15 places
One of RAK's oldest dessert shops; order the fruit-and-nut plate with chocolate ice cream that is its best-known order.
The house Cream and Honey waffle and a lava cake, open until 1am in Fujairah city.
Kunafa made with your choice of ricotta or akkawi cheese and syrup scented with rose or orange blossom.
The only thing on the menu is kunafa, with cheese, cream, almond or pistachio.
Kunafa reworked with mango or Nutella, if you want the dessert without the usual cheese.
A Lebanese sweets house in Dubai since the 1970s: buy a mixed box of baklava and the cream-filled pastries to share.
Dubai's first bean-to-bar chocolate factory, where you can order the aseeda fondant, a warm chocolate take on the Emirati wheat-and-butter dessert.
Classic Nabulsi kunafa cut from a big round tray and served hot, a short walk from Mall of the Emirates.
Kunafa in several versions, with cheese, cream or mixed, made from fresh ingredients and cut to order.
A Palestinian sweet shop open since 1980, with kunafa cut hot from the tray alongside baklava and basbousa.
A gelato shop with weekly specials you won't find at the mall chains.
Nabulsi kunafa, cheese katayef and baklava in a shop open until 1am.
An old-school Arabic sweet shop where kunafa, baklava and mamoul come by weight at the lowest prices on this list.
Classic kunafa given new flavours, worth the drive north if you live in Shahama, Rahba or Khalifa City.
Lebanese sweets since 1989; the osmaleya is a kunafa-style cake of crisp vermicelli around cream or cheese.