Pastries

🇦🇷Argentina

Facturas

The collective name for Argentine breakfast pastries: medialunas, bolas de fraile, palmeritas, cañoncitios, and more. Brought by Italian, French, and German immigrants, sold in panaderías.

🇫🇰Falkland Islands

Falkland Empanadas

Small savoury empanadas with meat, raisins, and olives appear in Falklands Christmas baking.

🇫🇷Brittany, France

Far Breton

Traditional Brittany custard tart with prunes, dense and rustic.

🇵🇹Lisbon Region, Portugal

Farinha torrada

Farinha torrada is a Portuguese sweet from Sesimbra, shaped as a pastry and finished with its characteristic sugar, nut, or egg filling.

🇩🇰Denmark

Fastelavnsbolle

Danish Shrovetide bun filled with whipped cream and jam, topped with icing.

🇬🇧England, United Kingdom

Fat Rascal

Fat Rascal is a traditional pastry from United Kingdom.

🇸🇳Senegal

Fataya

Thin dough parcels filled with spiced fish or minced meat, folded into half-moons and deep-fried.

🇸🇾Syria

Fatayer Jebneh

فطائر جبنة

Small Syrian pastry rounds hold brined white cheese and bake until the dough is crisp at the edge and tender inside.

🇲🇻Maldives

Fathafolhi

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Traditional Maldivian short eat of dough wrapped around a tuna and coconut filling, fried or baked — part of the hedhikaa family of tea-time snacks.

🇵🇱Poland

Faworki

Polish 'angel wings': thin, crispy, twisted pastry strips, deep-fried and dusted with powdered sugar. A Fat Thursday and Carnival tradition, crunchy and sweet, a national treat.

🇦🇿Azerbaijan

Feseli

Fəsəli

Layered pastry of thin dough, greens and butter baked in a round pan and cut into wedges, closest to a Caucasian pita.

🇫🇷Alsace, France

Feuilletés au Munster

Feuilletés au Munster are savory puff-pastry parcels filled with aromatic Munster cheese and baked until flaky.

🇬🇧England, United Kingdom

Fidget pie

Fidget pie is a pie from Shropshire, rooted in local cooking tradition. Distinct from food-pite.

🇵🇭Philippines

Filled Pastry

Hopia

A Chinese-influenced flaky pastry with fillings like mung bean, ube, or pork, a popular snack from Binondo.

🇷🇴Romania

Filled Pie

Plăcintă

A thin-dough filled pie baked or pan-fried until crisp, with curd, cabbage, pumpkin, apple, walnut, or sour-cherry fillings depending on the season and household.

🇫🇮Finland

Finnish Doughnut

Munkki

Traditional Finnish doughnuts, typically ring-shaped, deep-fried and coated with sugar, a popular coffee companion.

🇫🇮Savonia, Finland

Fish Pie

Kalakukko

Traditional fish and bacon filling baked inside a thick rye bread crust from Savonia region, EU TSG protected.

🇲🇺Mauritius

Fish Samosas Mauriciennes

Samoussas au poisson

Thin Mauritian samosas filled with seasoned salted fish, onion and herbs.

🇸🇨Seychelles

Fish Samosas Seychelloises

Samoussas au poisson

Seychellois samosas filled with seasoned fish, onion and herbs.

🇰🇷South Korea

Fish-Shaped Pastry

붕어빵

A fish-shaped pastry filled with sweet red bean paste, cooked in a special mold, a popular winter street snack.

🇹🇲Turkmenistan

Fitchi

A savoury Turkmen pastry filled with minced meat and onion, sealed into a thin round crust and baked until browned.

🇪🇬Egypt

Fiteer Meshaltet

فطير مشلتت

Egypt's layered flaky pastry with ghee, eaten sweet with honey or savory with cheese or meat, a festive and daily classic

🇧🇪Belgium

Flamiche

A Belgian leek tart or pie from Dinant, with cream, cheese, or eggs, a regional and daily classic

🇨🇾Cyprus

Flaouna

Φλαούνα

Easter pastry filled with a mixture of local cheeses, egg, mint and raisins, brushed with egg and crusted with sesame.

🇨🇦Canadian Prairies, Canada

Flapper Pie

Vanilla custard pie with graham cracker crust and fluffy meringue topping, Prairie staple since 1920s.

🇫🇷France

Flaune

Flaune is an Aveyron sheep-cheese tart flavored with orange blossom, baked into a softly set filling.

🇨🇦Atlantic Canada, Canada

Flipper pie

A named Newfoundland savoury pie traditionally made with seal flipper meat and vegetables; it is encountered only in lawful, regulated, culturally grounded contexts.

🇪🇸Balearic Islands, Spain

Formatjada

Formatjada is a small Menorcan crimped pastry traditionally filled with seasoned lamb or pork, xulla, and sobrasada, then baked until golden.

🇧🇬Bulgaria

Fortune Banitsa

Баница с късмети

New Year's Eve banitsa with paper fortunes and a coin baked between the filo layers; everyone takes a piece and reads their year aloud.

🇬🇷Greece

Fouskakia

Φουσκάκια

Little "bubbles" of fried dough from Alonissos soaked in honey syrup and rolled in walnuts, the island's answer to loukoumades.

🇮🇹Italy

Frappe di Carnevale

Thin crispy fried ribbons of sweet dough dusted with powdered sugar, eaten during Carnival across central Italy. Also called chiacchiere.

🇷🇴Romania

Fried Cheese Doughnuts

Papanași

Rounds of sweetened curd cheese dough deep-fried, stacked with a small ball on top, and served under sour cream and sour cherry jam.

🇨🇳China

Fried Dough Sticks

油条

Long twisted lengths of salted dough deep-fried until hollow and golden, eaten at breakfast dunked in soy milk or congee

🇨🇳China

Fried Dough Twist

麻花

Strands of dough plaited and deep-fried into a hard golden twist, plain and salty or sugar-glazed.

🇨🇱Chile

Fried Empanada

Empanada frita

Empanada dough fried instead of baked, with various fillings like cheese or pino, a popular Chilean street food.

🇺🇸United States

Fried pies

Hand pies of fruit filling — peach, apple, apricot — fried until golden, a roadside and farm-stand staple.