Pastries

🇵🇱Poland

Ptysie

Cream puffs.

🇵🇷Puerto Rico

Puerto Rican Empanadillas

Empanadillas

Thin wheat turnovers crimped with a fork around beef, chicken, crab or pizza cheese and fried flat rather than baked.

🇦🇱Albania

Pumpkin Byrek

Byrek me Kungull

Sweet pumpkin pie made with filo dough and a filling of cooked pumpkin, sugar, and sometimes walnuts or cinnamon, sweet but not cloying filling with tender pumpkin, an autumn and winter treat.

🇷🇸Serbia

Pumpkin Pie

Бундевара

Filo layered with grated pumpkin, sugar and cinnamon, sometimes with raisins, baked in a tray and cut into squares dusted with icing sugar.

🇦🇺Australia

Pumpkin Scones

Light scones enriched with mashed pumpkin for a golden crumb and gentle sweetness; a Queensland teatime institution spread nationally by Florence Bjelke-Petersen's famous recipe.

🇺🇦Poltava, Ukraine

Pundyky

Пундики

Poltava fried dough puffs stuffed with savoury filling, the city's answer to donuts, eaten hot by the paper bagful.

🇸🇪Sweden

Punsch Roll

Punschrulle

Marzipan roll with arrack-flavored cream, dipped in chocolate at both ends, a traditional Swedish pastry.

🇷🇸Serbia

Pupinova pita

Пупинова пита

Pupinova pita is a walnut-and-cherry rolled pastry associated with Mihajlo Pupin’s birthplace in Idvor.

🇮🇳Rajasthan, India

Pyaz Kachori

प्याज कचौरी

A Rajasthani deep-fried pastry filled with spiced onions and lentils. It is flaky, spicy, and served with tamarind chutney.

🇷🇺Saint Petersburg, Russia

Pyshki

Пышки

Pyshki are small deep-fried Russian doughnuts dusted with powdered sugar, especially associated with St. Petersburg.

🇻🇳Vietnam

Pâté chaud

Bánh patê sô

Pate chaud, the Vietnamese-French puff pastry with pork pate sold from bakeries beside banh mi, is a named local adaptation.

🇵🇲Saint Pierre and Miquelon

Pâté de Morue

A traditional fish pie of fresh cod, potatoes, butter, and herbs baked in a pastry crust; a family recipe passed down through generations on Saint Pierre and Miquelon.

🇧🇪Wallonia, Belgium

Pâté Gaumais

Pork marinated in wine, vinegar, shallot and thyme, then sealed in a pastry case and baked, eaten cold in slices.

🇭🇹Haiti

Pâté Haïtien

Pate ayisyen

Baked puff-pastry parcel of ground beef, cod or chicken, sold from bakery windows and eaten standing up at any hour.

🇵🇱Poland

Pączki

Polish doughnuts: round, deep-fried yeast doughnuts filled with rose petal jam, plum jam, or custard, glazed with icing or dusted with sugar. A Fat Thursday (Tłusty Czwartek) tradition.

🇲🇹Malta

Qassatat

Round shortcrust parcels gathered at the top and filled with ricotta, peas, spinach and anchovy, or tuna.

🇵🇸Nablus, Palestine

Qizha Pie

فطيرة قزحة

A semolina cake made with qizha (nigella seed paste), topped with sugar syrup and nuts — a variation of basbousa unique to Nablus.

🇮🇷Yazd, Iran

Qottab

قطاب

Yazdi qottab are fried pastry crescents filled with almond, sugar and cardamom, then dusted with icing sugar.

🇦🇹Vienna, Austria

Quark Strudel

Topfenstrudel

Strudel filled with Topfen (Austrian quark cheese), lighter than apple strudel, thin dough with light quark filling, a traditional Viennese dessert.

🇵🇹Portugal

Queijada

Queijada de cenoura

Small cheese-and-sugar tarts with a creamy, slightly tangy center.

🇵🇷Puerto Rico

Quesito

A strip of puff pastry wrapped around sweetened cream cheese and glazed with sugar syrup so the top goes lacquered.

🇱🇺Luxembourg

Quetschentaart

Damson halves stood upright and packed tight on a thin yeast or shortcrust base, baked so the fruit collapses and its juice caramelises.

🇫🇷Grand Est, France

Quiche Lorraine

Savory tart with a custard filling of eggs, cream, and lardons from Lorraine.

🇨🇦Quebec, Canada

Québec Multi-Meat Pie

Cipaille

Large meat pie with multiple game meats and potatoes, Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean regional specialty.

🇵🇹Portugal

Rabanada

Portuguese-style French toast soaked in milk, fried, and rolled in cinnamon sugar.

🇭🇷Dalmatia, Croatia

Rafioli

Half-moon shaped pastry filled with almond paste, flavored with prošek or rum and citrus, a traditional Dalmatian dessert.

🇫🇷France

Raisin Pastry

Pain aux raisins

Spiral laminated pastry with raisins and creme patissiere filling.

🇷🇺Moscow, Russia

Rasstegai

Расстегай

Rasstegai is an open-top pie with fish, meat, or mushroom filling and a hole for adding broth, associated with Moscow.

🇫🇷France

Religieuse

Two stacked choux puffs filled with cream and frosted, resembling a nun.

🇪🇪Estonia

Rhubarb Pie

Rabarberipirukas

Pie with tart rhubarb filling, a traditional Estonian spring dessert, sweet and tangy.

🇭🇷Dalmatia, Croatia

Ribbon Pastries

Kroštule

In Dalmatia, Ribbon Pastries is deep-fried ribbon pastry with citrus zest and sugar.

🇱🇺Luxembourg Moselle, Luxembourg

Rieslingspaschtéit

Veal and pork forcemeat baked inside a pastry loaf with Riesling, set with a wine jelly that fills the gap as it cools.

🇧🇷Brazil

Rissole

Small deep-fried pastries of soft dough enclosing corn-and-cheese, chicken or shrimp filling, a bakery-counter favorite in São Paulo and Rio.

🇵🇹Portugal

Rissóis

Breaded and fried savory turnovers filled with shrimp, meat, or cod.

🇵🇱Poznań, Poland

Rogal Świętomarciński

A Poznań St. Martin's croissant: a crescent-shaped pastry filled with white poppy seeds, raisins, and nuts, glazed with icing. A November 11 tradition, PGI-protected, sweet and rich.

🇷🇴Romania

Romanian Doughnuts

Gogoși

Discs of yeasted dough deep-fried and dusted with icing sugar, sometimes filled with jam or chocolate.