7 places
Kunafa made with your choice of ricotta or akkawi cheese and syrup scented with rose or orange blossom.
A Lebanese sweets house in Dubai since the 1970s: buy a mixed box of baklava and the cream-filled pastries to share.
The house Cream and Honey waffle and a lava cake, open until 1am in Fujairah city.
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.
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.