Pastries

🇮🇩Indonesia

Fried Rissole

Risoles

Fried pastry rolls filled with ragout of meat and vegetables, influenced by Dutch cuisine.

🇵🇹Braga, Portugal

Frigideiras

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

🇺🇸United States

Frito Pie

A bag of Fritos split open and topped with chili, cheese, and onions — a Texas and Southwest classic.

🇪🇸Spain

Fritters

Bunuelos

Light, airy fried dough balls, sometimes filled with cream or chocolate, dusted with sugar, popular at Christmas and All Saints' Day.

🇩🇰Denmark

Frøsnapper (Seed Snapper)

Frøsnapper

A Danish twisted pastry sprinkled with poppy or sesame seeds, a savory-sweet bakery staple

🇺🇸United States

Fudge Pie

A dense, intensely chocolate pie with a fudgy, brownie-like filling.

🇱🇺Luxembourg

Fueskichelcher

Light carnival doughnuts fried and dusted with sugar during Luxembourg's Fuesend season.

🇬🇷Greece

Fylla

Φύλλα

Hand-rolled filo leaves stuffed with minced meat and herbs, baked with stock and grated cheese — the Sunday pie of Corfu households.

🇹🇷Gaziantep, Turkey

Fıstıklı Sarma

A Gaziantep dessert made by wrapping a single sheet of phyllo dough around a smooth, bright green paste of early-harvest Antep pistachios. Unlike traditional baklava, it is mostly pistachio paste with just enough phyllo to hold it together, creating an intensely nutty, sweet flavor.

🇳🇬Lagos, Nigeria

Gala

Sausage roll in a red wrapper sold at every traffic jam in Lagos, usually bought through a car window with a bottle of soft drink.

🇬🇷Greece

Galaktoboureko

Γαλακτομπούρεκο

Greek custard pie: layers of phyllo filled with semolina custard, soaked in lemon syrup. A café and home dessert, creamy and flaky, sweet and tangy, a national favorite.

🇬🇷Epirus, Greece

Galatopita

Γαλατόπιτα

Greek milk pie: a creamy, custard-like pie with phyllo or semolina, soaked in syrup. A café and home dessert, sweet and creamy, an Epirus and Christmas tradition, a comfort dessert.

🇫🇷France

Galette de Pérouges

Galette de Pérouges is a thin yeast pastry topped with butter and sugar, baked until crisp at the edges.

🇪🇸Galicia, Spain

Galician Pie

Empanada gallega

A large savory pie from Galicia with a bread or pastry crust, filled with tuna, cod, meat, or seafood, traditionally cut into portions for festivals and gatherings.

🇦🇲Armenia

Gata

Գաթա

Round or layered pastry filled with khoriz — flour toasted with butter and sugar into a sandy sweet crumb — and marked on top with a carved pattern.

🇹🇷Gaziantep, Turkey

Gaziantep baklavası

The PGI pistachio baklava of Gaziantep, layered filo with Antep pistachios, sold throughout the city's baklava shops.

🇧🇴Bolivia

Gaznates Dulces

A Bolivian pastry tube filled with meringue or cream

🇨🇮Côte d'Ivoire

Gbofloto

Sweet yeast-dough balls fried in palm or vegetable oil until deep brown, sold warm by the bag at markets and school gates.

🇧🇪Ghent, Belgium

Gentse vlaai

Gentse vlaai is a dense Ghent tart with a spiced filling and a dark caramelised surface.

🇺🇸United States

Georgia Peach Pie

A Southern pie of ripe Georgia peaches, sugared and baked in pastry.

🇬🇪Adjara, Georgia

Georgian Pakhlava

Ფახლავა

A Georgian baklava of thin, crunchy layers of filo filled with nuts and soaked in sugar-honey syrup, an Adjarian specialty.

🇩🇪Germany

German Cream Puff

Windbeutel

A large German choux pastry puff filled generously with whipped cream, its hollow shell light and crisp rather than cake-like.

🇬🇭Ghana

Ghanaian Meat Pie

Meat pie

Shortcrust pastry parcel filled with minced beef, onion and pepper, baked and sold from glass cases at lorry stations.

🇮🇳Rajasthan, India

Ghevar

घेवर

A thin flour batter is poured into hot ghee to form a honeycomb disc, then soaked or topped with cream.

🇷🇸Serbia

Gibanica

Гибаница

Layers of thin filo crumpled with a filling of young cheese, eggs and kajmak, baked until the top layers crisp and the middle stays custardy.

🇯🇲Jamaica

Gizzada

Small open tart with a pinched pastry rim holding a filling of grated coconut cooked with brown sugar, ginger and nutmeg.

🇻🇪Venezuela

Golfeados

Sweet rolls made with grated papelón and aniseed, baked in a tray and topped with a slice of white cheese and syrup.

🇦🇫Afghanistan

Gosh-e Fil

گوش فیل

Thin dough pinched into an elephant-ear shape, deep-fried and dusted with icing sugar, ground pistachio and cardamom.

🇫🇷Burgundy, France

Gougeres Bourguignonnes

Gougères bourguignonnes are hollow cheese puffs made from choux pastry and grated Comté or Gruyère.

🇺🇸United States

Grandma Pie

A Rhode Island bakery pie: a thick, chewy-crisp crust with sweet tomato sauce and a single layer of mozzarella.

🇺🇸United States

Grape pie

A Concord grape pie with a deep purple, jammy filling — a Finger Lakes and Western New York specialty.

🇺🇸United States

Grasshopper Pie

A chilled mint-chocolate dessert pie of crème de menthe custard and whipped cream in a chocolate crust.

🇬🇩Grenada

Grenadian Aloo Pie

Aloo Pie

Fried dough filled with spiced potato (aloo) curry; of Indo-Caribbean origin, shared with Trinidad; a popular street food in Grenada; similar to a samosa but elongated; served with chutney and pepper sauce; found at roadside vendors and snackettes; the aloo pie of the Spice Isle

🇬🇩Grenada

Grenadian Coconut Tart

Coconut Tart

Sweet tart filled with grated coconut, sugar, and spices; a traditional Grenadian treat; found at Church Harvest festivals and bakeries; spiced with local nutmeg; a popular food souvenir; the coconut tart of the Spice Isle; a nostalgic treat; a celebration of the island's coconuts and spices.

🇬🇩Grenada

Grenadian Currant Rolls

Currant Rolls

Sweet pastry rolls filled with currants and spices; a traditional Grenadian treat of Indo-Caribbean origin; dough rolled around a filling of currants, sugar, and nutmeg; baked until golden; found at bakeries and markets; the currant rolls of the Spice Isle; a nostalgic snack; spiced with local nutmeg.

🇩🇿Algeria

Griwech

قريوش

Strips of dough cut and folded into a lattice, deep-fried, then soaked in honey and rolled in sesame seed.