Pastries

🇪🇸Madrid, Spain

Alcalá Ring Pastries

Rosquillas de Alcalá

Rosquillas de Alcalá are puff-pastry rings from Alcalá de Henares dipped in egg-yolk glaze and finished with smooth sugar icing.

🇬🇷Epirus, Greece

Alevropita

Αλευρόπιτα

A rustic Epirus pie of thin flour batter folded around crumbled feta and eggs, baked until blistered — a "poor man's pita" from the Zagori villages.

🇳🇪Kano, Niger

Alkaki

Twisted lengths of wheat dough deep-fried and soaked in sugar syrup, made in the north for Sallah.

🇵🇦Panama

Almojábano

A Panamanian corn and cheese fried pastry, crispy and savory, a breakfast and street classic

🇳🇱Netherlands

Almond Letter

Banketletter

Letter-shaped pastry filled with almond paste, traditionally given during Sinterklaas, the letter matches recipient's initial.

🇳🇱Netherlands

Almond Pastry Roll

Banketstaaf

Long pastry roll filled with almond paste (amandelspijs), traditionally eaten during holidays and special occasions.

🇹🇹Trinidad and Tobago

Aloo Pie

Fried dough pocket filled with spiced mashed potato, split open and filled with channa and tamarind sauce.

🇵🇱Poland

Andruty Kaliskie

Andruty Kaliskie is a dessert from Kalisz, a sweet finish to the local table.

🇲🇫Saint Martin

Anguillian Coconut Tart

Coconut Tart

A pastry filled with grated coconut, sugar, and spices; a local bakery specialty in Anguilla, often served with vanilla ice cream; a classic island dessert. Across the islands this coconut-filled tart is baked as a bakery sweet, with local notes ranging from Anguillian spice to Sint Maarten and Cayman fillings.

🇦🇬Antigua and Barbuda

Antiguan Mango Pie

Mango Pie

Pie made with local mangoes; a seasonal dessert when mangoes are in season; the sweetness of local mangoes makes an exceptional pie; found at home kitchens and bakeries; the mango pie of Antigua; a tropical twist on apple pie; a celebration of island fruit.

🇦🇬Antigua and Barbuda

Antiguan Pineapple Pie

Pineapple Pie

Pie made with the Antigua Black Pineapple; a seasonal dessert when pineapples are in season; the sweetness of the black pineapple makes an exceptional pie; found at home kitchens and bakeries; the pineapple pie of Antigua; a tropical twist on apple pie; a celebration of the national fruit.

🇩🇪Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Appeltaat

Appeltaat is a dessert made with a defined local recipe and ingredients.

🇺🇸United States

Apple Cider Doughnut

A cake doughnut made with fresh apple cider, often coated in cinnamon sugar while still warm.

🇺🇸United States

Apple Cobbler

A rustic Southern dessert of spiced, sugared apples baked under a biscuit topping.

🇱🇻Latvia

Apple or Rhubarb Tarts

Ābolu vai rabarberu pīrāgi

Sweet yeast dough tarts topped with seasonal fruit, whipped cream and crunchy topping.

🇺🇸United States

Apple Pie

A double-crust pie filled with spiced cinnamon apples, baked until the filling bubbles and the crust is golden.

🇦🇹Austria

Apple Strudel

Apfelstrudel

Thin pastry rolled with spiced apple filling, raisins, and breadcrumbs, traditionally stretched by hand until paper-thin, a legendary Austrian icon.

🇮🇳Odisha, India

Arisa pitha

ଆରିସା ପିଠା

Rice flour and jaggery are shaped into cakes and shallow-fried into Odisha's chewy Arisa Pitha.

🇦🇲Armenia

Armenian Pakhlava

Փախլավա

Filo layered with walnuts and cinnamon and soaked in honey syrup, cut in diamonds — the Armenian version leans on cinnamon and clove.

🇦🇼Aruba

Aruban Fried Empanada

Pastechi

A traditional Aruban breakfast and snack: a deep-fried crescent pastry filled with cheese, chicken, beef, tuna, or vegetables, seasoned with onion, green pepper, celery, raisins, cumin, nutmeg, and hot pepper.

🇺🇸United States

Atlantic Beach pie

A North Carolina custard pie made with sweetened condensed milk and lemon juice, baked in a pastry shell until set.

🇫🇮South Karelia, Finland

Atomi

Lappeenranta variation of lihapiirakka with ham OR egg, named 'Atom' during Cold War era, a regional street food.

🇵🇹Alentejo, Portugal

Azevia

Azevias are Portuguese festive pastries of thin dough filled with sweet chickpea or pumpkin paste and fried or baked until crisp.

🇱🇧Lebanon

Baalbek Meat Pies

صفيحة بعلبكية

Small open-faced pies with a topping of minced lamb, tomato, onion and pomegranate molasses, baked in a hot oven.

🇫🇯Fiji

Babakau

Yeasted dough cut into triangles and deep fried until puffed and hollow, eaten plain, with butter and jam, or split around a curry.

🇮🇹Naples, Italy

Babà al Rum

Naples' sponge-like yeast cake soaked in rum syrup, often split and filled with pastry cream or ricotta. A Polish-origin cake adopted by Neapolitan pastry chefs.

🇳🇿New Zealand

Bacon and Egg Pie

Whole eggs cracked into a puff pastry case with bacon and peas, baked flat and cut into squares.

🇱🇻Latvia

Bacon Pies

Speķa pīrāgi

Crescent-shaped yeast pastries filled with bacon and onion, an iconic Latvian food for celebrations.

🇦🇿Azerbaijan

Badambura

Flaky layered pastry filled with ground almond and cardamom, folded into a plump parcel and dusted with icing sugar.

🇲🇻Maldives

Bajiya

ބަޖިޔާ

Maldivian samosa — triangular pastry filled with smoked tuna, onion, and coconut, deep-fried until golden and crisp, the local version of the Indian samosa.

🇱🇾Libya

Bakalawa Bil Jibna

A Libyan cheese-filled baklava of crisp phyllo layers and sweet cheese, soaked in syrup.

🇨🇦Atlantic Canada, Canada

Bakeapple pie

A Newfoundland and Labrador pie made with bakeapples (cloudberries), a tart orange berry found in bogs.

🇬🇧England, United Kingdom

Bakewell Tart

Cherry Bakewell

A pastry case spread with jam and filled with almond frangipane, baked and often finished with flaked almonds or icing.

🇱🇧Lebanon

Baklava

بقلاوة

Layers of paper-thin phyllo brushed with butter and filled with chopped walnuts or pistachios, baked crisp then drenched in lemon- or rose-scented sugar syrup. One square, cut diamond-small, is the shared Ottoman dessert of the whole eastern Mediterranean.

🇦🇱Albania

Bakllasarem

Bakllasarëm

Northern Albanian specialty of layered dough rolls baked until crispy, then topped with yogurt, garlic, and salt and returned to the oven, creamy garlic-yogurt topping, regional.

🇽🇰Prizren, Kosovo

Bakllasarm

Bakllasarëm

Rolled sheets of pastry baked without filling, then covered with garlic yogurt and a spoon of hot butter or paprika oil.