Coffee Sweets

Schokobananen are a familiar sight in German candy aisles -- soft banana-shaped foam sweets dipped in a chocolate coating, a nostalgic pick-and-mix...

A Loacker wafer in the school bag or on the coffee table is a small piece of Italy that reached everyone in the Balkans. Loacker Classic Strawberry...

In Serbian corner shops, the small foil-wrapped Štark bars racked by the register are the classic impulse buy from childhood. Štark Bananica Orange...

Plazma is the biscuit most of us grew up with on the Serbian and Yugoslav snack table, and the posna version is the one that came out for the fasti...

The sweets counter is where Kyiv stops on the way home, and Roshen's Lacmi bars are its newest temptation. Lacmi is milk chocolate with a strawberr...

Ask any Romanian about Eugenia and watch them smile — the cocoa-cream biscuit that lived in every school bag and every grandmother's cupboard. Roma...

Rope candy you unbraided strand by strand on the school bus, making it last until your stop — Roshen's twists are that game in a bag. Ukraine's Ros...

Every Yugoslav kid knows the move: peel the wrapper halfway down and bite through the chocolate shell first — Bananko was the kiosk reward on the w...

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 Serbian households, a foil-wrapped block of Eurocrem has been the after-school treat spread thickly onto fresh bread since the 1970s. This milk-...

Koestlin's Paris biscuit is the small filled biscuit that sits on the saucer beside the afternoon coffee in a Croatian home. Koestlin Paris Lemon F...

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

After Night Hard Filled Candies are hard-shell candies with a flavoured filling — the format where a crispy hard candy exterior holds a soft, flavo...

Donia Belani Strudel Jam Cocoa Cookies are rolled strudla-style cookies with a combined jam and cocoa filling from the Macedonian Donia brand — a c...

Nestlé Choco Crossies are puffed rice clusters coated in milk chocolate from Nestlé — a German-market confection where the crackle and lightness of...

Rot Front Korovka Sponge Roll is a Russian rolled sponge cake with the baked-milk korovka flavour from Rot Front — a soft, cream-filled sponge roll...

Kinder Bueno — Ferrero's crisp wafer rolls filled with hazelnut cream and wrapped in milk chocolate. The two-bar pack that has lived in Balkan scho...

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

Kraš Napolitanke Chocolate Cream Wafers — the original Croatian chocolate-cream wafer, on Balkan coffee tables for generations. Crisp wafer layers,...

Loacker Classic Hazelnut Wafer — the alpine wafer filled with roasted-hazelnut cream that built Loacker's nut-cream reputation. Light, layered cris...

Loacker Classic Alpine Milk Wafer — the cream-filled wafer that built Loacker's reputation across Europe. Light, crisp layers and a clean milk-crea...

Loacker Thins Dark Chocolate Wafer — ultra-thin alpine wafer layered with intense dark-chocolate cream. The most delicate Loacker format; thinner t...

Loacker Classic Double Choc Wafer — alpine wafer layered with cocoa cream and fully enrobed in chocolate. Two stages of chocolate in one bar; the i...

Viva Cocoa Cream Pillows — Romanian-pantry pillow-cereal register. Viva's cocoa cream filled cereal pillows in the Romanian breakfast-pantry tradit...