Cakes & Pastries

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...

Antonelli Croissant with Strawberry Filling is a soft Italian-style croissant filled with a strawberry filling — the Antonelli bakery format of the...

The foil-wrapped snack cake was the treat tucked into every school bag across the Balkans, banana cream inside a chocolate shell. Made by Makprogre...

The cherry version was the one kids fought over in the snack aisle, dark jam peeking through a shell of cocoa coating. Made by Makprogres (the fami...

Pre-baked Serbian phyllo-style sheets for savory layered pies. Bradic's slane (savory) rozen kore are thin, flexible, lightly salted pastry layers ...

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...

Vincinni Mini Rolls Assorted Fruit Wafers are a pack of assorted fruit-flavoured rolled wafer snacks from Vincinni — the Macedonian confectionery b...

The vanilla version of these mini rolls carries the same lunchbox memory, just a milder, creamy flavor kids loved just as much. Vincinni, the flags...

A plate of berry zephyr dipped in dark chocolate next to a pot of tea is a familiar afternoon treat across the former Soviet diaspora. This 200g (7...

Donia Belani Strudel Jam Cookies are rolled strudla-style cookies with a fruit jam filling from the Macedonian Donia brand — a cookie in the spiral...

Vincinni's medenjaci s višnjom — Macedonia's soft honey cakes with a sour-cherry heart. Pillow-textured spiced honey dough wrapped around tart cher...

A chocolate chip muffin pulled from a lunchbox was the treat that made an ordinary school day feel a little sweeter. Balconi packs six chocolate ch...

Sir Charles Soft Nougat Cranberries and Peanuts is an Austrian nougat bar where the chewy, honey-sweetened nougat base is studded with dried cranbe...

Haitoglou Macedonian Halva with Cocoa Bar is a 40g individual bar of tahini halva with cocoa from Haitoglou — the classic Greek-produced sesame-pas...

Kraljic Family Hurmasica is a ready-made pack of hurmašice from Kraljic Family — a specialty Croatian pastry producer — in the traditional syrup-so...

Zaharni Zavodi Lokum Bulgarian Delight is a rose-flavoured or classic Turkish delight from Zaharni Zavodi — Bulgaria's oldest and largest confectio...

Halva from Thessaloniki was the treat sliced thin and shared after Sunday lunch, sweet enough to make the whole table smile. This Mezap Traditional...

Chocolate halva was the other jar next to the plain one on the sweets shelf, the cocoa version for anyone with a sweet tooth. This Mezap Halva with...

A cube of Turkish delight dusted in sugar is what appears next to the Turkish coffee tray when guests visit, soft and sweet in the mouth. Galil mak...

Achva Sugarless Halva is an Israeli sesame halva formulated without added sugar from Achva — one of Israel's most established halva producers — in ...

The wedge of halva cut from a big wheel at the deli counter is a dessert Ottoman-era trade routes carried straight into Balkan tradition too. Achva...

Achva Sesame Halva with Pistachio — Israel's Achva (1929) sesame halva studded with whole pistachios in the 454g pack, the diaspora-kitchen confect...