Gutom Staff SWEETS
You might have noticed something new popping up on menus in restaurants, cafes and food trucks: Dubai Chocolate.
WHAT IS DUBAI CHOCOLATE
What exactly is Dubai Chocolate? Dubai Chocolate is milk chocolate with pistachio cream, Kadayif. It’s originally a chocolate bar.
The original version of Dubai Chocolate was created by Fix Dessert Chocolatier in Dubai.
In the Vancouver area, Dubai Chocolate is growing in popularity from Dubai Chocolate cookies at C Market Coffee to Dubai Chocolate on ice cream at Praguery.
Dubai Chocolate has Filipino roots.
Dubai chocolate was invented in 2021 by Sarah Hamouda, a British-Egyptian engineer living in Dubai.[2][4] At the time, Hamouda was pregnant, and through her food cravings she came to imagine a combination of chocolate, pistachio, tahini, and knafeh, a Middle Eastern dessert made of kadayif, syrup and a soft cheese. At home, Hamouda worked on developing a bar, before contacting Nouel Catis Omamalin, a Filipino culinary consultant who had trained as a pastry chef.[2] In his account of Dubai chocolate’s creation, Omamalin said the pair wanted to create a chocolate bar with the flavour of a dessert. As his favourite Arabic dessert was knafeh, and because he thought it would have an appealing crunch and nostalgic value, Omamalin suggested a chocolate bar using its flavours. Together, they developed the chocolate, forming a partnership and the online shop Fix Dessert Chocolatier,[5] which in 2022 launched “Can’t Get Knafeh of It”.[6]
