Candy

🇰🇷South Korea

Jeonggwa

정과

Jeonggwa is made with fruit and roots slowly simmered in honey until translucent.

🇪🇸Valencian Community, Spain

Jijona Nougat

Turron de Jijona

The soft, creamy style of turron from Jijona (Xixona), Alicante, made by milling and emulsifying toasted almonds with honey and egg white into a smooth paste.

🇧🇩Natore, Bangladesh

Kachagolla

কাঁচাগোল্লা

Loose, barely-cooked chhena crumbled with sugar and served soft, a Natore speciality with no shaping at all.

🇮🇳India

Kaju katli

काजू कतली

Cashew fudge cut into diamond shapes, a festive Indian sweet.

🇮🇳India

Kalakand

कलाकंद

Fresh milk cheese is cooked with sugar until grainy and set into soft squares in North Indian sweet shops.

🇱🇷Liberia

Kanyah

Roasted peanuts and garri pounded with sugar and honey into a dense, coarse confection cut into squares or rolled into balls for roadside snacking.

🇹🇿Tanzania

Kashata

Grated coconut or roasted peanuts cooked with sugar and cardamom and set into hard slabs cut into diamonds.

🇯🇵Japan

Kashiwa-mochi

柏餅

Kashiwamochi, mochi wrapped in an oak leaf and eaten at Children's Day, is a named calendar sweet with a fixed May window.

🇰🇪Kenya

Kenyan Halwa

Halwa ya Kenya

A dense, cardamom-scented halwa served in coastal Kenyan homes and celebrations.

🇲🇳Mongolia

Khailmag

Хайлмаг

Clotted cream heated until the butter separates, then cooked with flour and sugar into a rich, grainy sweet paste.

🇬🇵Guadeloupe

Kilibibi

A Guadeloupean candy made from sesame seeds caramelized with sugar into brittle, crunchy clusters.

🇯🇵Kyoto, Japan

Kintsuba

きんつば

A Kyoto sweet: a rectangular block of sweet bean paste coated in a thin wheat-flour skin.

🇨🇾Cyprus

Kiofteri

Κιοφτέρι

Grape must boiled with flour into a thick paste, poured into trays with almonds and dried in the sun into a chewy sheet.

🇰🇳Saint Kitts and Nevis

Kittitian Guava Cheese

Guava Cheese

Slow-stirred guava paste, sliced thin; the island's longest love affair with sugar; a traditional Kittitian sweet made from guava fruit and sugar; simply made, sometimes with nothing more than fruit and sugar; the guava cheese of Saint Kitts and Nevis; a fruity, nostalgic treat.

🇮🇩Indonesia

Klepon

Green glutinous rice balls filled with liquid palm sugar, coated in grated coconut

🇧🇶Bonaire

Kokada

A chewy Curaçaoan coconut sweet made from grated coconut cooked with sugar and often flavored with ginger or cinnamon.

🇸🇷Suriname

Kokosbrood

Grated coconut boiled with sugar and spice until it stiffens, poured out and cut into bars, often coloured pink.

🇯🇵Okinawa, Japan

Kokuto (Black Sugar)

黒糖

Kokuto, Okinawan black sugar pressed from island cane and sold in rough lumps, is a named product bought as itself and eaten as a sweet.

🇬🇵Guadeloupe

Konkada

A Guadeloupean coconut confection of grated coconut cooked with sugar until it forms sweet, chewy clusters.

🇯🇵Japan

Konpeitō

金平糖

Konpeito, the tiny spiked sugar star of Portuguese descent made over days by hand, is a named Japanese confection with dedicated makers and an imperial-gift role.

🇰🇬Kyrgyzstan

Koroz

Кароз

Boiled sugar pulled and cut into hard, cloudy sweets, wrapped in twists of paper and put out for guests with tea.

🇵🇾Paraguay

Koserevá

Sour-orange peels cooked in black molasses become a chewy candy with bittersweet citrus flavour.

🇰🇭Cambodia

Krob Knor

គ្រាប់ខ្នុរ

Sweet of egg yolk threads cooked in sugar syrup, a direct descendant of Portuguese fios de ovos, served with jackfruit.

🇵🇱Poland

Krowki

Semi-soft fudge toffee.

🇲🇰Kruševo, North Macedonia

Kruševo Lokum

Крушевски локум

Small, soft, slightly chewy Turkish-delight squares made in Kruševo and dusted heavily with icing sugar.

🇯🇵Japan

Kuri kinton

栗きんとん

Kuri kinton, chestnuts in a glossy sweet-potato paste, is a named osechi dish with a fixed New Year meaning.

🇷🇺Kaliningrad, Russia

Königsberger Marzipan

Кёнигсбергский марципан

Almond marzipan in the Konigsberg tradition kept alive by Kaliningrad confectioners since Prussian times: lightly browned, sometimes liqueur-filled.

🇻🇳Vietnam

Kẹo dừa (Keo Dua Coconut Candy)

Kẹo dừa

Keo dua, the Ben Tre coconut candy wrapped in edible rice paper and bought by the box, is a named regional product.

🇮🇳India

Laddu

लड्डू

Round sweets of gram flour, ghee and sugar, offered at every celebration.

🇹🇹Trinidad and Tobago

Ladoo

A Trinidadian (Indo-Caribbean) sweet ball made from roasted chickpea flour, ghee, and sugar, often flavored with cardamom.

🇳🇵Kathmandu Valley, Nepal

Lakhamari

लाखामरी

A Newari sweet of flour, ghee and sugar, shaped and fried, given at festivals.

🇩🇰Denmark

Lakrids (Licorice)

Saltlakrids

A Danish licorice candy, sweet or salty

🇧🇧Barbados

Lead Pipes

Cylinders of boiled coconut sugar candy, dark and hard, named for exactly what they look like.

🇳🇱Netherlands

Licorice

Drop

Dutch licorice candy ranging from sweet to extremely salty (with salmiak), Netherlands is world's largest per capita consumer.

🇪🇨Costa (Coastal Ecuador), Ecuador

Limón Relleno

Limón relleno is Rocafuerte candied lemon filled with a soft sugar-and-milk confection, balancing bitter citrus peel with sweetness.

🇧🇦Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Lokum

Локум

A soft, chewy confection made from starch and sugar, flavored with rosewater, lemon, or mastic, and often studded with pistachios, hazelnuts, or walnuts. Known internationally as Turkish Delight, lokum has been produced since the Ottoman era and mass production began in 1777. A few pieces are traditionally served alongside Turkish coffee.