Cakes & Pastries

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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

Djerdan Burek Tulumba is a traditional crispy fried pastry steeped in sweet vanilla syrup, made in the USA in the Balkan tradition. The dough is ma...

Bas Ta Tulumba is a traditional homemade-style fried pastry soaked in sweet syrup, a beloved dessert across the Balkans and Turkey. Made with eggs,...

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

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

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

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...

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 is an Israeli sesame halva with pistachio pieces from Achva — one of Israel's most established halva producers — ...

Honey cake shows up on the table for birthdays and holidays, sliced thin because a little goes a long way. Marlenka bakes this classic gluten-free ...