Top 5 Local Desserts in Bali

Balinese dessert dishes feature unforgettable aromas and flavours specific & local to island that just cannot be missed! Bali is an island rich in tropical fruits, palm sugar, and so much more. Flavours that are simply not found anywhere else in the world!

Here are the essential balinese desserts you must try:

1. Bubur Sumsum - Coconut rice porridge

This is a comforting sweet and salty coconut rice porridge, made by cooking rice flour and pinch of salt in coconut milk. It's usually served with palm sugar syrup and occasionally sweet potato dumplings (Biji Salak).

Gula Bali The Joglo, Denpasar Tim., Kota Denpasar, Bali 80239

2. Batun Bedil - Glutinous rice flour dumplings in brown sugar sauce

Batun Bedil is a sticky rice cake served with a brown sugar sauce and coconut milk. The texture of the rice cake is soft yet slightly chewy, and the sweet, caramel-like sauce that the rice cake is served warm. Batun Bedil is made from rice flour mixed with coconut milk. It's shaped like a small ball (bedil), then boiled and served with a melted brown sugar sauce and freshly grated coconut.

Bebek Timbungan,Jl. Sunset Road No.88, Kuta, Kabupaten Badung, Bali 80361

3. Pisang Goreng - Banana fritters

This delicious Balinese treat is essentially deep fried banana or banana fritters.
Bananas, ideally the “Pisang Raja” variety, are coated in a simple batter made from flour, water and salt, then deep fried in oil. Variations will occur in ingredients, but the results are always delicious. They're best served hot and tasty piping alongside a bowl of vanilla ice cream or fresh grated coconut.

Pisang Goreng Kremesh, Denpasar Utara, Kota Denpasar, Bali 80234

4. Dadar Gulung - Balinese pancakes

This traditional dessert is similar to a pancake, but Balinese style. Dadar Gulung are made from rice flour and coconut milk and served with grated coconut and a little sugar on top. Dadar Gulung are usually green thanks to the addition of the Pandan leaf.
They're delicious eaten steaming hot, and like Pisang Goreng, taste amazing served with ice cream. To make Dadar Gulung, rice flour, coconut milk and a little sugar are combined and poured onto a clay pan. Balinese people like to eat these pancakes served fresh in the morning, sprinkled with shredded coconut and palm sugar.

Lilla Warung, Jl. Bumi Ayu No.6, Sanur, Kec. Denpasar Sel., Kota Denpasar, Bali 80228

5. Bubur Injin - Black rice pudding

Unlike the other sweet treats, Bubur Injin takes a little longer to prepare. Glutinous black rice is soaked overnight; it's then boiled with Pandan leaves. Finally, a coconut milk sauce is made from thickened coconut milk, salt and Pandan. This sweet sticky dessert is often topped with fresh fruit like strawberries, pomegranate or jack fruit.

Sweet Orange Warung, Jalan Kajeng, Ubud, Kabupaten Gianyar, Bali 80571

Bali otherwise know "the island of the Gods”. Spirituality is the basis of daily life for the Balinese. 
You can find temples everywhere, from large ones where many people go daily to pray to small and private ones, usually located in front of homes or businesses.

Bali is not just an island, but a cluster of worlds, united by the frenzy of Balinese daily life.
Ubud, the heart of the island, is where Balinese culture and traditions are most deeply rooted. Walking through the streets you can observe the real life of the island, frenetic and in constant activity.

Tegallalang , not far from the city of Ubud you will find the most beautiful rice paddies of the island.

In the south of the of Bali, probably the best known and most visited area of ​​the island, Kuta, where the nightlife is concentrated, the music goes to the ball and the drinks flow like rivers, so, if you feel like partying, this is the right place!

Woobar, a great place to have couple of drinks and watch the Sunset from the bar.
Kerobokan Kelod, Kec. Kuta, Bali 80361

But, like most people who go to Bali, you’ll spend much of your time simply on the beach and probably in your resort. But I cannot stress enough how much you must get out there and experience the local desserts!