Pastries

🇫🇷France

Strawberry Tart

Tarte aux fraises

Fresh strawberry tart with pastry cream on a crisp tart shell.

🇭🇺Hungary

Strudel

Rétes

Strudel is a paper-thin stretched pastry filled with apple, cherry, poppy seed, or cottage cheese.

🇮🇹Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy

Strudel (Trentino-Alto Adige)

Strudel

Apple strudel of the Austrian tradition, adopted in Trentino-Alto Adige: thin pastry wrapped around apples, raisins, pine nuts, and cinnamon.

🇵🇱Poland

Strudel Jabłkowy

A Polish apple strudel, thin pastry filled with apples, raisins, and cinnamon, baked until golden. A café and home dessert, sweet and tart, a national treat, served warm with vanilla sauce.

🇮🇹Naples, Italy

Struffoli

Neapolitan Christmas honey balls: tiny fried dough puffs coated in honey and decorated with candied sprinkles, piled into a mound.

🇦🇲Armenia

Su böreği

Սու բյորեկ

Water börek: boiled sheets of pastry layered with cheese and baked.

🇸🇩Sudan

Sudanese Hilu Mudaffar

Hilu mudaffar

Plaited strands of sweet dough deep fried and dipped in syrup, sold in coils at Ramadan.

🇩🇿Algeria

Sudanese Zalabia

Zalabia

Loose yeasted batter dropped into hot oil in irregular blobs, drained and rolled in sugar or soaked in syrup.

🇮🇱Israel

Sufganiyot

סופגניות

Deep-fried yeast doughnuts injected with jam or custard and dusted with icing sugar, sold by the million in the run-up to Hanukkah.

🇨🇦Canada

Sugar Pie

Tarte au sucre

A single-crust Québécois sugar pie with a smooth filling of brown sugar or maple syrup; maple-syrup versions are also called Maple Sugar Pie.

🇲🇪Montenegro

Sukača

Hand-stretched pastry coiled with cheese or potato and baked in a round tin, cut into wedges — the northern household's pita.

🇹🇼Taichung, Taiwan

Sun Cake

太陽餅

Flat round pastry of many thin layers around a maltose filling, from Taichung, where the shops on the old station road all claim to be original.

🇸🇷Suriname

Surinamese Chicken Pie

Kippenpastei

Shredded chicken with peas, carrot and raisins baked between two layers of soft pastry and cut in squares.

🇷🇴Romania

Sweet Cheese Parcels

Brânzoaice

Squares of soft yeasted dough with the corners folded in over sweet curd cheese and raisins, baked until golden.

🇲🇺Mauritius

Sweet Potato Cakes

Gato patate

Crescent turnovers of mashed sweet potato pastry filled with sweetened grated coconut and fried.

🇲🇾Malaysia

Sweet Potato Donuts

Kuih Keria

Sweet potato donuts coated in sugar glaze, crispy sugar coating with soft sweet potato interior and not oily, a Malay and Nyonya snack.

🇺🇸United States

Sweet Potato Pie

A Southern pie of spiced sweet potato custard in a pastry shell.

🇭🇷Dalmatia, Croatia

Swiss Chard Pie

Soparnik

Medieval Dalmatian pie with two layers of dough filled with Swiss chard, onions, garlic, and olive oil, PGI protected, baked on hot stone.

🇲🇨Monaco, Monaco

Swiss Chard Pie

Tourte de blettes

Double-crusted pie filled with Swiss chard, Parmesan cheese, parsley, eggs, onions, and rice; a Monegasque tart that can be sweet or savoury, with pine nuts and raisins in some versions; a specialty using the region's favourite vegetable.

🇵🇱Poland

Szarlotka

Polish apple pie: a shortcrust cake filled with grated apples, cinnamon, and raisins, served warm with vanilla ice cream. A national dessert, sweet and tart, a café and home staple.

🇵🇫Papeete, French Polynesia

Tahitian Donuts

Firi Firi

Firi firi is a deep-fried yeast doughnut made with flour, coconut milk, and sugar; the Cook Islands form is crisp at the edge and tender inside.

🇹🇯Tajikistan

Tajik Sambusa

Самбӯса

Triangular parcels of layered dough filled with minced lamb and onion or pumpkin, stuck to the wall of a tandoor and baked until blistered.

🇹🇯Tajikistan

Tajik Street Samsa

Самбӯсаи хом

Flaky pastry parcels of lamb and onion sold hot from tandoor shopfronts and bazaar corners all day.

🇵🇸Nablus, Palestine

Tamriyeh

تمرية

Filo dough wrapped around mastic-flavoured semolina pudding, fried until crisp and dusted with powdered sugar and crushed pistachios — a Nablus specialty.

🇭🇰Hong Kong

Taro Puff

Wu Gok

Mashed taro pastry around pork and mushroom, deep-fried until the crust honeycombs into a crisp net.

🇦🇷Argentina

Tarta de Acelga

An Argentine Swiss-chard tart of shortcrust pastry filled with sautéed chard, onions, eggs, and cheese. A rustic, everyday tart for lunch or dinner, served hot or cold.

🇦🇷Argentina

Tarta de Humita

An Argentine corn tart of shortcrust pastry filled with creamy humita (grated corn, onions, peppers, basil, and cheese). A northwest and Cuyo specialty in corn season.

🇦🇷Argentina

Tarta de Jamón y Queso

An Argentine ham-and-cheese tart of shortcrust pastry filled with diced ham, cheese, and sometimes roasted peppers. A quick, everyday tart for lunch or dinner.

🇦🇷Argentina

Tarta de Pollo

An Argentine chicken tart of shortcrust pastry filled with shredded chicken, onions, peppers, and eggs. A rustic, everyday tart for lunch or dinner.

🇧🇪Nivelles, Belgium

Tarte al d'jote

Tarte al d'jote is a savoury Nivelles tart filled with chard, cheese, and butter.

🇫🇷Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Tarte au Cantal

Tarte au Cantal is a savory cheese tart with a custard-like filling and the distinctive sharpness of Cantal.

🇫🇷Hauts-de-France, France

Tarte au maroilles

Tarte au maroilles is a northern French savory tart topped with melting Maroilles cheese on a tender crust.

🇧🇪Belgium

Tarte au Riz

Tarte au riz / Rijsttaart

A Belgian creamy rice tart from Verviers, with milk, eggs, and sugar, a regional and daily classic

🇫🇷Lyon, France

Tarte aux pralines

Tarte aux pralines is a Lyon specialty with pink pralines melted into a vivid almond filling.

🇫🇷France

Tarte Tatin

Upside-down caramelized apple tart with buttery pastry, a French classic.

🇺🇸United States

Tarte à la bouillie

A Louisiana Cajun custard pie — 'bouillie' cream pie — of sweet custard baked in a pastry shell.