Cakes & Pastries

Brodlo Rozen Kore are the pre-made wafer cake layers for the traditional Serbian Rozen torta — thin, round, crisp baked layers designed to be stack...

Haitoglou Bros Vanilla Halva Bar 40g is a single-serve portion of Greek sesame halva in the vanilla flavour — the crumbly, dense, tahini-and-sugar ...

Deutsche Backerei Honey Cake is a German-style Honigkuchen — the spiced honey cake of the German baking tradition — produced in the Deutsche Backer...

Balconi rollini were the snack cake wrapped in gold foil that showed up in lunchboxes across the region, one roll pulled from the six-pack sleeve a...

A croissant like this was the treat from the pekara bag on a school morning, still a little warm from the case. Dora3 bakes these strawberry-filled...

Dora3 Croissant with Crema Pasticcera is a soft Italian-style individually wrapped pastry filled with classic vanilla pastry cream — the golden-bak...

Boromir Cozonac with Walnuts & Cocoa Filling is the traditional Romanian holiday sweet bread from Boromir, the Vâlcea-based Romanian bakery and...

4U Croissant Max — Montenegro's soft-baked cocoa-cream croissant, the diaspora kid's after-school nostalgia in a single-pack format. Pillowy yeaste...

4U Croissant — Montenegro's soft-baked croissant filled with cocoa AND vanilla cream side-by-side, the two-flavor pack diaspora households grab whe...

In Romania, cozonac is the sweet braided loaf that fills homes at Easter and Christmas, and a store-bought Boromir cozonac is a common stand-in whe...

In Russia a box of Choco Pie is the default treat set out with tea at the office or on a train, and the cherry version adds a berry jam layer to th...

A box of Konti's Bonjour souffle desserts is a familiar thing to bring along when visiting friends in Ukraine, opened on the table with a pot of bl...

Torrada is a Brazilian breakfast reflex, a crisp toast pulled from the pack and buttered while the coffee is still dripping, eaten standing up befo...

In Italy the Rollino is merendina territory, the thing that rides in the bottom of a school backpack all morning and still gets eaten at the ten-th...

In Istanbul's covered bazaars, trays of rose-dusted lokum studded with pistachios have been a coffee-time treat for generations. This boxed Turkish...

Jamaica rum in a German pound cake is a Sunday-afternoon habit, the bottle kept in the cupboard for baking and nothing else. This is Schlünder Jama...

The small Stollen is the one that goes into a Christmas parcel or an office desk drawer in Germany. This is Schlünder Butter Christstollen from Sch...

Bratapfel, the baked apple, is one of the fixed smells of a German winter, and the apple Stollen carries it in a loaf small enough for two people. ...

In German homes the Stollen is cut thin through Advent, one slice at a time, so a single loaf lasts all four weeks. This is Schlünder Butter Christ...

In Serbian kitchens, a rolled nut cake like this one is baked for Christmas and Easter, sliced into thin rounds and set out once family gathers aft...

In Sarajevo kitchens, a plate of Sarko biscuits comes out the moment a neighbor stops by for coffee, set beside the finjan the way it has been for ...

A packet of Sarko biscuits on the table means visitors are coming, in a lot of Bosnian homes. Klas Sarko Choco Cookies are tea biscuits from Klas o...

Growing up in Italy, a five-pack of Balconi wafers tucked into the merenda tin was the classic mid-morning school snack. Made by Balconi, an Italia...

In Italy, Balconi's vanilla wafers are the kind of snack that has sat in kitchen cupboards for generations, ready for an afternoon coffee break. Ba...