Persian desserts recipes

This fabulous Persian date dessert with walnuts is so easy to make and will just melt in your mouth. It is rich but uses less sugar.

Persian love cake with citrus, warming spices, and rosewater is a stunning and delicious cake recipe to please a crowd.

Sholeh Zard is a very traditional Persian dessert. It's made with few ingredients yet it's deeply aromatic and packed with flavors. Saffron is a staple to Iranian cuisine and this dessert is no exception. Sholeh Zard translates to yellow pudding in farsi. To make this dessert you need rice which gets cook in water for long time till it gets soft and falls apart. Then sugar, rosewater, saffron and cardamom added to brightening up the pudding. Sholeh Zard can be served either cold or in the…

Saffron Milk Cake is the Middle Eastern version of the famous tres leches cake. It's delicious with the heady flavor of saffron.

Persian love cake is moist, spongy and will enchant you with flavors of rose, cardamom, saffron. Luxuriously packed with nuts, it is so easy.

A vegan version of the Persian cream puff

Kolompeh is a traditional Iranian pastry originated in city of Kerman. It's one of the easy pastries that you can make at home and it's very popular during the Norooz (Persian new year).The dough is soft, buttery and scented with saffron and cardamom. The filling is made of dates and nuts (normally walnut or pistachio), spices and rose water. However, I used pecans in the filling and I just loved the result.There are some special stamps for making Kolopmeh to not just press it but to give it…

I came across these Persian Love Cookies just here at heneedsfood the other day and just adored the beautiful presentation! I don't bake a...

There's a reason why this cake is called a Persian *Love Cake*… it's truly a labor of love with the most romantic fragrant ingredients.

A buttery and tender shortbread cookie made with lemon zest, cardamom, rose water and pistachios, dipped in white chocolate and topped with edible dried rose petals and chopped pistachios