PRG-03 · Arabic sweets · Seasonal · Abu Dhabi
Mixed Sweets
One box, one standard, and a cast that changes with the season. Saffron and pistachio lead — the pastry this house is known for — and the supporting flavours follow what's genuinely fresh rather than what a catalogue promised. If it's in the box, it was made this week. If it isn't, it wasn't good enough this week.
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Secure Shopify checkout · Abu Dhabi delivery & boutique collection · made fresh to order
- ISO 3632 · Category IThe house selection standard
- ADAFSA permittedAbu Dhabi food-safety certificate
- Secure checkoutShopify · cards & WhatsApp
- Composition
- Seasonal — confirmed in the conversation, never assumed
- Signature
- Saffron & pistachio
- Made
- Fresh, production-dated
- Allergens
- Tree nuts, sesame, gluten, milk & soy
Ingredients & allergens
Allergens: Contains tree nuts, sesame, gluten, milk and soy — the box holds all five pastries, so every one of these is in it. They are made and cut in one kitchen and traces cross between them, so we cannot treat any item as free of any of these, including the one pastry that has no nut in its own recipe. No peanut and no egg appear in any recipe we have been given. Not vegan: every item is made with butter or milk chocolate. No alcohol.
What the kitchen makes, and what is in each
- Macadamia Date SquareDates, macadamia, sesame, biscuit, butter, coconutTree nuts · sesame · gluten · milk · soy
- Ghoraiba · PistachioPistachio, butter, flourTree nuts · gluten · milk
- Ghoraiba · Almond or WalnutAlmond or walnut, butter, flour, cardamomTree nuts · gluten · milk
- Crunchy Ogaili BarSaffron, cardamom, real chocolate, sesameSesame · gluten · milk · soy
- Coffee & Rahash (Tahini) SquareCoffee biscuit, chocolate, rahash (tahini), pistachio, roseTree nuts · sesame · gluten · milk
Keep cool and eat within the week — these are baked, not shelf confectionery.
Gifting
This is the box people photograph before they open. For corporate orders we keep the branding quiet — a discreet sleeve, your card inside if you wish, never a billboard. Ramadan and National Day windows book out; ask early.
Freshness & storage
These are fresh pastries, not shelf candy: production and best-by dates are printed on every box. Keep cool, eat within the week, share reluctantly.
Delivery
Fresh sweets are made to order, and go out the day they are made — for collection at the boutique or delivery within Abu Dhabi, arranged in the WhatsApp conversation. We do not send them further than that: a long parcel in a UAE summer is not a condition we will send pastry in.
The saffron in these pastries is the same Super Negin we sell by the jar — not a “flavouring.” Meet it undiluted →
What is actually in it
Arabic sweets is a counter, not a recipe.
The phrase covers a whole tradition, so on its own it tells a buyer very little. Here it means five specific things, baked in one kitchen, one to each compartment of the box: two ghoraiba, a date square, a saffron bar and a coffee square. Saffron and pistachio lead the composition — that is the house signature — and the detail of what sits beside them follows what was genuinely good that week.
What follows is what the kitchen makes. The exact ingredient list and the per-item allergen breakdown for all five are published in the ingredients panel further up this page; this is the shorter read.
Saffron, cardamom, real chocolate and sesame, pressed and cut crisp. The saffron in it is the same Super Negin we sell by the jar rather than a flavouring, which is the single clearest difference between this box and a box of sweets.
Saffron · cardamomPistachio, butter and flour. Three ingredients, and nowhere for any of them to hide — which is why it is the one to try first if you are judging a kitchen rather than buying a gift.
PistachioThe same shortbread taken in a different direction: almond or walnut, butter, flour and cardamom. Which of the two nuts appears depends on the week, and the box tells you which you have.
Almond or walnutDates, macadamia, sesame, biscuit, butter and coconut. The densest thing in the box and the one people come back for, pressed rather than baked soft.
Dates · macadamiaCoffee biscuit, chocolate, rahash — tahini — with pistachio and rose. The one that surprises people who thought they knew what was going to be in an Arabic sweets box.
Coffee · tahiniBecause the box holds all five, it contains tree nuts, sesame, gluten, milk and soy — every one of them. They are made and cut in one kitchen, so cross-contact cannot be excluded for any single item, and several ingredients are compounds the kitchen has not yet broken down for us. We therefore make no gluten-free, dairy-free or soy-free claim. If an allergy is involved, ask us before you order.
