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Lebanon
بقلاوة
Layers of paper-thin phyllo brushed with butter and filled with chopped walnuts or pistachios, baked crisp then drenched in lemon- or rose-scented sugar syrup. One square, cut diamond-small, is the shared Ottoman dessert of the whole eastern Mediterranean.
Bulgaria
Баница
Hand-stretched filo layered with white brine cheese beaten into eggs and yogurt, coiled or stacked in a round pan and baked until the top blisters.
Bulgaria
Баница с късмети
New Year's Eve banitsa with paper fortunes and a coin baked between the filo layers; everyone takes a piece and reads their year aloud.
Albania
Кадаиф
Shredded filo dough wrapped around walnut filling, baked until golden, then soaked in sweet syrup, crispy shredded texture with generous nut filling and good syrup absorption, a beloved dessert.
Bulgaria
Кифла с локум
Soft bakery roll wrapped around a bar of rose lokum, which melts into a sticky ribbon in the oven.
Bulgaria
Принцеси
Open-faced baked sandwich with minced meat or sirene.
Bulgaria
Тиквеник
The sweet banitsa: filo rolled around grated pumpkin, walnuts, sugar and cinnamon, baked and dusted with icing sugar. Made from late October onwards.
Serbia
Ridged fingers of choux-style dough deep-fried then drowned in cold sugar syrup, crisp-shelled and juicy within — the baklava-shop counter classic of Turkey and the former Ottoman world.
Bulgaria
Зелник
A Bulgarian filo pie filled with cabbage, leeks or sorrel with eggs and sirene cheese, baked into a golden, flaky pastry.