Pastries

🇩🇰Denmark

Tarteletter

Danish pastry shells filled with creamy chicken and asparagus, served warm as a savory dish.

🇦🇺Tasmania, Australia

Tasmanian Scallop Pie

Plump scallops in a mild yellow curry cream sauce under flaky pastry — the Tasmanian bakery and seafood-van icon, found along the coast from Hobart to Stanley.

🇧🇴Bolivia

Tawa Tawas

A Bolivian fried dough confection cut into diamonds or rectangles, drizzled with cane honey and especially associated with All Saints’ gatherings.

🇹🇨Turks and Caicos Islands

TCI Coconut Pie

Coconut Pie

Coconut custard pie on a digestive biscuit base, topped with whipped cream and toasted coconut flakes; a Turks and Caicos dessert; a traditional island sweet; a distinctive TCI treat.

🇰🇮Kiribati

Te Katea

Eke

Fried doughnuts made with flour, sugar, and coconut milk; often served Kiribati street food and snack; the coconut milk gives a rich, sweet flavor; a simple, sweet treat; found at small eateries, markets, and made at home; reflects the influence of imported flour and sugar.

🇩🇰Denmark

Tebirkes (Poppy Seed Bun)

Tebirkes

A Danish oblong pastry covered in poppy seeds, filled with remonce or custard, a bakery and breakfast staple

🇲🇺Mauritius

Teosa

A flaky Sino-Mauritian pastry spiral filled with sweet bean or lotus paste, baked for Chinese New Year and sold year-round in Chinatown.

🇳🇵Madhesh and Terai, Nepal

Thekua

ठेकुआ

Wheat flour, jaggery, ghee, and cardamom are pressed into patterned discs and fried for the Terai's Chhath festival.

🇪🇸Madrid, Spain

Thick Churros

Porras

A thicker, loopier version of churros from Madrid and central Spain, with a lighter, fluffier interior, served with hot chocolate for dipping.

🇧🇬Bulgaria

Tikvenik

Тиквеник

The sweet banitsa: filo rolled around grated pumpkin, walnuts, sugar and cinnamon, baked and dusted with icing sugar. Made from late October onwards.

🇧🇦Bosnia and Herzegovina

Tikvenjača

Autumn pita of grated pumpkin, sometimes with a little sugar, coiled in the pan alongside the savoury ones.

🇮🇳Assam, India

Til pitha

তিল পিঠা

Rice flour is filled with sesame and jaggery, shaped, and steamed or toasted into an Assamese pitha.

🇨🇦Canada

Timbits

Donut holes from Tim Hortons, Canadian snack since 1960s, available in variety of flavors nationwide.

🇬🇷Greece

Tirenia

Τυρηνία

Small Sifnos cheese pastries of myzithra folded into thin dough and pan-griddled, eaten warm with honey.

🇬🇷Greece

Tiropita

Τυρόπιτα

Greek cheese pie: flaky phyllo filled with feta and other cheeses, baked golden. A breakfast and bakery staple, eaten on the go, a national snack, savory and flaky.

🇬🇧England, United Kingdom

Toad in the Hole

Sausages baked into Yorkshire pudding batter until the batter rises around them, served with onion gravy.

🇺🇸United States

Tomato Pie

A New Jersey bakery pie: a thick, chewy crust with sweet tomato sauce, Parmesan, and a light cheese layer.

🇳🇱Netherlands

Tompouce Pastry

Tompouce

Rectangular pastry with layers of puff pastry and vanilla custard, topped with pink icing that turns orange for King's Day.

🇹🇴Tonga

Tongan Keke

Keke

Round balls of sweet dough mixed with flour, sugar, water, and coconut milk, then deep-fried as a Tongan bakery and market snack.

🇦🇹Austria

Topfengolatschen

Topfengolatschen are square puff-pastry pockets filled with sweetened quark, lemon and vanilla.

🇧🇷Espirito Santo, Brazil

Torta Capixaba

A seafood pie from Espírito Santo, filled with layers of fish, prawns, palm hearts, olives, eggs, tomatoes and onions under a crisp pastry top. Traditionally eaten at Easter.

🇬🇮Gibraltar, Gibraltar

Torta de Acelgas

A Genoese-inspired savory pie with Swiss chard or spinach, onions, garlic, hard Edam or Manchego cheese, eggs, and breadcrumbs in puff pastry or olive-oil-based shortcrust pastry; sometimes includes raisins or pine nuts; a Gibraltarian classic, especially at Easter and Christmas.

🇮🇹Liguria, Italy

Torta della Nonna

Ligurian 'grandmother's tart' of shortcrust filled with lemon-zested custard and topped with pine nuts and powdered sugar.

🇦🇷Argentina

Torta Frita

A fried wheat-flour dough disc, eaten on rainy days with mate — dusted with sugar when sweet or split for cheese and ham when salted. A rustic Argentine and Uruguayan snack.

🇺🇾Uruguay

Torta Pascualina

Pascualina

Spinach or chard and ricotta baked between pastry layers with whole eggs set inside so slices show a yolk.

🇦🇷Buenos Aires, Argentina

Torta Rogel

An Argentine layer cake of many thin, crisp pastry discs stacked with dulce de leche, topped with meringue. A classic of Buenos Aires bakeries and family celebrations.

🇮🇹Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Tortelli Fritti

Emilian Carnival fried sweet pastry puffs dusted with sugar, sometimes filled with cream or jam. Eaten warm at Carnival.

🇬🇵Guadeloupe

Tourment d'Amour

A small pie from Les Saintes; said to have been prepared by the wives of Saint-Sauveur sailors to comfort their husbands on their return from the sea; a crisp shortbread crust topped with a coconut, sugar, vanilla, and rum custard; also versions with guava, passion fruit, or banana; the tourment d'amour that is a Les Saintes specialty.

🇫🇷Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France

Tourtière landaise

Tourtière landaise is a layered Landes pastry of very thin dough, butter, sugar, and often apple or prune.

🇨🇦Quebec, Canada

Tourtière Meat Pie

Tourtière

Spiced meat pie traditionally made with pork, veal, and beef, Quebec's festive holiday dish for réveillon.

🇱🇹Trakai, Lithuania

Trakai Karaite Meat Pastry

Kibinai

Pastry pockets filled with mutton and onions, a traditional Karaite dish from Trakai.

🇵🇹Lisbon Region, Portugal

Travesseiros

Long, sugar-dusted pastrys from Sintra with a soft egg-cream filling.

🇲🇹Malta

Treacle Rings

Qagħaq tal-għasel

Rings of thin pastry packed with a dark filling of treacle, semolina, citrus peel and aniseed, slashed on top so it shows through.

🇬🇧England, United Kingdom

Treacle Tart

A shortcrust tart filled with golden syrup thickened with breadcrumbs and sharpened with lemon zest, baked until set.

🇬🇷Thessaloniki, Greece

Trigona Panoramatos

Τρίγωνα Πανοράματος

Thessaloniki triangular phyllo-and-custard pastry.

🇸🇮Slovenia

Trojane Doughnuts

Trojanski krofi

Outsized jam doughnuts sold at the pass at Trojane, the compulsory stop on the old road between Ljubljana and Celje.