Golden baked pastries drizzled with syrup served with rich clotted cream, crumbly homemade halvah with roasted pine nuts, baklava with a cheese filling served hot, custards sprinkled with rose water ...

Turkey transforms simple ingredients, milk, nuts, sugar, flour, into pure edible poetry. Desserts here are not just sweet endings, they are stories shaped by empires, trade routes, and the art of ...

Workers make Turkish delight sweets or "holkum" ahead of the Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, at a sweet shop in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, April 22, ...

Decades ago, an orchard in Washington state began producing "Aplets & Cotlets," a version of a confection based on childhood memories and hard... In 1921, an ad in The Seattle Times touted a brand new ...

Grandeur defines Istanbul: From architectural icons such as Hagia Sophia to the city’s indomitable traffic, Istanbul pulsates with intensity and splendor. Including sweet splendor. Istanbul’s passion ...

Holly Williams samples some just-delicious desserts in Turkey: On the shores of the Bosphorus, the strait of water that divides Europe on one bank from Asia on the ...

Sweets this year, for Diwali, are a mix of Indian and international sweets. (AI-generated image) “Everyone wants to keep their mithai platters unique and gift attractive sweets to their loved ones.