Dubai chocolate has been all the rage over here this year. The story of its origin is told here on Wikipedia – Dubai Chocolate. It’s really expensive to buy in the UK. Chocolate prices are high anyway but a 145g bar of this retails for £9.99 in our supermarkets. Around $14. I wouldn’t be sharing a bar that size with anyone!

It’s made using milk chocolate to sandwich a filling of pistachio paste mixed with Kataifi Filo Pastry. Fine shredded strands that look like the Shredded Wheat breakfast cereal.

The Kataifi is quite hard to get here in the UK but we were in Rhodes, Greece, just over a week ago, where it’s widely available. So we bought a pack and brought it back with us so Linda could try her hand at making her own Dubai Chocolate. Making your own is cheaper but still expensive. The chocolate has to be tempered so she bought Callebaut Belgian chocolate as it’s high in cocoa solids at 33.6%. A 1KG bag was £23 and made two 400g bars.

She found plenty of guides for making the filo treat and it turned out really well. It tastes amazing. Much better than some shop bought Lindt Dubai Chocolate we tried. That had next to no filling and was just thin and a bit meh after trying this.

She’s experimented with normal shop bought chocolate today, to melt down for her next batch. It’s a cheaper alternative and doesn’t require tempering. It looked great coming out of the moulds but we haven’t tested it yet. I think some of the bars will be going out as Christmas treats this year. A nice change from the Pickled Onions we gave away last year 🙂

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