Made this week
What made fresh to order actually costs you.
It costs you a little planning, and it buys you a box that was not in a warehouse. The sweets are made to order and go out the day they are made, which is why the delivery rules on this page are narrower than the rest of the collection and why the box you collect is dated rather than undated. Production and best-by dates are printed on every one.
Keep it cool and dry, between 15–20 °C, away from direct sunlight and heat. That is the kitchen's own number, not a rounded one, and in this climate it means a cupboard rather than a car boot or a sunny counter. Eat within the week: these are baked pastries, and the week is the point of them rather than a disclaimer printed to protect us.
Serve them from the box rather than decanting them. The five compartments are how the thing is composed — one of each reads as a tasting rather than a plate of biscuits — and a box opened at the table does the work that no amount of arranging afterwards will.
Choosing
Which box the occasion is asking for.
500 g, five compartments, five different pastries. The box for a table whose tastes you do not know — a majlis, an office, a family you are meeting for the first time. Variety is the gift here, and nobody has to be polite about a flavour they did not want.
When you do not know the roomFive single-flavour boxes — Coconut, Macadamia, Pistachio, Red Berry and Pecan Cacao — for the person whose one flavour you do know. They are sealed and dated rather than composed fresh.
When you do500 g and 600 g in a rigid red gift box, roast-dated. The one box on this page that is not pastry, and therefore the one that can be sent beyond Abu Dhabi to anywhere in the UAE.
The one that travelsTwenty recipients, a Ramadan window, a client list with a date attached. That is a composition rather than a purchase, and it is quoted in writing before anything is baked.
Corporate & RamadanThe five Signature boxes each declare their own allergens, and they genuinely differ: Coconut carries hazelnut and almond and no pistachio at all, Pecan Cacao is two ingredients and carries pecan, and Macadamia is the only one of the five with sesame, gluten and milk in it. Never read one box off another — read the box you are considering, on its own page. Corporate & bulk gifting
Questions
Asked before ordering, not after.
01What is in the five-compartment box?
Five pastries, one to a compartment, all baked in the same kitchen: a macadamia date square; ghoraiba with pistachio; ghoraiba with almond or walnut and cardamom; a crunchy ogaili bar of saffron, cardamom, real chocolate and sesame; and a coffee and rahash square with tahini, pistachio and rose. The composition moves with the season in its detail and holds its shape, and the full ingredient and allergen breakdown for each of the five sits in the ingredients panel further up this page.
02Are these Arabic sweets safe for someone with a nut allergy?
No, and we will not soften that. The box holds all five pastries, so tree nuts, sesame, gluten, milk and soy are every one of them present in it. They are made and cut in one kitchen and traces cross between them, so we cannot treat any single item as free of any of those — including the one pastry with no nut in its own recipe. No peanut and no egg appear in any recipe we have been given. It is not vegan, because every item is made with butter or milk chocolate, and there is no alcohol in it. Some ingredients are compounds the kitchen has not yet broken down for us, which is why we make no gluten-free, dairy-free or soy-free claim at all.
03How long do they keep, and how should I store them?
Every box is printed with its production and best-by dates, so nothing is left to guesswork. Store it cool and dry, 15–20 °C, away from direct sunlight and heat, and eat it within the week. These are baked pastries rather than shelf confectionery, and the week is the point of them rather than a disclaimer.
04Can you deliver Arabic sweets outside Abu Dhabi?
No. Every sweet we make is boutique collection or Abu Dhabi delivery only, because a multi-day parcel in a UAE summer is not a condition we are willing to send pastry in. If your basket contains sweets and your address is outside Abu Dhabi, checkout will tell you the order cannot go as it stands: take the sweets out to have the rest sent, or message us and we will arrange them separately.
05Can I order a box for Ramadan or as a corporate gift?
Yes to both, and early beats late. Ramadan and the National Day week fill on kitchen production rather than on shelf stock, so the date you can have depends on what is already booked when you ask. Corporate orders keep the branding quiet — a discreet sleeve, your card inside if you want one — and the whole arrangement is confirmed in writing before anything is baked. The gifting page is where that conversation starts.
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