Christmas Sweetness

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Our kitchen counter is covered with cookies, candies, and snacks received throughout this holiday season. Four days after Christmas, another box of cookies from a craft bakery in North Jerzy arrived via Fedex from a friend who had our address wrong initially.

I calculated that it would take us about 2 ½ months to finish everything on the counter which would take us just in time to start accumulating the Valentine’s cookies and sweets.

My friend Pharaoh walked into a Christmas dinner two weeks ago with a big shopping bag and announced, “Make sure you guys each take a box home with you! My wife has made some treats for you…”  Knowing that his wife is such a gourmet cook that Pharaoh has a professional kitchen installed for her, my eyes perked up expecting greatness.

What I didn’t expect was what was inside the red “Ho Ho Ho” carrier box with Santa dangling on a tag off the handle. The Christmas cookies were indeed bite size pieces of baklava and burma. A nice surprise of something different than the traditional Christmas treats!

Both the Baklava and the burma were delicate and moist with a subtle amount of sweetness. The pistachios in the burma and the walnuts (I think) in the baklava were fresh tasting and contributed nicely to the overall texture of the pieces. The different dough on the pieces was flaky, fresh, and crumbled just right when my teeth sank into it. 

Unlike most of the over-sweetened commercial pieces or those in middle-eastern restaurants catered to the American taste, these were the most delicious baklava and burma pieces I have ever had! 

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