Pastries

🇮🇩Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Bakpia Pathok

Bakpia Pathok, the flaky mung-bean-filled pastry sold from numbered shops on one Yogyakarta street and carried home by every visitor, is a named regional institution.

🇦🇿Baku, Azerbaijan

Baku Pakhlava

Bakı paxlavası

Eight layers of thin dough with ground walnut and cardamom between them, cut in diamonds, glazed with saffron and finished with a half walnut on each piece.

🇸🇾Syria

Balah al-Sham

بلح الشام

Choux dough piped through a fluted nozzle into hot oil and soaked in cold sugar syrup while still hot.

🇸🇾Syria

Ballourieh

بلورية

Fine shredded kadaif pastry pressed flat around a thick pistachio layer, baked pale and soaked in syrup.

🇬🇺Guam

Banana Donuts

Buñelos Aga

Buñelos aga are ripe bananas folded into sweet batter and deep-fried, producing soft fruit inside a crisp, irregular shell.

🇨🇫Central African Republic

Banana Fritters

Macara ti Fôndô

Ripe bananas dipped in a light batter and deep-fried until puffed and golden, then dusted with sugar; a popular sweet snack and dessert in the Central African Republic.

🇵🇭Philippines

Banana Spring Rolls

Turon

Saba bananas and jackfruit wrapped in spring roll wrappers, fried with a caramelized sugar coating.

🇻🇳Vietnam

Banh Ran

Bánh rán

Deep-fried glutinous rice balls coated in white sesame seeds, filled with sweet mung bean paste, crispy outside and chewy inside.

🇧🇬Bulgaria

Banitsa

Баница

Hand-stretched filo layered with white brine cheese beaten into eggs and yogurt, coiled or stacked in a round pan and baked until the top blisters.

🇬🇧England, United Kingdom

Banoffee Pie

A biscuit base layered with toffee made from boiled condensed milk, sliced banana and whipped cream, dusted with coffee or chocolate.

🇲🇨Monaco, Monaco

Barbagiuan

Barbagiuàn

Monaco's national dish — a deep-fried pastry pocket filled with Swiss chard or spinach, ricotta, rice, leeks, onions, and herbs; the name means 'Uncle John' in the Monégasque dialect; traditionally eaten on National Day, 19 November.

🇵🇷Puerto Rico

Barriguitas de vieja

Puerto Rican coconut fritters, sweet and dense, made with grated coconut and spices, fried until golden.

🇨🇭Basel, Switzerland

Basel Cheese Tart

Basler Käsewähe

An open cheese tart from Basel with a custard-and-cheese filling of Gruyère or Emmentaler baked in a shortcrust shell.

🇬🇧Bath, United Kingdom

Bath bun

Bath bun is a sweet bread from Bath, rooted in local cooking tradition.

🇰🇿Kazakhstan

Baursak

Бауырсақ

Baursak is Kazakh fried yeast dough that puffs and turns golden, served with tea, soups, or main courses.

🇲🇱Mali

Bean Fritters

Beignet de haricots

Bean fritters sold as street food in Mali; listed in the Mali tourism document alongside brochettes and froufrou; black-eyed peas are soaked, ground, seasoned, and deep-fried; a popular, inexpensive snack; similar to akara across West Africa; found at street stalls in Bamako and other cities; the breakfast of urban Mali.

🇺🇸United States

Bear Claw

A sweet, almond-paste-filled yeast pastry shaped like a bear's paw, topped with sliced almonds and sugar.

🇨🇦Canada

Beaver Tails

Queues de castor

Fried whole wheat pastry shaped like a beaver tail, topped with cinnamon sugar, chocolate, or other toppings.

🇬🇧England, United Kingdom

Bedfordshire Clanger

Suet dumpling with savoury one end and sweet the other.

🇬🇧England, United Kingdom

Beef Wellington

A whole beef fillet seared, coated in mushroom duxelles and often pâté, wrapped in puff pastry and roasted.

🇺🇸New Orleans, United States

Beignets

Square fried dough pastries buried in powdered sugar, a New Orleans French Quarter institution best eaten hot.

🇫🇷Brittany, France

Beignets bretons

Beignets bretons are Breton sweet fritters made from a light enriched dough and fried until golden and tender.

🇭🇺Hungary

Bejgli

Bejgli is a Hungarian sweet yeast roll filled with walnut or poppy-seed paste, traditionally baked in a rolled shape.

🇧🇪Belgium

Belgian Vol-au-Vent

Vol-au-vent

A Belgian puff-pastry case filled with creamy chicken, mushrooms, and small meatballs, served as a savoury main or festive plate.

🇧🇿Belize

Belizean Meat Pies

Belizean turnovers of flaky pastry filled with seasoned minced beef, onions, and often raisins, baked or fried until golden.

🇸🇮Lower Carniola, Slovenia

Belokranjska Povitica

Belokranjska povitica is a rolled Bela krajina yeast pastry filled with fresh curd cheese and herbs.

🇷🇺Kazan, Russia

Belyashi

Беляши

Belyashi are Tatar fried meat pies with open tops, seasoned ground meat, and onion filling.

🇭🇷Croatia

Benkovački prisnac

In Croatia, Benkovački prisnac is raised cheese pie from the Dalmatian hinterland.

🇩🇪Berlin, Germany

Berliner Doughnut

Berliner Pfannkuchen

German doughnut filled with jam or custard, dusted with powdered sugar, eaten at Carnival and New Year's.

🇫🇷France

Berlingots

Berlingots are small, hard-boiled French candies with colored stripes, angular shapes, and concentrated fruit or mint flavor.

🇨🇱Chile

Berlín

Chilean version of Berliner doughnut filled with manjar, a popular sweet treat, light and generous, fresh and fried.

🇧🇲Bermuda

Bermuda Cassava Pie

Cassava Pie

A sweet and savory Christmas dish made from grated cassava (manioc) layered with meat filling (chicken, pork, beef, or lamb), sugar, butter, eggs, nutmeg, and vanilla; texture is like a moist cake with meat filling; essential to Bermudian Christmas dinner.

🇧🇲Bermuda

Bermuda Malasadas

Malasadas

Portuguese-style doughnuts made from yeast dough, fried until golden, and coated with sugar; celebrated during Portuguese heritage events and widely loved by Bermudians; a Bermudian-Portuguese dessert. Bermudian bakeries fry these Portuguese-style yeasted doughnuts and dust them while warm.

🇧🇲Bermuda

Bermuda Mussel Pie

Mussel Pie

Curried mussel meat with potatoes, onions, bacon, thyme, and vegetables baked in a flaky pastry crust; a traditional Cup Match cricket festival food, often served with mayonnaise dolloped inside The named Bermuda pie packs local mussels into a savoury pastry filling.

🇸🇮Slovenia

Bezgovo Cvrtje

A Slovenian dessert of elderflower blossoms dipped in sweet batter and deep-fried until golden, dusted with powdered sugar, a springtime treat.

🇦🇫Afghanistan

Bichak

بیچاک

Small turnovers of thin dough filled with spiced potato, pumpkin or minced meat, baked or fried.