Cookies & Crackers

🇲🇺Mauritius

Napolitaine

Two crumbling shortbread rounds sandwiched with strawberry or guava jam and covered in a thick pink sugar icing.

🇰🇭Cambodia

Nataing

ណាតាំង

Minced pork simmered in coconut milk with garlic, shallots, and chili, served in a small skillet with rice crackers or vegetables for dipping.

🇫🇷Marseille, France

Navettes Marseillaises

Navettes marseillaises are crisp, boat-shaped Marseille biscuits scented with orange blossom.

🇹🇼Taiwan

Nougat Cracker

牛軋餅

Slab of nougat with peanuts sandwiched between two thin salted scallion crackers, so the salt cuts the sweetness.

🇨🇦Atlantic Canada, Canada

Nova Scotia Oatcakes

Oatcakes

Thin, crisp oat cookies from Cape Breton, traditional Scottish-influenced Nova Scotia treat.

🇰🇭Cambodia

Num Kreab

នំក្រាប

Thin crisp rice crackers made from rice flour and coconut milk, grilled until dry and brittle, eaten with sweet toppings or on their own.

🇩🇪Nuremberg, Germany

Nuremberg Gingerbread

Nürnberger Lebkuchen

EU-protected gingerbread from Nuremberg with at least 25% nuts, decorated with almonds and candied lemon peel.

🇺🇸United States

Oatmeal Cookies

A chewy drop cookie of oats, raisins, and warm spices.

🇷🇸Serbia

Oblande

Обланде

Classic Serbian wafers with chocolate-nut filling.

🇨🇴Colombia

Obleas

Colombian wafer sandwiches of two thin wafers filled with arequipe, jam, cheese, or condensed milk. A street and park snack, sweet and crunchy.

🇲🇹Malta

Ottijiet

Ring-shaped biscuits flavoured with orange, aniseed and sesame, hard enough to keep for weeks.

🇿🇦South Africa

Ouma Rusks

Ouma beskuit

A South African buttermilk rusk, twice-baked and dry, dunked in coffee or tea, a national and breakfast staple

🇻🇪Venezuela

Paledonia

Paledonia, also called catalina or cuca, is a Venezuelan baked wheat-flour sweet made with papelón or molasses and warm spices.

🇻🇪Carabobo, Venezuela

Panelitas de San Joaquín

Carabobo's panela cookies baked into thin, crisp-edged squares.

🇺🇸United States

Peanut Butter Cookie

A drop cookie of peanut butter, often crossed with fork marks.

🇩🇰Denmark

Pebernødder (Pepper Nuts)

Pebernødder

Danish Christmas cookies made small and round with cinnamon, ginger, and cloves.

🇳🇱Netherlands

Pepper Nuts

Pepernoten

Small chewy cookies traditionally square-shaped, made from rye flour, honey, and anise, distinct from kruidnoten.

🇺🇸United States

Peppernuts

Small, hard German-Russian spice cookies — bite-size and dense, for dunking.

🇬🇧Scotland, United Kingdom

Petticoat Tails

A traditional Scottish shortbread shaped into a round and cut into triangular segments, resembling the petticoat hoops of 18th-century dresses.

🇵🇱Toruń, Poland

Piernik Staropolski

'Old Polish gingerbread': a layered gingerbread with plum jam and walnut cream, aged for days. A Toruń specialty, dark, spicy, and rich, a festive and artisanal dessert.

🇵🇱Toruń, Poland

Pierniki Toruńskie

Toruń gingerbread cookies: small, spiced, glazed gingerbread cookies, a Toruń specialty since the Middle Ages. A national treat, dark and spicy, a souvenir and gift.

🇦🇩Andorra

Pine-Nut Marzipan Cookies

Panellets

Marzipan cookies rolled in pine nuts, baked for All Saints' Day.

🇹🇼Taiwan

Pineapple Cake

鳳梨酥

Short buttery pastry cube filled with a jam of pineapple, traditionally cut with winter melon for texture, baked and sold in gift boxes.

🇳🇮Nicaragua

Pinos de Limón

A Nicaraguan lemon-shaped cookies with corn flour and sugar, a daily and home classic

🇱🇧Lebanon

Pistachio Cookies with Natef

كرابيج

Small semolina cookies filled with pistachio and served with natef, a white whipped cream made from soapwort root.

🇺🇸United States

Potato Chip Cookies

A Midwestern cookie with crushed potato chips folded in for a salty crunch.

🇧🇿Belize

Powder Bun

A dense, dry, slightly sweet coconut and flour bun raised with baking powder, sold in bags at bus stops and shops.

🇷🇺Russia

Pryaniki

Пряники

Honey-and-spice cookies stamped or moulded into patterns, Russia's everyday sweet since the 12th century; Tula, Gorodets and Vyazma bake named regional forms.

🇮🇷Tabriz, Iran

Qurabiya

قورابیه

Tabriz qurabiya are almond shortbread cookies scented with rose water and topped with pistachio or almond.

🇸🇪Sweden

Raspberry Cave

Hallongrotta

Shortbread cookies with raspberry jam indentation, a classic Swedish fika cookie.

🇮🇩Indonesia

Rempeyek

Rempeyek is a brittle rice-flour cracker with peanuts or anchovies embedded in its crisp surface.

🇮🇹Tuscany, Italy

Ricciarelli di Siena

Sienese almond macaroon-like cookies, PGI.

🇮🇩Indonesia

Rice Crackers

Rengginang

Round rice crackers, crispy and savory, often glazed with sweet soy sauce.

🇬🇺Guam

Rosketti

Rosketti are dense Chamorro cookies made from starchy dough, baked firm and served as a dry, lightly sweet snack.

🇳🇮Nicaragua

Rosquillas

A Nicaraguan ring-shaped corn flour cookies with cheese and sugar, a daily and home classic

🇬🇮Gibraltar, Gibraltar

Rosquitos

Traditional ring-shaped pastries eaten at Christmas and Easter; made with flour, baking powder, eggs, sugar, and butter; fried in oil, then glazed in simple syrup with optional aniseed liqueur which dries to a crystalline finish; not doughnuts but have a ring shape.