The Dubai Chocolate Bar is going viral for good reason..it's so freaking good! I've made it (and other versions of it) several times now and now I want to share with you how to make it yourself. This list is full of everything you need to know, from ...
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Fix Dessert Chocolatier
Ingredients
Tools
Tempering chocolate
How to videos
Alternative takes on the Dubai Chocolate
Fix Dessert Chocolatier
The company that started it all: Fix Dessert Chocolatier!
The OG creator of the 'Can't Get Knafeh of It' aka the Dubai Chocolate Bar
FIX Dessert Chocolatier
Meet the maker!
Meet the woman behind Dubai’s viral super-chunky …
Ingredients
Here's what you need to make the Dubai Chocolate bar: dark or milk chocolate (use the good stuff), a little bit of white chocolate, food color for the white chocolate, pistachio cream, Knafeh(shredded phyllo pastry), tahini, butter, salt. You will ...
THE pistachio cream
Pistachio Cream
This is what gives the filling its signature crispy crunch. Be sure to toast it in butter until golden all over before adding in the pistachio cream.
Knafeh
Tahini is an essential ingredient for the Dubai Chocolate bar, it adds a crucial richness
Tahini Paste
Milk chocolate is the original chocolate used...
Callebaut Milk Chocolate
...but I'm a dark chocolate girlie so I use this one!
Callebaut Dark Chocolate
White chocolate that you will color (using the oil based food color). You drizzle/drip/splatter this first into your molds, let set, then add your milk or dark chocolate
White Chocolate Callebaut
Oil based chocolate food color....anything other type will cause your chocolate to seize
Oil Based Food Coloring for Chocolate
Tools
Silicone molds for bars
Silicone Chocolate Mold
Deep polycarbonate bar molds
Polycarbonate Dubai Chocolate Bar Mold, 3 Cavities
A cool company making great looking candy molds
Chocolate Bar Mold -polycarbonate
Rubbermaid High temp spatulas are the only ones to get.
Rubbermaid High heat spatula
Large and flexible, this scraper is for tempering chocolate
You don't HAVE to temper your chocolate. You can absolutely place the molded chocolate in the fridge to set up. But being able to temper chocolate is a really good skill to have for serious bakers. Here are some tutorials from the pros
Chocolate tempering notes from one of the best Chocolate companies out there. I spent a week in France at the l'ecole Valrhona learning the ins and outs out chocolate, and met the man himself, Frederic Bau.
Tempering chocolate | Valrhona Chocolate
Dominique Ansel with more tips about tempering chocolate
Learn How to Temper Chocolate With Chef Dominique Ansel - 2025 - MasterClass
Another tempering tutorial from a pro!
Tempered chocolate technique
How to videos
Here's how to make make the Dubai chocolate bars: color some.white chocolate and drizzle/drip/splatter it into the chocolate molds, let set. Toast the Knafeh with butter until golden toasty brown, add a bit of salt. Fold in pistachio cream and tahini...
Step by step instructions for the chocolate bars from Bake Deco
Bake Deco- Dubai Chocolate Bar
Fast and to the point, and the only video that gives you a very important tip about coloring chocolate...using an oil based color! Using another food color (like gel or water based colors) will cause the chocolate to seize
Pistachio Knafeh Chocolate Bar
Great tutorial!
Dubai Chocolate Bar - The Modern Nonna
Betul makes the most beautiful videos, and her dubai chocolate bar one is no exception. The instructions and recipe are in her caption
Tukaz Kitchen Dubai Chocolate Bar
Alternative takes on the Dubai Chocolate
There is more than one way to enjoy the delicious Dubai chocolate flavors...
Chocolate bars not your thing? Try this strawberry dessert that uses the same pistachio Knafeh filling with just a bit of chocolate
Chocolate Strawberry Cups
For me, the Dubai Chocolate added to a croissant is peak indulgence!!
