Beehive bread with assorted fillings: Nutella, pistachio, Biscoff and cream cheese

I first had this dish at Bilqees’s place (our landlords Abui and Umi Qamar’s eldest and married daughter), at an afternoon tea party called an asariya. Khaliyat al nahal (aka honeycomb bread) is a cotton-candy-soft, sweet tear-and-share bread, very similar to a monkey bread. It’s often filled with cream cheese and drizzled with honey and nigella seeds – that’s the traditional version Bilqees taught me, which I absolutely love and adore. But, me being