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Solve the mystery: Cypriot baked dessert

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VfM4meplse
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Calling all bakers....

I was recently served a dessert that came from Turkish Cyprus, I've been Googling away but just can't work out what its called, or even see it on the internet. Can anyone help by my description?

Served in slices, its a dense pastry with whole nuts (in this case almonds, walnuts and pecans, but I think other large nuts would also be perfectly acceptable!) and covered in what I think is a mixture of honey and maple syrup, possibly date syrup? I'd like a bit of direction here before I have a go at it myself, mainly because the ingredients are so pricey!

Its not baklava - there's nothing flakey about it! - although it doesn't taste far off.
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  • -taff
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    Helva? or hulva....
    Shampoo? No thanks, I'll have real poo...
  • Pollycat
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    -taff wrote: »
    Helva? or hulva....

    Halva...?
    OP - why didn't you ask what it was called?
  • D_M_E
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    Kataifi?

    Basbousa?

    Did it look like a variation of shredded wheat, finer than baklava?

    Did it look like thick pastry?
  • VfM4meplse
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    -taff wrote: »
    Helva? or hulva....
    No, not sesame-based.
    D_M_E wrote: »
    Kataifi?

    Babousa?

    Did it look like a variation of shredded wheat, finer than baklava?
    None of these. It was neither vermicelli-like, nor cakey.
    D_M_E wrote: »
    Did it look like thick pastry?
    The pastry was about 1/2cm thick, the nutty layer on top was thick and resembled the pastellaki image pasted below, but more substantial because there was a layer of whole walnuts underneath the almonds, but without any sesame seeds. I just assumed it was a common dish out there but computer says no... :o

    6ee08bf4cb356fa1e635468da4794d29.jpg

    I really wish I'd taken a picture before I'd scoffed it! Any ideas?
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  • caronc
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    Was it perhaps a sweet pide where the restaurant had made a variation on a usually savoury dish?
  • unrecordings
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    I'm assuming you've looked here (with pictures) ?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Turkish_desserts

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  • Ms_Chocaholic
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    Did you eat this at a restaurant, do they have a FB or web page?
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  • unrecordings
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    been wracking my brain, as we used to hve a small Turkish shop at he bottom of our street, and I could picture what I thought you were trying to describe:

    katmer ?

    https://www.tasteatlas.com/katmer/recipe

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  • PipneyJane
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    Could you ask the restaurant? The receipt will have their name and Google may find you their website or email address.

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  • D_M_E
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    Flaounas?

    A variation of Levantine flatbread?
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