Pastries

🇭🇺Hungary

Kremes

Krémes

Puff-pastry custard slice.

🇵🇱Poland

Kremówka

The colloquial name for napoleonka, especially in southern Poland. A cream pie of puff pastry and custard, famously associated with Pope John Paul II. A bakery staple, creamy and flaky.

🇪🇪Estonia

Kringle

Kringel

Sweet yeast bread shaped like a pretzel, often flavored with cardamom, popular for celebrations and coffee.

🇸🇮Slovenia

Krofi

Krofi are Slovenian jam doughnuts filled with apricot or another fruit preserve and fried until light.

🇧🇦Bosnia and Herzegovina

Krompiruša

Pita filled with thinly sliced or grated potato and onion, peppered heavily and baked until the pastry blisters.

🇷🇺Russia

Kulebyaka

Кулебяка

Grand closed pie of yeasted dough around layered fillings such as salmon, rice, mushrooms and egg, separated by thin blini.

🇽🇰Kosovo

Kungullore

Kungullore is a Kosovo pumpkin pie built from cornmeal sheets, pumpkin, walnuts and sugar.

🇷🇺Russia

Kurnik

Курник

Kurnik is a dome-shaped chicken pie with chicken, rice, eggs, and mushrooms, wedding pie.

🇨🇦Quebec, Canada

Lac-Saint-Jean Tourtière

Tourtière du Lac-Saint-Jean

Deep-dish meat pie with cubed meats (beef, pork, game) and potatoes, slow-cooked for hours, Saguenay specialty.

🇧🇪Liège, Belgium

Lacquemant wafel

Lacquemant

Lacquemant is a thin Liège waffle sandwich filled with dark syrup and warm spices.

🇦🇱Korçë, Albania

Lakror

Regional layered pie from Korçe with thick dough and generous fillings including cabbage, spinach, meat, or cheese, hand-stretched thin dough with crispy edges, a Korçe specialty.

🇦🇷Patagonia, Argentina

Lamb Empanada

Empanada de cordero

A Patagonian pastry filled with shredded slow-cooked lamb, baked until the crust is browned and served warm in southern Argentine bakeries and homes.

🇲🇹Malta

Lampuki Pie

Torta tal-lampuki

Fillets of dorado baked in a pastry case with cauliflower, spinach, olives, capers, sultanas and walnuts.

🇬🇧England, United Kingdom

Lancashire butter pie

Lancashire butter pie is a pie from Lancashire, rooted in local cooking tradition.

🇱🇻Latvia

Latvian Biezpiena Piragi

Sweet cottage cheese pastries/buns.

🇬🇪Georgia

Layered Sweet Pastry

Ქადა

Layers of yeasted dough spread with a filling of butter, flour and sugar cooked to a crumb, rolled up and baked.

🇫🇷France

Le poirat

Le poirat is a Berry pear tart baked with sliced pears in pastry until fragrant and tender.

🇽🇰Kosovo

Leek Pie

Purrenik

Chopped leek softened in oil and layered into thin pastry, baked until the top sheets blister.

🇺🇸United States

Lemon Ice Box Pie

A no-bake Florida pie of sweetened condensed milk, lemon juice, and whipped cream in a graham crust.

🇺🇸United States

Lemon meringue pie

A tart lemon custard pie crowned with a billowing, toasted meringue.

🇫🇷France

Lemon Tart

Tarte au citron

Butter tart shell with a tangy lemon curd filling.

🇱🇷Liberia

Liberian Meat Pies

Meat Pies

Americo-Liberian hand pies filled with seasoned minced meat and baked or fried.

🇦🇷Argentina

Libritos

A factura of layered puff pastry folded like a little book ('librito'), glazed with syrup and sometimes filled with dulce de leche. A crisp, flaky panadería staple.

🇧🇪Lier, Belgium

Liers vlaaike

Liers vlaaike is a small Lier pastry with a chewy spiced filling inside crisp dough.

🇳🇱Limburg, Netherlands

Limburg Nonnevot

Nonnevot

Nonnevot is a Limburg pastry of sweet yeast dough twisted into a nun's bow and fried until golden.

🇳🇱Limburg, Netherlands

Limburg Pie

Limburgse vlaai

Traditional fruit pie from Limburg with yeast dough base and various fillings like fruit, rice pudding, or cream, EU protected.

🇷🇺Russia

Limonnik

Лимонник

Shortcrust lemon pie sold at every Soviet-era bakery: sharp lemon pulp set between two buttery crusts and dusted with sugar.

🇭🇺Hungary

Linzer

Linzer is a shortbread pastry with jam filling and lattice top, shortbread texture with jam.

🇹🇷Turkey

Lokma

Small, round dough balls deep-fried until golden and immediately soaked in warm syrup or honey, producing a crisp, sticky, sweet treat. Lokma is traditionally prepared in large quantities and distributed free to neighbors and passersby during religious holidays, weddings, and memorial services.

🇧🇬Bulgaria

Lokum Roll

Кифла с локум

Soft bakery roll wrapped around a bar of rose lokum, which melts into a sticky ribbon in the oven.

🇫🇮Finland

Lortsy

Lörtsy

Savonlinna half-moon deep-fried pastry with meat or jam.

🇬🇷Greece

Loukoumades

Λουκουμάδες

Greek deep-fried dough balls, golden and crispy, soaked in honey syrup and sprinkled with cinnamon and sesame. A festival and street dessert, sweet and sticky, a national treat, ancient origin.

🇮🇳Hyderabad, India

Lukhmi

لुख़्मी

Square pastry is filled with minced meat and spices, sealed, and fried in Hyderabad's bakery-stall tradition.

🇱🇺Luxembourg

Luxembourg Bretzel

Bretzel

A sweet puff-pastry pretzel iced with sugar and studded with almonds, given as a courting gift on Bretzelsonndeg, the fourth Sunday of Lent.

🇨🇭Lucerne, Switzerland

Luzerner Chuegelipastete

Luzerner Chuegelipastete is a tall puff-pastry case filled with veal meatballs, mushrooms and creamy sauce.

🇭🇳Honduras

Macheteadas

Slabs of enriched dough slashed with a knife before frying so they open into ridges, then dusted with sugar or soaked in cane syrup.