Cakes, celebrations, pies, and white delights: The delicious news from Israel

Welcome to the perfect food festival: All the delicious happenings during Shavuot

  (photo credit: GIL AVIRAM)
(photo credit: GIL AVIRAM)

Pop-Up Shavuot, Asif

  (credit: NOAM PREISMAN)
(credit: NOAM PREISMAN)
Tel Aviv's food culture center is celebrating the harvest with a Shavuot fair at Asif Café, bringing together local food producers, experts, bakers, chefs, winemakers, and good people in general.

The event will be held from Sunday to Thursday (June 6-11) and will feature, among others, products from Sunflower Bakery in Haifa, ma'amoul and fatayer from Almashedawi Bakery in Nazareth, sesame oil from Mesek Mangal, olive oil from Rish Lakish, stuffed pastries from Amita, pralines from Ika, cheeses, cold beers, and fresh grape leaves.

At the same time, the public is invited to visit the Asif gallery space, where the "Craft Creation" installation is displayed, exploring the interaction between materials, tradition, and hands that ultimately create the local flavor.

Asif

Pop-Up Shavuot, Showroom Bakehouse and Osem Nestlé

  (credit: HAGIT GOREN)
(credit: HAGIT GOREN)
The food giant and the sweet indulgence giant collaborate on an excessive and wonderful dairy dessert collection, available from Thursday (June 6).

The menu, based on the excellent combination of buttery dough and Osem Nestlé's new pudding flavors, includes three desserts and six options in total - Berliner filled with pretzel pudding cream, Berliner filled with sweet Bamba pudding cream, croissant filled with pretzel pudding cream or sweet Bamba pudding cream, vanilla bun topped with milk chocolate and pretzel pudding cream, and another one coated with sweet Bamba pudding cream and Bamba pieces.

Showroom Bakehouse

Pop-Up Shavuot, Moran Gil and Tara

  (credit: Moran Gil)
(credit: Moran Gil)

  (credit: Moran Gil)
(credit: Moran Gil)
The talented pastry chef celebrates two years of his "Cakeery" and Shavuot with an intriguing collaboration with the Israeli dairy, resulting in a special mascarpone-rich cake box.

The box, sold from Thursday to Friday (May 30 to June 6), includes four cake slices - tiramisu with milk chocolate coating, caramel triple pecan, baked cheese with vanilla cream, and cheese with passionfruit and lemon. Price: NIS 310.

Moran Gil

Belago, Rishon Lezion

  (credit: Oz Ohayon)
(credit: Oz Ohayon)
The wonderful Italian restaurant celebrates Shavuot by bridging everything that happens in their professional kitchen with what can happen in your home kitchen.

They offer fresh pasta kits (79 shekels for 500 grams) that connect cute shapes to tasty sauces (Napolitana, Rosa, chestnut-spinach, or cream-mushrooms, for example), pizza kits (two dough balls, half a liter of sauce, and a quarter kilo of mozzarella, NIS 79) made by Liran Tomer, simple preparation instructions for successful hosting, and a sweet treat of pistachio crème brûlée or tiramisu for NIS 29.

Belago

Holiday Workshops, Ort Dan Gourmet

  (credit: GIL AVIRAM)
(credit: GIL AVIRAM)
The culinary education center is preparing for the holiday with two special and, of course, delicious meetings (Friday, June 7, from 9:00).

The "Fish and Cheese Celebration" workshop led by Il Lavi will focus on its namesake (smoked salmon wrapped in phyllo filled with asparagus or sea bass fillet stuffed with leek, mushrooms, and saffron), adding blue cheese soufflé with caramelized pears, eggplant terrine filled with feta cheese, and baked kohlrabi with camembert and honey, and ramping up with elaborate desserts like kadaif mille-feuille, mascarpone cream, berries, and reduced balsamic. Price: NIS 500.

Roni Freddy Mordechai's "The Perfect Cheesecake" workshop will provide all the secrets for the ultimate dessert - from no-bake cheesecake and kadaif nests with whipped cream and berries to a baked white cheesecake that comes out of the oven especially tall and airy. His promise. Price: NIS 480.

Ort Dan Gourmet

The Little Bakers, Tel Aviv

  (credit: The Little Bakers)
(credit: The Little Bakers)
The neighborhood-intimate pastry shop in Tel Aviv celebrates Shavuot with a diverse showcase and shelves full of options, temptations, and indulgences.

The cheesecake collection (NIS 25-65) includes, among others, a baked version and a sugar-free version, combinations of chocolate, strawberries, or lemon, a classic and thick crumb cheesecake, ricotta pressburger and strudel, Saint Honoré and cream puff, fruit pie, biscuit cake with mascarpone and chocolate, and even vegan options.

Additionally, there are round cheesecakes (NIS 160) in crumb or Basque formats, savory (with mushrooms or potatoes) and sweet (with cheese and cherry, or cheese and cinnamon) blintzes (NIS 45), quiches and lasagna (NIS 30-65), and crackers (NIS 40) with parmesan.

The Little Bakers