Candy

🇨🇾Paphos, Cyprus

Loukoumi Geroskipou

Λουκούμι Γεροσκήπου

Cornflour and sugar gel set with rose, lemon or mastic and studded with nuts, made in the village of Geroskipou since the 1890s.

🇮🇶Baghdad, Iraq

Luzina

لوزينة

Fruit and nut paste — usually apricot or date with almond — cooked with starch and sugar and cut into soft, chewy squares.

🇩🇪Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Lübeck Marzipan

Lübecker Marzipan

Almond paste confection from Lübeck, with high almond content and protected geographical indication.

🇹🇷Mersin, Turkey

Macun

Macun, the five-colour paddled sugar paste of Mersin sold from carts by name, is a named street confection.

🇱🇾Libya

Mafruka

Semolina cooked with butter and syrup and pressed around a filling of dates or nuts, then cut into small pieces.

🇮🇳India

Malai Laddu

ملائی لڈو

Balls of thickened milk solids sweetened with sugar and cardamom, softer and wetter than a gram-flour laddu.

🇦🇫Afghanistan

Malida

ملیده

Toasted flour, ghee, sugar, and nuts are worked into a crumbly Afghan sweet called Malida.

🇮🇶Iraq

Mann Al-Sama

من السماء

Nougat of egg white, sugar and pistachio, traditionally made with the sweet exudate of tamarisk trees, cut into blocks and dusted with starch.

🇨🇦Quebec, Canada

Maple Taffy

Tire d'érable

Hot maple syrup boiled to taffy stage, poured on snow and rolled onto sticks at sugar shacks; St. Catherine’s Taffy is its late-November seasonal form.

🇵🇷Puerto Rico

Marallo

A Puerto Rican sweet of coconut and sugar, similar to a coconut bar or nougat, often flavored with anise.

🇩🇰Denmark

Marcipan (Marzipan)

Marcipan

A Danish marzipan of almonds and sugar, a national and baking staple, used in kransekage and confections.

🇧🇷Brazil

Maria-mole

A soft Brazilian coconut marshmallow sweet dusted with grated coconut and sold in small squares.

🇫🇮Finland

Marianne

Fazer peppermint shell with chocolate filling.

🇫🇷France

Marron glacé

Marron glacé is a whole chestnut slowly candied until it is glossy and tender.

🇺🇸United States

Marshmallow Cream

A fluffy, sweet spread of marshmallow — the Fluff of fluffernutters.

🇦🇷Argentina

Martín Fierro

Postre vigilante

A slab of quince or sweet potato paste served with a matching slab of fresh white cheese.

🇪🇨Sierra (Andean Highlands), Ecuador

Melcochas

Chewy Ecuadorian candy of sugarcane molasses pulled until glossy and cut into bite-sized pieces. A traditional sweet from the sierra, especially Baños.

🇲🇱Mali

Meni-meniyong

Malian sesame brittle bound with honey or sugar, traditionally shaped into a crisp, nutty sweet.

🇨🇭Fribourg, Switzerland

Meringues with Gruyère Double Cream

Meringue

Crisp dry meringue baked slowly for hours, served in pairs with double cream and berries rather than as a soft-centred pavlova.

🇵🇭Philippines

Milk Candy

Pastillas

A soft milk candy made from condensed milk and sugar, often coated in powdered milk, a Bulacan specialty.

🇱🇰Sri Lanka

Milk Toffee

කිරි අලුවා

Sweetened condensed milk boiled with sugar and cashew, poured onto a tray and cut into squares when set, soft and fudgy.

🇬🇾Guyana

Mithai

Strips of enriched dough fried and tossed in sugar syrup or a hard sugar crust, sold by the bag.

🇹🇳Tunisia

Mlabbes

Tunisian sugar-coated almonds or peanuts, candy-coated and often pastel-colored.

🇯🇵Japan

Mochi

餅

Glutinous rice steamed and pounded into a soft, stretchy cake, eaten at New Year and year-round.

🇮🇳Maharashtra, India

Modak

मोदक

Rice-flour dough encloses a coconut and jaggery filling, then is steamed or fried into a pleated sweet.

🇮🇳Gujarat, India

Mohanthal

મોહનથાળ

Gram flour is slow-roasted with ghee, sugar, and cardamom, then set into Gujarati fudge squares.

🇧🇩Muktagacha, Bangladesh

Monda

মন্ডা

Pale, dense chhena patty from Muktagachha, made to a family recipe held since the early nineteenth century.

🇨🇦Canada

Moosehunters

A Canadian snack of salted peanuts or other nuts coated in a sweet, crispy candy shell.

🇵🇹Algarve, Portugal

Morgado de figo

Morgado de figo is a Portuguese sweet from Algarve, shaped as a candy and finished with its characteristic sugar, nut, or egg filling.

🇵🇹Algarve, Portugal

Morgado de Silves

Morgado de Silves is a Portuguese sweet from Algarve, shaped as a candy and finished with its characteristic sugar, nut, or egg filling.

🇩🇿Constantine, Algeria

Mousse Jawzia

موس جوزية

Ground walnuts bound with sugar syrup and set into a chewy, dense sweet cut into squares.

🇮🇳Mysuru, India

Mysore pak

ಮೈಸೂರು ಪಾಕ್

A Mysore sweet of gram flour, ghee and sugar, dense and porous.

🇻🇳Hue, Vietnam

Mè xửng

Me xung, the chewy Hue sesame-peanut candy sold in flat boxes as the city's standard gift, is a named regional confection.

🇦🇿Azerbaijan

Nabat

Sugar syrup crystallises around a string or stick into clear rock candy that is nibbled with tea.

🇺🇸United States

Needhams

A Maine confection of mashed potato, coconut, and confectioners' sugar dipped in chocolate.

🇯🇵Japan

Nerikiri

練り切り

Nerikiri, the hand-sculpted seasonal wagashi shaped into flowers and leaves for the tea ceremony, is the apex form of Japanese confectionery.