Carsibasi | Chocolate Covered Pulled Halva | Cikolata Kapli Cekme Helva | 7.05 oz (200 g)

Cekme helva from Carsibasi, the Kayseri sweet maker, with every cube dipped in a cocoa coating. Pale, fine-stranded helva inside, a thin chocolate shell outside, packed in a 200 g gift box.

Highlights

• Chocolate coated - each cube sits in a cocoa shell, so it eats like a chocolate rather than plain helva
• Cekme helva inside - pulled floss halva, pressed into cubes, that melts rather than chews
• Gift box - a boxed tray that goes straight onto the table with tea, or to someone's door
• About 5 servings - the box holds five 40 g portions, per the label
• 7.05 oz (200 g) - made in Kayseri, Turkiye, by Carsibasi

How to Enjoy

With Turkish tea or coffee after dinner, one or two cubes on a small plate. Put the box out when guests come; it is the kind of sweet that gets offered rather than snacked on.

Keep it out of the fridge. The label asks for room temperature in a cool, dry place away from sun. Cold dulls the chocolate, and damp air collapses the strands inside.

What Is Cekme Helva?

Cekme means pulled. Boiled sugar is drawn out and folded again and again with roasted flour until it separates into thousands of fine threads, then pressed into a dense block and cut. It is the same family as pismaniye, packed tighter.

If you know halva as the crumbly sesame block, this is a different sweet that shares the word. There is no tahini in this one; it is built on wheat flour and sugar.

Product Details

Also known as: cikolata kapli cekme helva, cekme helva, cikolatali cekme helva, pulled halva, floss halva, pismaniye, turkish cotton candy, chocolate halva, carsibasi helva