With coffee
Small, dry and made to be dunked — the biscuits and bites a cup asks for.
19 recipes
🇫🇷 FrancePalet Breton
Brittany's thick butter disc: salted butter, egg yolks and barely enough flour, baked inside muffin tins so it rises straight up.
🇫🇷 FranceTuiles aux Amandes
Wafer-thin almond biscuits draped over a rolling pin while hot, so they set in the curve of a roof tile.
🇫🇷 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.
🇫🇷 FranceCanelé
Rum-and-vanilla custard cakes from Bordeaux, baked in copper molds to a dark, caramelized crust.
🇮🇹 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.
🇦🇹 AustriaVanillekipferl
Crumbly, nut-based crescent cookies rolled twice in vanilla-scented powdered sugar.
🇬🇷 GreeceKourabiedes
Buttery, almond-studded shortbread crescents, buried under a snowy coat of powdered sugar.
🇧🇪 BelgiumSpeculoos
Deeply spiced, crisp shortbread cookies, traditionally stamped with wooden molds.
🇫🇷 FranceMacaron de Nancy
The original French macaron: almonds, sugar and egg white, cracked on top and chewy inside — no shells, no filling.
🇫🇷 FranceChouquette
Bite-sized choux puffs scattered with crunchy pearl sugar — a French bakery-window classic.
🇪🇸 SpainPolvorón
A crumbly, melt-in-the-mouth almond shortbread, traditional at Spanish Christmas.
🇨🇭 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.
🇳🇴 NorwayKrumkake
Thin, buttery Norwegian waffle cookies pressed in a patterned iron and rolled hot around a cone.
🥐 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.
🇫🇷 FrancePalmier
Puff pastry rolled in sugar and folded into a heart shape, caramelizing into a crisp cookie.
🇮🇹 ItalyCornetto
Italy's answer to the croissant — softer, sweeter, and enriched with milk and egg.