Bake The World Kit: Middle East

STEP BACK IN TIME TO A CULTURE RICH IN HISTORY

The blazing desert sands, ancient monuments that defy even modern architecture, and a culture founded on with tradition—these are the traits that mark the Middle East. Experience a land filled with meaningful rituals and left untouched for centuries.

Middle Eastern Baking Kit

It's cheaper than a plane Ticket, let's be honest.

And a whole lot tastier, too.

The fragrant aromas of rose water and orange blossoms, sticky sweet honey, and earthy ground nuts–sounds like paradise, doesn’t it? Middle Eastern baking is inspired by seasonal harvests and incorporates earth’s bounty into every bite.

Coming from a mostly deserted region, you might be surprised to learn that many of the famous European cookies are adaptations from sweets native to the Middle East. The Mediterranean was an international highway where Middle Easterners imported cakes, dried fruits, and nuts into Europe through trade routes. Ground nuts or dried citrus in recipes are good indicators that it originated from the Middle East!

Because baking is tied to cultural practices, we’ve chosen to celebrate Arabic baking instead of narrowing it down to a specific country. The cookies in this Middle Eastern Baking kit are common sweets eaten during Eid, Nowruz, and other Arabic celebrations, but are delicious any time of the year.

Ready to take a culinary tour of the Middle East? Get your kit and start baking today!

Recipes Included

Nan-e-nokhodchi

Made from chickpea flour, rose water, and pistachios for a melt-in-your-mouth treat. The national cookie of Iran!

Kleicha

Yeasted dough filled with your choice of walnuts or sweet date filling. The national cookie of Iraq!

Ma'amoul

Buttery semolina flour crust filled with sweet date filling. A famous Arabic treat especially popular in the Levantine region.

DESTINATION: Middle East

crafted for celebrations and generations

Each Middle Eastern baking kit contains the following pieces:

Authentic Recipes for 3 Middle Eastern Cookies
Middle East Travel Map
Hand crafted tabe (wooden mold) imported from Jordan
Nan-e-Nokhodchi Cookie Cutter
Rolling Pin
Ingredient Shopping List
Access to the Middle Eastern Baking Master Class

Featured Piece

Wooden Tabe

Every kit comes with an authentic Jordanian mold, with designs chosen at random. Each piece is designed with traditional hand carving in either the circular or oval shape.

Our wooden cookie molds are meant to be heirlooms passed down from generation to generation. Much like cookie molds around the world, tabe molds are collectible and families will often have more than one mold.

BAKING MASTERCLASS EXPERIENCE

Bake the World Kits come with an exclusive access pass to the region’s masterclass. Enjoy step by step tutorials in short video style, free printables, and a downloadable and printable e-book. Each 32-page e-book is packed with information about the region, how you can immerse yourself in the culture, baking tips, tips on freezing cookies, and text-based tutorials for each cookie. This kit is more than just a recipe, it’s an activity designed to help you make the most authentic recipes each and every time!

why you need the kit

Sure, recipes for just about anything are readily available online–and for free. If it were that simple, you wouldn’t need our kit!

Our Bake The World Kits offer so much more than just a recipe. For each kit, you’ll get these added benefits:

AUTHENTICALLY DEVELOPED RECIPES

Our recipes were developed by a professional pastry artist and world traveler. Designed for home bakers of all skills, they’re made to taste like you bought them at a local Arabic mukhbiz.

IMPORTED ARTISAN TOOLS

Many traditional recipes rely on specific tools and ingredients to create the right flavors, shapes, and textures. Our kits provide tools the average home baker wouldn’t have stocked in their kitchen and imports many of them from the destination country for authenticity!

ACCESS TO OUR ONLINE BAKING MASTER CLASS

Each kit comes with exclusive access to step-by-step videos and instructions filled with professional tips. Learn how to make each recipe the right way and at your own speed!

Special Limited Time Offer

Order your kit today and enjoy 10% off with code BAKEMIDDLEEAST at checkout!*

*Terms and Exclusions apply.

don't Just take our word for it...

"My husband and I went to France for our honeymoon and the food was incredible. We had madeleines for the first time in a little cafe outside our hotel that were to die for. I've been wanting to try making them so I got one of the kits for us to make for our anniversary. It was so much fun and everything came out so yummy, it was like we were back in Niece!"

"My wife and I spent a few years in Germany working for the USAF. We spent a few Christmas's there and went to all the little holiday markets. We don't have anything like that back in the states. She got us a kit to try making cookies at home. She's not a cook by any means but wow those cookies were good!"

"I'm a huge foodie and LOVE to try new things! A few of my besties wanted to do a cookie swap like our parents used to do for Christmas last year. We got the Mexican, Italian, American and British kits to try. Everything came out amazing!!! Especially the honey balls from Italy!! We had so much fun baking and trying everything. We're definitely doing it again this year."

"My wife is Lebanese and I'm American. We live in America so our kids don't get to see my wife's parents often. She got the Middle East kit for us to try making ma'amoul for Eid. I set up the computer so we could FaceTime her parents while we made the sweets. We all made ma'amoul together over the livestream. It was amazing! My wife said the cookies tasted just like the ones she had growing up."

Do I need to know how to bake to use the kit?

Nope! Bake the World kits were designed for bakers of all skill levels so you can enjoy amazing cookies whether it’s your first time baking or your millionth. Each recipe comes with a video tutorial and a text tutorial to help all learning styles.

Do I need any special equipment?

Most of the “special” equipment is included in the kit, but you will need some basic baking utensils that most at-home bakers have. Things like baking sheets, spatulas, spoons, and a hand mixer are required for most kits. The occasional food processor is recommended for chopping nuts, but can be substituted for a mortar and pestle or hand chopping if needed.

Help! I don’t have a stand mixer!

Because these kits were made for the at-home baker, all of the tutorials are shown without a stand mixer except for the United States of America kit. A hand mixer is required for many of the recipes and can be substituted even with the USA kit. The kits were consciously developed to include bakers of all skills and equipment levels.

For those that do have a stand mixer and prefer to use it, by all means, use the stand mixer instead!

Are Bake the World Kits Kid Friendly?

Bake the World kits were developed for adults 13+. However, these baking kits are a great way to get younger children involved in the baking process! Use these kits as a fun and interactive activity to teach children about a particular culture in a way they can digest. Pun intended!

What if I have dietary concerns? Can I still make them?

Many of the recipes in the kits include the use of nuts, wheat, and dairy. We do not recommend using these kits if you or someone in your household has a dietary concern. Each recipe was created for authenticity and is not recommended to be modified to fit alternative diets. For best results, we recommend following the directions as stated.

Do the kits contain food or the ingredients needed?

No, these kits do not contain the ingredients to make the recipes. The Germany baking kit includes a factory sealed package of Lebkuchen spice mix and German wafers that are necessary to make the recipes. The kits do not contain ingredients like flour, eggs, sugar, etc. and must be purchased by the kit maker. Not including the ingredients makes this kit perfect for buying early for gifts and reducing the likelihood of spoiling that saves you money and aggravation!

do you sell these kits wholesale?

Have a specialty gift shop, own a bakery, or hosting a group event? We wholesale! Contact us for more information!

make new memories. Relive old ones.

Baking brings together people from all backgrounds. Take you and your loved ones on a delicious journey and experience all the sweetness the world has to offer.