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.

This is one seriously polarizing pie.

South Jersey's signature syrup has been flavoring sodas and shakes for more than a century.

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

Once an important Silk Road stop, a fortified Uzbek city specializes in bright green noodles.

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.

Impress Murcianos by correctly eating these fried lemon leaves.

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

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

The St. Louis creation earned the "best use of the worst cheese" award.

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

China's favorite urinating “tea pet” is actually a thermometer.

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.

This decadent cheese has frugal roots.

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.

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

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

A motel restaurant in a tiny Utah town bakes this sweet and sour treat.

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

Birmingham's sinus-clearing soda was a popular way to enhance bootlegged hooch during Prohibition.