What can happen when chocolate couverture, cream from peanut Aegina and crispy kadaifi are they getting married? A unique taste delight that lives up to the name chocolate dubai, which sweetens young and old as it is used in sweets, melomakaroni, buns, with the imagination of confectioners not stopping.

As its name reveals, Dubai Chocolate was made for first time in dubai. The original idea belongs to the chocolatier Sarah Hamuda. As she says on Instagram, she invented the recipe during her second pregnancy to deal with the persistent feeling of hunger, which is completely normal.

This need of the pregnant chocolatier was supposed to create the trendiest Christmas dessert that has made its dynamic appearance in the pastry shops of Thessaloniki during the holidays this year, gaining fanatical fans, as stated in a report by voria.gr.

And it is not only the pastry shops of Thessaloniki that have succumbed to the allure of freshly cut chocolate. In many Christmas markets in Europe, visitors can try “Dubai hot chocolate”, “Dubai chocolate crepes” and even “Dubai chocolate waffles”.

“OR confectionery has no borders» he says characteristically to Voria.gr the president of the Guild of Shopkeepers of Thessaloniki and president of the Chamber of Commerce of the city, Marios Papadopoulos. “OR chocolate dubai and the honey macaroons with lotus cookiewhose history begins in Belgium, are this year’s Christmas trends in sweets. Those who try them buy them again” notes Mr. Papadopoulos.

Traffic in confectionery

As for traffic in the city’s pastry shops, it is at its peak with demand is expected to be highly increased in the run-up to the New Yearwhenever the king cake has its due. “The New Year is necessary for the change of time for every family” explains Mr. Papadopoulos, emphasizing that their prices are the same as last year’s despite the increase in raw materials, with the price of butter, a necessary ingredient for a successful king pie, having climbed from 7 euros to 11.

The king pie prices range from 14 to 17 euros.

Sta honey macaroons the price per kilo ranges from 13 to 17 euros while in kourabiedes from 15 to 19 euros.

According to Mr. Papadopoulos, although the production costit has increase by 50%h majority of confectioners of Thessaloniki, wanting to keep their consumer audience satisfied, have kept them prices their stablewhile any increases that some confectioners in the city have chosen to make range from 3% to 5%.