Cookies & Crackers

🇧🇴Bolivia

Bolivian Alfajores

Alfajores

A Bolivian cookie sandwich of two soft cornstarch cookies filled with dulce de leche (manjar blanco) and coconut, a tea-time classic.

🇭🇹Haiti

Bonbon Amidon

Cassava starch beaten with butter, sugar and lime zest into a pale cookie that dissolves the moment it touches the tongue.

🇲🇹Malta

Bones of the Dead

Għadam tal-mejtin

Bone-shaped pastries with an almond and citrus filling under a hard white icing, made for All Souls in early November.

🇺🇸United States

Bourbon Ball

A no-bake Kentucky confection of crushed cookies, bourbon, and chocolate, rolled into balls.

🇩🇿Algeria

Bradj

برادج

Semolina diamonds filled with a date paste scented with cinnamon and orange blossom, cooked on a griddle.

🇬🇧United Kingdom

Brandy snaps

Brandy snaps are thin crisp ginger-and-treacle biscuits, often rolled into tubes and filled with cream.

🇷🇸Serbia

Breskvice

Бресквице

"Peach" shaped cookies with rum, walnut and dulce de leche.

🇫🇷Brittany, France

Breton Butter Cookie

Galette bretonne

Butter-rich crisp cookies from Brittany with scalloped edges.

🇮🇹Tuscany, Italy

Brigidini

Tuscan thin crispy anise-flavored wafers pressed in a special iron, traditionally made in Lamporecchio. A Carnival specialty.

🇵🇹Madeira, Portugal

Broas de mel

Broas de mel is a Portuguese sweet from Madeira, shaped as a cookie and finished with its characteristic sugar, nut, or egg filling.

🇧🇪Bruges, Belgium

Brugse mokken

Brugse mokken are small Bruges butter cookies with a firm crumb and caramelised edge.

🇩🇰Denmark

Brunkager (Brown Cookies)

Brunkager

Danish Christmas cookies spiced with ginger, cinnamon, and cloves; dark, crisp, and aromatic.

🇮🇹Piedmont, Italy

Brutti Ma Buoni

Piedmontese "ugly but good" hazelnut meringue cookies.

🇱🇧Lebanon

Butter Shortbread

غريبة

A very pale shortbread of clarified butter, sugar and flour, shaped into rings or S-curves with an almond pressed into the middle.

🇮🇹Tuscany, Italy

Cantucci di Prato

Tuscan almond biscuits baked twice (bis-cotti) until dry, traditionally dipped in Vin Santo dessert wine. The original 'biscotti'.

🇧🇷Brazil

Casadinhos

Two small Brazilian cookies joined by guava paste or dulce de leche and finished with sugar.

🇵🇭Philippines

Cashew Cookie Sandwiches

Silvanas

Frozen cookie sandwiches with cashew meringue and buttercream, a smaller version of sans rival.

🇲🇺Mauritius

Cassava Biscuit

Biscuit manioc

A pale, hard, barely sweet biscuit pressed from cassava flour, made in Rodrigues and eaten with tea or crumbled under ice cream.

🇳🇬Nigeria

Chin Chin

Sweet dough cut into small cubes or strips and deep-fried hard, flavoured with nutmeg and sold in bags by weight.

🇺🇸United States

Chocolate Chip Cookie

A drop cookie loaded with chocolate chips — invented at the Toll House Inn in Massachusetts in 1938.

🇨🇿Czech Republic

Christmas Cookies

Vánoční cukroví

Assortment of small spiced and filled cookies baked for Czech Christmas.

🇦🇹Austria

Cinnamon Stars

Zimtsterne

Star-shaped cookies made with ground almonds and cinnamon, topped with meringue icing, a German-Austrian Christmas classic, distinctive and spicy, festive.

🇸🇳Senegal

Cinq Centimes

Small dense peanut biscuits sold loose in markets, named for the coin they once cost.

🇩🇴Dominican Republic

Cocada

Cocada dominicana

A Dominican baked coconut macaroon of grated coconut, sugar, and eggs, baked until golden. A bakery and home dessert, sweet and chewy with a crisp top.

🇩🇴Dominican Republic

Coconetes

Dominican coconut cookies of grated coconut, flour, sugar, and butter, baked until golden. A bakery and home sweet, chewy and coconutty, served with coffee.

🇦🇹Austria

Coconut Cookies

Kokosbusserl

Small coconut cookies popular during Austrian Christmas season, good coconut flavor with proper texture, not too sweet, a festive holiday treat, traditional.

🇬🇫French Guiana

Comtesses

Small shortbread biscuits (flour, sugar, butter/Sovaco), slightly sweet; accompany desserts like fruit sorbets or fruit salads; served with madou (fruit juice) or champagne; no eggs, water, or aromatics in the traditional recipe.

🇩🇴Dominican Republic

Conconete

A Dominican coconut cookie made with grated coconut, sugar and warm spice, baked until chewy at the centre and browned at the edges.

🇺🇸United States

Cookie Salad

A Midwestern dessert 'salad' of vanilla pudding, whipped cream, mandarin oranges, and buttermilk cookies.

🇬🇧England, United Kingdom

Cornish fairing

Cornish fairings are crisp, spiced ginger biscuits with a cracked, sugary surface.

🇨🇷Guanacaste, Costa Rica

Costa Rican Corn-and-Cheese Rosquillas

Rosquillas

Cheese and corn ring cookies from Guanacaste, crispy snacks with good cheese flavor, a traditional Costa Rican treat.

🇧🇪Dinant, Belgium

Couque de Dinant

A Belgian very hard honey biscuit from Dinant, stamped with intricate designs, a regional and cultural icon

🇺🇸United States

Cowboy cookies

A big, rugged drop cookie loaded with oats, chocolate chips, pecans, and coconut.

🇲🇽Sonora, Mexico

Coyotas

Sonoran cookies of flour, sugar, and lard, large, thin, and crisp.

🇱🇰Sri Lanka

Crisp Rosette Cookies

කොකිස්

A batter of rice flour and coconut milk fried on a heated metal mould into brittle flower shapes, a Dutch-era import kept for New Year.

🇨🇾Cyprus

Cypriot Daktyla

Δάκτυλα

Daktyla are Cypriot finger-shaped pastries of thin dough filled with nuts and scented with cinnamon, then fried or baked and syruped.