Uruguay
Uruguayan Alfajor
Alfajor
Two soft biscuits sandwiched with dulce de leche and coated in chocolate or dusted with icing sugar and coconut.
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Denmark
Vaniljekranse (Vanilla Wreaths)
Vaniljekranse
Danish Christmas cookies shaped as buttery vanilla rings with a crisp crumb.
Serbia
Vanilla Cookies
Ванилице
Sandwich biscuits of lard dough filled with jam, joined in pairs and rolled in vanilla icing sugar while still warm.
Austria
Vanilla Crescents
Vanillekipferl
Crescent-shaped vanilla cookies with ground nuts, coated in vanilla sugar, the quintessential Austrian Christmas cookie, buttery and crumbly, festive.
Ukraine
Verhuny
Вергуни
Verhuny are Ukrainian sweet fried pastries made from thin dough and dusted with sugar.
Tanzania
Visheti
Coconut-milk dough cut into small logs, fried, and dipped in a cardamom sugar syrup that sets to a white glaze.
Serbia
Walnut Crescents
Ораснице
Small crescent biscuits of ground walnut and butter, baked pale and rolled in icing sugar while warm.
Australia
Weet-Bix
Australia's No.1 breakfast cereal: whole-grain wheat biscuits with malty flavor since 1926, crisp biscuits not too soggy in milk, Aussie kids are Weet-Bix kids.
Wales, United Kingdom
Welsh Cakes
Small spiced currant rounds cooked on a bakestone rather than in an oven, sugared while still hot.
Lucerne, Switzerland
Willisau Rings
Willisauer Ringli
Very hard flat rings of honey biscuit, so dense they are traditionally broken rather than bitten.
South Australia, Australia
Yo-Yo Biscuits
Yo-Yo biscuits are delicate South Australian shortbread sandwiches joined by pale buttercream, with a crumb that melts quickly.