Festival Sweet · Sugar-Molded
Halawet El Moulid (Moulid Sugar Sweets)
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Among the sweets sold are sugar dolls and sugar horsemen — brightly colored figurines molded from pure sugar paste that trace back to a Fatimid-era parade centuries ago.
Vendors mold sesame, nut, and honey-based sweets alongside brightly painted sugar figurines — dolls for girls, horsemen for boys — and sell them from stalls that spring up only during moulid season. Tanta's Moulid of Sayyid Al-Badawi, the country's largest, draws crowds who buy trays of these sweets to share with family and neighbors.
Why it's made this way: Tanta's moulid, held each October for the 13th-century Sufi saint Al-Sayyid Al-Badawi, draws over a million visitors, and the sweets sold there have become inseparable from the festival, gifted between neighbors as a seasonal tradition.
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