Cookies & Crackers

🇫🇷Brittany, France

Sable Breton

Sablé breton is a thick Breton shortbread made rich with butter and egg yolk.

🇮🇹Italy

Salame di Cioccolato

No-bake chocolate 'salami' of cocoa, crushed biscuits, butter, and sometimes nuts, sliced to look like a cured meat. A children's party favorite.

🇼🇸Samoa

Samoan Coconut Cookies

Masi Samoa

Samoan coconut cookies; flour, sugar, and coconut baked into crisp, golden rounds; often served snack and gift; found at markets and bakeries; simple, sweet, and coconutty; a TasteAtlas-listed snack; the cookie that travels well across the islands.

🇳🇴Norway

Sandbakkels

Sandbakkelse

A Norwegian Christmas sugar cookie, pressed into fluted tins, buttery and crumbly, filled with cream or berries. A national and Christmas stapled delicate cookie, a seven-cookie tradition, a tart, a pastry.

🇳🇴Norway

Sandnøtter

A Norwegian Christmas cookie, small and crumbly with vanilla, a melt-in-the-mouth treat, a festive classic. A national and Christmas stapled delicate cookie, a seven-cookie tradition, a small and crumbly cookie, a pastry.

🇯🇵Japan

Senbei

煎餅

Crispy Japanese rice crackers, grilled or baked, flavored with soy, salt, or seaweed.

🇧🇷Brazil

Sequilhos

Small Brazilian cassava-starch cookies that crumble softly and melt quickly on the tongue.

🇱🇧Damascus, Lebanon

Sesame and Pistachio Biscuits

برازق

Thin crisp biscuits coated with sesame seeds on one side and pressed with pistachio on the other.

🇮🇶Iraq

Shakar Lama

شكر لمة

Short, crumbly cardamom biscuits made with clarified butter, so fragile they collapse in the mouth.

🇮🇳India

Shankarpali

शंकरपाळी

A Maharashtrian and North Indian sweet or savory diamond-shaped snack made from flour and ghee. Popular during festivals.

🇦🇱Albania

Sheqerpare

Sheqerpare are Albanian shortbread-like pastries soaked in lemon-scented sugar syrup until tender, often finished with a nut.

🇬🇧Scotland, United Kingdom

Shortbread

A biscuit of flour, butter and sugar in a three-to-two-to-one ratio, baked pale and sandy with no raising agent.

🇧🇪Ghent, Belgium

Sneeuwballen

Sneeuwballen are fried Belgian dough balls dusted with sugar and eaten fresh from a stall.

🇺🇸United States

Snickerdoodle

A soft, chewy sugar cookie rolled in cinnamon sugar with a crackly top.

🇿🇦South Africa

Soetkoekies

A South African spiced sweet cookie with wine, cinnamon, and cloves, a Dutch-origin and Cape classic. A national and tea-time staple, sweet and aromatic

🇪🇸Spain

Spanish Lard Shortbread

Mantecados

Crumbly lard Christmas cookies, closely related to polvorones.

🇩🇪North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Speculaas Cookies

Spekulatius

Spiced cookies pressed in wooden molds, from Westphalia and the Rhineland, traditional at Christmas.

🇧🇪Belgium

Speculoos

Spéculoos / Speculaas

A Belgian spiced biscuit with cinnamon, cloves, and brown sugar, traditionally for St. Nicholas.

🇳🇱Netherlands

Spice Nuts

Kruidnoten

Small round crunchy speculaas-type cookies heavily spiced with ginger, cardamom, cinnamon, white pepper, cloves, and nutmeg.

🇳🇱Netherlands

Spiced Cookies

Speculaas

Crunchy spiced cookies flavored with cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, ginger, cardamom, and white pepper, often shaped with figures.

🇩🇪Germany

Spitzbuben

Spitzbuben are tender butter cookies sandwiched with red jam, usually with a cut-out window in the top biscuit.

🇩🇪Germany

Spritzgebaeck

Spritzgebaeck are piped butter cookies baked into ridged rings or fingers with crisp edges and a short tender crumb.

🇩🇴Dominican Republic

Suspiritos

Small Dominican meringue kisses made from whipped egg whites and sugar, piped and baked slowly until crisp outside and light within.

🇵🇦Panama

Suspiros Panameños

Panamanian meringue cookies, light and crisp, made from whipped egg whites and sugar.

🇲🇾Ipoh, Malaysia

Tambun Biscuits

Green bean paste biscuits from Ipoh.

🇧🇷Pernambuco, Brazil

Tareco

A Pernambuco griddled cookie-like sweet with a firm edge, commonly sold in bakeries and neighborhood markets.

🇰🇷South Korea

Tea Cookies

다식

Pressed cookies made from ground pine nuts, sesame, soybeans, or rice flour, mixed with honey and stamped with decorative molds.

🇲🇾Sarawak, Malaysia

Tebaloi

Sago crackers from Sarawak, crispy and savory, crispy texture with not burnt and sago aroma.

🇿🇦South Africa

Tennis Biscuit

A South African coconut biscuit with a crumbly texture, used in fridge tarts and eaten with tea

🇹🇭Thailand

Thong Muan

ทองม้วน

Crispy golden rolled wafers made from coconut milk, rice flour, and sugar, a traditional Thai snack.

🇦🇺Australia

Tim Tam

Australia's most loved chocolate biscuit since 1964: two malted biscuits separated by chocolate cream filling, coated in thin chocolate layer, try the Tim Tam Slam!

🇨🇭Zurich, Switzerland

Tirggel

Thin, hard honey biscuits stamped with carved wooden moulds and baked at high heat so the pattern browns while the base stays pale.

🇨🇺Cuba

Torticas de Morón

Cuban shortbread cookies of flour, sugar, and lard, crumbly and lightly sweet, from the town of Morón.

🇷🇺Central Russia, Russia

Tula Gingerbread

Тульский пряник

Stamped gingerbread from Tula since 1788, a rectangular slab of dense honey dough with jam or condensed-milk filling.

🇲🇳Mongolia

Ul Boov

Ул боов

Large stamped shortbread-like cakes stacked in odd-numbered layers and topped with sweets, curds and sugar as the centrepiece of the Tsagaan Sar table. The festival follows the lunar calendar.

🇱🇰Kandy, Sri Lanka

Urad Bean Coils

ඌන්ඩු වලාළු

Urad bean flour batter piped into coils and deep-fried, then soaked in kithul treacle until crisp and sticky at once.