Frozen custard gets topped with green chile sauce and salty pecans to make this Las Cruces specialty.

A custardy twist on apple pie finds delicious use for fruit reaching spoilage.

This sweet, silky Irish pudding has a secret ingredient: seaweed.

Candy makers recently resurrected this crispy Chicago confection from the graveyard of vintage sweets.

Soft young cones make a sweet jam believed to have health benefits in Russia and Georgia.

Some Bretons claim that their signature treat is the fattiest pastry in the world.

These bird-shaped cakes once fueled miners in Japan's Fukuoka region.

This Jersey-born frosty drink is now a Rhode Island favorite.

The uniquely Rhode Island treat is a relic from the era of soda fountain pharmacies.

Kentucky's melt-in-your-mouth treats date back to the 1800s.

A small town is home to a beloved candy invented by one of Sweden's first female entrepreneurs.

This century-old New Orleans treat is still sold from a mule-drawn cart.

Elusive in its country of origin, this multilayer cake has found a home in Manitoba's “New Iceland” region.

Sweet-makers conjure up this light-as-a-cloud cream pudding on dewy nights in Lucknow, India.

These cake-laden tables fueled community meetings that helped bring Southern Jutland back into Denmark.

The city of the Taj Mahal hosts another wonder: Crystallized pumpkin candy.

Outside chapels carved from cliffs and caves, elderly women sell sweet, beautiful breads rooted in Armenia’s Christian traditions.

At the only Trappist monastery in the Philippines, monks turn local fruit into sinfully delicious goodies.

Near the exit of an old souk, a small shop has been making gourd-based goodies for generations.

The sweet potato donuts are an integral part of the Afro-Peruvian community.

These condensed-milk sweets come from a picturesque hill town.

For a juicier burger, steam it like a vegetable.

No slugs were harmed in the making of this five-cent sandwich.

Adding juniper ash to this traditional Navajo dish gives it as much calcium as a glass of milk.