This date cake recipe makes a soft, moist cake full of sweet dates, crunchy walnuts, and warm spices like cinnamon and cardamom. Soaking the dates first is the secret: they…
This coconut balls recipe makes soft, chewy coconut sweets with only a few ingredients and no oven at all. You simply mix desiccated coconut with sweetened condensed milk, roll the…
This baklava rolls recipe makes crispy, golden phyllo fingers filled with walnuts or pistachios and soaked in fragrant syrup. In Arabic sweet shops they are called asabe, meaning "fingers," and…
This Umm Ali recipe makes Egypt's famous warm dessert: crisp puff pastry soaked in sweet hot milk, layered with nuts, raisins, and coconut, then baked until bubbling with a golden…
This moghli recipe makes the traditional Lebanese spiced pudding served to celebrate the birth of a baby. It is made from rice flour, sugar, caraway, cinnamon, and anise, cooked slowly…
This muhallabia recipe makes a silky, lightly sweet milk pudding scented with rose water and orange blossom water. Also, it needs only a few pantry ingredients and about 15 minutes…
This Middle Eastern rice pudding, known in Arabic as roz bel laban, is creamy, gently sweet, and fragrant with rose or orange blossom water. It is made with short-grain rice…
This Nabulsi knafeh recipe makes the famous knafeh of Nablus: a thin, golden crust of finely ground kataifi over a thick layer of soft, stretchy white cheese, soaked in warm…
Kunafa khishneh is the coarse, crunchy style of kunafa. Instead of grinding the kataifi into crumbs, you keep it in long buttered strands, so the top bakes into a crisp,…
This halawet el jibn recipe makes the famous Syrian "sweet of cheese": a soft, stretchy dough of melted cheese and semolina, rolled around cold ashta cream and finished with syrup,…