Start here
Every recipe on the site marked Easy — nothing that needs lamination, a thermometer or nerve.
48 recipes
🇫🇷 FranceMadeleine
Small shell-shaped sponge cakes from Lorraine, prized for their signature domed hump.
🇫🇷 FranceFinancier
Small brown-butter almond tea cakes, baked in rectangular molds shaped like gold ingots.
🇫🇷 FrancePalmier
Puff pastry rolled in sugar and folded into a heart shape, caramelizing into a crisp cookie.
🇫🇷 FranceChouquette
Bite-sized choux puffs scattered with crunchy pearl sugar — a French bakery-window classic.
🇫🇷 FranceFar Breton
A dense, flan-like custard cake from Brittany, studded with rum-soaked prunes.
🇮🇹 ItalyTiramisu
Espresso-soaked ladyfingers layered with a raw egg and mascarpone cream, dusted with cocoa.
🇮🇹 ItalyTorta Caprese
A dense, flourless chocolate-almond cake from Capri, born from a baker's mistake.
🇦🇹 AustriaKaiserschmarrn
A fluffy pancake torn into pieces, caramelized in butter, and dusted with sugar.
🇦🇹 AustriaVanillekipferl
Crumbly, nut-based crescent cookies rolled twice in vanilla-scented powdered sugar.
🇩🇪 GermanyStreuselkuchen
A soft yeasted sheet cake, buried under a thick layer of buttery crumb topping.
🇩🇪 GermanyZwetschgenkuchen
A yeasted plum sheet cake, fruit arranged like roof tiles beneath a scattering of streusel.
🇮🇹 ItalyPanforte
Siena's dense, spiced 'strong bread' of nuts, honey and candied fruit, dating to the 1200s.
🇮🇹 ItalyAmaretti di Saronno
Crisp, bittersweet almond macaroons from Lombardy with a distinctive bitter-almond edge.
🇮🇹 ItalyBaci di Dama
'Lady's kisses' — two round hazelnut cookies sandwiched with dark chocolate.
🇮🇹 ItalyCrostata
A rustic Italian jam tart with a lattice top, made from sweet, crumbly pasta frolla.
🇵🇹 PortugalBolo de Arroz
Portugal's everyday rice-flour muffin, with a lightly caramelized sugar-crusted top.
🇵🇹 PortugalArroz Doce
Creamy lemon-and-cinnamon rice pudding, finished with a stenciled cinnamon design.
🇪🇸 SpainChurros
Ridged fried dough sticks, crisp outside and soft within, dunked in thick hot chocolate.
🇪🇸 SpainPolvorón
A crumbly, melt-in-the-mouth almond shortbread, traditional at Spanish Christmas.
🇪🇸 SpainCrema Catalana
Catalonia's centuries-old custard, infused with citrus and cinnamon beneath a burnt sugar crust.
🇪🇸 SpainTorrijas
Stale bread soaked in cinnamon milk, fried, and served cold — Spain's Easter tradition.
🇬🇧 BritainScones
The centerpiece of a cream tea — light, crumbly, and split for jam and clotted cream.
🇬🇧 BritainVictoria Sponge
Two buttery sponge layers sandwiched with jam and whipped cream — Britain's classic teatime cake.
🇧🇪 BelgiumSpeculoos
Deeply spiced, crisp shortbread cookies, traditionally stamped with wooden molds.
🇳🇱 NetherlandsOliebollen
Dutch New Year's Eve fritters — soft, fruit-studded dough balls fried until golden.
🇬🇷 GreeceLoukoumades
Ancient Greek honey puffs, fried until crisp and drenched in honey syrup and walnuts.
🇬🇷 GreeceMelomakarona
Orange-and-cinnamon Christmas cookies, dipped in honey syrup and topped with crushed walnuts.
🇬🇷 GreeceKourabiedes
Buttery, almond-studded shortbread crescents, buried under a snowy coat of powdered sugar.
🇨🇭 SwitzerlandBasler Läckerli
Basel's 700-year-old honey and spice bars, chewy with candied peel and nuts and glazed with kirsch icing while still warm.
🇩🇰 DenmarkDrømmekage
The Danish 'dream cake': a light vanilla sponge baked twice, the second time under a molten topping of brown sugar, butter and coconut.
🇫🇷 FranceClafoutis aux cerises
The Limousin's early-summer dessert: whole black cherries baked in a batter that sets somewhere between custard and cake.
🇮🇹 ItalyPanna Cotta
Piedmont's 'cooked cream': vanilla-infused cream set with just enough gelatin to tremble, served with a fresh raspberry sauce.
🇪🇸 SpainTarta de Santiago
Galicia's flourless almond cake — almonds, eggs and sugar with lemon and cinnamon — stencilled with the cross of Saint James.
🇬🇷 GreecePortokalopita
The Greek orange 'pie' with no flour at all: dried, shredded phyllo folded into a yogurt and olive-oil batter and soaked in honey-orange syrup.
🇵🇱 PolandSzarlotka
Poland's favourite apple cake: a buttery shortcrust base, a deep layer of cinnamon-stewed apples and a second sheet of pastry on top.
🇬🇧 BritainSticky Toffee Pudding
The British pub dessert: a moist date sponge baked over toffee sauce in a soufflé dish and drowned in more warm sauce at the table.
🇷🇺 RussiaSyrniki
Russia's breakfast cheese pancakes: farmer's cheese, eggs and a little semolina, shaped into pucks and fried golden, served with sour cream and jam.
🇫🇷 FranceChausson aux Pommes
The apple 'slipper': buttery puff pastry folded over cinnamon apples and salted-butter caramel, glazed and baked until it shatters.
🇫🇷 FrancePain d'Épices
Honey and rye spice loaf from Dijon and Alsace: no eggs, no butter, just hot honeyed milk stirred into spiced flour and baked low and slow.
🇫🇷 FrancePalet Breton
Brittany's thick butter disc: salted butter, egg yolks and barely enough flour, baked inside muffin tins so it rises straight up.
🇫🇷 FranceFondant au Chocolat
Equal weights of chocolate and butter, barely any flour, blasted hot then baked low — a whole cake with a fudge centre.
🇫🇷 FranceTeurgoule
Normandy's rice pudding: rice, milk, sugar and cinnamon left in a low oven for three and a half hours until a dark skin forms.
🇫🇷 FranceTarte Normande
Normandy on a plate: apples set in a Calvados cream in a sandy sweet crust.
🇫🇷 FranceRiz au Lait
Four ingredients in one pan: round rice simmered slowly in vanilla milk until it slumps like loose oatmeal.
🇫🇷 FrancePoire Belle Hélène
Escoffier's 1864 tribute to an Offenbach operetta: a whole poached pear, vanilla ice cream and hot chocolate sauce.
🥐 UnknownZekra Pistachio Financiers
Our version of the classic financier: half the almond flour swapped for pistachio, and orange blossom water in place of almond extract.
🥐 UnknownZekra Tahini Palmiers
Our version of the palmier: a thin layer of tahini and date syrup rolled into the sugar before folding.
🇫🇷 FranceGâteau au Yaourt
The cake French children learn first: the empty yogurt pot is the measuring cup — 1 pot of oil, 2 of sugar, 3 of flour.