Pastries

🇳🇱Netherlands

Dutch Apple Pie

Appeltaart

Deep-dish apple pie with large chunks of apple, raisins, and cinnamon in a buttery crust, served with whipped cream.

🇳🇱Netherlands

Dutch Doughnuts

Oliebollen

Deep-fried balls of dough with raisins or currants, dusted with powdered sugar, traditionally eaten on New Year's Eve.

🇩🇿Algeria

Dziriette

دزيرية

Almond-paste cones wrapped in thin pastry, baked and dipped in honey — the pastry of Algiers weddings.

🇲🇨Monaco, Monaco

Easter Chard Pie

Torta Pasqualina

Layered chard pie, the centrepiece dish on Easter day in Monaco; Swiss chard layered with eggs, cheese, and herbs in a pastry crust; a Monegasque Easter tradition listed in Wikipedia's cuisine table.

🇬🇧England, United Kingdom

Eccles Cake

A flat round of flaky pastry packed with buttery spiced currants, slashed on top and baked with a sugar crust.

🇷🇺Kazan, Russia

Echpochmak

Эчпочмак

Tatar triangle pie of leavened dough stuffed with raw mutton, onion and potato, baked until the corners crisp.

🇫🇷France

Eclair

Elongated choux pastry filled with cream and topped with glossy icing.

🇬🇧Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Edinburgh Rock

Edinburgh Rock is a traditional pastry from United Kingdom.

🇭🇰Guangdong, Hong Kong

Egg Tart

蛋挞

A small tart of smooth egg custard in either a flaky puff shell or a shortcrust one, eaten warm.

🇷🇺Russia

Elesh

Элеш

Tatar raised pie filled with sweet rice, egg and golden raisins, baked until domed and cut into wedges.

🇨🇾Cyprus

Eliopita

Ελιόπιτα

Eliopita is a Cypriot olive pie filled with chopped black olives, onion and herbs inside a yeasted dough.

🇧🇷Brazil

Empada

Empada de perdiz

A small crumbly shortcrust pie filled with shredded chicken, heart of palm or cheese, baked in fluted molds and sold at padarias and beach kiosks.

🇨🇼Curaçao

Empana

Empana; a traditional Curaçaoan stuffed pastry; filled with cheese, meat, fish, or chicken; a popular snack and street food; a feature of roadside snack-bars and bakeries; a staple of Curaçaoan cuisine; a grab-and-go treat; similar to pastechi but with its own distinct preparation.

🇦🇷Argentina

Empanada Capresse

A modern Argentine empanada filled with mozzarella, tomato, and basil, inspired by the Italian caprese salad. A popular vegetarian option at urban empanada shops.

🇦🇷Argentina

Empanada Catamarqueña

A Catamarca-style empanada filled with finely chopped beef, onions, paprika, cumin, and sometimes goat meat, baked in a clay oven with a distinctive repulgue.

🇦🇷Córdoba, Argentina

Empanada Cordobesa

A Córdoba-style empanada, slightly sweeter than other regional versions, made with ground or chopped beef, onions, olives, and a touch of sugar and paprika, baked until golden.

🇦🇷Argentina

Empanada Criolla

The classic Argentine empanada: a wheat-flour pastry folded around seasoned ground beef, onions, boiled egg, olives, and cumin, then baked or fried. Each region has its own repulgue (crimp) to mark the filling.

🇩🇴Dominican Republic

Empanada de Catibía

A Dominican empanada made with cassava flour (catibía) dough, filled with ground meat or cheese, fried until crispy. A denser, nuttier variant, a street specialty.

🇻🇪Venezuela

Empanada de Cazón

A Margarita corn-dough empanada filled with seasoned cazón and fried until crisp.

🇦🇷Argentina

Empanada de Humita

An empanada filled with creamy humita—grated fresh corn sautéed with onions, peppers, basil, and cheese. A northern and Cuyo specialty, especially in corn season.

🇦🇷Argentina

Empanada de Jamón y Queso

A baked or fried empanada filled with diced ham and melted cheese. A creamy, mild alternative to meat empanadas, popular at parties and bakeries.

🇦🇷Argentina

Empanada de Llama

A highland empanada filled with seasoned minced llama meat, onions, paprika, and cumin. A specialty of the Puna and Quebrada de Humahuaca, prized for its lean, gamey flavor.

🇨🇴Colombia

Empanada de Pipián

A Huila specialty empanada filled with pipián (a spicy peanut and potato stew), fried until golden. A regional street snack with a distinctive red filling.

🇦🇷Argentina

Empanada de Pollo

A chicken empanada filled with shredded cooked chicken, onions, paprika, and sometimes potatoes or peas. A popular alternative to beef at bakeries and empanada shops.

🇪🇨Ecuador

Empanada de Verde

An Ecuadorian empanada of green plantain dough stuffed with cheese or meat, fried until golden, a coastal and street classic.

🇦🇷Mendoza, Argentina

Empanada Mendocina

A Mendoza-style empanada, larger than the northern versions, filled with chopped beef, garlic, olives, and boiled egg, baked until golden. Often enjoyed with a glass of Malbec.

🇦🇷Salta, Argentina

Empanada Salteña

A Salta specialty of small, juicy empanadas filled with chopped beef, potatoes, green onions, and paprika from the Valles Calchaquíes, baked over wood in a clay oven.

🇦🇷Tucumán, Argentina

Empanada Tucumana

TasteAtlas's top-ranked savory pastry in the world: a Tucumán specialty made with hand-rolled wheat-and-beef-fat dough, juicy beef or chicken filling, paprika, cumin, and a splash of lemon, baked in a clay oven.

🇦🇷Argentina

Empanada Árabe

A Syrian-Lebanese Argentine empanada of sfiha origin, filled with seasoned ground beef, onions, tomatoes, and lemon juice, baked in a triangular or square shape without crimping.

🇨🇴Colombia

Empanadas Colombianas

Colombian fried empanadas of yellow cornmeal dough filled with beef, chicken, or potatoes, served with aji (salsa). Crispier and smaller than Argentine versions.

🇨🇷Costa Rica

Empanadas de Chiverre

Costa Rican Easter empanadas filled with chiverre, a sweetened squash-jam filling, baked in a corn or wheat pastry.

🇸🇻El Salvador

Empanadas de Plátano

Empanadas de Leche

Salvadoran sweet plantain empanadas: ripe plantain dough stuffed with sweetened beans or cream, fried until caramelized.

🇲🇽Mexico

Empanadas de Santa Rita

Sweet empanadas from Santa Rita, filled with pumpkin or fruit and dusted with sugar.

🇩🇴Dominican Republic

Empanadas Dominicanas

Dominican fried wheat-flour empanadas filled with ground beef, chicken, or cheese, served with hot sauce. A street and bakery staple, crispy and savory.

🇧🇴Tarija, Bolivia

Empanadas Tarijeñas

Tarija-style flour pastry empanadas with cheese and/or meat, oven-baked, distinct from salteñas; morning market staple

🇨🇭Graubünden, Switzerland

Engadine Nut Tart

Bündner Nusstorte

A closed shortcrust tart filled with caramelised walnuts and cream, dense and chewy, made to travel and keep for weeks.