Pastries

🇾🇪Yemen

Bint al-Sahn

Twenty or more paper-thin layers of dough brushed with ghee and baked into a golden dome, then flooded with black honey and nigella seeds.

🇲🇻Maldives

Bis Keemiya

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Cross between a samosa and a spring roll, filled with tuna, hardboiled egg, sliced onion, and sautéed cabbage — a light, crispy Maldivian short eat.

🇸🇪Sweden

Biskvi

Almond-meringue and chocolate buttercream cookie, a fika standard.

🇺🇾Uruguay

Bizcochos

Small flaky lard or butter pastries in a dozen shapes — vigilantes, cañoncitos, margaritas, medialunas — sold by weight.

🇺🇸United States

Black Bottom Pie

A Southern pie with a chocolate custard bottom layer beneath a custard or cream top, often finished with meringue or whipped cream.

🇺🇸United States

Blueberry Cobbler

A baked dessert of sweetened blueberries under a biscuit or batter topping.

🇫🇮Finland

Blueberry Pie

Mustikkapiirakka

Traditional Finnish blueberry pie with buttery crust and sweet, slightly tart filling from wild blueberries, a summer treat.

🇺🇸United States

Blueberry Pie

A double-crust pie of fresh blueberries sweetened and thickened until deep purple and jammy.

🇺🇸United States

Bob Andy Pie

A Southern molasses custard pie with a dense, rich filling, sometimes topped with meringue.

🇵🇹Portugal

Bola de Berlim

A sugar-dusted doughnut split and filled with rich egg custard.

🇦🇷Argentina

Bolas de Fraile

Argentine Berliners: risen dough balls fried or baked and filled with dulce de leche or crema pastelera, dusted with sugar. A classic factura for breakfast or merienda.

🇧🇷Brazil

Bolinho de Chuva

Brazilian rain cake fritters: small drops of cinnamon-scattered batter deep-fried until golden and dusted with sugar and cinnamon. A bakery and home treat.

🇮🇸Iceland

Bollur

Bolludagur bollur

Iceland's cream-filled chocolate buns, a Bolludagur and festive classic

🇵🇹Northern Portugal, Portugal

Bolos de São Gonçalo

Bolos de São Gonçalo are Amarante pastrys made from sweet dough and egg-rich filling, shaped for the city’s São Gonçalo tradition.

🇻🇪Venezuela

Bomba

A Venezuelan filled doughnut of German origin, similar to a Berliner, filled with custard, jam or chocolate, dusted with sugar, a popular sweet treat.

🇧🇶Bonaire

Bonaire Pastechi

Pastechi

Bonaire's street food; crescent-shaped deep-fried dough with a sweet hint; fillings include cheese (traditionally Edam), chicken, fish (tuna, red snapper, mahi-mahi), beef, and vegetables; dough lighter than empanadas; sold at early morning stands along Kralendijk boulevard; a Bonairean tradition.

🇲🇳Mongolia

Boortsog

Боорцог

Wheat dough cut into fingers, knots or twists and deep-fried in fat until dry and hard, barely sweetened and kept in bowls for weeks.

🇪🇸Andalusia, Spain

Borrachuelos

In Andalusia, Borrachuelos is Málaga pastry of wine-and-anise dough filled with sweet potato or pumpkin and fried.

🇷🇺Russia

Bortsoki

Борцоки

Kalmyk fried dough puffs of flour, milk and butter, torn apart and dipped into salty brewed milk tea.

🇧🇦Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnian Burek

Burek

The Bosnian burek, layers of thin phyllo dough spiralled around a filling of minced beef and onions, baked until golden and crisp. In Bosnia, only the meat version is called burek.

🇱🇺Luxembourg

Bouchée à la reine

Bouchée à la reine is a Luxembourg chicken-and-mushroom vol-au-vent in a crisp puff-pastry case.

🇬🇷Thessaloniki, Greece

Bougatsa

Μπουγάτσα

Greek phyllo pie from Macedonia, filled with custard, cheese, or minced meat, baked golden and dusted with sugar and cinnamon. A breakfast and bakery staple, especially in Thessaloniki.

🇯🇪Jersey

Bourdelot

Des Bourdélots

Apple dumplings — peeled and cored apples wrapped in pastry (traditionally suet pastry) and baked; sometimes cooked on cabbage leaves; a Norman-origin specialty of Jersey; served with cream or custard.

🇩🇿Algeria

Bourek

بوراك

Thin dioul pastry rolled into cigars around minced meat, onion and egg, cheese, or tuna and potato, then deep-fried.

🇬🇷Greece

Bourekakia

Μπουρεκάκια

Greek mini phyllo rolls filled with cheese, meat, or vegetables, fried or baked. A meze and party classic, crispy and savory, a national and Ottoman-origin snack, a bite-sized treat, a festive dish.

🇮🇱Israel

Bourekas

בורקס

Puff-pastry parcels filled with salty cheese, potato or spinach, sold hot from bakery cases and eaten with a hard-boiled egg and pickles.

🇨🇾Cyprus

Bourekia

Μπουρέκια

Small fried pastries filled with fresh anari, cinnamon and sugar, dusted with icing sugar while still hot.

🇹🇷İzmir, Turkey

Boyoz

An İzmir pastry: flaky, dense and faintly sweet, made with sesame or tahini.

🇳🇱North Brabant, Netherlands

Brabant Sausage Roll

Brabants worstenbroodje

A Brabant sausage roll wraps seasoned minced pork in soft yeasted bread and is baked as a compact regional snack.

🇸🇰Bratislava, Slovakia

Bratislava Rolls

Bratislavské rožky

Crescent or horseshoe pastries of thin dough packed with a poppy seed or walnut filling, marbled on the surface from a double egg wash.

🇻🇨Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Breadfruit Cheese Pie

Innovative dish made from breadfruit, exhibited during the Breadfruit Festival in August; breadfruit prepared as a cheese pie; showcases the versatility of breadfruit; a modern Vincentian creation; the breadfruit cheese pie of Saint Vincent; a creamy, starchy pie; a festival specialty.

🇭🇷Croatia

Bribirski prisnac

Bribirski prisnac is a Dalmatian hinterland cheese pie baked for village celebrations.

🇮🇹Sicily, Italy

Brioche con gelato

In Sicily, Brioche con gelato is soft Sicilian brioche filled with gelato.

🇲🇦Morocco

Briouat

بريوات

Crisp warqa pastry parcels filled with savoury meat, seafood, cheese, or sweet nuts and honey.

🇺🇸United States

Brown Betty

A baked American pudding of layered fruit — traditionally apples — and buttered bread crumbs with sugar and spice.

🇩🇰Jutland, Denmark

Brunsviger

A Danish soft, round cake topped with caramelized brown sugar and butter, a Jutland and bakery classic