Maltese cuisine is rich with delicious, tempting, traditional sweets that are usually made with a special occasion in mind. Maltese desserts, tend not to have an abundance of chocolate, and often include almonds and dried fruit. The interesting addition of ingredients like orange-blossom water, honey, nuts and dates, candied peel, aniseed, and sesame seed make for a truly delicious and sometimes exotic experience.
It-Tokk Gozo Traditional Food has an wide variety of sweet desserts such as; Helwa tat-Tork – a paste made of sweetened, crushed sesame seeds along with pistachios and almonds, soft nougat with dried fruit and brittle nougat with almonds, Qaghaq ta’ l-Ghasel – sweet pastry rings filles with a treacle mixture, and Tin tac-cappa – sun dried figs with a mixture of aniseed liquer.