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Kahramanmaras, Turkiye · 1978
Baklava made the way one family has made it since 1978.
Thirty-one lines of Turkish artisan baklava, hand-rolled and blast-frozen in Kahramanmaras, shipped to the United States, Europe, the Gulf and Saudi Arabia with twelve months of shelf life on arrival.
About
Two hours from the orchard.
Kahramanmaras sits where the pistachio orchards of southeastern Turkiye meet the dairy pastures of the Taurus foothills. Phyllo is still rolled by hand until a sheet will pass light, and trays are still baked over open flame by people who judge the moment by colour and sound.
Overview
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Antep pistachio, first gradeWhole kernels milled in-house on the day of production. No pre-ground stock and no blending down.
Hand-rolled phylloForty layers per tray, laminated with clarified butter — never margarine, never palm fat.
Twelve months frozenBlast-frozen within hours of baking and held at -18 C, so a full year of commercial life arrives with it.
Private label from one palletYour brand on the sleeve, the carton and the tray, with low minimums while a listing proves itself.
Documents that clear customsHealth certificate, certificate of origin, halal certificate and analysis reports, prepared per destination.
Thirty-one lines, one floorA mixed container ships on one invoice, one certificate set and one lead time.
The craft
Twelve stages, eight of them by hand.
Flour and water at four in the morning. Phyllo rolled down on long wooden boards. First-grade Antep pistachio milled the same morning it is used. Clarified butter — never margarine, never palm fat. Open flame, and sherbet poured hot by ladle.
Private label
Your brand, our workshop.
Every line ships in a sealed tray inside a printed carton — and that carton can carry your brand rather than ours, with multilingual ingredient and allergen panels prepared in-house.
Who we manufacture for
Your brand, our workshop.
We make baklava under our own name and under yours. If your company sells, serves or exports baklava, this is how we fit.
Overview
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Send us the lines you are interested in, where they are going and roughly what volume you have in mind.
Sobiyet
Şöbiyet Cream Filled
Carrot Slice Baklava
Havuç Dilimi Baklava
Burma Kadayif
Burma Kadayıf Kadayif
Mussel Baklava
Midye Signature Shapes
Golden Curl
Sarı Kıvrım RolledHow it is made
Twelve stages, eight of them by hand.
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What baklava actually is, and what it is not
Everyone recognises it. Far fewer people can say what separates a good tray from a bad one — or why two pastries that look identic
History
The long, disputed history of a layered pastry
Ottoman palace kitchens, a procession of janissaries, and an argument about origins that nobody is going to win.
The orchard
The pistachio gardens of the world
A tree that wants hot dry summers, cold winters and very little water grows in a narrow band across the planet — and each garden g
The orchard
Why pistachio is green, and why that green disappears
The colour is chlorophyll and anthocyanin, it is fragile, and almost everything a factory does to a pistachio makes it duller.
Craft
Forty layers, and why anybody counts
Layer count is the most quoted number in baklava and the least verified. Here is what it actually controls.
The orchard
Gaziantep, and the belt of land that decides the flavour
A city became synonymous with a pastry because of what grows two hours away from it. That is not romance; it is agronomy.
The orchard
Kaymak: the cream that cannot travel
The richest pastries in the Turkish repertoire depend on a dairy product with a shelf life measured in days. That constraint shape
People
Four in the morning
The working day in a baklava house starts before anyone would choose to be awake, for reasons that are entirely practical.
Market
How long does baklava actually last?
Four days, twelve months, or somewhere in between — the honest answer depends entirely on what happened in the first few hours aft
At the table
The Ramadan table, and what it does to a dessert business
A month that moves eleven days a year concentrates most of the annual demand for a category into a few weeks. Planning for it star
Export
Cold chain, door to door.
Blast-frozen within hours of baking and held at -18 C from our floor to yours, so a tray arrives with its crust intact and a full year of commercial life ahead of it.
| Markets | the United States · the United Kingdom · Germany · France · Saudi Arabia |
|---|---|
| Terms | FOB Mersin or Iskenderun · EXW Kahramanmaras |
| Certification | Halal — GIMDES |
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