Breads

🇹🇹Trinidad and Tobago

Coconut Bake

Grated coconut worked into a bread dough and baked into a dense, faintly sweet flat loaf.

🇨🇷Limón, Costa Rica

Coconut Bread

Pan de coco

Coconut bread from Caribbean coast, sweet and aromatic, a Limón province specialty, traditional and moist.

🇼🇸Samoa

Coconut Bread

Fa'apapa

Thick slab of sweet, fluffy coconut bread; flour, sugar, coconut flakes, and coconut milk mixed into a dough and baked until golden; found in most Samoan households and on breakfast tables; also used to make fa'ausi; simple, sweet, and coconut-rich; a Samoan staple bread.

🇼🇸Samoa

Coconut Buns

Panipopo

The national sweet of Samoa; buns baked in a sweet and sticky coconut cream sauce; served in shallow bowls spooned over with more sauce; accompanied by a hot beverage, preferably Samoan cocoa; can be reheated the next day; soft, sweet, and coconut-rich; a TasteAtlas-listed listed preparation dessert.

🇵🇹Portugal

Coconut-Topped Sweet Bun

Pão de Deus

Pão de Deus is a soft sweet bun crowned with a toasted coconut and egg topping, sold fresh in Portuguese bakeries.

🇲🇩Moldova

Colaci

Plaited ring loaves of enriched wheat dough baked for weddings, funerals and church feasts, carried on the arm and given away rather than sold.

🇲🇽Mexico

Conchas

Soft, sweet brioche rolls topped with a crisp, patterned sugar crust that resembles a seashell.

🇭🇰Hong Kong

Condensed Milk Bun

煉奶包

A crusty bun toasted hard, sliced and drizzled with sweetened condensed milk — the simplest cha chaan teng sugar hit.

🇨🇰Cook Islands

Cook Islands Coconut Buns

Konati Loloo

Sweet yeast rolls baked in a fragrant coconut cream sauce; often served weekend brunch and special-occasion treat in the Cook Islands; soft, fluffy, and richly coconut-flavored.

🇨🇭St. Gallen, Switzerland

Corn Bread

Türggenbrot

A Rhine Valley bread made from corn and wheat flour, with a compact crumb and toasted grain flavour.

🇦🇱Albania

Cornbread

Bukë Misri

Traditional Albanian cornbread, dense and slightly sweet, historically a staple in regions where wheat was scarce, made from cornmeal, water, and salt, characteristic yellow color, rustic.

🇷🇸Serbia

Cornbread

Проја

A savoury cornmeal bread baked in a tray with cheese, yoghurt and sometimes spinach or cracklings, cut into squares.

🇺🇸United States

Cornbread

A Southern staple of cornmeal batter baked until golden, either sweet and cake-like or savory and crumbly.

🇵🇹Portugal

Cornmeal Bread

Broa de Avintes

Rustic Portuguese cornbread and rye loaf with a dense crumb and crackling crust.

🇧🇪Wallonia, Belgium

Cougnou

Sweet braided Christmas bread shaped like the baby Jesus, traditional in Wallonia.

🇷🇸Serbia

Crackling Scones

Погачице са чварцима

Small savoury scones made with pork cracklings worked into the dough, baked until the tops split and brown.

🇧🇪Belgium

Cramique

Cramique is a yeasted Belgian sweet bread studded with raisins and baked to a glossy crust.

🇭🇺Hungary

Crescent Roll

Kifli

Kifli are Hungarian crescent-shaped yeast rolls that may be savoury or sweet, with flaky buttery layers.

🇮🇹Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Crescentina Modenese

Modena's puffed fried dough pillows of flour, lard, and milk, served hot with cured meats, stracchino, or sweet spreads. Also called gnocco fritto in nearby towns.

🇮🇹Bologna, Italy

Crescentine

Crescentine fritte

Bologna's small fried breads served warm with mortadella, cured meats, and soft cheese.

🇱🇰Sri Lanka

Crocodile Bun

කිඹුලා බනිස්

A long sweet bun scored across the top and dusted with sugar, said to resemble a crocodile's back, eaten with tea.

🇺🇸United States

Cuban Bread

A crusty, crackly loaf of white bread baked with a palm-leaf or banana-leaf strip on top.

🇨🇭Fribourg, Switzerland

Cuchaule

A saffron-yellow brioche bread from Fribourg, soft and slightly sweet, traditionally served at the Bénichon harvest festival with mustard.

🇳🇱Netherlands

Currant Bread

Krentenbrood

Traditional sweet bread filled with raisins and currants, often given as a gift to celebrate a baby's birth.

🇧🇴Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia

Cuñapé

A Bolivian cheesy yuca bread roll, round and golden, a Santa Cruz and eastern classic.

🇪🇹Ethiopia

Dabo Bread

ዳቦ

The umbrella term for Ethiopian wheat bread — leavened, enriched loaves baked for holidays and special occasions, in contrast to the everyday injera. The base of dishes like defo dabo and yemarina yewotet dabo.

🇪🇹Ethiopia

Dabo Himbasha

ዳቦ ህምባሻ

A sweet celebration bread from the Tigray region, scented with cardamom and studded with raisins. Often baked for New Year (Enkutatash) and weddings, and sliced alongside spiced tea or coffee.

🇪🇹Ethiopia

Dabo Kolo

ዳቦ ቆሎ

Tiny pieces of seasoned bread dough, baked or fried until crispy and tossed with berbere. The ultimate Ethiopian crunchy snack — addictive by the handful and a popular gift to bring travelers and friends abroad.

🇦🇺Australia

Damper

Bush Bread

Damper is a plain Australian camp bread made from flour, water, and salt, baked in coals or a camp oven.

🇱🇹Lithuania

Dark Rye Bread

Juoda duona

Dense, sour, dark rye bread baked with a long fermentation starter, the foundation of every Lithuanian meal.

🇱🇻Latvia

Dark Rye Bread

Rupjmaize

Traditional coarse rye bread baked in hearth ovens with malt and caraway seeds, the staple of the Latvian diet.

🇪🇹Ethiopia

Defo Dabo

ድፎ ዳቦ

A large round leavened bread traditionally wrapped in enset leaves (or banana leaves outside Ethiopia) before baking. The leaves give the bread a slight sweetness and beautiful aroma. A holiday and celebration loaf.

🇬🇧England, United Kingdom

Devonshire split

Devonshire split is a sweet bread from Devon, rooted in local cooking tradition.

🇮🇳Jharkhand, India

Dhuska

धुस्का

Fermented rice and lentil batter is fried into Jharkhand's soft-centered, crisp-edged breakfast cakes.

🇺🇸United States

Dilly Casserole Bread

A 1960s yeast bread baked with cottage cheese, dill, and onion, in a round loaf.

🇨🇱Chile

Dobladita

Folded pastry bread, often filled and baked or fried, a traditional Chilean bread specialty.