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

In northern Scandinavia, cups of coffee get enhanced with cheese.

This layered pastry from Italy's Amalfi Coast may have origins in a 17th-century convent.

Flower bulbs are the main ingredient of this quintessentially Dutch spirit.

This Swedish holiday soda outsells Coca-Cola during the Christmas season.

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

These saffron buns are eaten on Lucia Day in Sweden.

This decadent cheese has frugal roots.

These Bavarian cookies are also intricate works of art.

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

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

Chocolate-covered cheese curds make sweet Estonian energy bars.

This Danish rice pudding appeases wicked elves.

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

The sweet-and-sour soda almost disappeared with the collapse of communist rule in then-Czechoslovakia.

The candy is huge with Norwegian hikers and skiers.

Nothing to see here, just a humble pie sandwich.

This sweet, cheese-filled Norwegian flatbread keeps Nordlanders nourished during the long winter.

Once a year, communities on the tiny island gather to preserve the art of making licorice-flavored apple butter.

Residents of this Greek island distill mastic sap, the "tears of Chios," into a piney-sweet liqueur.

Developed by Spain's elite military unit in the 1920s, this cocktail is a favorite among Barcelona's college students.

This pink cake celebrates a long-ago football victory.

Only two silent monks know all 130 plants that go into this herbal liqueur.

To eat the world's rarest pasta, you must first complete a 20-mile pilgrimage.