Desserts & Sweets
Cakes, pastries and sweet treats to finish the meal.
255 dishes
Halawet el Jibn
Halawet el jibn is a Levantine sweet of soft cheese dough rolled around cream and finished with syrup and pistachio.
Syria ·
Nationwide 
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Knafeh
Knafeh is a Middle Eastern dessert of shredded pastry or semolina layered with soft white cheese, baked and soaked in sweet syrup.
Lebanon ·
Middle East
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Knafeh
Knafeh is a Levantine dessert of melted white cheese under crisp orange shredded pastry, soaked in syrup.
Palestine ·
Levant, nationwide 
Marillenknodel
Marillenknodel are Austrian sweet dumplings of dough wrapped around a whole apricot, boiled and rolled in buttery breadcrumbs.
Austria ·
Vienna 
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Pasta Flora
A shortcrust jam tart that travelled from Italy to Greece and South America - pasta frolla base covered in fruit preserve or dulce de leche, finished with a thin lattice top.
Greece ·
Italy (origins), widely adopted in Greece, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay 
Aachener Printen
Aachener Printen are dark, honey-rich spiced cookies from Aachen, with a crisp snap and a long tradition as an Advent treat.
Germany ·
Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia 
Buccellato
A traditional Tuscan ring-shaped sweet bread from Lucca, enriched with eggs and butter, filled with figs, raisins, candied peel, and pine nuts.
Italy ·
Lucca and Versilia, Tuscany 
Pavlova
Crisp-shelled meringue with soft marshmallow centre and fruit.
New Zealand ·
Nationwide 
Umm Ali
Warm milk pudding of pastry, nuts and coconut.
Egypt ·
Nationwide 
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Ballourieh
Paper-thin phyllo layers brushed with ghee and filled with sweetened cheese, soaked in orange-blossom syrup - a classic Syrian celebration pastry served at room temperature with Arabic coffee.
Budyń
Budyń is a beloved Polish milk pudding - a smooth, trembling custard in vanilla or chocolate, sold in every grocery store and served as an afternoon snack.
Poland ·
Masovia, Lesser Poland, Silesia 
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Burma Kadayıf
Twisted Turkish shredded-dough pastry filled with walnuts and syrup, baked in shallow trays and served with tea.
Turkey ·
Turkey (Bursa, Gaziantep, Antakya, Istanbul, Eskişehir, Kocaeli) Koeksisters
Koeksisters are South African plaited doughnuts deep-fried and soaked in cold sugar syrup, crisp outside and syrupy within.
South Africa ·
Nationwide 
Krapfen
Austrian yeasted doughnut filled with dark Powidl plum jam, traditionally eaten through the carnival season and at Kaffeejause all year.
Lokma
A golden Turkish dessert of small deep-fried dough balls soaked in cold sugar syrup, traditionally handed out to neighbours and passers-by in the days after a funeral, and sold from street carts across Istanbul.
Mochi
A chewy Japanese rice cake made from pounded glutinous rice, eaten plain or filled with sweet bean paste.
Japan ·
Nationwide 
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Ottijiet
Ottijiet are traditional Maltese honey-ring biscuits baked for village festa days and served sticky with warm honey.
Malta ·
Gozo and Malta, especially the villages of Mġarr, Nadur, Qala and Victoria 
Sütlaç
Turkish rice pudding, baked until its surface caramelises into a blistered brown skin.
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Apam Balik
Apam Balik is a folded peanut-stuffed pancake sold at Malaysian night markets, with a crisp caramelised edge and a soft, chewy centre.
Malaysia ·
Penang, Kuala Lumpur, and Malaysian night markets generally 
Bambalouni
Tunisian deep-fried doughnut perfumed with orange-blossom water, sold hot from street carts along the Mediterranean corniches.
Tunisia ·
Tunisia (Tunis, Sidi Bouzid, Sfax, Hammamet, Sousse, Bizerte, Djerba) BeaverTails
BeaverTails is a Canadian fried-dough pastry stretched into a beaver-tail shape and topped with sweet spreads such as cinnamon sugar or chocolate.
Canada ·
Nationwide 
Lamington
Sponge squares dipped in chocolate and coconut.
Australia ·
Nationwide 
Prekmurska Gibanica
Prekmurska gibanica is Slovenia's layered Prekmurje cake with poppy seed, cottage cheese, walnut and apple fillings between delicate pastry, a festive classic.
Slovenia ·
Prekmurje 
Pumpkin Pie
Pumpkin pie is a North American dessert of spiced pumpkin custard baked in a pastry crust, a fixture of autumn and Thanksgiving.
United States ·
New England