Foods aember Wants to Try

This slightly sweet dessert is a staple in some Black American Muslim communities.

The beautiful dessert evaporates in 20 minutes.

Maui's sherbet-ice cream hybrid is a light, fruity, creamy delight.

These adorable buns hide savory and sweet surprises.

In Rehoboth Beach, you need a signed waiver to satisfy your sweet tooth with this fiery dessert.

Fresh fruit is the main feature of this sweet sandwich.

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

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

These Portuguese doughnuts have a fervent fanbase in Hawaii.

These saffron buns are eaten on Lucia Day in Sweden.

A motel restaurant in a tiny Utah town bakes this sweet and sour treat.

Take the name of this street treat literally.

These Japanese sweets demonstrate the ephemeral beauty of the seasons.

This hand-pulled cotton candy treat from Iran looks like threads of unspun silk.

A complexly flavored post-meal digestive became the candy of choice for Indian children in the 1980s and ’90s.

This Midwestern dessert salad draws on both Scandinavian immigrant and local Ojibwe influences.

This Route 66 institution goes the extra mile for soda-based indulgence.

This pollen-based candy comes from the marshes of southern Iraq.

Frozen custard gets topped with green chile sauce and salty pecans to make this Las Cruces specialty.

A custardy twist on apple pie finds delicious use for fruit reaching spoilage.

This sweet, silky Irish pudding has a secret ingredient: seaweed.

Candy makers recently resurrected this crispy Chicago confection from the graveyard of vintage sweets.

Soft young cones make a sweet jam believed to have health benefits in Russia and Georgia.

Some Bretons claim that their signature treat is the fattiest pastry in the world.