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Every dessert here is assembled in layers and tested a day ahead, because that is when you will actually make it. Here's a quick tour.

Sami HaddadSami's grandmother made baklava in Beirut with a rolling pin he still has, and he panics at the thought of his daughter never tasting it. So he bakes on Saturday mornings with her on his hip, flour everywhere, exhausted and glowing. Every layer is him refusing to let something beautiful disappear.
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Five layered desserts with assembly diagrams and make-ahead windows.
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