Cakes & Custards

🇮🇳Gujarat, India

Khaman

ખમણ

A fluffy, savory steamed cake from Gujarat made from chickpea flour. It is sweet, sour, and spicy, served with chutney.

🇹🇭Bangkok, Thailand

Khanom farang kutti chin

ขนมฝรั่งกุฎีจีน

Khanom farang Kudi Chin, the Portuguese-descended cake baked by one Bangkok riverside community in wood-fired ovens, is singular, place-bound and highly collectible.

🇹🇭Thailand

Khanom tan

ขนมตาล

Khanom tan, the fermented toddy-palm cake steamed in a banana leaf, is a named seasonal sweet tied to the palm-fruit harvest.

🇩🇰Denmark

Kiksekage

No-bake chocolate biscuit cake, a children’s-party classic.

🇫🇷France

King Cake

Galette des rois

Puff pastry filled with frangipane, eaten for Epiphany with a hidden feve charm.

🇺🇸United States

King Cake

A Mardi Gras ring of cinnamon-brioche dough, iced and sprinkled in purple, green, and gold, hiding a tiny baby.

🇪🇸Spain

King's Cake

Roscon de Reyes

An oval-shaped sweet brioche decorated with candied fruit, eaten on Epiphany (January 6th), traditionally containing a hidden figurine and a bean.

🇰🇳Saint Kitts and Nevis

Kittitian Black Cake

Black Cake

Dried fruits soaked for months in rum and wine, then baked into a dense, dark, molasses-rich cake; Christmas measured in slices; a traditional Kittitian Christmas dessert; a sweet connection to the island's sugar-producing past; the black cake of Saint Kitts and Nevis; a festive, rum-soaked tradition.

🇲🇬Madagascar

Koba Akondro

Ground peanuts, banana, honey and rice or maize flour wrapped in banana leaf and steamed for hours into a dense sweet log.

🇲🇬Madagascar

Koba Mangahazo

A dense steamed cassava and peanut cake wrapped in leaves, related to Madagascar's koba tradition.

🇲🇬Madagascar

Koba Ravina

Peanut, banana and rice-flour dough steamed in banana leaves as a Malagasy sweet.

🇨🇲Cameroon

Koki beans

Koki

Black-eyed peas soaked, skinned and ground to a paste, beaten with red palm oil until light, wrapped in banana leaf and steamed.

🇨🇲Cameroon

Koki Corn

Fresh maize grated and beaten with palm oil, pepper and cassava leaf, then wrapped in leaves and steamed.

🇧🇬Bulgaria

Kozunak

Козунак

Easter bread of egg-rich dough braided into three or four strands, scented with lemon zest and rum, sometimes studded with raisins or Turkish delight.

🇵🇱Poland

Kołocz śląski

Kołocz śląski is a dessert from Opole Voivodeship, a sweet finish to the local table.

🇩🇰Denmark

Kransekage (Wreath Cake)

Kransekagestænger

A Danish marzipan tower cake of stacked, decreasing rings with white icing, a New Year's and wedding classic

🇳🇴Norway

Kransekake

Almond ring tower cake, served at weddings and Constitution Day.

🇨🇱Chile

Kuchen

A Chilean fruit-topped yeast cake or tart, with a tender crumb or buttery base and seasonal berries, apples, or other fresh fruit from the southern Lake District tradition.

🇺🇸United States

Kuchen

A German-American coffee cake of yeast dough topped with fruit — often prune, apple, or peach — and streusel.

🇮🇩Indonesia

Kue cucur

Kuih Cucur

Kue cucur, the palm-sugar batter cake fried into a thick ruffled disc, is a named Indonesian jajan pasar item with a distinctive form

🇮🇩Indonesia

Kue Lapis

Steamed layered cake with alternating colors, made from rice flour, tapioca, and coconut milk

🇸🇬Singapore, Singapore

Kueh Tutu

Small steamed rice-flour cakes pressed into flower moulds over pandan leaf, filled with grated coconut and palm sugar or crushed peanut.

🇲🇾Malaysia

Kuih Talam

Two-layer steamed kuih with pandan bottom and coconut top, clean layer separation with balanced flavors and firm texture.

🇲🇻Maldives

Kulhi Boakibaa

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Tuna, coconut, and ground rice are mixed, seasoned, and baked into a savoury Maldivian cake.

🇱🇰Sri Lanka

Kurakkan Leaf Parcels

හලාප

Finger millet flour mixed with coconut and treacle, wrapped in a kanda leaf and steamed, eaten with the leaf peeled back.

🇳🇴Norway

Kvaefjordkake

Kvæfjordkake

Kvæfjord layered meringue and almond cake, known as "verdens beste".

🇺🇦Kyiv, Ukraine

Kyiv Cake

Київський торт

Kyiv Cake is a Ukrainian cake of crisp meringue and hazelnut layers joined by buttercream, created in Kyiv.

🇺🇸United States

Lady Baltimore Cake

A Charleston layer cake with white frosting studded with figs, raisins, and pecans.

🇩🇰Denmark

Lagkage (Layer Cake)

Lagkage

A Danish layer cake with sponge, cream, custard, and fruit, a birthday and festive classic

🇧🇳Brunei

Lamban

Lamban is a Bruneian leaf-wrapped sweet of glutinous rice and coconut, steamed into a soft festive kuih.

🇦🇺Australia

Lamington

Lammo

A lamington is a square of sponge dipped in chocolate icing and rolled in coconut, sometimes split for cream or jam.

🇺🇸United States

Lane Cake

An Alabama layer cake with a bourbon-laced filling of pecans, coconut, and raisins between white layers.

🇸🇷Suriname

Lapis

Surinamese lapis is a layered spiced cake baked in thin alternating layers until the crumb is dense, moist and darkly aromatic.

🇵🇭Philippines

Layered Rice Cake

Sapin-Sapin

A layered glutinous rice cake in rainbow colors, each layer with a different flavor (ube, coconut, jackfruit).

🇱🇹Lithuania

Lazy Cake

Tinginys

A no-bake dessert made from crushed biscuits, cocoa, butter, sugar, and condensed milk, rolled into a log.

🇷🇸Serbia

Lazy Cake

Лења пита

Two layers of biscuit crumb with a filling of fruit, cheese or walnut between, assembled without rolling dough — hence lazy.