Cookies & Crackers

🇺🇸United States

Ham Biscuits

A Southern snack of thin-sliced salty country ham on a small, flaky buttermilk biscuit.

🇮🇱Israel

Hamantaschen

אוזני המן

Triangular filled cookies with poppy seed, date or jam in the centre, baked for Purim and eaten only in that week.

🇦🇺Australia

Hedgehog Slice

No-bake slice with biscuit, coconut, cocoa, and condensed milk, refrigerated and cut into squares, firm texture with good chocolate flavor, an Australian favorite.

🇲🇾Ipoh, Malaysia

Heong Peng

Ipoh flaky pastry filled with maltose and shallots, fragrant biscuit, flaky layers with fragrant shallot filling and not too sweet.

🇺🇸United States

Hermit Cookies

A New England spice cookie with molasses, raisins, and warm spices, soft and chewy.

🇭🇳Honduras

Honduran Rosquillas

Rosquillas

Rings of maize masa worked with hard cheese and lard, baked in a wood oven until dry and brittle, and dunked in coffee.

🇰🇷South Korea

Honey Cookies

약과

Traditional Korean cookies made with wheat flour, sesame oil, honey, and ginger, deep-fried and soaked in honey syrup.

🇷🇴Romania

Honey Gingerbread

Turtă dulce

Hard honey-and-spice biscuits pressed in carved wooden moulds or iced in bright colours, sold at fairs and pilgrimages.

🇧🇦Bosnia and Herzegovina

Hurmašice

Oval semolina biscuits pressed with a fork, baked, then soaked in cold syrup while still hot so they swell and stay wet.

🇦🇺Australia

Iced VoVo

Arnott's biscuit since 1906: shortbread with two strips of pink fondant, strip of raspberry jam, coconut topping, crisp biscuit with distinct pink fondant and fresh coconut.

🇮🇩Indonesia

Indonesian Crackers

Kerupuk

Various Indonesian crackers made from tapioca and different flavorings, essential side dish.

🇯🇲Jamaica

Jackass Corn

A traditional Jamaican hard biscuit of coconut, flour and sugar, baked until crisp and dry, named for its toughness, a durable, long-lasting snack.

🇳🇱Netherlands

Jan Hagel Cookies

Jan Hagel

Traditional Dutch cookie with almond slivers and sugar, crisp and textured, a historic Amsterdam treat.

🇳🇱North Holland, Netherlands

Jew Cookie

Jodenkoek

Traditional large round spiced cookie, crisp and buttery, an Amsterdam specialty with a long history.

🇺🇸United States

Joe Froggers

A Massachusetts molasses cookie, thin and chewy, made with rum and spices.

🇵🇸Palestine

Ka'k bi Tahineh

كعك بالطحينة

Tahini cookies made with semolina or flour, butter, sugar, and tahini, baked until golden — crumbly, nutty, and not overly sweet.

🇩🇰Denmark

Kammerjunkere

Small Danish sweet rusk cookies traditionally crushed into cold buttermilk soup.

🇹🇷Turkey

Kandil simidi

Kandil simidi, the small aniseed-and-sesame ring baked for the five Islamic holy nights, is a named calendar food with a hard seasonal identity.

🇸🇾Aleppo, Syria

Karabij Halab

كرابيج حلب

Semolina domes filled with pistachio or walnut, served buried in natef — a white foam whipped from soapwort root.

🇯🇵Japan

Karintō

かりんとう

Karinto, fried dough sticks lacquered in dark brown sugar, is a named traditional Japanese confection sold by weight.

🇧🇹Bhutan

Khabzey

ཁ་བཟས།

Flour, butter and sugar dough shaped into knots, bows and ribbons and deep-fried, stacked into towers on the altar at Losar.

🇦🇫Afghanistan

Khetayee

خطایی

Short, crumbly biscuits of flour and oil scented with cardamom, so fragile they fall apart in the hand.

🇵🇪Lambayeque, Peru

King Kong

A Peruvian sweet from Lambayeque of layered cookies filled with dulce de leche, pineapple and peanuts. Thick, sticky and festive.

🇮🇶Mosul, Iraq

Kleicha

كليجة

Pastry rings or crescents filled with date paste or walnut and cardamom, baked pale and stamped with a pattern.

🇦🇫Afghanistan

Kolcha-e Nowrozi

کلچه نوروزی

Round cardamom biscuits stamped with a pattern and baked specifically for the new-year visits at Nowruz.

🇬🇷Greece

Kourabiedes

Κουραμπιέδες

Greek almond shortbread cookies, crescent-shaped, scented with orange blossom, heavily dusted with powdered sugar. A Christmas tradition, melt-in-the-mouth and buttery, a national treat.

🇳🇿New Zealand

Krispie

Cornflake and golden syrup biscuit baked flat and firm, sometimes with a chocolate drizzle.

🇳🇴Norway

Krumkake

A Norwegian Christmas cookie, thin and crisp, baked in a special iron and rolled into a cone, filled with cream. A national and Christmas stapled delicate cookie, a seven-cookie tradition, a cone, a pastry.

🇧🇳Singapore, Brunei

Kue Bangkit

Pale cookies of tapioca flour toasted with pandan and bound with coconut milk, moulded into flowers and baked until they dissolve on the tongue

🇦🇫Herat, Afghanistan

Kulcha Shor

کلچه شور

Salty flat biscuits baked in a clay oven, eaten with tea rather than as a sweet.

🇧🇬Bulgaria

Kurabiiki

Курабийки

Crunchy butter biscuits.

🇲🇹Malta

Kwareżimal

Lenten biscuit of almonds, citrus zest and spice with no fat or egg, baked chewy and topped with honey and chopped almond.

🇸🇰Slovakia

Laskonky

Two flat, chewy hazelnut or coconut meringues sandwiched with buttercream — the standard box-of-cakes item in a Slovak cukráreň.

🇱🇰Sri Lanka

Lattice Sweet

අස්මි

A fried rice-flour disc drizzled with threads of treacle syrup into a lattice, made only for the New Year table.

🇱🇷Liberia

Liberian Shortbread

Shortbread

A crumbly Liberian tea biscuit with a buttery texture and gentle sweetness.

🇱🇾Libya

Libyan Ghreyba

Ghreyba

A short biscuit of flour, ghee and sugar that collapses to powder in the mouth, sometimes topped with an almond.