🍪 Kahk (Eid cookies)

Name: Kahk (Eid cookies)
Total time: 90 min
Yield: 40
Cuisine: Egypt
Ingredients: 500 g flour; 250 g ghee, melted and warm; 1 tbsp sesame seeds; 1 tsp kahk spice or ground mahlab (optional); For the filling: 250 g date paste or 150 g chopped nuts with 2 tbsp sugar; 100 g powdered sugar for dusting; Pinch of salt

Origin: Egypt

276kcal

per serving · 60 g

460kcal

per 100 g

4 gProtein6 g / 100 g

14 gFat24 g / 100 g

33 gCarbs55 g / 100 g

Kahk are Egypt's festive Eid cookies: round, crumbly biscuits made from flour rich in ghee, often stuffed with date paste or chopped nuts and sometimes scented with sesame. They are stamped with decorative patterns, baked until pale golden and generously dusted with powdered sugar. They melt in the mouth and are served with tea to visiting family and friends.

Diets

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Vegetarianno meat or fish in a typical recipe

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No pork

Not veganbecause of: ghee

Contains glutenbecause of: flour

Contains dairybecause of: ghee

Not keto55 g carbs per 100 g

Allergens

Contains (in a typical recipe):

⚠ Gluten ⚠ Milk ⚠ Tree nuts ⚠ Sesame

What it is made of

flourgheesugardatesnutssesame

Recipe

40 servings90 min

Ingredients

500 g flour
250 g ghee, melted and warm
1 tbsp sesame seeds
1 tsp kahk spice or ground mahlab (optional)
For the filling: 250 g date paste or 150 g chopped nuts with 2 tbsp sugar
100 g powdered sugar for dusting
Pinch of salt

Method

Rub the warm ghee into the flour, sesame, spice and salt until the mixture feels like damp sand.
Add a few spoons of warm water and knead briefly into a soft dough; rest for 20 minutes.
Shape walnut-sized balls, press a hollow, fill with dates or nuts and close.
Flatten slightly and stamp a pattern with a fork or kahk tongs.
Bake at 170 °C for 15–20 minutes until pale golden, cool and dust with powdered sugar.

How to make it lighter

One kahk weighs about 30 g — count them rather than eating from the plate.
Skip the powdered sugar dusting on part of the batch.
Choose the date-filled ones over extra-sugared nut fillings.

History

Baking kahk for Eid al-Fitr is one of Egypt's most cherished food traditions, and families often gather to make large batches together. Decorated biscuits of this kind are often said to have ancient roots in Egypt, though their exact history is debated.

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