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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.
Egypt
فطير مشلتت
Egypt's layered flaky pastry with ghee, eaten sweet with honey or savory with cheese or meat, a festive and daily classic
Homs, Lebanon
حلاوة الجبن
Soft cheese dough rolled around ashta, cut into small pieces and drenched in orange-blossom syrup with pistachios; an Egyptian form of the Levantine sweet.
Egypt
كنافة
A Egyptian shredded pastry with cream, cheese, or nuts, soaked in syrup, a Ramadan and daily classic
Algeria
زلابية
Small coils or balls of fermented batter fried until crisp, then soaked in syrup or dusted with sugar at Egyptian sweet shops.