Desserts & Sweets
Cakes, pastries and sweet treats to finish the meal.
248 dishes
Far Breton
Dense Breton flan studded with prunes.
Fritule
Little rum-and-citrus doughnuts dusted with sugar.
Fyrstekake
Fyrstekake is a beloved tart, traditional to Norway.
Halo-Halo
Shaved-ice dessert layered with sweet beans, fruit and milk.
Hoşaf
Hoşaf is one of the classic dishes in the dessert tradition of Turkey.
Jalebi
Crisp spiral fritters soaked in saffron syrup.
Khanom Krok
Coconut-rice custard cooked in a dimpled pan.
Kleicha
Spiced date-filled cookies, the national sweet.
Klepon
Pandan rice-flour balls with a molten palm-sugar centre.
Koeksister
Plaited fried dough drenched in cold sugar syrup.
Kourabiedes
Buttery almond shortbread buried in icing sugar.
Krapfen
Austrian yeasted doughnut filled with dark Powidl plum jam, traditionally eaten through the carnival season and at Kaffeejause all year.
Kunāfah
Kunāfah is one of the classic dishes in the sweet pastry tradition of Egypt.
Kutia
Kutia is the sweet Ukrainian Christmas Eve pudding of boiled wheat, poppy seeds, honey and nuts, eaten first from a shared bowl at the Holy Supper.
Lazakiyat
Lazakiyat is a beloved dessert, traditional to Syria.
Lebkuchen
Spiced soft gingerbread of the Christmas markets.
Linzer Torte
Lattice-topped nut pastry filled with redcurrant jam.
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.
Makowiec
Rolled yeast cake with a dark poppy-seed filling.
Makroud el Louse
Makroud el Louse is one of the classic dishes in the cookie tradition of Algeria.
Malabi
Silky milk pudding with rosewater syrup and nuts.
Matka Kulfi
Matka Kulfi is a frozen dessert from India.
Mochi
Chewy pounded-rice cakes, sweet or savoury, soft and stretchy.
Modak
Steamed rice dumplings filled with coconut and jaggery.