Pastries

🇩🇪Hesse, Germany

Kasseler speckkuchen

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

🇬🇷Greece

Kataifi

Καταΐφι

Greek dessert of shredded phyllo (kataifi dough) wrapped around a nut filling, baked and soaked in syrup. A café and celebration dessert, crispy and sweet, a national treat, similar to baklava.

🇹🇷Gaziantep, Turkey

Katmer

A thin, flaky pastry from Gaziantep layered with clotted cream (kaymak) and finely ground pistachios, folded into a square and pan-fried until crisp. It is one of the signature breakfast items of Gaziantep, a UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy, and is closely associated with the city's pistachio culture.

🇱🇾Libya

Kayka Harra

A savoury batter baked over fried potato, tomato, harissa, olives and cheese into a spiced slab, cut in squares.

🇹🇷Marmara Region, Turkey

Kemalpaşa

Kemalpasa tatlisi, the syrup-soaked cheese dough balls of Mustafakemalpasa, is a named town dessert with dedicated producers.

🇦🇿Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan

Kete

Kətə

Flat pastry stuffed with fried onion and greens or with a sweet flour-and-butter crumb, baked on a griddle.

🇺🇸United States

Key Lime Pie

A Florida Keys dessert of tart key lime custard in a graham cracker crust, topped with whipped cream or meringue.

🇮🇳India

Khaja

ଖଜା

Layered wheat pastry is deep-fried and soaked or glazed with syrup in Odisha's Khaja tradition.

🇦🇪United Arab Emirates

Khanfaroosh

خنفروش

Traditional saffron and cardamom cakes, soft and spongy like doughnuts, fried or baked, served during special occasions, soft spongy texture with distinct cardamom and saffron aroma and light sweetness.

🇨🇳Tibet, China

Khapse (Tibetan Fried Cookies)

ཁ་ཟས་

Khapse, the fried dough shapes stacked into towers for Tibetan New Year, is a named calendar food with a fixed ritual role.

🇬🇧Scotland, United Kingdom

Killie pie

Killie pie is a pie from Kilmarnock, rooted in local cooking tradition. Distinct from food-pite.

🇰🇷South Korea

Kkwabaegi (Korean Twisted Donuts)

꽈배기

Kkwabaegi, the twisted sugar-dusted doughnut of Korean market stalls, is a named street item.

🇸🇦Qassim, Saudi Arabia

Kleija

كليجة

Kleija is a Qassim cookie filled with dates or nuts, baked as flaky buttery pastry scented with cinnamon and cardamom.

🇸🇾Syria

Kleijeh

كليجة

Small pastries filled with date paste, walnut or a sweet aniseed dough, baked for Eid.

🇮🇸Iceland

Kleinur

Iceland's cardamom-spiced twisted fried pastry, found in every bakery, a daily and home classic.

🇩🇰Denmark

Klejner

Danish Christmas cookies made from cardamom-spiced dough, twisted and fried.

🇵🇸Nablus, Palestine

Knafeh

كنافة

Sweet cheese pastry with vermicelli-like kataifi dough, soaked in sugar syrup, often topped with pistachios, crispy shredded dough with melted cheese center and proper syrup soaking, a beloved Arab dessert.

🇺🇸United States

Knish

A baked or fried pastry of potato, kasha, or cheese filling — a New York Jewish deli staple.

🇨🇿Czech Republic

Koblihy

Jam- or curd-filled doughnuts.

🇿🇦South Africa

Koeksister

An Afrikaans sweet of plaited dough, fried golden and soaked in ice-cold sugar syrup, crispy and sticky. A national and tea-time staple, sweet and crunchy

🇿🇦Cape Town, South Africa

Koesister (Cape Malay)

Koesister

The Cape Malay version of koeksister: spiced dough balls fried and rolled in desiccated coconut, with cardamom and ginger. A Cape Town and Cape Malay classic, sweet and aromatic, a national and tea-time treat, a festive and Sunday pastry, a spiced sweet.

🇧🇪Belgium

Koffiekoek

Belgian breakfast pastries from the bakery case, from Luxembourg buns to cream-filled rounds.

🇽🇰Peja, Kosovo

Kollpite

A crust of thin hand-stretched layers baked dry, then broken up and doused with garlicky yogurt just before it is carried to the table.

🇬🇷Greece

Kolokithopita

Κολοκυθόπιτα

Greek zucchini pie: phyllo filled with grated zucchini, herbs, and feta, baked golden. A taverna and home classic, light and savory, a national and summer specialty, a rustic and vegetarian pie.

🇨🇾Cyprus

Kolokotes

Κολοκοτές

Cypriot pastries of dough filled with pumpkin, bulgur and cinnamon, baked at Christmas.

🇮🇷Gilan, Iran

Koloocheh

کلوچه

Round stamped pastry filled with walnut, date or coconut and cardamom, baked in Fuman in Gilan and sold along the roads there.

🇨🇿Czech Republic

Koláče

A Czech round sweet yeast pastry with povidla, poppy seed, or tvaroh filling, a festive and daily classic.

🇸🇰Slovakia

Koláče

Round yeast pastries with a well of curd, plum jam, poppy seed or apple in the middle, baked in trays for weddings and holidays.

🇭🇷Croatia

Komiška pogača

Komiška pogača is a filled island pie of tomato, onion and salted fish baked between bread-like dough.

🇪🇬Egypt

Konafa

كنافة

A Egyptian shredded pastry with cream, cheese, or nuts, soaked in syrup, a Ramadan and daily classic

🇫🇷Brittany, France

Kouign-Amann

Breton pastry with layers of butter and sugar, caramelized and crispy.

🇬🇷Greece

Kourou

Κουρού

Greek quick cheese pie with a yeast-free, olive-oil dough (kourou dough) filled with feta. A bakery and home snack, softer and less flaky than phyllo pies, savory and portable.

🇷🇺Northwest Russia, Russia

Kozuli

Козули

Kozuli is a arkhangelsk region's baked figures (usually animals) made for Christmas.

🇭🇷Croatia

Krafne

In Croatia, krafne are airy yeast doughnuts filled with jam and dusted with sugar, sold fresh at bakeries.

🇦🇹Austria

Krapfen

Austrian doughnuts filled with apricot jam or vanilla cream, dusted with powdered sugar, light and fluffy, a carnival and daily treat, beloved.

🇬🇷Epirus, Greece

Kreatopita

Κρεατόπιτα

Greek meat pie: phyllo filled with ground meat, onions, and spices, baked golden. A taverna and home classic, savory and flaky, a national and Epirus specialty, a festive and Sunday dish.