Cakes & Custards

🇬🇧England, United Kingdom

Lemon Drizzle Cake

A plain loaf sponge pricked all over while hot and soaked with a syrup of lemon juice and sugar that sets to a crust.

🇦🇹Linz, Austria

Linzer Torte

Oldest named torte in the world (1653), with nut and spice shortcrust, lattice top, and redcurrant jam filling, a legendary Upper Austrian specialty.

🇱🇹Lithuania

Lithuanian Honey Cake

Meduolis

Spiced honey cake with thin layers and a dark, sticky crumb.

🇳🇿New Zealand

Lolly Cake

Crushed malt biscuits and condensed milk bound with butter around chopped fruit puffs, rolled in coconut and sliced.

🇳🇿New Zealand

Louise Cake

Shortbread base spread with raspberry jam and topped with a coconut meringue, baked and cut into squares.

🇺🇸Louisiana, United States

Louisiana Russian Cake

A New Orleans bakery cake of pound cake and chocolate mousse or custard, glazed with chocolate.

🇱🇰Sri Lanka

Love Cake

ලව් කේක්

A rich semolina and cashew cake flavoured with rose water, honey and pumpkin preserve, cut into small squares.

🇱🇺Luxembourg

Luxembourg Spit Cake

Bamkuch

Bamkuch is Luxembourg's layered spit cake, baked around a rotating spit so the cut surface shows concentric rings.

🇺🇦Lviv, Ukraine

Lviv Syrnyk

Львівський сирник

Lviv Syrnyk is a baked cheesecake from Lviv made with farmer's cheese, denser and less sweet than American version, often chocolate-coated, dense texture with refined taste.

🇨🇱Chile

Lúcuma Cake

Torta de lúcuma

Cake made with lúcuma, a native Andean fruit with maple-like flavor, a uniquely Chilean dessert, moist and distinctive.

🇨🇳Beijing, China

Lüdagunr (Rolled Glutinous Rice Cake)

驴打滚

A glutinous rice sheet rolled around red bean paste and dusted heavily with toasted soy flour, cut into short lengths.

🇲🇦Morocco

M'hanncha (Snake Cake)

محنشة

A coiled Moroccan pastry filled with almond paste, orange blossom, and cinnamon, baked until crisp.

🇫🇷Grand Est, France

Madeleine

Small shell-shaped sponge cake with butter and lemon, from Commercy.

🇪🇸Spain

Magdalenas

Spanish lemon-scented cupcakes, a bakery staple.

🇦🇹Austria

Malakoff Torte

Malakoff Torte is a dessert made with a defined local recipe and ingredients.

🇿🇦South Africa

Malva Pudding

Malvapoeding

A Cape Dutch sponge pudding with apricot jam, baked and soaked in a hot cream-caramel sauce, served warm. A national and restaurant classic, sticky and sweet

🇵🇭Philippines

Mango Graham Float

Mango Float

A layered no-bake dessert with graham crackers, sweet ripe mangoes, and cream, a modern Filipino classic.

🇦🇷Argentina

Mantecol

An Argentine nougat-like cake of peanuts, sugar, and honey, similar to Spanish turrón. Sold in blocks and sliced, it is a Christmas and winter sweet.

🇬🇷Greece

Maouri

Μαουρί

A Santorini almond cake scented with mastiha, baked dark and moist, served at engagements with sweet wine.

🇮🇩Indonesia

Mashed Cassava Cake

Getuk

Steamed cassava cake with palm sugar, soft and sweet, simple traditional Javanese dessert.

🇵🇭Philippines

Mashed Cassava Cake

Nilupak

Mashed cassava or banana mixed with condensed milk and butter, formed into balls or cakes on banana leaves.

🇺🇾Montevideo, Uruguay

Massini

Layers of thin sponge with whipped cream, finished with a caramelised sabayon glaze scorched on top.

🇮🇳Mumbai, India

Mawa cake

मावा केक

Parsi bakeries fold reduced milk solids into a buttery cake and bake it until fragrant and dense.

🇫🇮Finland

May Day Funnel Cake

Tippaleipä

Deep-fried batter poured through funnel, crunchy knot sprinkled with powdered sugar, a Vappu (May Day) tradition.

🇨🇦Canada

May West

Vachon snack cake with rich chocolatey coating and creamy centre, Canadian favorite for decades from Quebec.

🇸🇪Sweden

Mazarintarta

Mazarintårta

Swedish almond tart with shortcrust.

🇵🇱Poland

Mazurek

A Polish Easter cake: a flat, shortcrust base topped with nuts, poppy seeds, jam, or chocolate, decorated with icing. An Easter tradition, sweet and rich, a festive dessert.

🇭🇷Croatia

Mađarica

In Croatia, Mađarica is thin biscuit layers with chocolate cream in squares.

🇩🇿Algeria

Mbesses

مبسس

Semolina, butter and sugar pressed into a pan and baked or griddled into a crumbly, sandy cake cut into diamonds.

🇷🇺Russia

Medovik

Медовик

Medovik is a Russian multi-layer honey cake with sour-cream frosting and a moist honeyed crumb.

🇨🇿Czech Republic

Medovník

A Czech honey layer cake with cream and walnuts, a daily and festive classic

🇺🇦Lviv, Ukraine

Medovyk

Медівник

Lviv-style honey cake of thin sponge layers and sour cream, spiced with cinnamon and cloves.

🇨🇴Colombia

Merengón

Cloud-like dessert nest of crisp meringue layered with whipped cream and tart fruit — lulo, strawberry or maracuyá — the standard birthday and Sunday-lunch finale across Colombia.

🇵🇭Negros, Philippines

Meringue Cake

Sans Rival

A layered meringue cake with buttercream frosting, French-influenced, a Dumaguete specialty.

🇧🇪Brussels, Belgium

Merveilleux

Meringue and whipped-cream cake dusted in chocolate shavings, a Brussels patisserie star.

🇲🇦Morocco

Meskouta (Orange Cake)

مسكوتة

A Moroccan home cake made from beaten eggs, flour, and citrus zest, baked until springy.