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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 · 27 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 [...]
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Date-filled Ka’ik

By Maureen Abood On March 1, 2018 · 13 Comments · In Breads, Christmas, Easter, Pastry and Sweets, Techniques, Your Favorites
There are many versions of Lebanese ka’ik (or ka’ak), some biscuit-like and others bread-like. This spiced, glazed sweet bread version is filled with dates and pressed for a beautiful imprint on top. Find the molds at Maureen Abood Market. As I was noting recently, the scent of what’s cooking in the kitchen has a powerful [...]
Read More »
Ka'ik Anise Biscuits, MaureenAbood.com

Crunchy Anise Biscuits Recipe, another kind of Ka’ik

By Maureen Abood On April 5, 2017 · 24 Comments · In Christmas, Easter, Pastry and Sweets, Winter
There’s a great divide here, as I’m sure there must be where you are, over the flavor of black licorice. This is anise, a flavor that brings intense joy to the face and heart of my mother and all of her Abowd siblings. Black licorice was an integral part, it seems, of their childhood, and [...]
Read More »

Technique: How to form dough balls

By Maureen Abood On March 22, 2013 · 3 Comments · In Techniques
When pulling beautiful pieces of risen dough to form smaller balls, there is a technique involved to remove the folds that naturally occur in the dough from being pulled and shaped. Those folds don’t bake properly and have to be worked out of the dough. This is especially so with heavier doughs like the one [...]
Read More »

Lebanese Glazed Sweet Bread, Ka’ik

By Maureen Abood On March 21, 2013 · 45 Comments · In Breads, Easter, Pastry and Sweets, Stories and Recipes, Vegetarian, Your Favorites
There are many versions of Lebanese ka’ik (or ka’ak), some biscuit-like and others bread-like. I grew up with the latter, a Lebanese glazed sweet bread which is fragrant with spices and subtly sweet. Eat the breads any time of the day: toasted for breakfast, as acompanion to a cup of tea in the afternoon, or [...]
Read More »

Ingredient: Mahleb

By Maureen Abood On March 19, 2013 · 8 Comments · In Ingredients
Sour cherries are so delicious that I suppose it’s not so shocking that someone, somewhere deep in the past kept eating right past the bright red flesh and crunched away at the pit. There that adventurous eater discovered an almond-like flavor, a flavor reminiscent of the cherry but not precisely cherry, with a certain bitterness [...]
Read More »

Favorite things: Wooden Molds for Lebanese Sweet Bread (Kaik)

By Maureen Abood On March 18, 2013 · 18 Comments · In Favorite Things, Your Favorites
The molded sweet is a long-standing tradition at the Lebanese table, a true and beloved trademark. Sometimes that sweet is a cookie (ma’moul), sometimes a sweet bread (kaik, KAH-ick). They are beautiful, these little works of art, their imprints like an engraved invitation to a very special party you won’t want to miss. Mine are [...]
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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 · 27 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 »

Date-filled Ka’ik

By Maureen Abood On March 1, 2018 · 13 Comments · In Breads, Christmas, Easter, Pastry and Sweets, Techniques, Your Favorites
There are many versions of Lebanese ka’ik (or ka’ak), some biscuit-like and others bread-like. This spiced, glazed sweet bread version is filled with dates and pressed for a beautiful imprint on top. Find the molds at Maureen Abood Market. As I was noting recently, the scent of what’s cooking in the kitchen has a powerful [...]
Read More »
Ka'ik Anise Biscuits, MaureenAbood.com

Crunchy Anise Biscuits Recipe, another kind of Ka’ik

By Maureen Abood On April 5, 2017 · 24 Comments · In Christmas, Easter, Pastry and Sweets, Winter
There’s a great divide here, as I’m sure there must be where you are, over the flavor of black licorice. This is anise, a flavor that brings intense joy to the face and heart of my mother and all of her Abowd siblings. Black licorice was an integral part, it seems, of their childhood, and [...]
Read More »

Technique: How to form dough balls

By Maureen Abood On March 22, 2013 · 3 Comments · In Techniques
When pulling beautiful pieces of risen dough to form smaller balls, there is a technique involved to remove the folds that naturally occur in the dough from being pulled and shaped. Those folds don’t bake properly and have to be worked out of the dough. This is especially so with heavier doughs like the one [...]
Read More »

Lebanese Glazed Sweet Bread, Ka’ik

By Maureen Abood On March 21, 2013 · 45 Comments · In Breads, Easter, Pastry and Sweets, Stories and Recipes, Vegetarian, Your Favorites
There are many versions of Lebanese ka’ik (or ka’ak), some biscuit-like and others bread-like. I grew up with the latter, a Lebanese glazed sweet bread which is fragrant with spices and subtly sweet. Eat the breads any time of the day: toasted for breakfast, as acompanion to a cup of tea in the afternoon, or [...]
Read More »

Ingredient: Mahleb

By Maureen Abood On March 19, 2013 · 8 Comments · In Ingredients
Sour cherries are so delicious that I suppose it’s not so shocking that someone, somewhere deep in the past kept eating right past the bright red flesh and crunched away at the pit. There that adventurous eater discovered an almond-like flavor, a flavor reminiscent of the cherry but not precisely cherry, with a certain bitterness [...]
Read More »

Favorite things: Wooden Molds for Lebanese Sweet Bread (Kaik)

By Maureen Abood On March 18, 2013 · 18 Comments · In Favorite Things, Your Favorites
The molded sweet is a long-standing tradition at the Lebanese table, a true and beloved trademark. Sometimes that sweet is a cookie (ma’moul), sometimes a sweet bread (kaik, KAH-ick). They are beautiful, these little works of art, their imprints like an engraved invitation to a very special party you won’t want to miss. Mine are [...]
Read More »
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