Cakes & Custards

🇨🇴Colombia

Torta Maria Luisa

A Colombian orange sponge cake layered with berry jam, dusted with icing sugar. A classic home-baked dessert, served with coffee or hot chocolate.

🇨🇴Colombia

Tortas de Choclo

A Colombian sweet corn cake of fresh corn, milk, sugar, and cheese, baked until golden. A coastal and Andean specialty, sweet and dense.

🇰🇾Cayman Islands

Tortuga Rum Cake

World- rum cake baked in the Caribbean with walnuts, hand-glazed with special 5-year-old oak barrel aged Tortuga Gold Rum, then vacuum-sealed; the #1 export of the Cayman Islands; founded in 1987 using a four-generation family recipe; a Cayman product.

🇸🇪Sweden

Toscakaka

Sponge cake with almond-caramel topping, a home-baking favorite.

🇯🇲Jamaica

Toto

Small dense coconut cake sweetened with brown sugar and spiced with nutmeg and vanilla, cut into squares.

🇵🇹Northern Portugal, Portugal

Toucinho do Céu

A rich almond and egg yolk sweet from Guimarães, despite the name meaning bacon from heaven.

🇩🇪Germany

Tree Cake

Baumkuchen

German spit cake with characteristic tree-ring layers from baking on a rotating spit, labor-intensive.

🇱🇹Podlasie, Lithuania

Tree Cake

Šakotis

A spit cake grilled layer by layer into a distinctive branching tree shape, a centerpiece of Lithuanian weddings.

🇲🇽Mexico

Tres leches cake

A sponge cake soaked in three milks — evaporated, condensed, and cream — topped with meringue.

🇦🇱Albania

Trilece

Trilecë

Albanian three-milk cake, light sponge soaked in whole milk, condensed milk, and cream, topped with golden caramel sauce, well-soaked cake with distinct caramel topping, a beloved celebration dessert.

🇨🇼Curaçao

Tumba Cake

Tumba cake; a traditional Curaçaoan rum cake; a sweet, moist cake flavored with rum; a feature of celebrations and gatherings; a reflection of Caribbean rum traditions

🇱🇧Lebanon

Turmeric Semolina Cake

صفوف

A dense yellow cake of semolina and flour coloured with turmeric, scattered with pine nuts and cut into diamonds.

🇺🇸United States

Twinkie

The cream-filled golden sponge cake — an American snack icon since 1930.

🇯🇵Nagoya, Japan

Uirō

ういろう

Uiro, the firm steamed rice-flour cake sold in long bars at Nagoya station, is a named regional omiyage.

🇫🇯Fiji

Vakalavalava

Grated cassava baked with shredded coconut, sugar and butter into a dense, chewy slab — Fiji's cassava cake.

🇨🇿Moravian Wallachia, Czech Republic

Valassky Frgal

Valašský frgál

Large round sweet cake from Moravian Wallachia.

🇻🇺Vanuatu

Vanuatu Coconut Cake

Vanuatu coconut cake combines flour, eggs, sugar, butter, and grated coconut in a simple baked dessert with a moist, fragrant crumb.

🇷🇸Serbia

Vasa's Cake

Васина торта

A layered cake of walnut and almond sponge with a chocolate and orange cream, named after the man it was made for in the 19th century.

🇬🇧England, United Kingdom

Victoria Sponge

Two plain butter sponges sandwiched with raspberry jam and sometimes cream, dusted with caster sugar rather than iced.

🇻🇮Christiansted, U.S. Virgin Islands

Vienna Cake

Layered Crucian cake with several layers of fruit preserves; an authentic Crucian Vienna cake should have at least one layer of green lime and guavaberry preserve; brandy moistens the layers between fruit; a traditional holiday dessert on St. Croix.

🇮🇸Iceland

Vinarterta

Vínarterta

Layered cardamom-prune cake, a Christmas and Icelandic-Canadian classic.

🇻🇨Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Vincentian Black Cake

Black Cake

Dried fruits soaked for months in rum and wine, then baked into a dense, dark, molasses-rich cake; a traditional Vincentian Christmas dessert; the presence of black cake during holidays reflects European influence; the black cake of Saint Vincent; a festive, rum-soaked tradition; a Christmas staple.

🇨🇭Switzerland

Vully Cake

Gâteau du Vully

A flat yeasted cake dimpled all over and filled with cream and either sugar and cinnamon or bacon and cumin.

🇰🇷South Korea

Walnut Cakes

호두과자

Small, walnut-shaped cakes filled with walnut pieces and red bean paste, baked in a special mold, a popular street snack.

🇰🇷South Korea

White Snow Rice Cake

백설기

A pure white, steamed rice cake made from finely ground non-glutinous rice, the most basic and fundamental Korean tteok.

🇮🇩Central Java, Indonesia

Wingko

Wingko, the dense pan-baked coconut-and-glutinous-rice cake sold at Semarang station as the city's standard gift, is a named regional product.

🇵🇱Warsaw, Poland

Wuzetka

A Warsaw chocolate cake with a layer of jam and cream, glazed with chocolate. Named after the W-Z (East-West) route, a café classic since the 1940s, rich and chocolatey.

🇾🇪Yemen

Yemeni Rawani

Rawani

A semolina and coconut cake baked in a tray and soaked in syrup while hot, cut in diamonds.

🇫🇷France

Yule Log

Buche de Noel

Yule log cake for Christmas, sponge rolled with cream and decorated festively.

🇭🇰Hong Kong

Zi baau daan gou (Paper wrapped cake)

紙包蛋糕

Paper-wrapped cake, the small sponge baked in a paper cone in Hong Kong's old bakeries, is a named local bake and a nostalgia item.

🇸🇮Slovenia

Zlevanka

Zlevanka is a Slovenian baked cake of buckwheat or millet batter, lightly sweetened and cut into squares.

🇨🇭Zug, Switzerland

Zuger Kirschtorte

A layer cake of sponge, buttercream and meringue nuts soaked in Zuger Kirsch, from Zug, the canton famous for its cherry brandy.

🇸🇮Slovenia

Šarkelj

Šarkelj is a Slovenian ring cake with a tender crumb, often marbled or lightly spiced and baked in a mould.