King of Nablus Sweets

Well, what have we here?

Crisp, flaky, drenched with honey and nuts...(drool)

After our awesome lunch at Ali Baba's, we headed over to King of Nablus Sweets, also located in El Cajon. It's a strip mall next to a liquor store.

They do not sell individual pieces of their sweets. You have to buy it by the pound, or in some cases, by the sheet.

It's pretty spacious in here and there is a big fake palm tree in the middle of the bakery!

TC saw this in a book of cake designs...Uh.....no.

They had so many different types of baklava here...it was mind boggling.

Although these were called mini roses, they looked more like multilayered tacos. Well, you can't really see the cross section from this photo, but they totally didn't look like roses to me.

These looked very pretty, "Bird's Nests". I love how you can see the individual leaves of the phyllo pastry. The nuts in the middle were pistachios.

Along with the baklava and a few other sweets I didn't know the name of, they also had a big case filled with different kinds of cookies.

TC ended up buying some sherbet with her Christmas money since she wasn't too interested in the baklava or cookies.

I thought it was interesting that the lady put the rainbow sherbet in a mini pie tin. Like moths drawn to a flame, we bought a pound of the baklava ($7) and let the lady choose a variety of pieces for us. We also got a pound of cookies ($5).

Bert and I opened up the baklava right away and inhaled several (okay, four!) pieces each, hence the empty section of the pan.

We really enjoyed the coiled up baklava with pistachios as well as the rolled up pieces. The "minirose" or what I call, the taco, was also great. The nuts inside were walnuts. They practically melted in our mouths. They were so good and mind numbingly fantastic!

Go ahead, lick the screen. You know you want to.

We didn't open these up because I didn't want to ruin the plastic wrapping.  These cookies looked so pretty but ended up tasting mostly the same. So we will not get these again in the future. We had a few of the cookies at home and have been having them on and off over the past few days. The only difference in taste were the dips (chocolate or crushed pistachios) or the sprinkles. They were also crumbly. Many of the cookies were doubled up and had a chocolate filling inside. Also, for the sake of "research", we bought a chocolate ball (seen in the paper cup at the bottom of the tray). When Mary went, she wasn't sure what was inside. Darlene commented if it was a rum ball. Turns out it was a rolled up coconut ball that had chopped up pistachios within. Bert liked it but I thought it was too dry.

There's that rad palm tree!

And here is the post from Mary that compelled us to check King of Nablus Sweets out for ourselves.

Here are the reviews from yelp. For the record, "Nablus" is a city in Palestine's North bank. If we go to Ali Baba's again, we will also make another stop here and try the other varieties of baklava we missed the first time. One of my friends who is Armenian laughed when I asked if if $7 for a pound of baklava was a fair price. She said she'd never had to buy it since she can make it! Well, I bargained with her - make me Armenian style baklava and I'll make her some pancit or adobo! It was a deal! Ha ha!

Official Website of King of Nablus Sweets