Chebakia

Sesame-and-honey pastry shaped into elaborate flower or rose forms, deep-fried until golden, then dunked while still hot into warm honey scented with orange-flower water and rolled in toasted sesame seeds. Iconic Ramadan sweet, served alongside harira to break the fast at iftar, also appearing at weddings and celebrations. The signature is the layered sweetness: honey-on-honey with the fried pastry adding fat and char, sesame bringing nutty oil-richness, and orange-flower water lifting the whole composition into floral territory. Intensely sweet, fragrant, rich.