cherry.
Elisenlebkuchen
The finest grade of Nuremberg gingerbread, made mostly of ground nuts with very little flour, baked on wafers and glazed.
Egg Roll Cookies
Thin, crisp Hong Kong cookies made from an egg batter rolled into tubes, sold in tins at Lunar New Year.
Eierkoeken
Soft, round Dutch egg cakes with a light, spongy texture, eaten as a snack or with coffee.
Esse di Burano
S-shaped butter cookies from the island of Burano in the Venetian lagoon, crisp and lightly flavored with vanilla or lemon.
Engelsaugen
German and Austrian angel eyes: buttery thumbprint cookies with a dot of red jam in the center, baked at Christmas.
Eiserkuchen
Thin, crisp waffle cookies from northern Germany, baked in a patterned iron and rolled into tubes for New Year.
Pies & Tarts That Start With E
Pies and tarts that start with E.
Egg Tart
A flaky or shortcrust pastry shell filled with smooth, lightly sweet egg custard, a dim sum favorite in Hong Kong and Macau.
Egg Custard Pie
An old-fashioned American and British pie of baked egg, milk and sugar custard, dusted with nutmeg; the Philippines has its own egg pie.
Elderberry Pie
A tart, deep purple pie made with cooked wild elderberries and sugar, a Midwestern late-summer tradition.
Easter Pie
An Italian-American sweet ricotta pie, sometimes with wheat berries or rice and citrus, baked for Easter.
Erdbeertorte
A German strawberry tart of a sponge or shortcrust base topped with fresh strawberries set in a clear glaze.
Engadiner Nusstorte
A Swiss tart from the Engadine valley, with buttery pastry wrapped around a dense filling of caramelized walnuts and cream.
Ecclefechan Tart
A Scottish tart from Ecclefechan filled with dried fruit, butter, brown sugar and walnuts, popular at Christmas.
Puddings & Custards That Start With E
Puddings, trifles and spoon desserts that start with E. Eton mess is my ten-minute summer favorite.
Egg Custard
A simple baked custard of eggs, milk and sugar, flavored with vanilla or nutmeg and baked gently in a water bath.
Eton Mess
A British summer dessert of crushed meringue, whipped cream and fresh strawberries folded together in a pretty mess.
Eve's Pudding
A British baked pudding of sliced apples under a light sponge topping, served warm with custard or cream.
English Trifle
A layered dessert of sponge cake, fruit or jelly, custard and whipped cream, sometimes with a splash of sherry.
Eggnog Trifle
A holiday trifle layering cake or ladyfingers with eggnog custard, whipped cream and a dusting of nutmeg.
Eggnog Bread Pudding
Bread pudding made with eggnog instead of plain custard, giving a rich, nutmeg-spiced holiday dessert.
Edinburgh Fog
An old Scottish dessert of sweetened whipped cream folded with toasted almonds and crushed ratafia biscuits.
Elderflower Jelly
A clear British molded jelly set with elderflower cordial, often with berries suspended inside, served in summer.
Frozen Desserts That Start With E
Ice cream bars, sorbets and granitas that start with E.
Eskimo Pie
The first chocolate-coated ice cream bar, invented in Iowa in the early 1920s and renamed Edy's Pie in 2021.
Earl Grey Ice Cream
Creamy ice cream infused with Earl Grey tea, with a floral bergamot flavor.
Eggnog Ice Cream
A rich custard ice cream flavored with nutmeg, cinnamon and vanilla to taste like holiday eggnog.
Elderflower Sorbet
A light, floral dairy-free sorbet made with elderflower cordial and lemon, a British summer favorite.
Eisbombe
The German name for a bombe glacée: layers of ice cream and parfait frozen in a dome mold and unmolded to serve.
Espresso Granita
Sicilian granita al caffè: sweetened espresso frozen and scraped into crystals, topped with whipped cream and served with brioche.
Pastries That Start With E
Pastries, fried treats and sweet breads that start with E. I still can’t pass up an elephant ear at a county fair.
Eclairs
Long French choux pastries filled with vanilla or chocolate pastry cream and topped with a shiny chocolate glaze.
Eccles Cake
A small round English pastry from Eccles, near Manchester, filled with buttery spiced currants and topped with sugar.
Elephant Ears
Large, flat rounds of fried dough coated in cinnamon sugar, a classic at American fairs; in France the name means palmiers.
Ensaïmada
A coiled, airy pastry from Mallorca made with lard and dusted with sugar; the Filipino ensaymada is topped with butter and cheese.
Egg Waffles
Hong Kong street-food waffles with bubble-shaped pockets, crisp outside and soft inside, often served with ice cream.
Empanadas Dulces
Sweet Latin American turnovers filled with pumpkin, sweet potato, guava, pineapple or cajeta, baked or fried.
Easter Bread
A braided sweet yeast bread made in Italy, Greece and Eastern Europe for Easter, often baked with dyed eggs.
Candy & Confections That Start With E
Candies and confections that start with E.
Edinburgh Rock
A soft, crumbly Scottish sugar candy in pastel sticks, created by Alexander Ferguson in the 1800s and unlike hard rock candy.
English Toffee
Crunchy butter toffee usually coated in chocolate and chopped almonds, a popular American holiday candy.
