About Desert Dishes

Last updated: November 12, 2026.

Desert Dishes is a recipe website about desserts — with a focus most dessert sites skip. Alongside the cakes, cookies, pies, and no-bake favorites American home cooks already love, we feature Arabian sweets: kunafa, baklava, basbousa, luqaimat, umm ali, and qatayef. Written for US readers who want to try Middle Eastern desserts at home, with US measurements and grocery-store ingredients.

What Desert Dishes Is

Desert Dishes is a recipe site from the Desert Dishes Team — a small team of dessert lovers, not a restaurant or a bakery. Our job is simple: find the desserts worth making at home, write the steps out clearly, and check them so a first-timer can follow them. Every recipe has the same pattern: ingredients, method, tips, and serving details.

Why Arabian Desserts Come First

Arabian desserts are underrepresented on American recipe sites. Most dessert blogs cover the same cakes, cookies, and pies, while kunafa, luqaimat, basbousa, umm ali, and qatayef rarely get a proper recipe page. That gap is the reason this site exists.

What You Will Find Here

The site is organized into collections so you can browse by craving, method, or occasion. Arabian Desserts is the flagship collection, with everyday hubs around it: Dessert Recipes, Easy, Quick, Baking, No-Bake, Chocolate, Fruit, Frozen, Holiday, Party, Healthy, and Dessert Types. Seasonal collections cover fall, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Ramadan, and Eid. The first recipes are kunafa, luqaimat, basbousa, umm ali, and qatayef. More desserts are added regularly — see the Dessert Recipes page for the full list.

Hands plating a dessert with berries — Desert Dishes — Figure 2. Hands plating dessert

How Our Recipes Are Written

Every recipe is written for a US home kitchen, with cups and Fahrenheit and ingredient names from an American grocery shelf. Where a specialty item is needed — kataifi pastry for kunafa, for example — the recipe notes where to look for it. Each recipe comes with its own original images, made for Desert Dishes from licensed stock photos. Our recipes are standard, well-established recipes, written with US measurements and clear steps. Times, servings, and nutrition values are standard guidance and may vary in your kitchen.

Hands mixing cake batter in a bowl — Desert Dishes — Figure 3. Hands mixing batter

Hands piping frosting onto cupcakes — Desert Dishes — Figure 4. Hands piping cupcakes

How We Work — Editorial & Corrections

We choose standard, well-established recipes that work in a US home kitchen, and write them with US measurements, clear steps, and notes on ingredients and equipment. We do not invent recipes, test results, or reviews, and we do not publish cooking claims we cannot support.

If you find a mistake in a recipe — a wrong amount, a missing step, or something that did not work as written — please tell us through the Contact page. Tell us the recipe name and what went wrong, and we will check it and fix the page. Pages are updated when an error is found, and the last updated date at the top of the page changes with each update.

Some recipes link to products on Amazon. Desert Dishes is a participant in the Amazon Associates program — see the Affiliate Disclosure page for details.

FAQ

Who writes Desert Dishes?

Desert Dishes is written by the Desert Dishes Team. There is no single named author; the team produces the recipes and guides together.

Why does the site focus on Arabian desserts?

Because Arabian desserts are hard to find in American cookbooks and recipe sites, even though they are among the most loved sweets in the world. Kunafa, luqaimat, basbousa, umm ali, qatayef, and baklava are the site’s core Arabian sweets.

Are the recipes suitable for beginners?

Yes. Most recipes need only a bowl, a pan, and an oven or a stovetop. No-bake and 3-ingredient recipes are the easiest starting points.

Can I request a recipe?

Yes. If there is a dessert you would like us to cover, send us a message through the Contact page. Reader requests help decide what gets published next.

A Note to Readers

Thank you for cooking with us — we hope you find something worth making.