Pişmaniye Turkish Floss Halva 500g — Afyon Lokum Atölyesi
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Pişmaniye is the Turkish floss halva often called Turkish cotton candy — thousands of fine, hair-thin strands that look like spun silk and dissolve the moment they touch your tongue. This 500g box is hand-pulled by Afyon Lokum Atölyesi, a confectioner in Afyonkarahisar, Turkey, a region long known for its traditional sweets.
Unlike cotton candy, pişmaniye is not just spun sugar. It is made the classic way: wheat flour is slowly roasted in oil, then worked into pulled sugar and stretched by hand again and again until it breaks down into countless delicate threads. The result is light and airy with a gentle, toasted-sugar sweetness and a soft melt rather than a crunch. The recipe traces back to Ottoman-era Anatolia, where this sweet has been made by hand for centuries.
The ingredients are simple and honest: sugar, wheat flour, and vegetable oil — with no artificial flavours and no fillers. Because it is made with wheat flour, this pişmaniye contains gluten.
Serve it with Turkish coffee or black tea, crumble it over ice cream or milk puddings, or simply enjoy a piece on its own. The generous 500g box and its delicate, gift-worthy look make it a natural choice for guests, holidays such as Ramadan and Eid, or anyone discovering authentic Turkish sweets for the first time.
- Net weight: 500g
- Type: pişmaniye / Turkish floss halva (tel helva)
- Ingredients: sugar, wheat flour, vegetable oil
- Contains gluten (wheat); no artificial flavours, no fillers
- Hand-pulled in Afyonkarahisar, Turkey