Everton Toffee
A traditional hard butter toffee first sold in Everton, Liverpool, in the 1750s.
Easter Eggs
Hollow or filled chocolate eggs given at Easter, from small foil-wrapped eggs to large decorated shells with sweets inside.
Easter Nests
British no-bake treats of cornflakes or shredded wheat bound in melted chocolate, shaped into nests and filled with mini eggs.
International Desserts That Start With E
Desserts from Greece, the Middle East, India, Asia and Latin America that start with E.
Ekmek Kataifi
A Greek dessert of syrup-soaked shredded kataifi pastry topped with custard, whipped cream and pistachios; Turkey has a bread-based ekmek kadayıfı.
Esh el Saraya
Lebanese palace bread: toasted bread soaked in caramel sugar syrup and topped with ashta cream and pistachios.
Eight Treasure Rice Pudding
A Chinese steamed sticky rice pudding filled with red bean paste and decorated with dried fruits and nuts for Lunar New Year.
Espumilla
An Ecuadorian street dessert of whipped egg whites and guava pulp, served in ice cream cones with sprinkles.
Espasol
A soft Filipino rice cake made from rice flour cooked in coconut milk and sugar, rolled in toasted rice flour.
Encharcada
A Portuguese convent sweet from the Alentejo made of egg yolks cooked in sugar syrup and dusted with cinnamon.
Egg Halwa
Anda halwa, a rich South Asian pudding of eggs cooked slowly with ghee, sugar, milk and cardamom, topped with nuts.
Elaneer Payasam
A chilled Kerala dessert of tender coconut flesh in sweetened coconut milk or condensed milk, flavored with cardamom.
Elaneer Pudding
A soft, set Kerala pudding made with tender coconut water and flesh, milk and agar, served cold.
Ela Ada
A Kerala sweet of thin rice dough filled with coconut and jaggery, folded in banana leaves and steamed.
Ellu Urundai
Tamil sesame balls made from toasted sesame seeds and melted jaggery, rolled by hand while warm.
Es Campur
An Indonesian mixed iced dessert of fruit, jellies, coconut and tapioca pearls over shaved ice with syrup and condensed milk.
Es Teler
An Indonesian iced dessert of avocado, young coconut and jackfruit in coconut milk and sweet syrup.
Did You Know?
- Eclair means lightning in French, possibly because the pastry is eaten so quickly or because its glaze glistens.
- Eton mess is named after Eton College in England, where it has been served at the annual cricket match against Harrow School.
- Everton toffee was first sold in the 1750s in the Everton area of Liverpool, which is why Everton Football Club is nicknamed the Toffees.
- Election cake, a spiced yeast fruit cake, was baked in huge batches to feed voters on election days in colonial New England and appears in the first American cookbook from 1796.
Quick List: All 63 Desserts That Start With E
Handy for alphabet games, quizzes and Scattergories. The full list, A to Z:
Earl Grey Ice Cream, Earl Grey Loaf, Earthquake Cake, Easter Bread, Easter Eggs, Easter Nests, Easter Pie, Ecclefechan Tart, Eccles Cake, Eclair Cake, Eclairs, Edinburgh Fog, Edinburgh Rock, Egg Custard, Egg Custard Pie, Egg Halwa, Egg Roll Cookies, Egg Tart, Egg Waffles, Eggnog Bread Pudding, Eggnog Ice Cream, Eggnog Trifle, Eierkoeken, Eierschecke, Eight Treasure Rice Pudding, Eisbombe, Eiserkuchen, Ekmek Kataifi, Ela Ada, Elaneer Payasam, Elaneer Pudding, Elderberry Pie, Elderflower Cake, Elderflower Jelly, Elderflower Sorbet, Election Cake, Elephant Ears, Elisenlebkuchen, Ellu Urundai, Elvis Presley Cake, Empanadas Dulces, Empire Biscuits, Encharcada, Engadiner Nusstorte, Engelsaugen, English Toffee, English Trifle, Ensaïmada, Entremet, Eplekake, Erdbeertorte, Es Campur, Es Teler, Esh el Saraya, Eskimo Pie, Espasol, Espresso Granita, Espumilla, Esse di Burano, Esterházy Torte, Eton Mess, Eve's Pudding, Everton Toffee
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the most popular dessert that starts with E?
Eclairs are the most popular dessert that starts with E. Eton mess, Eccles cakes, egg tarts, elephant ears and English trifle are also well known, along with the no-bake eclair cake in the United States.
What is the difference between an eclair and a cream puff?
Both are made from choux pastry. An eclair is long and thin, filled with pastry cream and topped with chocolate glaze. A cream puff is round, usually filled with whipped cream or pastry cream, and dusted with powdered sugar.
What is Eton mess made of?
Eton mess is made of three things: crushed meringue, whipped cream and fresh strawberries, gently folded together. It takes about ten minutes to make and is a classic British summer dessert, served at Eton College.
What is an easy dessert that starts with E?
Easy desserts that start with E include Eton mess, eclair cake, Easter nests, eggnog bread pudding and egg custard. Eton mess and Easter nests need no baking, and eclair cake sets in the fridge overnight.
Why are there so few desserts that start with E?
Few common English dessert words begin with E, so many E desserts are named after places, like Eccles, Eton and Edinburgh, or come from other languages, like ensaïmada, eclair and Esterházy torte.
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