Candy

🇲🇹Malta

Qubbajt

Qubbajt is Maltese nougat made by cooking sugar or honey with nuts into a firm or chewy confection.

🇧🇷Brazil

Queijadinha

A small, chewy Brazilian sweet of grated cheese, coconut, sugar and condensed milk baked into a golden bite. Found at bakeries and snack bars.

🇮🇷Bushehr, Iran

Ranginak

رنگینک

Dates stuffed with walnuts, laid in a tray and covered with flour toasted in butter, then dusted with cinnamon and pistachio.

🇧🇩West Bengal, Bangladesh

Rasgulla

রসগোল্লা

Spongy balls of chhana soaked in light sugar syrup.

🇱🇰Sri Lanka

Rice Flour Balls

අග්ගලා

Roasted rice flour pounded with palm treacle, pepper and salt into a stiff paste, rolled into small balls and dusted with more rice flour.

🇱🇰Sri Lanka

Rice Flour Diamonds

අලුවා

Roasted rice flour worked with treacle or sugar syrup and cashew, rolled flat and cut into diamonds.

🇧🇷Brazil

Romeu e Julieta

A classic Brazilian sweet pairing of goiabada (guava paste) with fresh white cheese, served as a dessert or snack. The salt cheese balances the dense guava sweetness.

🇧🇱Saint Barthélemy

Saint Barts Barley Sugar

Sucre d'Orge

Traditional candy made from white sugar and pomme raquette (dragon fruit/pitaya) which gives them a distinctive red color; historically given to well-behaved children after Mass on Sunday; a distinctive Saint Barts tradition with deep cultural roots.

🇯🇵Japan

Sakura Mochi

桜餅

A spring sweet of pink mochi wrapped around sweet bean paste, with a pickled cherry-blossom leaf.

🇫🇮Finland

Salmiakki

Salty liquorice candy; canonical home overlaps DK salmiak/saltlakrids.

🇧🇩West Bengal, Bangladesh

Sandesh

সন্দেশ

Fresh chhena worked with sugar over low heat and pressed into moulds — the driest and most delicate of the Bengali milk sweets.

🇱🇰Sri Lanka

Sesame Balls

තල ගුලි

Roasted sesame seeds pounded with palm treacle or jaggery into a stiff paste and rolled into balls wrapped in paper twists.

🇧🇩Dhaka, Bangladesh

Shahi Jilapi

শাহি জিলাপি

An outsized coil of fried batter, the width of a dinner plate, soaked in syrup and sold by weight in Old Dhaka during Ramadan.

🇦🇫Afghanistan

Sheer Pira

شیرپیره

Milk cooked down with sugar and cardamom and set with pistachio into a dense fudge cut into squares.

🇦🇿Sheki, Azerbaijan

Sheki Halva

Şəki halvası

Layers of rice-flour vermicelli built up with ground hazelnut and saffron syrup, pressed in a copper tray and cut into diamonds.

🇰🇲Comoros

Shihondro

Caramelized peanut candy, a traditional sweet eaten in the Comoros; a simple confection showcasing local peanuts and the island love of sweet snacks.

🇨🇾Cyprus

Shoushoukos

Σουτζιούκος

Almonds threaded on a string and dipped repeatedly in thickened grape must until they build a firm, chewy coat.

🇳🇬Nigeria

Shuku Shuku

A Nigerian coconut candy of grated coconut and sugar, rolled into balls and baked or fried until golden.

🇺🇬Uganda

Simsim Candy

Simsim

Sesame seeds toasted and set in boiled sugar or honey, cut into small hard bars and sold in twists of plastic.

🇮🇷Iran

Sohan

سوهان

Brittle saffron toffee of wheat sprout, sugar, butter and pistachio, poured into discs and sold in tins from Qom.

🇮🇷Isfahan, Iran

Sohan asali

سوهان عسلی

A saffron-honey brittle from Qom, studded with pistachios and almonds.

🇵🇰Multan, Pakistan

Sohan Halwa

سوہن حلوہ

Dense disc of wheat-sprout syrup boiled with ghee, sugar and cardamom until it sets hard, studded with pistachio and almond.

🇮🇳India

Sohan Papdi

सोन पापड़ी

A flaky, layered north Indian sweet of gram flour and sugar, brittle and honeycombed.

🇵🇭Philippines

Sticky Sweet Paste

Kalamay

An extremely sticky sweet paste made from glutinous rice, coconut milk, and brown sugar, a traditional delicacy.

🇦🇪United Arab Emirates

Stuffed Dates

تمر محشي

Stuffed dates are Emirati sweets filled with nuts or cream cheese; the dates hold a generous filling and can remain moderately sweet.

🇰🇷South Korea

Sugar Candy

달고나

Melted sugar mixed with baking soda to create a honeycomb toffee, pressed flat and stamped with a shape, a nostalgic street candy.

🇺🇸United States

Sugar on Snow

A Vermont winter treat: maple syrup boiled down and poured over clean snow to harden into taffy.

🇧🇾Belarus

Sugared Cranberries

Журавіны ў цукры

Whole cranberries rolled in a shell of icing sugar and glucose so they crack sour under a sweet crust — a supermarket confection everyone brings home.

🇵🇪Lima, Peru

Suspiro a la Limeña

Elegant Lima dessert: manjar blanco (dulce de leche) topped with port wine meringue. Created in the 19th century.

🇮🇳India

Sutarfeni

સૂતરફેણી

Fine strands of flour are cooked with ghee and sugar into a delicate Gujarati sweet finished with nuts.

🇸🇪Sweden

Swedish Toffee

Knäck

Swedish toffee made with sugar, syrup, and cream, a traditional Christmas candy with buttery texture.

🇧🇿Belize

Tablata

Grated coconut cooked down with sugar and slices of ginger, poured out and cut into squares that set hard and chewy.

🇬🇧Scotland, United Kingdom

Tablet

Sugar, condensed milk and butter boiled and beaten as it cools so it sets grainy and brittle rather than chewy like fudge.

🇭🇹Haiti

Tablèt Pistach

Peanuts set in a slab of hard caramelised cane sugar, cracked into pieces and sold in cellophane.

🇹🇷Turkey

Tahin Helvasi

Sesame halva, distinct from semolina irmik-helvasi.

🇧🇦Bosnia and Herzegovina

Tahini Halva

Тахан халва

Crumbly sesame-paste confection sold in slabs, plain or marbled with cocoa, cut from a block by weight.