These portable pancake sheets have a crispy, hollow side and a sweet, doughy side.

These holiday cakes link Christmas to the Norse god of lightning.

Fruit soaks in rum for up to a year to make this rich Caribbean Christmas cake.

Mornings in Amish country once called for pie-cake and coffee.

These clear cakes house intricate scenes of fish, flowers, and more.

The Carnival cake comes with a hidden baby Jesus inside.

This French wedding cake is a caramel-wrapped tower of pastry balls.

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a classic Midwestern treat!

In the 1960s, Royal Air Force pilots made a startling discovery about their sweets.

In the 1970s, housewives stabbed their cakes and filled the holes with Jell-O.

The 17th-century dessert plants an isle of meringue in a sea of custard.

After rotating over hot coals, the Transylvanian treat unravels in a sweet spiral.

The traditional sweet currant cake has an incendiary reputation.

This cosmic-colored flavor is a Midwestern mystery.

This sweet spud is neither made with tubers, nor of Irish origin.

In the 1920s, confectioners thought the public wanted candy that looked like legumes—and they were right.

No rodents were harmed in the making of this fried Canadian treat.

Produced since 1847, these classic New England candies almost disappeared in 2018.

These adorable buns hide savory and sweet surprises.

The dainty, cream-filled specialty is on the brink of extinction.

On November 5, the British celebrate a thwarted assassination attempt with bonfires and deliciously dense, sticky gingerbread.

Once made by monks, this candy spends 15 days rolling in sugar syrup to get its pearly-white shell.

Finnish immigrants brought these crunchy, cinnamon-coated slices to Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

This sweet symbolic figurine is a Sicilian holiday tradition.