It started off with atayef. Little folded pancakes stuffed with nuts or a nuts and raisin mix, soaked in honey and deep fried. Crispy, crunchy sweet little pancakes that only appear during Ramadan. For a brief moment after the bite, before teeth hit the honey soaked nuts, sweet honey oozes from the pancake. Heaven.

Last night came atayef bil ishta.

Sweet, sweet seventh heaven.

A little folded pancake of Egyptian-style Turkish delight stuffed with cream and liberally doused in icing sugar. Soft, creamy, gooey and ever so sweet…

Thank goodness they only appear once a year.