Cookies & Crackers

🇱🇾Libya

Libyan Kaek

Kaek

Ring-shaped biscuits flavoured with aniseed or sesame, dry enough to keep for weeks and made to be dunked in tea.

🇦🇹Linz, Austria

Linzer Eyes

Linzer Augen

Linzer cookie sandwiches with jam filling showing through like an eye, smaller version of Linzer Torte, good linzer dough, a festive Christmas treat.

🇲🇾Malaysia

Love Letters

Kuih Kapit

Crispy rolled wafer cookies, crispy thin layers with not burnt and delicate fresh crunch.

🇨🇭Zurich, Switzerland

Luxemburgerli

Very small, light macarons with a soft filling, sold by weight in pastel colours from one confectioner's counters.

🇦🇪United Arab Emirates

Ma'amoul

معمول

Date-filled semolina cookies pressed into wooden molds with decorative patterns, dusted with icing sugar, an Eid favorite, crumbly yet firm texture with distinct mold patterns and generous date filling.

🇲🇴Macao

Macanese Almond Cookies

Hang Yan Beng

Macau's classic edible souvenir; crumbly and dry in a good way; made with a lot of almonds, meaning every bite is crunchy; recommended to eat with a drink because they are dry; pressed in wooden molds; sold in shops from Senado Square to the Cathedral; the cookie that every visitor brings home from Macau.

🇫🇷Paris, France

Macaron

Colorful meringue-based sandwich cookies with ganache or buttercream filling.

🇰🇷South Korea

Maejakgwa

매작과

Maejakgwa is made with thin fried dough ribbons glazed with ginger syrup.

🇾🇹Mayotte

Mahorais Coconut Biscuits

Makarara

Traditional biscuits made from wheat flour, coconut milk, sugar, vanilla and a little baking soda. The dough is rolled, cut into shapes, baked and often dusted with icing sugar.

🇸🇷Suriname

Maizena Cookies

Maizena koek

Cornstarch biscuits made with butter and vanilla that dissolve on the tongue almost immediately.

🇩🇿Constantine, Algeria

Makroud el Louse

مقروض اللوز

Almond paste shaped into diamonds, poached briefly, dipped in lemon syrup and rolled in icing sugar.

🇲🇦Kairouan, Morocco

Makrout

مقروض

Semolina pastry wrapped around date paste, fried or baked, and finished with honey; named forms are shared across the Maghreb.

🇲🇹Malta

Maltese Water Crackers

Galletti

Thin round water biscuits, hard and salted, eaten with bigilla, ġbejniet and tomato.

🇺🇦Ukraine

Mandryky

Мандрики

Baked curd biscuits from Polissya: farmer's cheese, eggs and flour rolled into golden fingers or knots.

🇦🇹Vienna, Austria

Manner Wafers

Manner Neapolitaner Schnitten

Iconic Austrian wafers with five layers of crisp wafer and four layers of hazelnut cocoa cream, a Vienna symbol since 1898, distinctive pink packaging, legendary.

🇵🇷Puerto Rico

Mantecaditos

Short, crumbling lard-and-almond biscuits pressed with a thumbprint of guava paste or a glacé cherry.

🇲🇽Mexico

Marranitos

Gingerbread-like pig-shaped cookies, soft and spiced with piloncillo.

🇮🇳India

Mathi

मठ्ठी

A North Indian fried savory cracker, similar to namak para. It is flaky and served with tea.

🇲🇼Malawi

Mbatata Cookies

Soft, cake-like Malawian cookies made with mashed sweet potatoes, flour, baking powder, sugar, salt, cinnamon, and raisins; traditionally cut into heart or round shapes and baked until golden.

🇸🇰Slovakia

Medovníky

Medovníky are Slovak honey-and-spice biscuits cut into shapes, baked firm, and often decorated with white icing for Christmas.

🇮🇩Indonesia

Melinjo Crackers

Emping

Crackers made from melinjo nuts, bitter and crispy, served as accompaniment to many dishes.

🇬🇷Greece

Melomakarona

Μελομακάρονα

Greek Christmas cookies: oval, spiced with orange and cinnamon, soaked in honey syrup, topped with walnuts. A Christmas tradition, soft and sweet, dairy-free for Lent, a national treat.

🇨🇴Colombia

Merenguitos

Colombian hard meringue cookies, crisp and sweet, made with egg whites and sugar. A bakery and coffee-accompanying sweet, sold in paper bags.

🇮🇳India

Methi Mathri

मेथी मठरी

A North Indian fried cracker flavored with fenugreek leaves and spices. It is crispy and savory.

🇹🇼Taiwan

Milk Crisp Roll

牛奶棒

A Taiwanese crisp wafer roll filled with a milky cream.

🇱🇧Lebanon

Milk Ring Biscuits

كعك بحليب

Small ring-shaped biscuits made with milk and mahleb, faintly sweet and dry, eaten with tea and coffee.

🇬🇧Scotland, United Kingdom

Millionaire's Shortbread

A layered tray bake of buttery shortbread, caramel filling and a dark chocolate topping, named for its rich, indulgent combination.

🇦🇺Australia

Mint Slice

Chocolate biscuit with mint cream center, Arnott's classic, good chocolate coating with distinct mint flavor and crisp biscuit, an after-dinner Australian favorite.

🇩🇿Algeria

Mkhabez

مخبز

Ground almond and sugar biscuits shaped by hand and finished with a hard, pastel-coloured icing.

🇨🇦Atlantic Canada, Canada

Molasses Cookies

Biscuits à la mélasse

Soft spiced cookies made with molasses, traditional Maritime and Newfoundland treat, especially at Christmas.

🇺🇸United States

MoonPie

A Southern snack of two graham cookies sandwiching marshmallow, dipped in chocolate.

🇺🇸United States

Moravian Spice Cookies

Paper-thin molasses spice cookies from the Moravian community of Winston-Salem.

🇱🇹Lithuania

Mushroom Cookies

Grybukai

Mushroom-shaped baked cookies coated with chocolate and white icing, made from sponge cake or gingerbread dough.

🇸🇧Polynesian Outliers (Temotu / Rennell and Bellona), Solomon Islands

Nambo

Traditional breadfruit biscuit from Santa Cruz in Temotu province; breadfruit is roasted, peeled, cut into squares, and further heated to harden into a biscuit texture; keeps for 2+ years; used for fishing trips and disaster preparedness; a Polynesian outlier specialty.

🇮🇷Kermanshah, Iran

Nan-e Berenji

نان برنجی

Rice-flour cookies scented with rose water and cardamom, stamped with a pattern and topped with poppy seed — a Kermanshah speciality.

🇮🇷Qazvin, Iran

Nan-e Nokhodchi

نان نخودچی

Clover-shaped cookies of roasted chickpea flour, butter, cardamom and pistachio, baked pale and extremely short.