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White iced shortbread cookie on a cookie rack

Molded Shortbread Cookies

By Maureen Abood On March 21, 2020 · 5 Comments · In Easter, Pastry and Sweets, Techniques, Your Favorites
Here is another version of ka’ik, this one a molded shortbread cookie. Buttery, crisp, and beautiful, a tradition for Easter. Find ingredients such as mahleb and orange blossom water at MaureenAboodMarket.com, along with the molds here. Why can’t I just leave a good thing alone?! Maybe it’s all of the home-time we’re having these weeks [...]
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Pistachio baklava nests on a sheet pan

Pistachio Baklawa Nests

By Maureen Abood On April 13, 2019 · 5 Comments · In Christmas, Easter, Pastry and Sweets, Techniques, Your Favorites
Pistachio Baklawa Nests are light, crisp little phyllo nests drenched in orange blossom syrup. The nests are shaped using a narrow dowel, rolled with lightly buttered phyllo, and topped with orange blossom syrup and raw ground pistachios. Find the pistachios here and the orange blossom water here, at MaureenAboodMarket.com. I took the first one in [...]
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Shortbread dipped in white chocolate flavored with freeze dried fruit

Pastel Dipped Shortbread (Graybeh)

By Maureen Abood On April 6, 2019 · 4 Comments · In Easter, Pastry and Sweets, Your Favorites
Pastel dipped shortbread are melt-away Lebanese butter cookies, dressed up in a dip of white chocolate, naturally flavored and colored with freeze-dried fruit–blueberry for lavender and strawberry for pink. Try my other graybeh recipes: orange blossom-lavendar graybeh, classic graybeh, and almond graybeh. Find orange blossom water here. I’ve been searching for a whole lotta years [...]
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Lebanese Easter Ka'ik with glaze on a rack

Tips for a Better Lebanese Ka’ik Recipe

By Maureen Abood On March 30, 2019 · 29 Comments · In Christmas, Easter, Pastry and Sweets, Techniques, Vegetarian, Your Favorites
Tips for baking better Lebanese Ka’ik, a traditional yeasted Easter bread/cookie that is soft, flavorful, and sweet. For the beautiful molds made of solid walnut, and the Mymoune Rose Water, visit MaureenAboodMarket.com. I’ve shared with you before some of the confounding aspects of our beloved Lebanese ka’ik. I have asked (and continue to ask): is [...]
Read More »
Quinoa Protein Salad in a Deruta serving dish

Quinoa Protein Salad

By Maureen Abood On March 21, 2019 · 11 Comments · In Easter, Fall, Gluten-Free, Salads, Summer, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian, Your Favorites
Quinoa Protein Salad packs a great protein punch, tastes incredibly good, and keeps hunger at bay for hours, and it’s vegan, vegetarian, and gluten-free (though some findings indicate quinoa may not work for celiacs). I was in the airport in Chicago recently, and felt like I’d stepped out of a time warp from somewhere far, [...]
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Raspberry buttercream cake

Raspberry Buttercream Cake

By Maureen Abood On February 7, 2019 · 9 Comments · In Easter, Pastry and Sweets, Summer, Winter, Your Favorites
Everything about this Raspberry Buttercream Cake says “happy”! Happy Valentine’s Day, Happy Birthday, Happy Spring, Happy Summer, Happy to be Happy! The secret to the all-natural deep pink color and true raspberry flavor is freeze-dried raspberry powder. Total dream. I don’t know if I love Valentine’s Day because it falls during my birthday week, or [...]
Read More »
Pistachio baklawa made with olive oil, cut in pieces in the pan

Olive Oil Baklawa with Pistachios

By Maureen Abood On December 2, 2018 · 7 Comments · In Christmas, Easter, Pastry and Sweets, Vegan, Vegetarian, Winter
Olive oil baklawa is a fabulous alternative to classic baklawa, or baklava — the Mediterranean pastry traditionally drenched in butter and flower water syrup. How exciting to have a vegan baklawa (vegan baklava) option that tastes so very good! I won’t say that olive oil baklawa tastes exactly the same as if you’ve made your [...]
Read More »

Lemon Bundt Cake with Raspberry Rose Glaze

By Maureen Abood On May 2, 2018 · 11 Comments · In Easter, Pastry and Sweets, Stories and Recipes, Summer, Yogurt, Labneh and Laban, Your Favorites
This lemon bundt cake with raspberry glaze steals the show! The moist, fragrant lemon bundt is fully glazed with ultra-flavorful raspberry glaze. Do it for Mom, do it for you, do it for anyone you want to wow. I sort of surprised myself, and not in a good way. Let me preface what I’m about [...]
Read More »

Lebanese Sfouf Cake

By Maureen Abood On April 26, 2018 · 29 Comments · In Christmas, Easter, Pastry and Sweets
Lebanese sfouf cake is a very simple, oil-based yellow cake, given its technicolor with turmeric–sfouf is beloved by the Lebanese, to enjoy with coffee or tea (not, at least according this dessert-eater, for dessert…). Sfouf cake includes a short list of ingredients and is egg-free.  The most typical, classic of Lebanese cakes seem to include [...]
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Chocolate Tahini Breakfast Rolls in a beautiful white baking dish

Chocolate Tahini Breakfast Rolls

By Maureen Abood On March 22, 2018 · 6 Comments · In Breads, Christmas, Easter, Fall, Pastry and Sweets, Summer, Winter, Your Favorites
Chocolate tahini breakfast rolls are like the rich, gorgeous cousin of a cinnamon roll. Butter enriches both the chocolately filling and the soft, pull-apartable dough. Yes, you can make these ahead and refrigerate the dough before the second rise, then bake them off like a champ morning of.  It makes sense, I think, to rate [...]
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White iced shortbread cookie on a cookie rack

