8 Lebanese Desserts You Need To Try Right Now!

Shredded phyllo dough layered with cheese or semolina, soaked in orange blossom syrup.

1. Kunāfah

Date-filled shortbread cookies, often flavoured with nuts like walnuts or pistachios. 

2. Ma’amoul Cookies

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Stuffed pancakes filled with sweet cheese, nuts, or cream, often served during Ramadan. 

3. Atayef

Creamy milk pudding flavoured with rose or orange blossom water, and garnished with nuts.

4. Mhalbi

A rich, creamy Lebanese clotted cream dessert, often used as a filling for pastries or served with honey and nuts.

5. Ashta

Fried pastry filled with creamy custard and sprinkled with powdered sugar.

6. Znoud el sit

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 A traditional Lebanese dessert featuring layers of thin, crispy dough filled with sweetened cream and nuts, often flavoured with rose water and drizzled with syrup.

7. Faysalieh

This is a traditional Lebanese semolina cake, soaked in sweet syrup and typically topped with almonds. It has a moist, grainy texture and is often flavoured with rose or orange blossom water.

8. Nammoura

Which one will you try first?