Goa's signature baked pudding cake is multicultural and multilayered.

This traditional dessert commemorates the country's sweet taste of victory over the French emperor in 1812.

During Carnival, Neapolitans fill up on these fluffy potato doughnuts.

These intricate stamps are relics from a time when dairy farmers beautifully branded their products.

A now-archaic Scottish breakfast paved the way for this popular dessert.

Saffron, rose water, and pistachios combine in a fragrant, sweet-savory treat.

Satisfy your midnight munchies with this Franken-feast out of St. Louis, Missouri.

The annual feast invites local macaques to dine on towers of fruit and vegetables among the ruins of a 13th-century temple.

In Wales, midwinter is the right time to look a gift horse in its gaping skull-mouth.

In Tibet, sweet mac and yak cheese makes a hearty dessert.

Early American settlers invented new tools to harvest a new crop.

Every December, Sinterklaas and his helper throw these little spiced cookies to Dutch children.

Outdoor festivals in Valencia call for traditional fare made in gargantuan pans.

The story of South Carolina's sweet-hot soda begins with a chance discovery during the Revolutionary War.

These Bavarian cookies are also intricate works of art.

The sweet, spiraled pastries were once a staple on cold days in the American South.

These saffron buns are eaten on Lucia Day in Sweden.

A few Baltimore bakeries still serve this cheesecake named after 19th-century cottage cheese.

Not even the 17th-century nuns behind this Mexican eggnog could resist drinking it.

A sailor's stew that's come to define Liverpudlians.

Bess Truman made this dessert for Winston Churchill after his “Iron Curtain” speech.

This summery parfait has mingled with British royals and literary elites.

Take the name of this street treat literally.

A Thunder Bay bakery misnamed this berry-frosted cinnamon bun after General John Pershing.