İzmir Bombası ( English: ''İzmir Bomb''), or Praline Stuffed Cookies, is a

kurabiye Qurabiya (), also ghraybe, ghorayeba, ghoriba, ghribia, ghraïba, gurabija, ghriyyaba, kurabiye, or kourabiedes () and numerous other spellings and pronunciations, is a shortbread-type biscuit, usually made with ground almonds. Versions are foun ...

from the

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filled with chocolate spread. The kurabiye gets its name from

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, the place where it originates. The desert has a crispy dough layer on the outside and a fluid cream filling on the inside. Different stories have been published by Turkish media about who made the kurabiye first. According to

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, the İzmir Bomb has been the 6th most searched recipe in Turkey in 2020.

History

The dessert is believed to be an evolution of the ''Murabbalı mecidiye,'' which is a similar kurabiye from the

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filled with apricot

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. The cause of the popularity of the İzmir Bomb is the massive advertisement shared on

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Types

The most common Bomb Kurabiye is made by filling white dough with chocolate spread or by filling brown dough with

white chocolate White chocolate is a chocolate made from cocoa butter, sugar and milk solids. It is Ivory (color), ivory in color and lacks the dark appearance of most other types of chocolate as it does not contain the non-fat components of cocoa (cocoa sol ...

spread. Apart from this there are also types with

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. After the desert became popular, versions filled with

opium poppy ''Papaver somniferum'', commonly known as the opium poppy or breadseed poppy, is a species of flowering plant in the family Papaveraceae. It is the species of plant from which both opium and poppy seeds are derived and is also a valuable orname ...

instead of chocolate spread have been made in the

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Mass production

In Turkey, the biscuit is mass-produced by

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as ''Biskrem'', by Eti as ''Tutku'' and by Torku as ''Delidolu''.

References

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History

Types

Mass production

See also

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