Pastries

🇷🇸Serbia

Tulumba

Ridged fingers of choux-style dough deep-fried then drowned in cold sugar syrup, crisp-shelled and juicy within — the baklava-shop counter classic of Turkey and the former Ottoman world.

🇨🇻Cape Verde

Tuna Pastel

Pastel de Atum

Cape Verdean pastry filled with seasoned tuna, onion and herbs, fried or baked for a portable snack.

🇹🇳Sfax, Tunisia

Tunisian Baklawa

بقلاوة

A Tunisian baklava of layers of thin pastry interspersed with ground pine nuts, almonds, hazelnuts and pistachios, brushed with butter and dipped in honey syrup.

🇭🇺Hungary

Turos Lepeny

Túrós lepény

Sweet curd cheese pastry bars.

🇱🇹Lithuania

Twisted Pastries

Žagarėliai

Thin, twisted deep-fried pastries dusted with powdered sugar, similar to Scandinavian klejner.

🇦🇹Tyrol, Austria

Tyrolean Fried Dough

Kiachln

Fried dough discs from Tyrol, often served with sauerkraut or as a sweet with jam, crispy exterior not greasy, a simple Alpine specialty, traditional.

🇵🇹Braga, Portugal

Tíbias de Braga

Tíbias de Braga is a Portuguese sweet from Braga, shaped as a pastry and finished with its characteristic sugar, nut, or egg filling.

🇷🇸Herzegovina, Serbia

Uštipci

Torn pieces of yeasted dough dropped into hot oil and fried into irregular puffed balls, eaten hot with kajmak and cheese.

🇪🇸Valencia, Spain

Valencian Fartons

Fartons

Elongated, glazed sweet buns from Valencia, specifically designed for dipping in horchata de chufa, with a soft, airy texture.

🇷🇴Transylvania, Romania

Vargabéles

A Transylvanian Hungarian dessert of thin pastry layered over sweetened semolina and apple, baked until golden and dusted with sugar.

🇷🇺Russia

Vatrushka

Ватрушка

Vatrushka is a ring-shaped pastry with tvorog cheese filling, sometimes with raisins, sweet yeast dough with creamy cheese filling and golden-brown top.

🇻🇪Venezuela

Venezuelan Empanada

Empanada

Half-moon of maize dough — not wheat — filled with cheese, shredded beef, black beans or shark, and deep-fried until the shell blisters.

🇲🇩Moldova

Vertută

A rope of paper-thin stretched dough filled with curd, pumpkin, apple or walnut, coiled into a spiral and baked until the outer turns crisp.

🇱🇺Luxembourg

Verwurelter

Strips of enriched dough knotted or twisted, deep-fried and buried in icing sugar — the Carnival pastry of Luxembourg.

🇫🇮South Karelia, Finland

Vety

Lappeenranta variation of lihapiirakka with ham and egg, named 'Hydrogen' during Cold War era, a regional street food.

🇦🇷Argentina

Vigilante (Factura)

Vigilante

A simple factura of puff pastry twisted into a short stick, glazed with syrup. Named, like the dessert, after the police who frequented the cafés where it was invented.

🇫🇮South Karelia, Finland

Viipurinrinkeli

Sweet cardamom-nutmeg pretzel from Vyborg/Lappeenranta.

🇰🇪Kenya

Vitumbua

A coastal Swahili sweet rice flour fritters, a daily and street classic

🇭🇷Croatia

Viška pogača

In Croatia, Viška pogača is Vis bread pie with tomato, onion, and olive oil.

🇨🇭Switzerland

Vol-au-Vent

Pastetli

A tall puff pastry case filled with veal, chicken or mushrooms in a cream sauce, with a pastry lid set back on top.

🇳🇨New Caledonia

Vol-au-vent des Fruits de Mer

This New Caledonian vol-au-vent fills puff pastry with mussels, prawns, fish, or scallops in a creamy seafood sauce.

🇸🇪Västerbotten, Sweden

Västerbotten Cheese Pie

Västerbottenostpaj

Savory pie made with Västerbotten cheese, cream, and eggs, a beloved Swedish party and buffet dish.

🇽🇰Kosovo

Walnut Pie

Pite me arra

Ground walnuts and sugar rolled through thin pastry sheets and soaked in a light syrup after baking — leaner and less buttery than baklava.

🇷🇸Serbia

Walnut Roll

Orehnjača

Traditional yeasted dough roll filled with ground walnuts, lemon juice, sugar, and milk, a holiday dessert, nutty and sweet.

🇯🇴Jordan

Warbat

وربات

Squares of layered filo filled with semolina custard or cream, baked and drenched in sugar syrup, then dusted with pistachio.

🇦🇹Austria

Weichselstrudel

Weichselstrudel rolls sour cherries with sugar and crumbs in thin pastry, balancing tart juice against a crisp crust.

🇺🇸United States

White Potato Pie

A Southern pie of mashed white potatoes, sugar, butter, and spice — a sliceable custard.

🇺🇸United States

Whoopie Pie

A Pennsylvania Dutch 'cake' of two soft chocolate cakes sandwiching a fluffy cream filling.

🇩🇰Denmark

Wienerbrød (Danish Pastry)

Wienerbrød

Denmark's iconic laminated, buttery, flaky pastry, the national and daily staple.

🇨🇳Guangdong, China

Wife Cake

老婆饼

A flat flaky pastry round filled with candied winter melon and glutinous rice flour, faintly sweet and chewy inside a shattering crust.

🇦🇩Andorra

Wind Fritters

Bunyols de vent

Traditional sweet fritters enjoyed every November on All Saints' Day; light and airy dough fritters dusted with sugar; the name means 'wind fritters' for their hollow, airy interior; a festive Andorran treat; found at bakeries and celebrations in November; the fritters of All Saints' Day; light, sweet, and airy.

🇺🇸United States

Wisconsin Kringle

A Wisconsin Danish pastry ring — oval, flaky, and filled, the state's official pastry.

🇨🇭Switzerland

Wähe

A thin open tart on a large round base, filled either with fruit and a milk-and-egg custard or with cheese, onion or vegetables.

🇬🇧England, United Kingdom

Yorkshire Pudding

A batter of egg, flour and milk poured into smoking-hot beef dripping and baked until it climbs the tin and hollows out.

🇹🇳Tunisia

Yoyo

يويو

Doughnut of dough enriched with orange juice, fried and dipped in honey syrup so the outside stays sticky.

🇩🇿Algeria

Zalabia

زلابية

Small coils or balls of fermented batter fried until crisp, then soaked in syrup or dusted with sugar at Egyptian sweet shops.