What Dubai chocolate is
Dubai chocolate is a filled chocolate bar: a shell of milk or dark chocolate around a thick pistachio cream mixed with crisp, toasted kadayif, the shredded pastry also used in künefe. The contrast, soft cream against crunchy threads inside a snapping shell, is the whole idea. Variations use hazelnut cream or caramelised-biscuit cream instead of pistachio.
Why it is made in Gaziantep
Two of the three ingredients are local. Gaziantep is the centre of Turkish pistachio, and kadayif is a staple of the city’s dessert kitchens. The chocolate plants here already made pistachio tablets and pistachio spreads; adding the kadayif bar was a short step. The result is a Dubai-style bar made where the pistachio comes from, in a plant set up for coated and filled products.
Real chocolate or compound: ask first
The same bar exists in two families. Real chocolate uses cocoa butter and behaves like chocolate: it needs temperature control in transit and snaps when cold. Compound coating uses vegetable fat: cheaper, more heat-tolerant, and not chocolate under most labelling rules. Both have a place; a distributor for hot climates may prefer compound, a premium retailer will want real chocolate. Ask which one is being quoted, and check how it must be named on the label in your market.
How it is supplied wholesale
Dubai-style bars are sold by the case, on pallets, in a mixed container with other lines. A wholesale buyer typically takes the bar in more than one filling and adds pistachio tablets, pistachio spread jars and coated dragées to the same load. The case size and pallet plan are on the offer; private label is possible as one of our core services, with the artwork approved before printing.
Prices are not published on this site; they are quoted per line in writing, and the quotation states what applies on the day.
Shipping and shelf life
Real-chocolate bars travel at a controlled temperature; in the warm months a reefer is quoted for the container. Shelf life, ingredients and allergens come from our technical data sheet, which is issued with the quotation. For the United States the label is in English with the nine major allergens declared, pistachio and milk among them.
Asking for a price
What we need to price it: the lines you want from the chocolate page and the pistachio & regional page, how much of each, and where it lands. Two working days later the written offer comes back with the specification, the case weight and the minimum per line.
A sample goes out before any of that if you want to taste the lines first — free from running production, courier at your cost. The united states: what stays the same on every offer page lists what stays the same on every offer, and the private label for us brands page covers putting your own name on the pack.
Is Dubai chocolate a brand?
No. It is a style of filled bar named after the city where it became famous. Several producers make it, in Türkiye and elsewhere.
Can it carry our own brand?
Yes — private label is one of our core services. The label content is prepared to your market’s rules and you approve the artwork in writing before printing.
What is kadayif?
Shredded, thread-like pastry made from a thin batter, toasted for crunch. In the bar it gives the crisp texture inside the pistachio cream.
