Okay guys, time for pictures of lots and lots of food. Specifically dessert-like food.
Also, I would like to apologize for the bad formatting of my last couple of blog posts (including this one). My internet is being stupid and for complicated reasons this means that formatting is really difficult. :P
Loads of colorful rice pudding and fruits. This particular window display is in a dessert shop that we went to pretty much every day. Mostly we were there for the free samples of Turkish Delight, but we also ate there a few times.
Kitty! This was our very first meal in Istanbul. We all had delicious omelettes, and the kitty hopped up on the table to finish off Jill's breakfast when she deigned to leave a few scraps on her plate. This cat also tried to eat my purse.
Ratatoille cake. At first I thought that this cake and the following two cakes were mostly fondant, so they were pretty, but probably not tasty. However, it turns out that these cakes are covered in marzipan, not fondant. WANT. I love marzipan.
Smurfs. This was particularly cute since it reminded us of the University of Jordan, where freshmen are referred to as "smurfs."
This cake was from the delicious dessert shop that gives free samples of Turkish delight (the shop is actually called Hafiz Mustafa, but we always referred to it as the "free samples place" or the "chocolate baklava place," or by the end of the trip, "our place"). It was sooo tasty. It also had bananas in the filling, which was interesting. That day we also had hot chocolate :).
This was the waffle that I ate on Buyukundu, one of the Princes' Islands. All waffles in Istanbul are this beautiful. Most come with ice cream. I also got a waffle later in the trip that had peanut butter on it, which was amazing because peanut butter does not seem to exist in the Middle East. The day that I got the peanut butter waffle, Hannah had a giant crepe with THREE scoops of ice cream.
Chocolate baklava from Hafiz Mustafa. The white baklava was added to the plate by our waiter. He said it was his favorite, so we should try it. After we paid, he brought us a plate full of tiny squares of Turkish delight. Best waiter ever.
On our last night in Istanbul, we had dessert for dinner. This, of course, was Hannah's idea, and it was spectacular. I'm pretty sure we confused the hell out of the Hafiz Mustafa staff, though. Hafiz Mustafa is structures such that it has a dessert shop on the first floor where you can buy individual pieces of Turkish delight and baklava, and candy boxes to take home. Upstairs is a sit down restaurant where you can order hot chocolate, coffee, baklava, cake, etc. We sat upstairs, but because the menu does not have some of the items from downstairs, we had to bring out waiter down to the counter and point at all of the things we wanted. He was confused at first, but then caught on and started suggesting things to us, including the chocolate cookie pictured above. My favorite was the pink thing. I think it was coconut something. Then, we went back upstairs and when he asked us for our drink orders, we were like "No, you don't understand, we're not done ordering food yet." We then proceeded to order chocolate cake, the pudding that looks like creme brule (above), and some cheesy pastry things. Then we ordered drinks. The waiter was quite pleased, and later the head waiter came by and offered us free apple tea. Best dessert place ever.
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