m’Busbes (Ka’Ik)

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  • Makes

    20

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Sweet Hands: Island Cooking from Trinidad and Tobago

By Ramin Ganeshram

Published 2018

  • About

Mrs. Yemen Nahous serves her family this slightly sweet holiday treat during their breaks from work at her Creole restaurant on Charlotte Street, Port of Spain, Trinidad. Mrs. Nahous, who immigrated to Trinidad from Syria nearly thirty years ago, refers to these cakes as “m’busbes” as do her extended Trinidad family, but they are more commonly known in Lebanon and elsewhere as “ka’ik.” M’busbes are traditionally

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