Pastries

🇬🇺Guam

Buchi Buchi

Buchi

Buchi is made by shaping grated coconut and sugar into balls, then frying them until the outside is crisp and the centre chewy.

🇦🇹Austria

Buchteln

Sweet yeast rolls filled with plum jam or apricot preserves, baked together in a pan, soft pull-apart texture, a traditional Austrian dessert, warm.

🇲🇪Montenegro

Buckwheat Pita

Heljdopita

Buckwheat-flour pastry filled with cheese or potato, dark, crumbly and nutty, from the buckwheat-growing highlands.

🇸🇪Sweden

Budapestbakelse

Rolled meringue, cream and fruit pastry, a Swedish café classic.

🇫🇷Lyon, France

Bugnes Lyonnaises

Thin, fried Lyonnaise pastries dusted with sugar, especially associated with the city's winter and carnival baking traditions.

🇵🇭Laguna, Philippines

Buko Pie

Buko pie, the young-coconut pie of Los Baños bought by the box on the road out of Laguna, is a named regional institution.

🇧🇦Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Buredžici

Short lengths of meat burek cut and stood upright in a dish, drowned in garlic yogurt and sometimes baked again.

🇱🇾Libya

Bureek Tajin

A Libyan baked pie of thin pastry layered with a spiced meat or cheese filling.

🇸🇴Somalia

Burkaki

Small Somali fried dough pieces served with tea or a sweet topping.

🇹🇷Turkey

Burma kadayıf

Burma kadayıf is the rolled shredded-wheat-and-pistachio coil, sold by name in baklava houses as a separate form from ekmek kadayıfı and künefe.

🇨🇦Ontario, Canada

Butter Tarts

Small pastry tarts filled with butter, sugar, syrup, and egg, a quintessentially Canadian dessert since 1900.

🇺🇸United States

Buttermilk Pie

A Southern custard pie of buttermilk, sugar, eggs, and butter with a faint tang and a silky texture.

🇺🇸United States

Butterscotch Pie

A creamy pie with a cooked butterscotch custard filling, often topped with meringue.

🇬🇧Scotland, United Kingdom

Buttery Rowie

Rowie

Buttery Rowie is a traditional pastry from United Kingdom.

🇻🇬British Virgin Islands

BVI Pates

Pah-tehs

Savory fried pastries filled with seasoned ground beef, chicken, saltfish, conch, or vegetables; similar to empanadas; a popular street food and breakfast item in the British Virgin Islands

🇽🇰Kosovo

Byrek

Byrek me Djathë

Albania's iconic savory pie with thin layers of hand-rolled filo dough filled with cheese, meat, spinach, or vegetables, a staple of home cooking and street food culture.

🇬🇷Greece

Byzanti

Μπυζάντι

Corfu's festive pork pie: diced pork cooked with wine and spices sealed inside a flaky pastry crust, sliced cold at Easter and celebrations.

🇹🇷Turkey

Börek

Boşnak böreği

Layered pastries made from thin yufka dough sheets, filled with cheese, spinach, potatoes, or ground meat, and either baked or fried. Varieties include su böreği, which is boiled before baking for a moist, custard-like texture, and sigara böreği, crisp rolled cylinders. Börek is eaten at breakfast, as a snack, or as part of a meze spread.

🇽🇰Kosovo

Cabbage Pie

Resenik

Shredded cabbage sweated with onion and pepper and baked between thin layers of hand-pulled dough.

🇻🇪Venezuela

Cachitos

A Venezuelan crescent-shaped pastry similar to a croissant, filled with seasoned ham, a popular breakfast and snack item, often eaten with coffee.

🇨🇱Chile

Calzones Rotos

Fried pastry strips dusted with powdered sugar, twisted into distinctive shape, a traditional Chilean dessert, crispy and sweet.

🇫🇷Bordeaux, France

Canele

Small fluted Bordeaux pastry with a dark caramelized crust and custardy rum-vanilla center.

🇮🇹Sicily, Italy

Cannoli

Cannoli siciliani

Sicilian fried pastry tubes filled with sweetened sheep's milk ricotta, with candied fruit, pistachios, or chocolate chips. Filled to order so the shell stays crisp.

🇨🇻Cape Verde

Cape Verdean Samosas

Chamuças

Triangular fried pastries filled with spiced minced meat, fish, or vegetables, a Cape Verdean adaptation of the Indian samosa.

🇨🇭Switzerland

Carac

A small tart of chocolate ganache in a shortcrust shell, finished with a lurid green fondant lid and a chocolate dot.

🇫🇮Finland

Cardamom Bread

Pulla

Soft cardamom-spiced sweet bread made with rich yeasted dough, shaped into buns, rolls, or braided loaves.

🇸🇪Sweden

Cardamom Bun

Kardemummabulle

Sweet bun flavored primarily with cardamom, a popular fika treat in Sweden.

🇨🇴Colombia

Carimañola

A Caribbean-coast cassava fritter stuffed with ground meat, onions, and seasonings, fried until golden. A coastal cousin of the empanada, crispy and chewy.

🇵🇦Panama

Carimañolas

A Panamanian yuca dough filled with ground beef or cheese, deep-fried until crispy, a street and breakfast classic

🇦🇹Carinthia, Austria

Carinthian Farmer’s Doughnut

Bauernkrapfen

Bauernkrapfen is a dessert made with a defined local recipe and ingredients.

🇨🇭Switzerland

Carnival Fritters

Fasnachtschüechli

A paper-thin round of dough stretched over a knee or a cloth, deep-fried until it blisters, and dusted with icing sugar.

🇭🇷Dalmatia, Croatia

Carnival Fritters

Fritule

In Dalmatia, Carnival Fritters is Dalmatian fried dough balls with raisins and citrus.

🇱🇻Kurzeme, Latvia

Carrot Tart

Sklandrausis

EU TSG rye-crust pie filled with layered potato and sweetened carrot, of Livonian origin from Kurzeme region.

🇵🇾Paraguay

Cassava Empanada

Pastel Mandi'ó

Cassava dough empanadas filled with seasoned meat, rustic and gluten-free, a popular street food in Paraguay.

🇵🇹Northern Portugal, Portugal

Cavacas de Margaride

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

🇦🇷Argentina

Cañoncito

Cañoncito de membrillo

A cylindrical puff pastry rolled tight, baked, and filled with dulce de leche, dusted with sugar. A classic factura for breakfast or afternoon mate.