This ricotta and marzipan pastry honors the Sicilian saint's most noteworthy body part.

The traditional sweet currant cake has an incendiary reputation.

Royalty adored the Abbot of Priscos' porcine dessert.

The simple sweets welcomed Cornish fishermen after they returned with their catch.

Make yourself delicious jewelry with these sweet Italian biscuits.

These “holy bones” taste like heaven.

This gooey, sweet treat was a Soviet staple.

Soviet cafeterias whipped up this chocolate “potato” to use leftovers.

Armenians were making these sweet sheets of dried fruit centuries before the Fruit Roll-Up.

The sweet is naturally a bubblegum shade of pink.

These ornately decorated spice cookies developed alongside a Russian city's gun industry.

This cookie is found only in Rome's Jewish quarter.

Created during a cocoa shortage, the grain-based “chocolate” bar became an Estonian classic.

This sweet Scottish pudding gets boiled in a bag for special occasions.

A Finnish treat that's sweet, dark, and herbal.

These Dutch doughnuts are classic New Year's treats.

One small Portuguese town celebrates a saint with phallic cakes.

A very non-vegan dish inspired this vegan chocolate.

Even its creator says to stick to one scoop.

Sicilian nuns once hung these sugary "fruits" from tree branches.

Batches of this Scottish flavor get a bagpipe escort into the parlor.

In this Dutch holiday tradition, Sinterklaas leaves good children sweet pieces of the alphabet inside their shoes.

Bakers fold this Polish pastry 81 times into the shape of a horseshoe.

A cake so gooey, it requires a spoon.