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Mini-kadaifi cakes

If you walk into a pastry shop in Beirut (specializing in Arabic sweets), a good third of all pastries will be made with this dough, called kataifi or shredded phyllo dough. I saw  once  how this dough is made: A batter is piped through hundreds of minuscule little holes onto a hot griddle which forms [...]
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Almond Ma’moul and a giveaway!

With Easter approaching, I have been in a frenzy of ma’moul making, stuffing them with pistachios, dates and now almonds. However, unlike my grandmother who made them by hand all the way, I am using the food processor (kneading the dough takes less than 2 minutes) and the ma’moul molds. I am also giving away [...]
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Crown cookies (kaak bel-ajweh)

This is the other pastry that would make its appearance in our house for the Easter holiday,  kaak b’ootah (aka kaak bel-ajweh); this one was my favorite because of the sweet date filling. My grandmother would sit at the tiny kitchen table and would shape these by hand with brass clips. I would use tweezers [...]
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