Desserts
DessertsAy Coregi (Turkish Crescent Pastries with Cocoa Filling)
Soft, golden crescent pastries filled with a rich cocoa, walnut and vanilla paste — the beloved Turkish bakery classic you can easily bake at home in the UK.
DessertsUn Kurabiyesi (Melt-in-the-Mouth Flour Cookies)
Four-ingredient Turkish shortbread cookies that dissolve on the tongue: butter, powdered sugar, flour and a little starch, dusted generously with icing sugar.
DessertsMagnolia (Biscuit & Pudding Dessert Cups)
Istanbul's favourite dessert cup: silky vanilla pudding layered with crushed biscuits, fresh banana and whipped cream, chilled until spoonably soft.
DessertsMozaik Pasta (Chocolate Biscuit Cake)
The no-bake chocolate biscuit log every Turkish household grew up with: crushed petit beurre biscuits folded into a rich cocoa mixture, chilled and sliced into a mosaic pattern.
DessertsTrilece (Turkish Milk Cake with Caramel)
A feather-light sponge drowned in a three-milk soak, topped with cream and a glossy caramel layer. Turkey's favourite patisserie dessert, made at home.
DessertsKeskul (Turkish Almond Milk Pudding)
Delicate, fragrant and dressed in coconut and pistachio, keskul is the elegant almond milk pudding of Ottoman palace kitchens — and surprisingly simple to make.
DessertsSupangle (Turkish Chocolate Pudding)
Silky, glossy and intensely chocolatey, supangle is Turkey's beloved chocolate pudding hiding a surprise layer of cake at the bottom of every bowl.
DessertsKadayif Tatlisi (Shredded Pastry Dessert with Walnuts)
Crisp golden threads of kadayif pastry layered with walnuts and soaked in lemon-scented syrup — the bakery classic you can easily bake at home in the UK.
DessertsHomemade Baklava with Yufka
Crisp, buttery layers of ready-made baklava filo, a generous walnut filling and cold lemon syrup poured over hot pastry — home baklava the way Turkish aunties make it.
DessertsIrmik Helvasi (Semolina Halva with Pine Nuts)
Butter-toasted semolina soaked in warm milky syrup, studded with golden pine nuts — the most comforting dessert in the Turkish repertoire, ready in under an hour.
DessertsAsure (Noah's Pudding)
The oldest dessert in the Turkish kitchen: a gently spiced pudding of wheat, chickpeas, beans and dried fruit, crowned with walnuts, hazelnuts and pomegranate.
DessertsSekerpare (Syrup-Soaked Semolina Cookies)
Buttery semolina cookies baked until golden, each crowned with an almond and left to drink up lemon syrup until they turn soft as Turkish delight — sekerpare is the sweetest word in Turkish for a reason.
DessertsRevani (Semolina Sponge in Syrup)
A light, golden semolina sponge soaked in lemon syrup until every crumb is moist — revani is the effortless Turkish traybake that tastes even better the next day.
DessertsKunefe (Sweet Cheese Kadayif Dessert)
Crisp, buttery kadayif threads hiding a layer of molten, stretchy cheese, all drenched in lemon-scented syrup — kunefe is the Turkish dessert you have to eat hot, and it is far easier to make at home than it looks.
DessertsFirin Sutlac (Baked Turkish Rice Pudding)
Turkey's most beloved milk dessert: creamy rice pudding baked until the top blisters into a caramelised, mahogany-brown skin. Served chilled in little clay bowls, it is pure nostalgia.
