Candy

🇮🇳India

Gajak

गजक

Sesame or peanuts are bound with jaggery, rolled thin, and set into a brittle winter sweet of North India.

🇮🇷Isfahan, Iran

Gaz

گز

Nougat made from the sap of the angebin plant, whipped with egg white, rose water and pistachio and cut into rounds or blocks.

🇨🇾Paphos, Cyprus

Geroskipou Sugared Almonds

Κουφέτα αμυγδάλου Γεροσκήπου

Whole almonds coated in successive layers of sugar syrup by hand, giving an uneven, matte shell rather than a machine-smooth one.

🇰🇷South Korea

Glutinous Rice Cake

찹쌀떡

Soft, chewy glutinous rice cake filled with sweet red bean paste, similar to Japanese mochi, a popular snack and dessert.

🇮🇩Indonesia

Glutinous Rice Triangles

Lupis

Glutinous rice triangles in coconut sauce and palm sugar syrup, sweet and chewy Javanese dessert.

🇩🇴Dominican Republic

Gofio

A Nicaraguan sweet of toasted corn pinol with panela, ginger, and spices, a festive and daily classic

🇹🇹Trinidad and Tobago

Goolab Jamoon

Milk-powder and flour dough fried into fingers or balls and soaked in a cardamom and ginger sugar syrup.

🇯🇲Jamaica

Grater Cake

Grated coconut boiled with sugar and pressed into rounds, half of them dyed bright pink, sold from jars at shop counters.

🇬🇩Grenada

Grenadian Fudge

Fudge

Traditional Grenadian coconut fudge; made with coconut, sugar, and spices (nutmeg, cinnamon); a sweet treat found at Church Harvest festivals and markets; also called barfi in the Indo-Caribbean tradition; the fudge of the Spice Isle; a nostalgic treat; spiced with local nutmeg.

🇧🇧Barbados

Grenadian Guava Cheese

Guava Cheese

Traditional Grenadian sweet of guava pulp cooked with sugar until thick and firm; cut into squares; a chewy, fruity confection; of Indo-Caribbean origin; found at Church Harvest festivals and markets; the guava cheese of the Spice Isle; a nostalgic treat; a food souvenir.

🇵🇾Paraguay

Ground-Peanut Sweet

Ka'i Ku'i

Peanut paste, often served with cane honey, a traditional Paraguayan sweet made from ground peanuts, rich and creamy.

🇷🇼Rwanda

Groundnut Candy

Peanuts bound in caramelised sugar, broken into hard pieces; a sweet snack sold at markets and bus stations; the Rwandan version of peanut brittle, using locally grown groundnuts.

🇬🇵Guadeloupe

Guadeloupean Chocolate-Coconut Sweet

Caca Boeuf

A traditional Guadeloupean sweet; a chocolate and coconut treat; shaped like a small cow pat; a popular snack; the caca boeuf that is a Guadeloupean childhood favorite.

🇮🇳India

Gulab Jamun

गुलाब जामुन

Milk-solid dough is fried into soft brown balls and soaked in cardamom-scented sugar syrup.

🇵🇰Karachi, Pakistan

Habshi Halwa

حبشی حلوہ

Sprouted-wheat milk cooked down for many hours with ghee and sugar until it turns almost black, then set with nuts.

🇪🇬Egypt

Halawet el Moulid

حلاوة المولد

A Egyptian Mawlid festival sweets of sesame, nuts, and sugar dolls, a festive and traditional classic

🇮🇷Iran

Halva

حلوا

Persian halva: a dense, saffron-scented sweet of flour, butter and sugar, pressed into a block.

🇮🇷Iran

Halva Ardeh

حلوا ارده

Sesame paste and sugar syrup worked into a dense slab, sold plain or with pistachio, and eaten with bread at breakfast.

🇬🇷Thessaly, Greece

Halva Farsalon

Χαλβάς Φαρσάλων

A Greek halva from Farsala, made of rice flour, butter, and sugar, with a gooey, chewy texture. A regional specialty, sweet and rich, a café and market treat, a Thessaly tradition.

🇬🇷Greece

Halvadopita

Χαλβαδόπιτα

A wafer-thin crisp pastry sandwiching sheets of tahini halva and almonds, the signature sweet of Kythnos island, packed whole as gifts.

🇯🇵Japan

Hanabiramochi

花びら餅

Hanabiramochi, the pale mochi folded over white miso and a candied burdock root, is the fixed sweet of the New Year tea ceremony and appears for a few weeks only.

🇽🇰Kosovo

Havell

Flour toasted in butter until it turns nutty and brown, then stirred into sugar syrup and set into a soft, sandy block.

🇳🇿New Zealand

Hokey Pokey Toffee

Hokey pokey

Golden syrup and sugar boiled to a hard crack, aerated with baking soda so it foams up into a brittle honeycomb.

🇦🇺Australia

Honey Joys

Cornflakes mixed with honey and butter, baked until crunchy, party treat, good honey flavor with crunchy texture and not too sweet, an Australian children's party classic.

🇬🇪Georgia

Honey Walnut Brittle

Გოზინაყი

Walnuts chopped and cooked in honey until the honey darkens, then spread thin and cut into diamonds while still warm.

🇺🇸United States

Hot Fudge Sundae

Vanilla ice cream topped with warm, thick hot fudge, whipped cream, and a cherry.

🇵🇦Panama

Huevitos de Leche

Panamanian milk candies shaped like little eggs, made by cooking milk and sugar into a soft, creamy fudge.

🇪🇨Costa (Coastal Ecuador), Ecuador

Huevo Mollo

Huevo mollo is a Manabí sweet made by slowly cooking egg yolk and sugar into a dense, golden confection.

🇹🇷Marmara Region, Turkey

Höşmerim

Hosmerim, the warm fresh-cheese-and-semolina dessert of the Marmara region, is a named sweet.

🇮🇸Iceland

Icelandic Licorice

Lakkrís

Intensely salty and sweet licorice, an Icelandic obsession in bars, buns and chocolate.

🇺🇸United States

Irish Potato Candy

A Philadelphia confection of coconut-cream-cheese filling rolled in cinnamon to look like a potato.

🇦🇺Australia

Jaffas

Chocolate centre with hard orange-flavoured red shell, cinema classic since 1931, good orange flavour with crisp shell and fresh chocolate, an Australian nostalgic icon.

🇮🇳India

Jalebi

जलेबी

Crisp, coiled fritters soaked in saffron syrup until glistening.

🇨🇴Colombia

Jamon de Mono

Jamón de mono

A Tolima sweet of panela, milk, and rice flour, cooked until thick and sliceable. A rustic, traditional dessert of the interior, served at Christmas.

🇲🇽Mexico

Jamoncillo

A fudge-like milk-and-piloncillo candy, often studded with nuts or seeds.

🇸🇾Damascus, Syria

Jazarieh

جزرية

Carrot cooked down with sugar into a firm paste, studded with pistachio and cut into squares rolled in coconut.