Cakes & Custards

🇪🇹Ethiopia

Bulla Cake

Bulla

Dense, dark, barely sweet round cake of flour, molasses, ginger and nutmeg, sold in packs and eaten with cheese or avocado.

🇦🇹Austria

Bundt Cake

Gugelhupf

Ring-shaped yeast cake with raisins and almonds, baked in distinctive fluted mold, good rise with moist texture, a traditional Austrian cake, festive.

🇭🇺Hungary

Bundt Cake

Kuglóf

Bundt cake is a ring-shaped yeast cake with raisins and almonds, baked in a fluted tube pan.

🇺🇸United States

Bundt Cake

A dense, ring-shaped cake baked in a fluted pan, often glazed or dusted with sugar.

🇵🇭Philippines

Buri-Wrapped Suman

Suman sa Ibus

A cylindrical suman wrapped tightly in buri palm leaves, a specialty of Negros Occidental, eaten with sugar or mango.

🇲🇲Mandalay, Myanmar

Burmese Sticky Rice Cake

ထိုးမုန့်

Mandalay Htoe Mont is a dense pressed sweet made by pounding glutinous rice with coconut, raisins, cashew and sesame, then slicing it into fingers.

🇩🇪Germany

Butter Cake

Butterkuchen

Traditional German cake with generous butter content, simple yet rich, with a moist crumb structure.

🇨🇿Czech Republic

Bábovka

A Czech Bundt cake, moist and airy, sometimes with chocolate or vanilla, a daily and coffee classic

🇻🇳Vietnam

Bánh bò (Vietnamese Honeycomb Cake)

Bánh bò

Banh bo, the honeycomb-crumbed rice cake leavened with toddy or yeast, is a named Vietnamese cake with a distinctive structure.

🇻🇳Vietnam

Bánh da lợn (Steamed Tapioca Layer Cake)

Bánh da lợn

Banh da lon, the layered green-and-yellow steamed tapioca cake, is a named Vietnamese sweet with a distinctive appearance.

🇻🇳Vietnam

Bánh gai (Thorn Leaf Cake)

Bánh gai

Banh gai, the black sticky-rice cake coloured with ramie leaf and filled with mung bean, is a named northern speciality.

🇻🇳Vietnam

Bánh phu thê (Husband and Wife Cake)

Bánh phu thê

Banh phu the ("husband and wife cake"), the translucent wedding cake in a woven palm box, is a named ceremonial sweet with a fixed ritual role.

🇻🇳Vietnam

Bánh ít (Little Cake)

Bánh ít

Banh it, the small pyramid glutinous cake in banana leaf, is a named central-Vietnamese sweet.

🇻🇳Northern Vietnam, Vietnam

Bánh đậu xanh (Mung Bean Cake)

Bánh đậu xanh

Banh dau xanh, the pressed mung-bean cake of Hai Duong sold in small gold boxes and eaten with tea, is a named regional gift sweet.

🇺🇸United States

Caramel Cake

A Southern layer cake with a cooked, amber caramel icing that is poured and spread over the layers.

🇲🇽Mexico

Carlota de limón

An icebox lime cake of layered cookies and a tangy lime custard, chilled until soft.

🇷🇴Romania

Carpati

Carpați

A Romanian chocolate cake of cocoa sponge, caramel or cream filling, and a dark chocolate icing shaped like a mountain ridge.

🇨🇭Aargau, Switzerland

Carrot Cake

Rüeblitorte

A moist cake of grated carrot, ground almond, sugar and kirsch, glazed and decorated with small marzipan carrots.

🇦🇼Aruba

Cashew Cake

Bolo di Cashupe

Cashew cake; a traditional Aruban dessert; made with local cashews; a sweet delight of Aruban cuisine; a feature of celebrations and gatherings; a reflection of the island's tropical ingredients

🇮🇹Sicily, Italy

Cassata Siciliana

Sicilian baroque cake of sponge, sweetened ricotta, marzipan, candied fruit, and royal icing. A riot of color and Arab-influenced flavors.

🇨🇲Cameroon

Cassava Cake

Gâteau de manioc

Grated cassava baked with coconut milk and sugar into a dense, chewy cake sold in slabs.

🇨🇻Cape Verde

Cassava Cake

Bolo de Mandioca

A dense Cape Verdean cassava cake sweetened with sugar and coconut, baked until the edges caramelise.

🇬🇵Guadeloupe

Cassava Cake

Gâteau Manioc

Cassava cake; a traditional Guadeloupean sweet; made from manioc (cassava); the cassava cake that is a Guadeloupean tradition.

🇲🇿Mozambique

Cassava Cake

Bolo de mandioca

Grated cassava baked with coconut milk, sugar and egg into a dense, slightly chewy cake.

🇵🇭Philippines

Cassava Cake

Grated cassava baked with coconut milk and condensed milk, often with a custard topping, a popular merienda.

🇷🇪Reunion

Cassava Cake

Gâteau Manioc

Traditional cassava cake; a nutritious cake made from manioc (cassava); cooked a l'ancienne under embers; a Reunionese sweet; a TasteAtlas-listed must-try; the gâteau manioc that is a Reunionese tradition.

🇷🇼Rwanda

Cassava Cake

Cake made from grated cassava, coconut, and sugar, baked until golden; a sweet Rwandan dessert using the country's most important root crop; dense, moist, and slightly chewy from the cassava.

🇸🇨Seychelles

Cassava Cake

Sweet cake made from grated cassava, coconut, sugar, and eggs; a baked dessert that showcases the islands' cassava and coconut; denser than Western cakes, with a chewy texture from the cassava; a popular Seychellois treat at markets and bakeries.

🇵🇭Philippines

Cassava Cake Bites

Pichi-Pichi

Steamed cassava cake with lye water, cut into pieces and rolled in coconut or topped with cheese and latik.

🇹🇹Trinidad and Tobago

Cassava Pone

Grated cassava, coconut and pumpkin baked with sugar, spice and evaporated milk into a dense, chewy slab.

🇯🇵Kyushu, Japan

Castella

カステラ

A moist sponge cake introduced by Portuguese missionaries to Nagasaki in the 16th century.

🇺🇾Uruguay

Chajá

Postre Chajá

Sponge cake soaked in syrup, layered with peaches, whipped cream and dulce de leche and covered in crumbled meringue.

🇩🇪Germany

Cheese Cream Cake

Käsesahnetorte

Traditional German no-bake cheesecake with quark-based filling combined with whipped cream and gelatin.

🇳🇱Netherlands

Chewy Anise Cake

Taaitaai

Hard chewy cookies made with flour, sugar, eggs, honey, and aniseed, popular during Sinterklaas season, shaped into figures.

🇮🇳Odisha, India

Chhena poda (Baked cheese)

ଛେନା ପୋଡ଼

Fresh chhena is mixed with sugar and baked until the outside caramelises into Odisha's cheese cake.

🇺🇸United States

Chiffon Cake

A light, airy cake made with oil and whipped egg whites, invented in Los Angeles in 1927.