Pastries

🇵🇭Cebu, Philippines

Cebu Flaky Pastry

Otap

An oval, flaky puff pastry cookie from Cebu, sweet and crispy, with a sugar coating.

🇱🇻Latvia

Celebration Saffron Bread

Kliņģeris

Sweet braided bread with saffron, raisins, almonds, cardamom and citrus, traditionally made for birthdays and celebrations.

🇵🇹Northern Portugal, Portugal

Charutos dos Arcos

Charutos dos Arcos is a Portuguese sweet from Arcos de Valdevez, shaped as a pastry and finished with its characteristic sugar, nut, or egg filling.

🇲🇦Morocco

Chebakia

شباكية

Sesame dough twisted into flower shapes, fried, and coated in honey and orange blossom.

🇹🇳Tunisia

Chebtkia

A Tunisian fried pastry of twisted dough drenched in honey and sprinkled with sesame — a Ramadan treat.

🇺🇦Ukraine

Chebureki

Чебуреки

Chebureki are Crimean Tatar deep-fried half-moon turnovers filled with minced meat and onions.

🇬🇧England, United Kingdom

Cheese and Onion Pie

A shortcrust pie filled with softened onions and sharp Cheddar in a creamy sauce, baked until golden, a humble British comfort food.

🇨🇱Chile

Cheese Empanada

Empanada de queso

Empanada filled with melted cheese, typically chanco or mantecoso, a popular fried or baked Chilean snack.

🇱🇧Lebanon

Cheese Knefeh in Sesame Bread

كنافة بالجبنة

Melted sweet cheese under a layer of semolina or shredded pastry, soaked in blossom syrup and served inside a sesame bread roll for breakfast.

🇷🇴Romania

Cheese Pastries

Merdenele

Soft puff pastry parcels filled with salty telemea and baked until the pastry lifts, sold beside pretzels at street kiosks.

🇱🇧Lebanon

Cheese Rolls

رقاقات

Thin pastry rolled into cigars around salty white cheese and parsley, then deep-fried until blistered.

🇨🇭Switzerland

Cheese Tartlet

Chäschüechli

A small open pastry case filled with a set custard of cheese, egg and cream, eaten warm in the hand.

🇬🇧London, United Kingdom

Chelsea Bun

A square spiral of enriched dough rolled with currants, butter and spice, baked in a tray and glazed sticky while hot.

🇺🇸United States

Chess Pie

A Southern custard pie of sugar, butter, eggs, and a little cornmeal, with a crackly top and a custardy center.

🇫🇷Marseille, France

Chichi Fregi

Chichi fregi is Marseille’s long, fried sweet dough, traditionally scented with orange blossom.

🇺🇸United States

Chicken pot pie

A comforting pie of chicken and vegetables in a creamy sauce under a pastry crust.

🇺🇸United States

Chiffon Pie

A fluffy pie made by folding meringue or whipped cream into a fruit or chocolate custard, chilled until set.

🇦🇺Australia

Chiko Roll

Chiko

A Chiko Roll is a thick fried pastry cylinder packed with cabbage, barley, carrot, beef, celery, and onion for takeaway eating.

🇵🇾Paraguay

Chipa So'o

Savory pastry filled with ground meat and eggs, dough made with pork fat, corn flour, corn starch, milk, salt, and cheese.

🇨🇺Cuba

Chiviricos

Cuban fried dough twists or curls, sweet and crisp, often dusted with sugar and served as a snack.

🇧🇪Belgium

Chocolate Bread Roll

Chocoladebroodje

Soft breakfast bun stuffed with Belgian chocolate, a bakery staple.

🇳🇱Netherlands

Chocolate Cream Puff

Bossche bol

A large choux pastry from 's-Hertogenbosch, filled with whipped cream and covered in dark chocolate fondant.

🇫🇷France

Chocolate Croissant

Pain au chocolat

Rectangular laminated pastry filled with dark chocolate batons, also called chocolatine.

🇨🇭Valais, Switzerland

Cholera Pie

Cholera

A covered pie of potato, apple, leek, cheese and bacon, named after an epidemic during which villagers cooked with whatever was in the cellar.

🇬🇧England, United Kingdom

Chorley Cake

Chorley Cake is a traditional cake from United Kingdom.

🇱🇹Lithuania

Christmas Eve Rolls

Kūčiukai

Small, slightly sweet poppy seed rolls baked for Kūčios (Christmas Eve), served soaked in poppy seed milk.

🇫🇮Finland

Christmas Tart

Joulutorttu

Star-shaped puff pastry filled with prune jam, dusted with icing sugar, a traditional Finnish Christmas treat.

🇻🇳Vietnam

Chuoi Chien

Chuối chiên

Crispy fried bananas coated in a light batter, drizzled with honey and sprinkled with sesame seeds, a popular Vietnamese street snack.

🇨🇭Graubünden, Switzerland

Chur Meat Pie

Churer Fleischtorte

A round shortcrust pie filled with seasoned minced meat, onions and herbs, baked until golden and eaten hot or cold from bakery windows in Chur.

🇲🇽Mexico

Churros rellenos

Crisp fried churros piped with a sweet filling of cajeta, chocolate, or cream.

🇫🇮Finland

Cinnamon Bun

Korvapuusti

Finnish cinnamon roll with cardamom in dough, distinctive pinched shape, topped with pearl sugar, a beloved café treat.

🇸🇪Sweden

Cinnamon Buns

Kanelbullar

Iconic Swedish cinnamon buns made with cardamom-spiced dough, cinnamon-butter filling, and pearl sugar topping.

🇵🇹Northern Portugal, Portugal

Clarinhas de Fão

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

🇸🇱Sierra Leone

Coconut Bread

Bolo

A soft, sweet Sierra Leonean bread or cake rich with grated coconut, sugar, flour, and oil; a popular snack, breakfast, or celebration treat, sometimes baked as loaves, squares, or biscuits.

🇿🇦South Africa

Coconut Squares

Kokosblokkies

A South African fridge tart of Tennis biscuits, condensed milk, coconut, and white chocolate, a no-bake classic. A national and party staple, sweet and coconutty

🇧🇧Barbados

Coconut Turnover

Turnover

Sweetened grated coconut folded into a pastry half-moon and baked with a sugar wash, the standby of every bakery counter.