Pastries

🇦🇺Adelaide, Australia

Continental Roll

Adelaide's oversized bakery sausage roll: a long log of coarsely seasoned sausage meat baked inside puff pastry until deep brown, sold warm by the piece from South Australian bakery counters.

🇹🇳Tunisia

Cornes de Gazelle

Tunisian 'gazelle horns': crescent pastries of almond paste wrapped in thin pastry, scented with orange blossom.

🇬🇧England, United Kingdom

Cornish Pasty

A crimped half-moon of shortcrust filled raw with beef skirt, swede, potato and onion, then baked so the filling cooks in its own steam.

🇭🇺Hungary

Cottage Cheese Pouch

Túrós táska

Cottage cheese pouches are fried or baked pastries filled with sweetened cottage cheese.

🇨🇭Switzerland

Crackling Pastry

Taillé aux greubons

Puff pastry folded with pork crackling scraps, salted and baked in flat strips, sold by the piece at bakeries and markets.

🇺🇸Louisiana, United States

Crawfish Pie

A Cajun pie of crawfish tails in a rich, roux-thickened sauce under pastry.

🇸🇪Sweden

Cream Bun

Semmelwrap

Cardamom-spiced wheat bun filled with almond paste and whipped cream, traditionally eaten on Fat Tuesday.

🇦🇼Aruba

Cream Puffs

Soesjes

Soesjes; cream puffs filled with tuna salad or crab; a Dutch-influenced Aruban snack; a distinctive savory twist on the traditional Dutch cream puff; a feature of local bakeries and snack-bars; a reflection of Dutch influence on Aruban cuisine

🇷🇸Serbia

Cream Puffs

Принцес крофне

Choux buns split and filled with a thick vanilla cream, dusted with icing sugar and eaten cold.

🇬🇧England, United Kingdom

Cream Tea

A West Country tradition of freshly baked scones served with clotted cream, strawberry jam and a pot of tea, with regional rivalry over cream-first or jam-first.

🇦🇹Austria

Cremeschnitte

Custard slice with puff pastry.

🇷🇪Reunion

Creole Donut

Baba Rouz

A Reunionese fried dough; a sweet fritter enjoyed as a treat during a tea break; a Creole sweet; a TasteAtlas-listed must-try; the baba rouz that is a Reunionese tea-time snack.

🇬🇵Guadeloupe

Creole Pate

Pâté Créole

Creole pate; a fried or baked pastry filled with meat, fish, or vegetables; a Guadeloupean street food; the pâté créole that is a Guadeloupean snack.

🇫🇷Paris, France

Croissant

Crescent-shaped laminated pastry, buttery and flaky, adapted from the Austrian kipferl.

🇺🇸United States

Cronut

A hybrid pastry of croissant dough fried like a doughnut and glazed — invented in New York in 2013.

🇫🇷France

Croquembouche

Croquembouche is a tower of caramel-bound choux puffs filled with pastry cream.

🇫🇷France

Croustade du Couserans

Croustade du Couserans is a layered pastry from Ariège, typically filled with apples and baked until crisp.

🇧🇪Wallonia, Belgium

Croustillons

Little fried dough puffs dusted with sugar, a Liège carnival and Christmas market treat.

🇻🇮Christiansted, U.S. Virgin Islands

Crucian Banana Beignets

Benye

Crucian fried dough made with ripened bananas, coconut milk, flour, yeast, sugar, and spices (nutmeg, cinnamon, vanilla); dense, mahogany-colored doughnut-like pastry; a traditional Christmas and holiday treat.

🇻🇮Christiansted, U.S. Virgin Islands

Crucian Tarts

Small semi-circular pastries with flaky buttery crust and thick sweet fruit filling; traditional fillings include coconut, guava, pineapple, papaya, mango, guavaberry, gooseberry, tamarind, and soursop; officially designated the national dessert of the U.S. Virgin Islands by territorial legislation.

🇭🇺Hungary

Csoroge Fank

Csörögefánk

Crisp angel wings.

🇱🇹Lithuania

Curd Doughnuts

Varškės spurgos

Deep-fried doughnuts made with curd cheese, sometimes filled with preserves, dusted with powdered sugar.

🇹🇹Trinidad and Tobago

Currants Roll

A Trinidadian pastry of flaky dough rolled around a sweet currant filling, baked until golden and dusted with sugar.

🇭🇰Hong Kong

Curry Beef Triangle

咖喱角

Ga li su, the flaky curry-beef triangle of Hong Kong bakeries and dim sum trolleys, crisp outside with a thick spiced mince within.

🇸🇭Saint Helena

Curry Puffs

Saint Helena curry puffs are shortcrust pastry parcels filled with curried corned beef, onion, parsley, and egg, a local party food adapted from the wider curry-puff tradition.

🇭🇰Hong Kong

Custard Bun

奶黃包

A dim sum bun filled with molten yellow custard, steamed until the filling runs.

🇪🇸Andalusia, Spain

Córdoba Angel-Hair Pastry

Pastel cordobés

Córdoba Angel-Hair Pastry, locally pastel cordobés, wraps pumpkin angel-hair preserve in round puff pastry finished with sugar and cinnamon.

🇧🇪Liège, Belgium

Cûtès peûres di Lidge

Cûtès peûres di Lidge are Liège pears poached until tender in a spiced sweet syrup.

🇰🇼Kuwait

Darabeel

درابيل

Sheets of thin dough rolled with butter, sugar and cardamom, coiled and baked into a flaky spiral.

🇺🇸United States

Delaware peach pie

A Delaware specialty pie made with ripe peaches, sweetened and baked in a pastry crust.

🇱🇾Libya

Diblah

A Libyan dessert of fried pastry strips or coils drenched in date or honey syrup.

🇬🇷Peloponnese, Greece

Diples

Δίπλες

Greek fried pastry rolls, thin dough folded and fried until crispy, soaked in honey syrup and sprinkled with walnuts. A Christmas and wedding dessert, sweet and crunchy, a Peloponnese tradition.

🇬🇫French Guiana

Dizé Milé

A beignet (fritter) stuffed with pastry cream; can be served with ice cream or sorbet and champagne; a Creole dessert of French Guiana; the name means 'mullet eggs'.

🇭🇺Hungary

Doughnut

Fánk

Doughnut is a sweet yeast doughnuts filled with jam and dusted with powdered sugar.

🇺🇸United States

Doughnut

A ring of sweetened dough, fried until golden and glazed, sugared, or frosted — America's breakfast treat.

🇷🇸Serbia

Doughnuts

Крофне

Yeasted dough balls fried until they carry a pale band round the middle, filled with jam and rolled in icing sugar.