Molded Shortbread Cookies

By Maureen Abood On March 21, 2020 · 5 Comments · In Easter, Pastry and Sweets, Techniques, Your Favorites
Here is another version of ka’ik, this one a molded shortbread cookie. Buttery, crisp, and beautiful, a tradition for Easter. Find ingredients such as mahleb and orange blossom water at MaureenAboodMarket.com, along with the molds here. Why can’t I just leave a good thing alone?! Maybe it’s all of the home-time we’re having these weeks [...]
Read More »
Pistachio baklava nests on a sheet pan

Pistachio Baklawa Nests

By Maureen Abood On April 13, 2019 · 5 Comments · In Christmas, Easter, Pastry and Sweets, Techniques, Your Favorites
Pistachio Baklawa Nests are light, crisp little phyllo nests drenched in orange blossom syrup. The nests are shaped using a narrow dowel, rolled with lightly buttered phyllo, and topped with orange blossom syrup and raw ground pistachios. Find the pistachios here and the orange blossom water here, at MaureenAboodMarket.com. I took the first one in [...]
Read More »
Shortbread dipped in white chocolate flavored with freeze dried fruit

Pastel Dipped Shortbread (Graybeh)

By Maureen Abood On April 6, 2019 · 4 Comments · In Easter, Pastry and Sweets, Your Favorites
Pastel dipped shortbread are melt-away Lebanese butter cookies, dressed up in a dip of white chocolate, naturally flavored and colored with freeze-dried fruit–blueberry for lavender and strawberry for pink. Try my other graybeh recipes: orange blossom-lavendar graybeh, classic graybeh, and almond graybeh. Find orange blossom water here. I’ve been searching for a whole lotta years [...]
Read More »
Lebanese Easter Ka'ik with glaze on a rack

Tips for a Better Lebanese Ka’ik Recipe

By Maureen Abood On March 30, 2019 · 29 Comments · In Christmas, Easter, Pastry and Sweets, Techniques, Vegetarian, Your Favorites
Tips for baking better Lebanese Ka’ik, a traditional yeasted Easter bread/cookie that is soft, flavorful, and sweet. For the beautiful molds made of solid walnut, and the Mymoune Rose Water, visit MaureenAboodMarket.com. I’ve shared with you before some of the confounding aspects of our beloved Lebanese ka’ik. I have asked (and continue to ask): is [...]
Read More »
Quinoa Protein Salad in a Deruta serving dish

Quinoa Protein Salad

By Maureen Abood On March 21, 2019 · 11 Comments · In Easter, Fall, Gluten-Free, Salads, Summer, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian, Your Favorites
Quinoa Protein Salad packs a great protein punch, tastes incredibly good, and keeps hunger at bay for hours, and it’s vegan, vegetarian, and gluten-free (though some findings indicate quinoa may not work for celiacs). I was in the airport in Chicago recently, and felt like I’d stepped out of a time warp from somewhere far, [...]
Read More »
Raspberry buttercream cake

Raspberry Buttercream Cake

By Maureen Abood On February 7, 2019 · 9 Comments · In Easter, Pastry and Sweets, Summer, Winter, Your Favorites
Everything about this Raspberry Buttercream Cake says “happy”! Happy Valentine’s Day, Happy Birthday, Happy Spring, Happy Summer, Happy to be Happy! The secret to the all-natural deep pink color and true raspberry flavor is freeze-dried raspberry powder. Total dream. I don’t know if I love Valentine’s Day because it falls during my birthday week, or [...]
Read More »
Pistachio baklawa made with olive oil, cut in pieces in the pan

Olive Oil Baklawa with Pistachios

By Maureen Abood On December 2, 2018 · 7 Comments · In Christmas, Easter, Pastry and Sweets, Vegan, Vegetarian, Winter
Olive oil baklawa is a fabulous alternative to classic baklawa, or baklava — the Mediterranean pastry traditionally drenched in butter and flower water syrup. How exciting to have a vegan baklawa (vegan baklava) option that tastes so very good! I won’t say that olive oil baklawa tastes exactly the same as if you’ve made your [...]
Read More »

Lemon Bundt Cake with Raspberry Rose Glaze

By Maureen Abood On May 2, 2018 · 11 Comments · In Easter, Pastry and Sweets, Stories and Recipes, Summer, Yogurt, Labneh and Laban, Your Favorites
This lemon bundt cake with raspberry glaze steals the show! The moist, fragrant lemon bundt is fully glazed with ultra-flavorful raspberry glaze. Do it for Mom, do it for you, do it for anyone you want to wow. I sort of surprised myself, and not in a good way. Let me preface what I’m about [...]
Read More »

Lebanese Sfouf Cake

By Maureen Abood On April 26, 2018 · 29 Comments · In Christmas, Easter, Pastry and Sweets
Lebanese sfouf cake is a very simple, oil-based yellow cake, given its technicolor with turmeric–sfouf is beloved by the Lebanese, to enjoy with coffee or tea (not, at least according this dessert-eater, for dessert…). Sfouf cake includes a short list of ingredients and is egg-free.  The most typical, classic of Lebanese cakes seem to include [...]
Read More »
Chocolate Tahini Breakfast Rolls in a beautiful white baking dish

Chocolate Tahini Breakfast Rolls

By Maureen Abood On March 22, 2018 · 6 Comments · In Breads, Christmas, Easter, Fall, Pastry and Sweets, Summer, Winter, Your Favorites
Chocolate tahini breakfast rolls are like the rich, gorgeous cousin of a cinnamon roll. Butter enriches both the chocolately filling and the soft, pull-apartable dough. Yes, you can make these ahead and refrigerate the dough before the second rise, then bake them off like a champ morning of.  It makes sense, I think, to rate [...]
Read More »
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