Mastic Drop Cookies (Damla Sakızı) — Alaçatı Kurabiyecisi, 250g
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These are mastic drop cookies (damla sakızlı kurabiye) from Alaçatı Kurabiyecisi, a small-batch baker in Alaçatı on Turkey's Çeşme peninsula. Each round, melt-in-the-mouth shortbread is a buttery dough scented with damla sakızı — the dried, tear-shaped resin known in English as Chios mastic (from Pistacia lentiscus var. chia), the tree that grows along the Aegean coast of Turkey and on the nearby Greek island of Chios.
Mastic is what makes these cookies different from any other Turkish butter cookie. It carries a clean, faintly pine-and-cedar aroma with a cool finish — a flavour the Aegean has used in cooking for centuries. Here it is folded into a light, crumbly dough and dusted with icing sugar, so the mastic comes through as a gentle perfume rather than anything sharp. The texture is the point: short, sandy, and soft enough to break with a fingertip.
Alaçatı is a windmill town near İzmir that is closely tied to mastic, and these cookies are a regional speciality there. The baker makes them with no added preservatives. They suit a cup of Turkish coffee or black tea, sit well on a guest table, and travel well as a gift box for anyone who likes Turkish or Aegean flavours.
- Flavour: damla sakızı / Chios mastic — aromatic, lightly resinous, cool finish
- Type: round butter shortbread, dusted with icing sugar
- Origin: baked in Alaçatı, Çeşme peninsula, İzmir (Turkish Aegean)
- Net weight: 250g clamshell, roughly 15–20 cookies
- Made with no added preservatives
Packed to protect their delicate, crumbly texture in transit.
