Snacks & Sweets

A Mars bar from the corner shop was the reward after a long walk home from school. Mars makes this chocolate bar, 51g (1.8oz). Unwrap and eat strai...

A bag of Haribo gummies was the treat bought on the walk home from school, split between whoever was around. This is Haribo Bumix gummy candy, 175g...

Leto Smurfs Surprise Crystal Egg is a 16g Russian novelty candy — a transparent crystal-shaped plastic egg with a small Smurfs-licensed toy inside ...

The Belgian Creamy Vanilla Seashells Chocolates are 195g of shell-shaped milk chocolates with a vanilla cream filling — the classic Belgian seashel...

Swisslion Takovo Eurovafel Classic Wafer Cookies are 180g of Serbian hazelnut cream wafers — crispy layered wafer biscuits with a hazelnut cream fi...

Stark Prima Classic Pretzel Sticks — the everyday salty snap that's been on Balkan corner-shop shelves for decades. Thin baked pretzel rods with a ...

A light, bubbly chocolate bar shared after school, the kind that melts fast and disappears faster, is a small treat worth remembering. This is Trum...

Pionir Karamela Lešnik Hazelnut Toffee Candies are an 800g bag of individually wrapped Serbian caramel candies with hazelnut flavour — soft, chewy,...

A box of Wawel pralines on the table after Sunday lunch means dessert has arrived, one chocolate at a time. Wawel makes these cherry-vodka flavored...

Loacker Quadratini Coconut — bite-size wafer cubes filled with sweet coconut cream. The tropical end of the Quadratini line; clean coconut characte...

Loacker Quadratini Chocolate — bite-size alpine wafer cubes filled with smooth chocolate cream. The single most iconic Loacker SKU; the wafer cube ...

Loacker Quadratini Raspberry Yogurt — bite-size wafer cubes filled with bright raspberry-yogurt cream. Tart-sweet fruit profile in the Quadratini f...

Every Balkan household with kids seemed to have a bag of little chocolate wafer squares disappearing from the cupboard, one small cube at a time. T...

V&G Sunflower Tahini Halva is a 420g Bulgarian-style halva — a crumbly, dense confection made from sunflower seed paste (sunflower tahini) and ...

Dorina is the bar that goes into the baking bowl as often as it goes into anyone's hand — the everyday dark chocolate of Croatian kitchens. Kraš of...

Zagreb's oldest confectioner has been filling shelves like this since before Yugoslavia existed, and its peppermint candies are a fixture in Croati...

Kraš Fontana Ledene Kocke ("Ice Cubes") — chocolate cubes with a cool mint cream center, the after-dinner classic from Kraš. Crisp chocolate shell,...

Kraš Ki-Ki Tutti Frutti — the mixed-fruit version of Croatia's iconic chewy candy, in bright assorted flavors. Soft, sweet, fruit-distinct chews; t...

Dolcela Hi Protein Shake Cheesecake Raspberry is a 40g single-serve sachet of a protein powder shake mix — a blended protein powder with cheesecake...

Kandit Chocolate Powder is a 100g Croatian baking cocoa powder — finely ground cocoa for hot drinks and baking, produced by Kandit, the Osijek conf...

If your family's corner shop always kept a shelf of German sweets next to the Balkan staples, this bar was probably on it — Viba's layered nougat, ...

Schluckwerder Marzipan Bar is a 100g German marzipan confection — pure almond marzipan in bar form, produced by Schluckwerder, the German confectio...

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...

Vozdushenie Zephyr with Almonds in Dark Chocolate is a 230g box of Russian zefir — soft, apple-pectin meringue confections with whole almond pieces...