Petit Four in Kuwait — Filled and Butter Sabé

Petit four in Kuwait, baked fresh in our Qurain kitchen. Two different things go by the name — filled biscuits and butter sabé — and which one you want depends on the occasion. The range first.

Filled petit four

Small round biscuits with a filling piped into the centre — strawberry, pistachio with kunafa, milk chocolate, Kinder. Some open at the top, some closed.

• Filled Petit Four Box — 36 pieces, mixed shapes
• Assorted Filled Petit Four Box — 54 pieces, all uniform rounds with open centres
• Crystal Filled Petit Four Plate — 85 pieces, arranged ready to serve

Butter sabé

Plain butter biscuit, no filling. Shorter and crumblier, and the one people reach for with coffee rather than as a dessert.

• Butter Petit Four Box — 60 or 27 pieces
• Chocolate Butter Petit Four Box — 60 pieces, fully coated in chocolate
• Petit Four Sticks — 54 pieces, half chocolate and half caramel
• Ghraiba & Petit Four Crystal Tray — 100 pieces

Or browse the full petit four collection.

What petit four actually means

The name is French — petit four, small oven. It referred originally to the low oven temperature these were baked at, not to the size of the biscuit. In Kuwait the name has come to cover a wider range than it does in France, which is why one shop's petit four looks nothing like another's.

You will see it written several ways in Arabic. All of them are the same thing.

Filled or plain

Filled suits a dessert table, a gathering where the biscuits are part of the spread. The colours of the fillings do a lot of the visual work, and an 85-piece plate arrives looking like an arrangement rather than a box of biscuits.

Butter sabé suits coffee. It is drier, less sweet, and does not compete with what it is served alongside. It also keeps better — no filling means nothing to soften.

For a large gathering, many people order both.

How much to order

Biscuits go faster than people expect at a hosting. As a rough guide, three to four pieces per guest for a dessert table, fewer if there are other sweets alongside.

• Small family gathering — the 36-piece box
• Coffee with guests — the 54-piece box or the sticks
• A full spread or an istiqbal — the 85-piece plate or the 100-piece tray

With ghraiba

The 100-piece crystal tray pairs petit four with ghraiba — the crumbly Arabic butter biscuit. The two work together because they are different textures doing the same job: ghraiba dissolves, petit four snaps.

Ordering in Kuwait

Everything is baked to order in our Qurain kitchen. Delivery across most areas of Kuwait, usually same day. To order or ask about a mixed tray, message us on WhatsApp.