Pastries

🇲🇰North Macedonia

Maznik

Мазник

Coiled hand-stretched pastry filled with cheese and egg or with minced meat, wound into a spiral and baked.

🇬🇧England, United Kingdom

Meat and potato pie

Meat and potato pie is a pie from England, rooted in local cooking tradition. Distinct from food-meat-pie.

🇨🇱Chile

Meat Empanada

Empanada de pino

Baked pastry filled with ground beef, onions, raisins, olives, and hard-boiled eggs, Chile's iconic empanada.

🇦🇺Australia

Meat Pie

Aussie Meat Pie

An Australian meat pie is a hand-sized pastry filled with minced beef and thick gravy, served hot with tomato sauce.

🇫🇮Finland

Meat Pie

Lihapiirakka

Deep-fried savory pie of yeasted dough filled with minced meat and rice, a popular Finnish street food.

🇽🇰Kosovo

Meat Pie

Pite me Mish

Phyllo pie filled with minced meat and onion, the savory heart of Kosovar baking.

🇦🇷Argentina

Medialunas de Grasa

A smaller, thinner, savory version of medialunas made with lard instead of butter. Crisp and slightly salty, they are a traditional breakfast item, especially in bakeries.

🇦🇷Argentina

Medialunas de Manteca

Buttery, slightly sweet Argentine crescent rolls, smaller and sweeter than French croissants. A breakfast and merienda staple, glazed with a rum-sugar syrup and eaten with coffee or mate.

🇿🇦South Africa

Melktert (Milk Tart)

Melktert

A South African custard tart with a pastry crust, creamy milk filling, and cinnamon dusting, a Dutch-origin classic. A national and bakery staple, creamy and sweet

🇬🇷South Aegean, Greece

Melopita

Μελοπίτα

A honey-and-myzithra cheesecake of Sifnos baked without crust, golden on top and custardy within, cut small and served cool.

🇬🇧England, United Kingdom

Melton Mowbray Pork Pie

Uncured chopped pork in a hand-raised hot-water crust, baked free-standing and filled with pork jelly after baking.

🇲🇬Madagascar

Menakely

A ring of sweet fried dough, denser and chewier than a doughnut, sold from baskets in the street.

🇺🇸United States

Meyer lemon pie

A pie of sweet-tart Meyer lemon custard in a pastry shell.

🇺🇸United States

Michigan Pasty

A Cornish-style hand pie of beef, potato, rutabaga, and onion in a flaky crust — the Upper Peninsula staple.

🇺🇸United States

Midwestern orange rolls

Sweet yeast rolls with an orange zest glaze, a church-basement breakfast classic.

🇪🇸Castile-La Mancha, Spain

Miguelitos

Flaky puff pastry squares from La Roda, Albacete, filled with cream and dusted with powdered sugar, light and indulgent at once.

🇨🇴Colombia

Milhoja

A Colombian layered pastry of thin, crisp puff pastry with arequipe and cream between the layers, topped with sugar. A bakery and party classic.

🇦🇹Vienna, Austria

Milk Cream Strudel

Millirahmstrudel

Strudel filled with creamy milk custard, a rich Viennese dessert variation, light custard filling with thin dough, served warm, traditional.

🇫🇷France

Mille-feuille

Three layers of puff pastry with vanilla pastry cream, means 'thousand leaves'.

🇺🇸United States

Millionaire pie

A no-bake Southern pie of whipped cream, pineapple, pecans, and coconut in a graham crust.

🇳🇿New Zealand

Mince and Cheese Pie

Individual short-pastry pie filled with peppery beef mince under a layer of melted cheese, with a puff pastry lid.

🇬🇧United Kingdom

Mince Pie

Mince pie is a pie from England, rooted in local cooking tradition.

🇺🇸United States

Mississippi Mud Pie

A dense chocolate pie with a fudgy filling, often with a cookie crust and whipped cream.

🇸🇮Upper Carniola, Slovenia

Miške

Small fritters of leavened dough dropped into hot fat, puffed and rolled in sugar, sold at fairs and made at home on cold days.

🇹🇳Tunisia

Mkharek

A Tunisian semolina pastry filled with almond paste or dates, shaped into crescents and baked.

🇲🇦Morocco

Mkhartek

مخارط

A Moroccan fried pastry strip, similar to chebakia, soaked in honey and sesame. A festive and Ramadan staple, sweet and crispy, a national treat, served with mint tea, a party and Eid classic, a pastry, a honeyed sweet.

🇲🇬Madagascar

Mofo Baolina

Balls of sweet wheat dough deep fried and rolled in sugar, sold from trays by the handful.

🇦🇹Austria

Mohnstrudel

Mohnstrudel wraps a dense poppy-seed filling with lemon and spice in thin pastry that flakes when cut.

🇯🇵Japan

Monaka

最中

Monaka, bean paste pressed between two crisp mochi wafers, is a named wagashi form distinct from manju and daifuku.

🇨🇳China

Mooncake

月饼

A Chinese festival pastry of thin tender skin around lotus-seed paste, salted egg yolk or mixed nuts, stamped with patterns and exchanged at the Mid-Autumn Festival

🇳🇱Netherlands

Moorkop

A Dutch choux pastry filled with whipped cream and coated in chocolate glaze.

🇺🇸United States

Moravian chicken pie

A North Carolina Moravian dish of chicken in a rich broth topped with pastry squares.

🇦🇷Argentina

Moroncitos

A sweet from Santiago del Estero made from carob (algarrobo) flour, sugar, and water, shaped into small cones. A rustic, pre-Hispanic sweet of the Chaco region.

🇪🇪Estonia

Mulgimaa Curd Pastries

Mulgikorp

Small Mulgimaa flatbreads or curd pastries.

🇵🇭Negros, Philippines

Muscovado Flatbread

Piaya

A flat, flaky bread filled with muscovado (unrefined cane sugar), a Negros Occidental specialty.

🇽🇰Kosovo

Mushroom Pie

Pite me Kërpudha

Phyllo pie filled with wild mountain mushrooms and cheese.