Coffee Sweets

Seashell-shaped pralines in a gift box are a fixture of European holiday tables, a style made famous by the chocolatiers of the Belgian coast. Thes...

In Croatian and Bosnian kitchens a small pack of Kandit kakao is a pantry staple, stirred into warm milk for children and sifted into cake batters ...

Sugar-dusted fruit jellies are a fixture of Central European sweet counters, the kind of mixed-flavor tray set out for guests at name days and Chri...

In Poland a boxed Torcik Wedlowski has long been the cake guests bring to a name-day or holiday visit, instantly recognisable by its hand-piped cho...

Across Europe the Lion bar is the chunky kiosk bar grabbed at petrol stations and school tuck shops when a small chocolate will not do. This is Nes...

The little glass bottle of Starbucks Frappuccino has been an American gas-station and grocery-cooler fixture since the 1990s, the grab-and-go versi...

In Croatian homes a plate of Kraš Napolitanke is the classic thing set out next to the coffee when guests drop by. This is Kraš Choco Napolitanke, ...

Spanish bizcochos de soletilla are the light sponge fingers dipped into hot chocolate or coffee at breakfast, and the same biscuit every tiramisu i...

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...

The 420 g box of Kraš Napolitanke is the family size, the one that sits out on the sideboard through the holidays in Zagreb and gets opened again e...

In Croatia a long box of Kraš Napolitanke is the thing that comes down off the shelf the moment guests sit down, and the lemon-orange one is the br...

On British newsagent shelves the purple Cadbury wrapper is the everyday chocolate, and the Oreo bar is its modern favorite. This is Cadbury Dairy M...

A Bucharest schoolkid's afternoon snack is a soft cocoa-cream sandwich biscuit pulled from a crinkly bag on the walk home. This is Dobrogea's Eugen...

Cadbury's orange-flavored Giant Buttons are a British sweet-shop staple, the kind of bag passed around at the cinema. This is Cadbury Dairy Milk Or...

The Rom bar is a Romanian childhood fixture, the dark chocolate everyone in Bucharest can name on sight. This is Rom Autentic 70% cacao dark chocol...

Thin wafer sheets are a Balkan home baker's shortcut for layering honey cakes and torte-style desserts. This is Loola's Oblande wafer sheets, made ...

Prince Polo's checkout-counter wafelek format is a familiar impulse buy in Polish grocery stores. Prince Polo Wafelek z odrobina czekolady is a waf...

Snickers built its name as America's road-trip candy bar, and the ice-cream version brings that same peanut-caramel-nougat combo to the freezer ais...

The Lion Bar has been the vending-machine and corner-shop grab-bar across Europe for decades, recognized by its red-and-yellow wrapper before kids ...

Fruit-filled Milka bars line Central and Eastern European candy aisles as an everyday treat, and the raspberry version is a favorite for its bright...

The Kidy chocolate bar is the small milky treat every Serbian kid remembers from the corner store checkout. This is a milk chocolate bar with added...

On a European corner-shop counter this is the bar reached for between classes, its crisp wafer and chewy caramel hidden under a coat of white choco...

Negro bombons are a Serbian bonbon-shop staple, the kind once sold loose by weight before Pionir boxed a travel-size bag. Pionir packages this 100 ...

The layered wafer napolitanke, orange-and-chocolate cream between crisp sheets, is a corner-store treat throughout Serbia. This is Jaffa's Choco Or...