Coffee Sweets

Lasta Štrudla Čokolada is a 250g Bosnian chocolate pastry roll — soft yeast-leavened dough wrapped around a smooth cocoa-and-chocolate cream fillin...

A chocolate-filled croissant like this is the quick breakfast pastry that comes out of an Italian bakery box, the kind you serve with coffee when f...

A pistachio-and-chocolate croissant like this is what fills the pastry box from the Italian bakery aisle, the treat you set out with coffee. Dora3 ...

Individually wrapped sponge cakes disappearing from the pantry shelf is a familiar sight in any house with kids home from school. This is Balconi's...

Mix Max was the bigger box in the cabinet, ten rolls deep, coconut cream instead of the usual hazelnut. This pack holds ten individually wrapped ro...

Choco Latte was the milky, choc-chip-flecked roll that sat next to its cacao and coconut siblings on the same pantry shelf. This pack holds ten ind...

Klas Bosanski Lokum is a 400g pack of Bosnian-style Turkish delight — the chewy, cornstarch-set confection dusted with powdered sugar in the tradit...

A crisp wafer layered with coffee cream, pulled from a colorful wrapper alongside afternoon coffee, is a familiar sweet in many Balkan pantries. Ev...

Plazma biscuits are the taste of childhood snack drawers all over the former Yugoslavia — this is the mini Choco version, sized for a lunchbox. Bam...

The banana version of Plazma Mini Mini sat in the same snack drawer as the original, and diaspora kids remember arguing over which flavor was bette...

The cacao rollino was the darker cousin on the same lunchbox shelf, the one you grabbed when you wanted chocolate instead of hazelnut. Each pack ho...

Afternoons at home often meant a plain tea biscuit dunked straight into a hot cup, nothing fancy about it. Donia's Bakehouse Classic Tea Biscuits c...

Donia Bakehouse Tea Biscuits are classic European tea biscuits — light, crisp, lightly sweet rounds with a fine crumb, baked to dunk in tea, coffee...

A peanut cream wafer from the cupboard was the snack waiting for you after school in Bulgaria. This is Borovets' Peanut Cream Wafers, a Bulgarian c...

Gullón Lady Fingers Cookies are the Spanish interpretation of the classic sponge finger biscuit — light, dry, and gently sweet, built for soaking i...

Achva Vanilla & Chocolate Sesame Halva (Marble) — Israel's Achva (1929) tahini halva swirled with cocoa, the 454g marble-pattern pack, the dias...

Achva Vanilla Sesame Halva — Israel's Achva (1929) tahini halva with vanilla, the 454g pack of the Middle Eastern dessert classic. Crumbly-creamy t...

A slice of halva with walnuts, sweet and crumbling, was the treat saved for guests with Turkish coffee. Zolotoi Vek's sunflower halva with walnuts,...

JM Halva Sunflower with Raisins is the classic Ukrainian sunflower-seed halva enriched with plump raisins — a confection of roasted sunflower paste...

Bonomi Savoiardi Ladyfingers are the classic sponge finger biscuits from Forno Bonomi, a Verona-based Italian baking house that has been producing ...

Ki-Ki candies from Kraš are the fruit chews sold in nearly every corner shop across Zagreb, the kind kids trade at school break. Kraš d.d. has been...

JM Halva Sunflower Marble Fantasy is a swirled sunflower-seed halva block from Ukraine — the classic Ukrainian confection of roasted sunflower past...

A cube of lokum with walnuts, dusted in powdered sugar, is the sweet passed around after coffee at nearly every Balkan gathering. Evropa makes this...

Favorit Oblande are large, crisp Serbian wafer sheets — the blank canvas that diaspora bakers layer with hazelnut cream, chocolate spread, or walnu...