🇪🇬 Egypt
Kahk el-Eid
Egypt's kahk: butter cookies stuffed with agameya or dates, stamped and snowed with sugar for Eid morning.
🔪 Prep: 90 min🔥 Cook: 20 min📈 Difficulty: Takes love
Cooking for
12 people
✨ What makes it special
Flour-based (not semolina) with kahk essence and sesame; the honey-nut agameya filling is pure Egypt.
Ingredients
- 700 gflour
- 300 gghee
- 2 tbspsesame seeds
- 1 tspkahk essence
- 200 gagameya (honey-nut filling) or dates
- to tastepowdered sugar
Method
- 1
Pour hot ghee over flour, sesame, and essence; knead silky.
- 2
Rest, then fill with agameya or date paste.
- 3
Decorate with pinchers or molds.
- 4
Bake until the base blushes; cool and bury in powdered sugar.
🍽 On your table
How this dish looks served for 12