Pastries

🇵🇪Peru

Guargüeros

Crisp Peruvian pastry tubes filled with manjar and dusted with sugar.

🇵🇷Puerto Rico

Guava Pastry

Pastelillo de guayaba

Puff pastry folded around guava paste and often cream cheese, baked and dusted with sugar.

🇷🇺Russia

Gubadiya

Губадия

Festive layered Tatar pie stacking sweet kort (dried cottage cheese), rice, egg and raisins between rounds of buttery dough.

🇬🇬Guernsey

Guernsey Whiting Pie

Traditional fish pie made with local whiting (or pollack), Guernsey milk, butter, flour, parsley, and lemon juice; topped with mashed potatoes seasoned with nutmeg; celebrates the abundance of fish around Guernsey's waters; a traditional Guernsey seafood dish.

🇨🇻Cape Verde

Gufong

Sweet fried cornmeal pastries shaped into finger-sized logs, often bound with mashed banana or sweet potato; crisp outside, doughy within.

🇬🇳Guinea

Guinean Pastels

Pastels

Fried dough pockets filled with spiced fish, meat, or vegetables; a Guinean street food influenced by Portuguese pastéis; crispy pastry with savoury filling.

🇮🇳India

Gujiya

गुजिया

Flour pastry is filled with sweetened khoya, nuts, and coconut, crimped, and fried or baked for North Indian festivals.

🇫🇯Fiji

Gulgula

Small sweet fritters of flour, banana and cardamom fried into dark balls, made in Indo-Fijian homes for tea and prayer days.

🇲🇻Maldives

Gulha

ގުޅަ

Small deep-fried pastry balls stuffed with smoked tuna, grated coconut, onion, and chili — the iconic Maldivian short eat, sold at hotaa cafés with sweet tea.

🇸🇪Sweden

Gustav Adolfsbakelse

Marzipan pastry for the November Gustavus Adolphus tradition.

🇬🇾Guyana

Guyanese Cheese Roll

Cheese roll

Sharp cheddar folded into a flaky pastry rectangle and baked until the cheese leaks and crisps at the seam.

🇬🇧England, United Kingdom

Gypsy Tart

Gypsy tart is a Kent pastry filled with evaporated milk and dark muscovado sugar.

🇱🇧Homs, Lebanon

Halawet el Jibn

حلاوة الجبن

Soft cheese dough rolled around ashta, cut into small pieces and drenched in orange-blossom syrup with pistachios; an Egyptian form of the Levantine sweet.

🇬🇷Greece

Hamalia

Χαμάλια

Sweet pastry parcels from Chios filled with chopped walnuts and cinnamon, soaked in light syrup, made in batches before holidays.

🇩🇪Hamburg, Germany

Hamburg Cinnamon Pastry

Franzbrötchen

Hamburg sweet pastry with cinnamon-sugar filling, dough folded multiple times and glazed with butter.

🇧🇩Bangladesh

Handesh

হান্দেশ

Rice flour and date molasses batter dropped into deep oil, where it puffs into a dark, chewy round with a crisp rim.

🇦🇱Albania

Hasude

Hasude is an Albanian sweet of cooked flour or semolina thickened with butter and sugar, then served warm with cinnamon or nuts.

🇺🇸United States

Haupia pie

A Hawaiian dessert pie of coconut pudding (haupia) in a crust, often topped with whipped cream.

🇬🇧United Kingdom

Hawick Balls

Hawick Balls is a traditional pastry from United Kingdom.

🇬🇪Georgia

Herb Pie

Მხლოვანა

A flat bread filled with chopped wild greens, herbs and cheese, made in mountain villages when the spring greens come up.

🇷🇸Serbia

Herovke

Херовке

Herovke are filled sweet pastry rolls associated with the Slovak community of Kovačica.

🇸🇭Saint Helena

Hertzoggies

Jam tarts with a shortcrust pastry base filled with apricot or tamarind jam and topped with coconut meringue; a South African-inspired treat popular at Saint Helena parties and tea time.

🇿🇦South Africa

Hertzoggies

A South African jam tart with a pastry base, jam filling, and a coconut-meringue topping, baked golden. A national and tea-time classic, sweet and chewy

🇩🇪Hesse, Germany

Hessischen salzkuchen

Hessischen salzkuchen is a dish made with a defined local recipe and ingredients.

🇩🇪Hesse, Germany

Hessischer speckkuchen

Hessischer speckkuchen is a dish made with a defined local recipe and ingredients.

🇩🇰Denmark

Hindbærsnitter (Raspberry Slices)

Hindbærsnitter

A Danish pastry of two shortcrust layers filled with raspberry jam and topped with icing, a bakery and coffee classic

🇿🇦Cape Town, South Africa

Hoenderpastei

Cape Dutch chicken pie: chicken in a sweet-savoury sauce sharpened with lemon juice, layered with hard-boiled egg, baked under a double pastry crust.

🇵🇦Panama

Hojaldras

A Panamanian fried dough pastry, crispy and golden, dusted with sugar, a breakfast and street classic

🇩🇴Dominican Republic

Hojuelas

Dominican fried puff-pastry strips dusted with sugar, eaten at Christmas and celebrations. Crisp, flaky, and sweet, a holiday tradition, served with hot chocolate.

🇬🇮Gibraltar, Gibraltar

Hojuelas

Fried pastry strips made with flour, eggs, oil, and anise; rolled very thin and fried individually, then coated in sugar syrup (sugar, water, and anise) and sprinkled with hundreds and thousands; a traditional Gibraltarian sweet treat.

🇬🇧England, United Kingdom

Homity pie

Homity pie is a pie from United Kingdom, rooted in local cooking tradition. Distinct from food-pite.

🇱🇹Lithuania

Honey Anthill Pastry

Skruzdėlynas

Individual pastries stacked into a cone, glazed with honey and sprinkled with poppy seeds and nuts.

🇪🇸Andalusia, Spain

Honey Fritters

Pestinos

Deep-fried pastry from Andalusia, flavored with anise and lemon, then bathed in honey or coated in sugar, typical of Holy Week and Christmas.

🇪🇸Castile and León, Spain

Hornazo

Hornazo is a Salamanca savoury pie with a baked crust surrounding a filling of pork products and other meats.

🇬🇷Epirus, Greece

Hortopita

Χορτόπιτα

Greek wild greens pie: phyllo filled with wild greens, herbs, and feta, baked golden. A taverna and home classic, herby and savory, a national and Epirus specialty, a spring and Lenten dish, a rustic pie.

🇬🇧England, United Kingdom

Hot Cross Bun

A spiced yeasted bun with dried fruit and a flour-paste cross piped on top, glazed and eaten at Easter, usually toasted.