Desserts

Halloumi with Caramelized Poached Dry Fruit is a dessert made with grilled halloumi served with dried fruit, poached and cooked with commarndaria.

Trouffes (pr. TRUE-fess) are Greek Truffles/ These bite-sized chocolate confections, usually made from chocolate and cream (ganache) usually formed in a spherical, conical, or curved shape.

Kalon Prama, which is the Cypriot name for Samali, is a moist, eggless, semolina cake, made with sheep’s milk yoghurt, flavoured with mastic and bathed in syrup.

Diples (pronounced diip-LESS), which means folded, is another traditional Christmas sweet pastry, made in many parts of Greece especially in the Peloponnese. These are the desserts they serve at weddings, christenings, engagements etc. but are also very popular during Christmas.

This New York Cheesecake is made with cream cheese, condensed sweetened milk, eggs and melted chocolate to make the rays. It is then baked in water bath.

This Caramel Biscuit Pudding is one of those recipes we used to make in Cyprus, which probably has its roots from the British colonization of the island.

These Cypriot Kourabiedes are similar to the Greek ones but they are made with spry shortening, which makes them soft and fluffy.

A time-tested traditional Christmas cake recipe which is filled with homemade fruit preserve, as well as nuts, raisins brandy and treacle.

This is the traditional English Christmas cake recipe the recipe of which was given to me by a friend of mine, who makes it every year.

This Almond Roulade is made with sponge cake which has been covered with toasted almonds. In Greece we call this dessert kormos (roulade), which means log as it resembles like a tree log.