Pastries

🇵🇲Saint Pierre and Miquelon

Mussel Tart (Tarte aux Moules)

A Saint-Pierre specialty of mussels baked in a savory custard tart, seasoned with cream, herbs, and often a splash of white wine.

🇬🇺Guam

Månha Pie

Månha pie uses grated young coconut in a sweet filling baked inside pastry until the centre sets and the crust browns.

🇵🇱Poland

Napoleonka

Ukrainian Napoleon Cake

Polish cream pie: two layers of puff pastry filled with custard cream, dusted with powdered sugar or glazed. A bakery and café staple, creamy and flaky, a national dessert.

🇺🇸Louisiana, United States

Natchitoches Meat Pie

A Louisiana hand pie of seasoned ground beef and pork in a flaky crust, deep-fried.

🇦🇲Armenia

Nazook

Նազուկ

Rolled yeast pastry with the same buttery flour-and-sugar filling as gata, cut into diagonal fingers and baked to a deep gold.

🇦🇺Australia

Neenish Tart

A Neenish tart is a small pastry filled with mock cream and jam, finished with a sharply divided two-colour icing.

🇽🇰Kosovo

Nettle Pie

Hithenik

Young stinging nettles blanched and chopped with white cheese, then baked in layers of thin dough.

🇷🇺Saint Petersburg, Russia

Nevsky pirog

Невский пирог

Saint Petersburg bakery cake of two soft shortcake rounds sandwiching thick plum or apple jam, dusted with sugar.

🇺🇸United States

New Jersey Blueberry Muffins

Muffins bursting with New Jersey's signature blueberries, with a sugared top.

🇫🇷Nice, France

Nicoise Onion Tart

Pissaladière

Nicoise onion tart with anchovies and olives on a bread dough base.

🇳🇬Nigeria

Nigerian Meat Pie

Meat pie

Short pastry turnover filled with minced beef, diced potato and carrot in a thick gravy, baked and sold from warmers.

🇸🇻El Salvador

Nuegados

A Salvadoran fried yuca and cheese fritter served in panela syrup, a daily and street classic

🇰🇭Cambodia

Num Pia

នំពៀ

Dense baked pastry filled with sweet mung bean, lotus seed, or pork, made for the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Cambodian version of Chinese mooncakes.

🇨🇦Quebec, Canada

Nun’s Farts Pastries

Pets de sœur

Quebec 'nun's farts': rolled pastries filled with brown sugar and butter, sliced and baked until caramelized.

🇦🇹Austria

Nussstrudel

Nussstrudel layers sweet ground walnuts, sugar and spice inside rolled yeast or strudel pastry.

🇩🇪Germany

Nut Corners

Nussecken

German triangular pastry with nut filling, typically hazelnuts or almonds, coated in chocolate.

🇨🇭Switzerland

Nut Croissant

Nussgipfel

A crescent of yeasted pastry packed with a ground hazelnut filling, glazed and baked, sold at every bakery counter.

🇸🇱Sierra Leone

Oleleh

A savoury steamed black-eyed pea pudding from Sierra Leone, blended with onion, scotch bonnet, palm oil, salt, and baking powder, then steamed in banana leaves or ramekins until set; a common breakfast or snack.

🇩🇪Germany

Onion Cake

Zwiebelkuchen

Savory onion pie with buttery yeast crust filled with caramelized onions, smoky bacon, and creamy egg-sour cream mixture.

🇨🇭Bern, Switzerland

Onion Tart

Zibelechueche

An open tart of sliced onions, cream, eggs and bacon on a yeast or shortcrust base, baked until golden and slightly caramelised.

🇩🇰Copenhagen, Denmark

Onsdagssnegle (Wednesday Snails)

Onsdagssnegl

Copenhagen Wednesday cinnamon roll from Sankt Peders Bageri, soft, spiraled, and iced.

🇸🇰Slovakia

Orechovnik

Orechovník

Walnut roll with sweet yeasted dough.

🇹🇭Thailand

Pa Thong Ko

ปาท่องโก๋

Thai-style Chinese fried dough sticks, crispy outside and soft inside, served with sweet condensed milk or pandan custard.

🇸🇰Slovakia

Pagáč

Small savoury scones made with cracklings, cheese or potato in the dough, sold in bags and eaten with beer.

🇧🇪Brussels, Belgium

Pain à la Grecque

A Belgian rectangular caramelized bread with sugar and cinnamon from Brussels, a daily and tea classic

🇺🇿Uzbekistan

Pakhlava (Uzbek)

Paxlava

A Uzbek layered nut and honey pastry, a festive and sweet shop classic

🇵🇹Lisbon Region, Portugal

Pampilho

Pampilho is a Portuguese sweet from Santarém District, shaped as a pastry and finished with its characteristic sugar, nut, or egg filling.

🇮🇩Manado, Indonesia

Panada

Panada, the Manado fried bread stuffed with spiced skipjack, is a named regional item of Portuguese-Iberian descent.

🇦🇷Tucumán, Argentina

Pancho de Cayote

A northern Argentine sweet of cayote paste wrapped in a thin dough and baked or fried. A rustic, regional pastry from Tucumán and Catamarca, served with mate.

🇮🇹Apulia, Italy

Panzerotti

Puglian crescent-shaped fried dough pockets filled with tomato and mozzarella, like a small fried calzone. A beloved street snack across southern Italy.

🇫🇷Paris, France

Paris-Brest

Ring of choux pastry filled with praline cream, shaped like a bicycle wheel.

🇦🇷Argentina

Pasta Frola

An Argentine tart of shortcrust pastry filled with dulce de membrillo (or batata or guayaba) and topped with a lattice crust. A classic of home baking and panaderías.

🇧🇷São Paulo, Brazil

Pastel

Thin, rectangular fried pastries with crisp, blistered dough enclosing fillings such as cheese, meat, heart of palm, or shrimp.

🇲🇽Mexico

Pastel Azteca

A layered casserole of tortillas, chicken, cheese, and salsa, like a Mexican lasagna.

🇵🇹Northern Portugal, Portugal

Pastel de Chaves

Flaky half-moon pastrys filled with spiced minced veal from Trás-os-Montes.

🇨🇱Chile

Pastel de Choclo

Corn casserole with beef pino, chicken, eggs, and olives, topped with sweet corn paste and baked golden, a Chilean classic.