In Britain, ‘pudding’ is a general term for what we call ‘dessert’.
Plum Pudding for Christmas - basically a very dense, steamed fruitcake - is sold in cans, too.
"Starters" for appetizer, "AFTERS" for gentleman's relish" and/or desert", "Yorkshire Pud"/Yorkshire Puddling, for a kind of gigantic popover, "VICTORIA SPONGE", for a kind of sponge cake, and on and on. :-)