Take the name of this street treat literally.

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

A small cantina is home to a sweet-and-salty shot of raisin liqueur with a cheese cube chaser.

This taste bud befuddler is a signature Baltimore sweet.

Leftover coffee plus gelatin equals this vintage dessert.

These detailed, dainty confections are made by hand with minimal tools.

These Neapolitan Christmas sweets double as decorations.

Smashing this pink candy pig with a tiny hammer is a Christmas tradition in Saratoga Springs.

This dessert is roasted over a fire and looks like a tree.

The holiday tradition of hiding an ornamental veggie.

With this egg-based Christmas dessert, Portuguese pastelarias celebrate a bloodsucking fish.

One southern Indiana town cooks up this unique, time-honored dessert every September.

The town of Lambayeque, Peru, specializes in a seven-layered sweet named for Hollywood's towering ape.

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

Invented in Scotland in the late 1800s, this syrupy “instant coffee” is now a beloved baking ingredient.

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

Slice one open for some citrus caviar.

This ancient, spreadable cheese is disappearing from Scottish cuisine.

The legend of these rum-and-molasses cookies leads to a New England tavern owned by a Black Revolutionary War veteran.

The treasures are colorful fruits and nuts.

Thank garbanzo beans for the melt-in-your-mouth texture of these Persian cookies.

This Polish Easter tradition artfully assembles symbolic foods, from bread to lamb-shaped butter.

Senegal's popular spring rolls tell a story of war, love, and colonialism.

In Senegal, black coffee meets sugar ’n’ spice in one heady brew.